Elizabeth Merrill

Elizabeth Merrill (°1985) specializes in early modern Italian architecture, with a research focus on architectural practices, and the means by which architects communicated building designs. She studied at Columbia University (New York) and the University of Virginia (Charlottesville) and held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin) and the Warburg Institute (London). She is the Principal Investigator of the ERC project “Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern European Architecture” (2023-2028).

Contact information and research profile of Elizabeth Merrill
Theory and History of Architecture research group

Research Projects Elizabeth Merrill

An Architecture of Machines: Francesco di Giorgio’s Opusculum de architectura

Francesco di Giorgio, folio 2r, Opusculum de’ architectura (c. 1475) London, The British Museum, Nr. 1947,0117.2 © The Trustees of the British Museum

Copying as Common Practice in Early Modern Architecture (CCPEMA)

Circularity and Re-use in Roman Building Culture from Antiquity to the 20th century

Re-used materials in the Severan restoration of the pediment of the Porticus of Octavia, Rome. Its now exposed pediment (invisible in Antiquity) can be seen to consist almost entirely of re-used architectural elements. Photo: Simon J. Barker.