Luka Skansi, Ph.D.

Luka Skansi is an architectural historian, associate professor at Politecnico di Milano. He holds a Master of Science in Architecture from IUAV (Venice), and a doctoral degree from the School for Advanced Studies in Venice, obtained in 2006 with a research on pre-revolutionary Russia. His research interests include Italian Architecture and Engineering of the 20thcentury, Russian and Soviet Architecture, the Architecture in ex-Jugoslavija.

Recently he curated the exhibition Streets and Neghbourhoods, on Slovenian architect and Harvard Scholar Vladimir Braco Mušič (MAO Ljubljana, 2016) and participated to the 2014 Venice Biennale (section “MondoItalia”) with the installation The Remnants of a Miracle. As a member of the curatorial staff of the exhibition The Architecture of Socialist Yugoslavia, held at MoMA – the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2018, he completed a research on the structural architecture of the 1960s and 1970s in Yugoslavia.