Papers by Monica Prencipe
Colección Congresos UPV ICAG2023 - VI International Conference on Architecture and Gender, 2024
In Italy, many women have contributed to transforming the physical space: designers, philanthropi... more In Italy, many women have contributed to transforming the physical space: designers, philanthropists, landscape architects, and city planning councilors, as well as militants and activists. In December 2021, the retrospective Good News. Women in Architecture at the MAXXI in Rome focused on a wide range of examples throughout the world and the Italian panorama was not the center of the exhibition, manifesting how nowadays is still fundamental to shed light on many other names to reconstruct an Italian gender genealogy. The limited visibility of these historical names of the XX century results in a diffuse delay by several Institutions and a very restricted availability of female architects’ archives, which represent less than 4% of the total today. In this complex scene, a different and modern venture has been carried out by the University Sapienza in Rome since 2019, thanks to ‘Tecniche Sapienti’. The research focuses on discovering the biographies of the first women enrolled in the Faculties of Engineering
and Architecture in Rome between 1910 and 1968, intercepting many unknown female pioneers and first graduates (in the capital city but in some cases also in Italy) in professions considered to be of male competence, challenging prejudices and stating their talents with determination.
Il sisma del 6 aprile ha palesato delle criticità già presenti nel territorio aquilano. Dopo l... more Il sisma del 6 aprile ha palesato delle criticità già presenti nel territorio aquilano. Dopo l'emergenza ci si chiede quindi quale debba essere il futuro della città. Quello che risulta più evidente è sicuramente la scomparsa di un'interdipendenza tra città e territorio circostante che era invece alla base della nascita stessa del nucleo storico. Questo era infatti concepito inizialmente come una serie di entità eterogenee separate, 99 rioni che avrebbero ospitato la popolazione di altrettanti villaggi e castelli, ed arriva nel corso dei secoli ad inglobare un territorio molto più ampio di centri minori che si riconoscono nel capoluogo. Anche con la successiva crescita non si è mai sentita la necessità di provvedere ad uno sviluppo organizzato attraverso la realizzazione di servizi, ma si è sempre cercato di mantenere il centro storico come unico contenitore, non solo per la città ma per l'intero territorio. Così lo sviluppo fuori le mura è avvenuto soprattutto per mano ...
Un censimento aggiornato dei Periodici Italiani di Architettura (1859-2016) = An updated list of Italian Architectural journals (1859-2016), 2017
The paper focuses on Giuseppe Samonà’s two early writings, the article "Tradizionalismo e in... more The paper focuses on Giuseppe Samonà’s two early writings, the article "Tradizionalismo e internazionalismo architettonico" (1929) and the book "La casa popolare" (1935) where he embedded some Nordic examples among the first ever presented to the Italian audience. In the 1930s, Samonà’s «misaligned» investigation was seeking a «strange conciliation» between the two sides of modern architecture – between Classicism and Functionalism – following a path similar to that one taken by some Swedish architects. Starting from the in-depth analysis of the examples selected by Samonà, the paper aims also to stress the importance of the foreign publications in the education of the Italian generation of young architects since the 1930s. >> The book is the final output of the namesake Call for Paper organised by the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Università Iuav di Venezia (see attached Poster
La Mole Vanvitelliana di Ancona : progetto di allestimento di una mostra e di padiglioni temporanei : tesi di diploma A.A. 2012-2013, 2018
Museografia temi e metodi dell'allestimento museale 15 anni del corso di "Museografia" presso la ... more Museografia temi e metodi dell'allestimento museale 15 anni del corso di "Museografia" presso la Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici e del Paesaggio per lo Studio e il Restauro dei Monumenti a cura di
a cura di Lorenzo Ciccarelli e Monica Prencipe ISBN 978-88-229-0582-6
a cura di Lorenzo Ciccarelli e Monica Prencipe ISBN 978-88-229-0582-6
L'ARCHITETTURA CIVILE DI PAOLA SALMONI, 2021
a cura di Lorenzo Ciccarelli e Monica Prencipe
ISBN 978-88-229-0582-6
IL DIRITTO ALLA TUTELA ARCHITETTURA D'AUTORE DEL SECONDO NOVECENTO IL DIRITTO ALLA TUTELA ARCHITETTURA D'AUTORE DEL SECONDO NOVECENTO, 2019
a cura di Gentucca Canella e Paolo Mellano 72. Il volume costituisce una riflessione di architett... more a cura di Gentucca Canella e Paolo Mellano 72. Il volume costituisce una riflessione di architetti e studiosi di differenti generazioni sull'architettura d'autore del secondo Novecento, sempre più oggetto, in particolare in questi ultimi anni, di complessi interventi di adeguamento, manutenzione, ridestinazione funzionale, che spesso rischiano di compromettere l'integrità dell'opera alterandone la forma espressiva, il linguaggio e la percezione originari. Il Dipartimento di Architettura e Design del Politecnico di Torino, nel mese di dicembre 2016, ha promosso un convegno di studi nazionale teso a individuare temi e strumenti di una incisiva "tutela operativa" di questo patrimonio relativamente recente, nel quale si concentra la storia dell'architettura italiana dall'immediato secondo dopoguerra alla fine del Novecento, ma che ancora sconta una legislazione troppo puntuale e spesso inefficace (la tutela istituzionale di prassi interviene solo dopo i settant'anni dalla realizzazione), richiamando il mondo culturale, accademico e universitario, gli organismi ministeriali, le Fondazioni, gli Archivi e le Associazioni a un impegno comune e a una fattiva assunzione di responsabilità. In un proficuo confronto di autori e punti di vista, nelle pagine del volume gli studi sugli aspetti più direttamente materiali e costruttivi delle azioni di salvaguardia e la segnalazione di casi eclatanti per il loro stato di ingiustificata incuria o di oggettiva manomissione-con l'identificazione di variabili comunemente ricorrenti per quanto riguarda le procedure di gara, i diritti e la legittimazione degli autori e degli eredi, il riconoscimento ministeriale, gli appelli per la salvaguardia, la scelta di nuove funzioni compatibili-, si affiancano a considerazioni, anche sotto il profilo normativo, sui principi di necessarietà, di autore e autorialità, ma anche sul significato e sul valore che si vogliono ancora riconoscere alle intenzioni e all'impegno civile di alcuni protagonisti dell'architettura italiana, oggetto di una riflessione monografica nei volumi di questa serie divenuta, dal 2018, collana dal titolo Architetti italiani del Novecento. Un ricco apparato iconografico su singole architetture a rischio indagate da docenti e giovani ricercatori completa i contributi scritti, riportando un estratto degli oltre cento filmati realizzati dagli studenti delle principali Scuole italiane di architettura e presentato, in apertura del convegno, nella mostra-video Riflessioni sul secondo Novecento italiano. Architetture a rischio, i cui risultati costituiscono un primo censimento oggettivo a livello nazionale dell'effettivo stato di conservazione e in molti casi anche della condizione di allarmante precarietà di alcune delle opere più significative dell'architettura italiana.
in (a cura di Laura Pujia) "Rileggere Samonà / Re-reading Samonà", RomaTRE PRESS - collana Patrimonio Culturale e Territorio, 2020
The paper focuses on Giuseppe Samonà’s two early writings, the article "Tradizionalismo e interna... more The paper focuses on Giuseppe Samonà’s two early writings, the article "Tradizionalismo e internazionalismo architettonico" (1929) and the book "La casa popolare" (1935) where he embedded some Nordic examples among the first ever presented to the Italian audience. In the 1930s, Samonà’s «misaligned» investigation was seeking a «strange conciliation» between the two sides of modern architecture – between Classicism and Functionalism – following a path similar to that one taken by some Swedish architects. Starting from the in-depth analysis of the examples selected by Samonà, the paper aims also to stress the importance of the foreign publications in the education of the Italian generation of young architects since the 1930s.
>> The book is the final output of the namesake call for paper organised by the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Università Iuav di Venezia.
The volume is curated by Laura Pujia, and is available in Open Acces at http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/rileggere-samona-re-reading-samona/
ISBN: 978-88-32136-90-6
Studi e RIcerche di Storia dell'Architettura, Rivista dell'Associazione Italiana Storici dell'Architettura, 2019
Il numero monografico della rivista dell'Associazione degli Storici dell'architettura italiani, A... more Il numero monografico della rivista dell'Associazione degli Storici dell'architettura italiani, AISTARCH, raccoglie contributi sulla storia del design, come storia liminare e di contaminazione tra la storia dell'architettura e altri filoni di ricerca. Il numero è a cura di Elena Dellapiana
Studi e ricerche di storia dell'architettura, 2019
The exhibition New Italian Art opened in Stockholm in March 1953, arranged by Franco Albini and F... more The exhibition New Italian Art opened in Stockholm in March 1953, arranged by Franco Albini and Franca Helg. Organized between the IX and X Triennale, this event remains little known today by the Italian audience, although it can be considered the result of specific choices related to the previous Italian exhibitions in Sweden. The 1953 exhibition is considered as an opportunity to analyse the renewed culture of the post-war period and the richness of the plots that intersected between the Italian and Swedish art scene, in particular on the relationship between industrial product and craftsmanship.
The exhibition proposed to the Nordic public a combination of everyday objects and art pieces, set up within a simple and ethereal architecture, which conveyed the image of a modern, industrial Italy, but always firmly supported by the continuity of its artistic and artisan tradition.
The sources come from the researches, carried out during my doctoral thesis, between the Swedish and the Italian archives.
Women's Creativity since the Modern Movement (1918-2018). Toward a New Perception and Reception, 2018
Currently chaired by a woman, the Faculty of Architecture "Sapienza" in Rome was the first create... more Currently chaired by a woman, the Faculty of Architecture "Sapienza" in Rome was the first created in Italy in 1920. However, differently from Florence, Milan and Venice, the ‘School of Rome’ did not outline a unique ‘tendency’. Nevertheless, it is unquestionable that the presence of prominent figures like Marcello Piacentini, Gustavo Giovannoni, Adalberto Libera, Bruno Zevi and Ludovico Quaroni have traced well-defined paths and left a complex inheritance, absorbed and metabolized in a diversified language.
Among the students, more than 200.000, female architects, graduated during almost a hundred years of activity, represent an ever-increasing percentage, although, on them, nothing has been said as a group yet.
How was the comparison with their male colleagues? What were their reference models? What are the difficulties they still face today? The aim of the research is to provide a wide frame of women graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Rome and comparing the different generational outcomes by pondering the historical fate of the pioneers and by collecting the personal experiences of the heirs with a series of direct interviews.
Nuove tendenze nelle biblioteche di architettura: edifici, materioteche e progetti collaborativi. 15° giornata di studio del CNBA. Bologna, 26 Maggio 2017, 2018
Museografia, temi e metodi dell’allestimento museale. 15 anni di corso, 2018
Numero completo di E20 del 2012, rivista della Facoltà di Architettura "Aldo Rossi", con la direz... more Numero completo di E20 del 2012, rivista della Facoltà di Architettura "Aldo Rossi", con la direzione di Monica Prencipe. Il tema è la "sostenibilità" intesa nella sua accezione più ampia, come interrelazione di questioni ambientali ma anche sociali ed economiche.
Selezione e commento delle opere più significative dell'architetto Danilo Guerri nelle Marche. Bi... more Selezione e commento delle opere più significative dell'architetto Danilo Guerri nelle Marche. Biblioteca di san Giovanni a Pesaro, complesso residenziale "Villa Sorriso" (Senigallia-An), Villa Rocchetti (Senigallia-An), Casa Casoni (Falconara Marittima-An), Teatro delle Muse (Ancona), Casa Frittelli (Varano-An), Casa Guzzini (Recanati-An)
The essay focus on the events that brought in 1905 to the Marche Regional Exposition of Macerata... more The essay focus on the events that brought in 1905 to the Marche Regional Exposition of Macerata. After a tough economic crisis during the last twenty years of the XIX century, the city of Macerata chose to improve its role in the territory through a big event (that it had tried to organize many times before without success). Once the city gained the approval for the agricultural exhibition, the commission transformed it in a much more ambitious event, with an industrial section and a vernacular and a modern show. It’s the first time, for the Marche history after the unity of Italy in 1861, that the commission of an exposition decided to make an important investment for temporary constructions. The chosen area is the city cattle market and the general planning is made by the engineer Ugo Cantalamessa: a series of pavilions along a boulevard and surrounded by a green area. The event becomes a ‘rappresentative moment’ and not just an economic chance. For the occasion it’s also founded the magazine «L’Esposizione Marchigiana», origin of «Rivista Marchigiana Illustrata», that from 1906 to Second World War will be protagonist of the artistic and architectural debate of the Marche region. The exposition area is now converted into the biggest public garden of the city, and it still maintains elements of the original design in the oval track and the ‘Rotonda’ (placed where was the Feast Pavilion). The exposition it’s also one of the lost chances of the territory, because it didn’t succeeded in creating an economical and intellectual renewal. The essay recalls the series of events through archive documentations and published sources.
Key words (4): Exposition – Park – Temporary Architecture ¬ Engineering
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and Architecture in Rome between 1910 and 1968, intercepting many unknown female pioneers and first graduates (in the capital city but in some cases also in Italy) in professions considered to be of male competence, challenging prejudices and stating their talents with determination.
>> The book is the final output of the namesake call for paper organised by the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Università Iuav di Venezia.
The volume is curated by Laura Pujia, and is available in Open Acces at http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/rileggere-samona-re-reading-samona/
ISBN: 978-88-32136-90-6
The exhibition proposed to the Nordic public a combination of everyday objects and art pieces, set up within a simple and ethereal architecture, which conveyed the image of a modern, industrial Italy, but always firmly supported by the continuity of its artistic and artisan tradition.
The sources come from the researches, carried out during my doctoral thesis, between the Swedish and the Italian archives.
Among the students, more than 200.000, female architects, graduated during almost a hundred years of activity, represent an ever-increasing percentage, although, on them, nothing has been said as a group yet.
How was the comparison with their male colleagues? What were their reference models? What are the difficulties they still face today? The aim of the research is to provide a wide frame of women graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Rome and comparing the different generational outcomes by pondering the historical fate of the pioneers and by collecting the personal experiences of the heirs with a series of direct interviews.
Key words (4): Exposition – Park – Temporary Architecture ¬ Engineering
and Architecture in Rome between 1910 and 1968, intercepting many unknown female pioneers and first graduates (in the capital city but in some cases also in Italy) in professions considered to be of male competence, challenging prejudices and stating their talents with determination.
>> The book is the final output of the namesake call for paper organised by the Università degli Studi Roma Tre and Università Iuav di Venezia.
The volume is curated by Laura Pujia, and is available in Open Acces at http://romatrepress.uniroma3.it/libro/rileggere-samona-re-reading-samona/
ISBN: 978-88-32136-90-6
The exhibition proposed to the Nordic public a combination of everyday objects and art pieces, set up within a simple and ethereal architecture, which conveyed the image of a modern, industrial Italy, but always firmly supported by the continuity of its artistic and artisan tradition.
The sources come from the researches, carried out during my doctoral thesis, between the Swedish and the Italian archives.
Among the students, more than 200.000, female architects, graduated during almost a hundred years of activity, represent an ever-increasing percentage, although, on them, nothing has been said as a group yet.
How was the comparison with their male colleagues? What were their reference models? What are the difficulties they still face today? The aim of the research is to provide a wide frame of women graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Rome and comparing the different generational outcomes by pondering the historical fate of the pioneers and by collecting the personal experiences of the heirs with a series of direct interviews.
Key words (4): Exposition – Park – Temporary Architecture ¬ Engineering
Magazines, and especially those ones interested in arts and architecture, played a central role in this revolution. Since the beginning, the Italian journals wanted to publish foreign artists, in order to favour the constitution of a truly “modern” conscience, and finally go beyond an Italian tradition, still bounded to classicism and eclectism. One of the main reason for its cultural lag was related to the absence –central in other European countries- of a tradition such as the Grand Tour, that, from the late Renaissance, permitted to each generation to travel and compare ideas, lifestyle, artistic believes.
If we speak of these last two centuries, the main influences in Italian culture came from countries like Germany, Austria and France, first for their physical connections with Italy. However, as soon as the modern transportation and communications permit it, Italian magazines tried to keep up with the many artistic revolutions that where starting all over Europe, like in the Nordic countries.
This essay focuses on a period between 1895 and 1950. The 1895 is the birth of the first modern art magazine: «Emporium», in Bergamo (Milan). On the other end, in 1950 Bruno Zevi publishes the first Italian History of Architecture , which presented Frank Lloyd Wright and Alvar Aalto as two great masters for the new generations.
Between these two moments, there are the Fascist decades, with his economical but also cultural autarchia , which apparently wanted to contain this growing interest for foreign architecture. Actually, as we can see from a selected bibliography, most of the publications connected to Nordic architecture, comes from that period, especially after the 1928 and the birth of a famous architectural Italian journal: «Casabella».
For these reasons, in order to understand the path of dissemination of Nordic architecture in Italy is crucial to follow the flow of publications on this topic in our architectural magazines.
I seminari concludono una prima fase della ricerca e puntano a mettere in luce alcune figure femminili che si sono laureate o che hanno insegnato nell’università Sapienza di Roma, scoprendo delle “pioniere”, approfondendo le figure di alcune “madri”, diffondendo i profili di alcune “intraprendenti” per arrivare a quelle che si sono “affermate”.
L’arco temporale preso come riferimento spazia dal 1910, anno di iscrizione della prima studentessa in Ingegneria, fino al 1968 che prelude alla riforma di liberalizzazione dell’accesso agli studi universitari.
Date 2021
26 febbraio: Proporre nuovi sguardi
26 marzo: Scrivere e progettare l’abitare
30 aprile: Attrezzare la città
28 maggio: Progettare il territorio e l’ambiente
25 giugno: Insegnare, progettare, comunicare, allestire
L'incontro sarà ospitato presso La Banchina – Molo Rizzo, spazio temporaneo e informale dedicato all'intrattenimento ma anche alla cultura. L’evento è senza finalità di lucro e ha lo scopo di promuovere nuovi approcci al progetto dello spazio pubblico.
In 1948, he published in Italy the first retrospective on the Swede Erik Gunnar Asplund and in 1949, in his polemic article against the Italian CIAM in Bergamo, one of the most important element was the different interpretation of the 1930 Stockholm Exhibition.
Moreover, thanks to his work for magazines like Metron and L’Architettura Cronache e storia, he largely contributed to the diffusion on Nordic Architecture in Italy, as an alternative and successful possibility for modern architecture in opposition to the Functionalism of the Modern Movement.
But where and how Zevi became acquainted with these Nordic names? After a first archival survey, it is interesting to notice that his relationships with this part of the planet were limited.
On the other hand, great relevance could have had his first training in London in 1938, in the studio of the Finnish architect Cyril Sjöstrom, as well as the larger debate on Nordic Architecture in the pages of both English and Italian periodicals by critics like Frank Yerbury, Philip Morton Shand and Saverio Muratori. In many ways, the English interpretation of the Nordic “New Empiricism” resembled Zevi’s definition of the new need for a modern “Organic Architecture”.
In this sense, the aim of the essay is to analyze the roots of his definition of Organic Architecture in relationships to both Italian and English critics who were engaged in the analysis of Nordic Masters, as well as to understand the limits of these interpretations in modern historiography.
Video realizzato dagli studenti dell'Università Politecnica delle Marche, nel corso di Storia dell'Architettura 2, in occasione della mostra del 12 novembre 2016, Politecnico di Torino.
Il Video è stato realizzato da Monica Prencipe (musiche di Katalin Negretti, 48h studio), e presentato a Torino in occasione della mostra del 12 dicembre 2016 sul tema delle architetture del secondo Novecento.
This mission, which he pursued throughout his life as a militant critic,
sometimes concerned the design and the production of objects, especially
furniture, though almost exclusively in his contributions to non-specialist
publications. Here, the need for stringent topicality also led him to follow
celebrations of design, such as awards, exhibitions and conferences, and
to use this framework – though he took every opportunity to criticize it,
sometimes violently – to illustrate his position, exploiting the growing success of design and its appeal to the generalist public.