Andrea Vesentini is a cultural historian specializing in American architecture, urban and visual studies. His first book, Indoor America: the Interior Landscape of Postwar Suburbia, was published in 2018 by the University of Virginia Press.

He holds a Ph.D. in Humanities and Cultural Studies from Birkbeck College, University of London, where he researched the history and representation of postwar suburban interiors. He taught literature and cultural studies at the Birkbeck School of Arts and worked for the Architecture, Visual Arts and Film departments of La Biennale di Venezia, where he contributed to the communication of Reporting from the Front, curated by Alejandro Aravena in 2016, and Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara’s Freespace (2018), among others.

He presented his research at several universities and institutions such as London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts and Science Museum, the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture, and has been published on peer-reviewed journals such as Material Culture and American Studies.

He currently lives in Venice, Italy, where he teaches English language, literature and culture.