Chiara Ingrosso, Αναπλ. Καθηγήτρια, Πανεπιστήμιο Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Διάλεξη: Mediterranean Modernism is Female
Τετάρτη 28/5 @ 13:30, Σχεδιαστήριο 5, Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Μηχανικών, Πανεπιστήμιο Πατρών

Chiara Ingrosso is Associate Professor in History of Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. She teaches courses on History of Architecture and Design and History of the Twentieth-Century City. She has published: Condomini Napoletani. La Città Privata tra Ricostruzione e Boom Economico (2017), Elena Mendia. Un' Architetta nella Napoli del Secondo Dopoguerra (2020) and Stefania Filo Speziale. Architetta (2024)

Her lecture will address the work of architect Stefania Filo Speziale (1905-1988), one of the most interesting figures in 20th-century Italian architecture, as important as she is neglected to date. A highly cultured and tenacious, non-aligned woman, she was the author of more than a hundred and fifty architectural projects, as well as an important university lecturer who contributed to the training of entire generations of architects. Her modern way of designing, always extremely precise in terms of typology, function, structure, and technology, which stemmed from the Neapolitan landscape, represents another declination, strongly Meridian, of a lexicon that has for too long been seen as universal. Chiara Ingrosso’s book, Stefania Filo Speziale. Architetta (2024), which inaugurates the new Femminile Singolare series, recounts Filo Speziale’s history, but above all her works, focusing on four projects: the Palazzo Della Morte (1951-57), the Skyscraper of the Società Cattolica Assicurazione (1954-58), the Buildings in Via Nevio (1954-58) and the Apartment Block in Parco Grifeo (1955-1959).