Books
​F. Marcello, After the Fall: After the Fall: the Legacy of Fascism in Rome’s Architectural and Urban History, Bloomsbury, 2024.
F. Marcello, Giuseppe Pagano. Design for Social change in Fascist Italy, Intellect 2020.
Articles in The Conversation
, “Transgress to impress: why do people tag buildings – and are there any solutions?” The Conversation, 12 June 2023
Chapters in edited books
F. Marcello “Commemorating Italian Prisoners of War: Intersections and Relationships” in Captivity and Creativity: The Cultural and Material Production of Italian Prisoners in Western Allied Hands (1940-1947) edited by Giorgia Alù and Elena Bellina, New York, Fordham University Press, 2025. Forthcoming.
A. White & F. Marcello, “Italian Prisoners of War in Australia: Carceral Aesthetics at the Cowra Prisoner of War Camp (1941 – 1946)”, in Captivity and Creativity: The Cultural and Material Production of Italian Prisoners in Western Allied Hands (1940-1947) edited by Giorgia Alù and Elena Bellina, New York, Fordham University Press, 2025. Forthcoming.
M. A. Jackson, E. Wilson and F. Marcello, “Materialising change: exploring human rights-based approaches to improving built environment accessibility at neighbourhood scale” in S. Robinson & K. Fisher (eds.), Elgar Handbook on Disability Policy, Elgar, Cheltenham, 2023, 451-67.
F. Marcello, “Rogue Poster Campaigns: Amplifying political discourse between urban and cyber arenas” in C. Popescu & M. Hohlfeldt (eds.), Living Politics in the City. Architecture as Catalyst for Public Space, Leuven: University of Leuven Press, 2023, 193-209.
J. L. Beaudry, N. Lemon, H. Scheepers, F. Marcello, E. Wilding, C. Agius, S.Taffe, B. Loch & V. Kilborn, “Building Belonging: A Grassroots Peer-support Network for Academic Women” in N,. Lemon (ed.), Healthy Relationships in Higher Education Promoting Wellbeing Across Academia, Routledge, New York, 2021, 79-91.
F. Marcello, “Problems of Abstraction. BBPR’s Monument to the Fallen in Concentration Camps, Milan (1946, 1950, 1955)” in K. B. Jones and S. Pilat (eds.) The Routledge companion to Italian Fascist architecture : reception and legacy. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, 2020, 491-506.
F. Marcello, “L’architettura delle case del Mutilato”, in I. Simonini (ed.), Storia, arte e architettura nella Casa del Mutilato di Ravenna, Edizioni del Girasole, Ravenna 2019.
F. Marcello & A. Carter, "The Axum Obelisk. Shifting concepts of colonialism and empire in Fascist and 21st-century Rome" in Daniel Coslett ed.
Neocolonialism and Built Heritage. Echoes of Empire in Africa, Asia, and Europe, Routledge 2019, 42-64.
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F. Marcello, “Triumph, Power and Providence in Roman Town Planning: the Golden Age of Flavian Rome” in Samantha Martin-McAuliffe and Daniel Millette eds., Ancient Urban Planning in the Mediterranean. New research Directions, Routledge, 2018, 119-47.
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F. Marcello, “Forma urbis reconsidered: the making of Fascist Rome” in H. Roche (ed.) Companion to Classical Reception in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Brill Academic Publishers, 2017, 325-69.
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F. Marcello, “Building the Image of Power: Romanità in the Civic Architecture of Fascist Italy” in H. Roche & K. Demetriou (eds.) Companion to Classical Reception in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany, Brill Academic Publishers, 2017, 370-403.
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F. Marcello, “Italians do it Better: Fascist Italy’s New Brand of Nationalism in the Art and Architecture of the Italian Pavilion, Paris 1937” in Rika Devos, Alexander Ortenberg, Vladimir Paperny eds., Architecture of Great Expositions 1937-1958: Reckoning with the Global War, Ashgate Press, 2015.
F. Marcello & I. Woodcock, “Scratching the surface: technical and symbolic practices of contemporary ‘Green’ architecture” in A. Chaterjee (ed.), Surface and Deep Histories: Critiques, and Practices in Art, Architecture and Design, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2014, 129-50.
F. Marcello, “The Norme of 1932 and the Fascist Concept of Monument. Publio Morbiducci’s The History of Rome Through Its Built Works” in M. Hardy (ed.), The Venice Charter Revisited: Modernism & Conservation in the Post-War World, Cambridge Scholars’ Press, 2009.
-, “Una macchina per abitare? Modern Italian housing between Gio Ponti’s Casa all’italiana and Le Corbusier’s machine à habiter” in A. Novakov & E. Schmidle (eds.), Housekeeping. The Artistic Legacy of Le Corbusier’s machine à habiter, Mellen Press, 2008.
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Refereed journal articles
U. de Jong & F. Marcello, “Stewardship and renewal of places of worship”, Actas de Arquitectura Religiosa Contemporánea, 6 (2019).
F. Marcello, "Between censure and celebration: the decorative plan of the Casa Madre dei Mutilati in Rome (1926-1939)." Volume 24, Issue 2 (Special Issue: The Difficult Heritage of Italian Fascism, May 2019 , pp. 179-198.
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F. Marcello, “Rome Remembers Fascism: Considering the Monument to the Fosse Ardeatine Massacre as an Immersive Historical Experience.” Rethinking Histories 20:1, 2017.
-, “All Roads Lead to Rome: the Universality of the Roman Ideal in Achille Funi’s incomplete fresco cycle for the Palazzo dei Congressi in EUR, 1940-43”, Civiltà romana. Rivista pluridisciplinare di studi su Roma Antica e le sue Interpretazioni, III, 2016, pp. 151-77.
F. Marcello & P. Gwynne, “Speaking from the walls: Militarism, Education and Romanità in Rome’s Città Universitaria (1932-35)”, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 74:3, September 2015.
F. Marcello, Italian Fascism, Middle Class Ideals, and Holiday Villa Pavilions at the 5th Milan Triennale of 1933, Open Arts Journal Special Issue: What is a Pavilion? Issue 2 (Winter 2013-2014).
-, “Mussolini and the Idealisation of Empire: The Augustan Exhibition of Romanità”, Modern Italy. The Journal of the Association for the Study of Modern Italy, 16:3, August 2011, 223-47.
- “The Politics of Place: Siting and Re-citing Mussolini’s New Party Headquarters, the Palazzo Littorio”, Architectural Theory Review, vol. 12, no. 2, 2007.
- “Giuseppe Pagano: A Rationalist Caught between Theories & Practices of Fascist Italy”, Architectural Theory Review, vol. 8, no. 2, 2003, 96-112.
Book reviews
D. Beynon & F. Marcello, “Out of Place (Gwalia): Occasional Essays on Australian Regional Communities and Built Environments in Transition”, Fabrications: The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 2, 2015, 294-7.
F. Marcello, The Third Rome, 1922-43: The Making of the Fascist Capital by Aristotle Kallis, Journal of Contemporary History. Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 51, no. 4 2016, 906-908
Conference proceedings
F. Marcello and A. White (eds.), Interspaces: Art and Architectural Exchanges from East to West, University of Melbourne, 20-22 August 2010, Australian Institute of Art History, online publication.
