Federica Goffi
Publications, Symposia and Research
Publications
AUTHORED BOOKS
ARCHITECTURE IN CONVERSION AND THE WORK OF CARLO SCARPA
Federica Goffi
Photographs by Prakash Patel
Lund Humphries 2025
EDITED BOOKS & JOURNALS
THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO ARCHITECTURAL DRAWINGS AND MODELS - FROM TRANSLATING TO ARCHIVING COLLECTING AND DISPLAYING
Federica Goffi
ROUTLEDGE 2022
ETHICS POWER AND POLITICS IN THE STORIES OF COLLECTING ARCHIVING AND DISPLAYING OF DRAWINGS AND MODELS
Federica Goffi - Guest Editor
Architecture and Culture
ROUTLEDGE 2021
INSIGHTS AND INTROSPECTION
IN DOCTORAL RESEARCH IN ARCHITECTURE
Federica Goffi
ROUTLEDGE 2020
CO-EDITED BOOKS
(UN)COMMON PRECEDENTS
IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Federica Goffi, Isabel Potworowski, Kristin Washco
ROUTLEDGE forthcoming
CRAFTING CONCEALMENT | OMISSION | DECEPTION | ERASURE | SILENCE
Rana Abughannam, Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Pallavi Swaranjali & Federica Goffi
ROUTLEDGE 2024
THE ARCHITECTURE OF LEVITY
Paul Emmons, Federica Goffi
and Jodi La Coe
ROUTLEDGE 2020
BOOK CHAPTERS
Federica Goffi
"Chromestesia and the Multiverse of Listening in Music and Architecture: Luigi Nono in Collaboration with Renzo Piano."
in THE SOUND OF ARCHITECTURE: ACOUSTIC ATMOSPHERES IN PLACE
Edited by Angeliki Sioli and Elisavet Kiourtsoglou
ROUTLEDGE 2022
Federica Goffi
"Factum 1:1."
in T-SQUARED
THEORIES AND TACTUCS IN ARCHITURE AND DESIGN
Edited by Samantha Krukowski
ROUTLEDGE 2022
Federica Goffi
"Skin-deep Conservation versus the Imagination of Preservation."
in INTERVENTIONS AND ADAPTIVE REUSE
Edited by Liliane Wong and Markus Berger
ROUTLEDGE 2021
Federica Goffi
in VISIONING TECHNOLOGIES.
THE ARCHITECTURES OF SIGHT.
Edited by Graham Cairns
ROUTLEDGE 2017
Federica Goffi
"Renaissance Visual Thinking."
in THE HUMANITIES IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
Edited by Jane Lomholt, Nicholas Temple and Renée Tobe
ROUTLEDGE 2010
Federica Goffi
"Architecture's Twinned Body: Building and Drawing."
In FROM MODELS TO DRAWINGS.
Edited by Jonathan Hale and Bradley Starkey.
ROUTLEDGE 2010
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Federica Goffi November 2022
"Sited Memory: a Peripatetic Storytelling at the Castelvecchio Museum."
in JOELHO 13 Memory, Memorabilia and the Making
Edited by Armando Rabaça and Bruno Gil
Federica Goffi December 2018
"Fabrication Sites and Sites of Knowledge Construction: Translations and Dislocations of Architectural Media at the Fabric of St. Peter's the Vatican."
in ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY ARQ 22/4
Federica Goffi Spring 2018.
"Ambiguous Conversions:
The Singular Door to the Practice of Carlo Scarpa."
In OBL/QUE 2. Edited by Natalia Escobar.
Federica Goffi January 2016
"Built Conservation and the Unfinished Fabrics of Time."
in AD Architectural Design: Architecture Timed 1/86.
Edited by Karen Frank.
Federica Goffi October 2010
"Drawing Imagination and the Imagination of Drawing."
Federica Goffi Autumn 2009
"Skin-deep Conservation versus the Imagination of Preservation."
Federica Goffi
"Suspended Ceiling Stories. Navigating the Cosmo-technologies of Hospital Ceilings."
in CONFABULATIONS
STORYTELLING IN ARCHITECTURE
Edited by Paul Emmons, Marcia Feuerstein, Carolina Dayer
ROUTLEDGE 2017
Federica Goffi 2017
"An Untimely Apologia: Humble Details Versus Banal Elements in the City of Venice."
Scroope 26: Apologia. Cambridge Architecture Journal. Edited by Theodora Bowering and Jessie Fyfe.
Federica Goffi Autumn 2009.
"Drawing Fragments and Fragmented Drawings."
In.form 9: Temporality.
Federica Goffi December 2006
"Carlo Scarpa and the Eternal Canvas of Silence."
in ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH QUARTERLY ARQ 10, 3/4 .
CR|PT|C Event
(from) Adaptive Reuse (to) Adaptive Architecture
While the adaptive reuse of various building typologies is nowadays a widespread practice–a radical cultural shift (from) ADAPTIVE REUSE (to) ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE would facilitate the transition from a widespread culture of new construction to a culture of adaptability in the field of architecture regardless of whether the building under consideration is new, pre-existing or designated heritage. Every building project could be approached from the perspective of its present (and future) ADAPTABILITY. This international symposium supports the redefinition of the boundaries between architectural design and ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE to explore meaningful theories of alterations of new or existing buildings, arguing that all past is present and that all making is a remaking.
International Symposium
MAY 20-22 2026 CARLETON UNIVERSITY
(from) ADAPTIVE REUSE (to) ADAPTIVE ARCHITECTURE
Co-hosted by Federica Goffi, Mariana Esponda, Mario Santana
Research Assistant Kitt Man
Frascari Symposia
Dr. Federica Goffi has extensive experience in hosting and organizing symposia. She has co-organized two Frascari Symposia and is a co-curator of the series along with Paul Emmons (Virginia Tech). In 2019, Dr. Goffi co-convened the Frascari Symposium titled The Secret Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models with Mary Vaughan Johnson at the University of Kingston, London in 2019.
Frascari Symposium IV: The Secret Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models
Symposium booklet
Frascari Symposium IV: The Secret Lives of Architectural Drawings and Models
Excerpt from Symposium
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Drawings and Models. From Translating to Archiving, Collecting and Displaying, edited by Federica Goffi (Routledge 2022). Architectural drawings and models are instruments of imagination, communication, and historical continuity. The role of drawings and models, and their ownership, placement, and authorship in a ubiquitous digital age deserve careful consideration. Expanding on the well-established discussion of the translation from drawings to buildings, this book fills a lacuna in current scholarship, questioning the significance of the lives of drawings and models after construction. Including emerging, well-known, and world-renowned scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory and curatorial practices, the thirty-five contributions define recent research in four key areas: drawing sites/sites of knowledge construction: drawing, office, construction site; the afterlife of drawings and models: archiving, collecting, displaying, and exhibiting; tools of making: architectural representations and their apparatus over time; and the ethical responsibilities of collecting and archiving: authorship, ownership, copyrights, and rights to copy. The research covers a wide range of geographies and delves into the practices of such architects as Sir John Soane, Superstudio, Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wajiro Kon, Germán Samper Gnecco, A+PS, Mies van der Rohe, and Renzo Piano.
And Yet It Moves: Ethics, Power and Politics in the Stories of Collecting, Archiving and Displaying of Drawings and Models (Architecture and Culture 9, 3, 2021) edited by Federica Goffi draws attention to curatorial responsibilities in finding the proper placement for architecture collections and how accessibility, reproducibility, and promotion impact the cultural, economic, and socio-political role of architecture media. It questions the relevance of translations from place to place when mobile architecture media moves between offices, buildings, archives, exhibition spaces, and websites. It also asks: How does mobile media generate a dynamic trans-mediated construction and construing, finding renewed significance over time?
CR|PT|C Agora Series
CR|PT|C Agora is a triennial event led by Dr. Federica Goffi and hosted by researchers at the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism at Carleton University. Each symposium brings to focus different themes while addressing questions about the history and theory of architecture in relation to practice. The symposia invite contributions from a multiplicity of fields to consider and discuss the nature of architecture today and the impact it makes on the world. Each event invites contributions by written and/or creative work, expanding the dialogue between both mediums and allowing for further speculation on the relationship between the two.
Parts of the works presented in CR|PT|C Agora are disseminated to a wider audience through the Sollertia Book series, a triennial peer-reviewed academic publication with Routledge.
Agora III International Symposium
October 23-24 2025 Carleton University
ARCHITECTURE AND BODILY EFFECTS
Co-hosted by Federica Goffi, Ahmed Elsherif, Ushma Thakrar and Menna Agha
Agora II International Symposium
Co-hosted by Federica Goffi, Isabel Potworowski and Kristin Washco
(Un)Common Precedents in Architectural Design edited by Federica Goffi, Isabel Potworowski and Kristin Washco (Routledge 2025) calls for an attentive examination of the uncommon that inspires creativity, prompting a re-examination of both common and marginalised precedents. Precedents and their origins can be idiosyncratic, and it is not surprising that they often lead to unpredictable outcomes. The uncommon is explored as an undervalued, unregulated, informal approach to precedents, acknowledging a radical imagination in architectural design that goes beyond a visual and typological one, expanding the field of influence beyond buildings to investigate interdisciplinary exchanges and a multisensorial imagination. This book addresses a critical need to re-examine architectural precedents, understanding why, how, and what we study to reveal the intentions, transmedia explorations, and referents behind the workings of a more inclusive architectural imagination nurtured in multicultural practices and teaching environments. (Un)Common Precedents thus underlines the non-conformity and inordinance of precedents and the necessity of their divergence, drawing attention to more inclusive practices of architecture-making, speaking to different socio-political contexts, which resist, reject, and replace the canonisation of precedents based on dominant ocular centric approaches, with localised, experiential, transdisciplinary and uncommon ones, moving away from the compulsion to normalise, universalise, repeat, restate, and re-enact, transforming the documentation of far removed precedents through first-person experiences.
Agora I International Symposium
Co-hosted by Rana Abughannam, Emélie Desrochers-Turgeon, Pallavi Swaranjali & Federica Goffi
