Giorgio Baruchello — Author Site

Giorgio Baruchello is professor of philosophy at the University of Akureyri, editor of Nordicum-Mediterraneum, and a prolific author across three languages. The site gathers a life's work into one place — books, peer-reviewed articles, editorial work and talks — so that a reader finds the work rather than hunting for it.

The challenge

A scholarly body of work spanning decades and three languages (Icelandic, English, Italian) tends to scatter: some on publisher pages, some in archives, some reachable only from the author's own memory. The task was to build one durable place the author owns — where each work is localised into the right language and nothing is lost when an external service shuts down.

The solution

• Trilingual localisation — every document is translated at the document level (Icelandic, English, Italian); the reader gets the whole site in their language, not a patchwork.
• Owned content system. Payload holds books, articles and writing in a structured form the author can maintain himself — no byte served from a rented cloud CMS.
• Owned infrastructure. Next.js 16 + Payload 3 run on a private Hetzner box; the site sits behind a workshop sign-in while it is being built.
• Editorial voice. Warm, scholarly and precise presentation that suits the material — design in service of the text.

The site is part of the Sumarhús portfolio: sovereign author sites built on owned foundations, where the scholar owns both the content and the infrastructure.