Phd in LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT

email: alessandra.capuano@uniroma1.it
phone: 3381125654
building: Valle Giulia/DIAP
room: 6

TRAINING
Postdoctoral, La Sapienza University (Rome) 1992-1994
PhD, La Sapienza University (Rome) 1988-1991
Masters' Degree in Historic Preservation, Columbia University (New York) 1982-1984
Degree in Architecture, La Sapienza University (Rome) 1977-1985

POSITION
Full Professor, La Sapienza University (Rome) since 2015
Associate Professor, La Sapienza University (Rome) 2008-2015
Researcher, La Sapienza University (Rome) 1999-2008

TEACHING
She teaches the Synthesis Laboratory in Architectural and Landscape Design in the Master of Science Degree in Architecture. She has taught Architectural and Urban Design Laboratories since 1998.
From 2016 to 2021 she also taught Theories of Contemporary Architectural Research. Since 2011 she has been a member of the Board of Professors of the PhD in Landscape and Environment at the Sapienza University of Rome and a member of the Board of the International PhD in Management Conservation Issues Changing Landscapes at the University of Molise. In the past, she was a professor in the Bachelor's degree in Architectural Sciences and in the Master's degree in Architecture and Urban Design. She has been an adjunct lecturer at numerous North American universities (Cornell University, Penn State University, Ohio State University, Monterrey Polytechnic, California Polytechnic, Northeastern University, Toronto University, Pratt Institute) and at Romatre.

INSTITUTIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Since 2020 she is Director of the Department of Architecture and Design
2021 ANVUR National Peer Reviewer of GEV 08 Architecture for VQR 2015-19.
Since 2019 she has been directing the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Architecture Landscape Archaeology /Sapienza University of Rome, University of Coimbra, Polytechnic University of Athens, University Federico II of Naples.
From 2017 to 2021 she is a member of the Board of the Department of Architecture and Design.
From 2016 to 2021 she is coordinator of the Doctorate in Landscape and Environment at Sapienza.
From 2015 to 2021 she is President of the Teaching Area 1 of the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University.
2015-17 ANVUR member of GEV 08 Architecture for the VQR 2011-14.
From 2014 to 2019 she directs the Master Architecture for Archaeology. Projects for the enhancement of the cultural heritage of Sapienza.
2013 - 2015 she has been member of the Board of the Department of Architecture and Design and delegate for Research.
2011 - 2014 she has been Coordinator of the Master of Science in Architectural and Urban Design.
2011-12 National Peer Reviewer in the evaluation of research products awarded at the VQR 2004-2010.
Since 2011 Chercheur associée at the Chaire UNESCO en Paysage et Environnement.

EDITORIAL ASSIGNMENTS
Director of the series Et Paesaggio e Ambiente by Letteraventidue.
She is part of the scientific committees of the following publishing series:
- Colecciòn Poliédrica of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Ediciones Asimétricas
- Projects For by Aracne
- Paesaggio Città Infrastrutture by Franco Angeli
- Paesaggi con Architetture by Jaca Book.
She is also a member of the scientific committee of the architecture magazine AND, of the electronic multimedia magazine Enter_Vista, and is Advisory Board Member of Ardeth, a magazine on theories of architecture.
She has been editorial coordinator of the DiAR annual and a member of the Department's publications committee.

RESEARCH
She carries out research in the Department of Architecture and Design, where she directs the Laboratory "Babel. City, Architecture, Nature". She deals with issues related to urban and landscape design and contemporary architecture, with particular attention to the city of Rome and Italian architecture. She coordinates the Large University Research Project "ARCHAEOGRAB. Green network for sustainable mobility and public space projects for the enhancement of archaeological and natural heritage in the suburbs of the city of Rome", and the Medium Research project "Italy Builds Abroad. Architecture across the border 1945-1989". She was national coordinator of the PRIN 2015 "The city as care and the care of the city". She has been national coordinator of the PRIN 2009 "Landscapes of archeology, Regions and Metropolitan Cities". She was Principal Investigator of the Multidisciplinary Sapienza 2014 Project "Life styles and urban enhancement in health prevention" and of the Sapienza Award Research Project 2013 "Life Styles and City of the future". From 2019 he is responsible for a third party research for the Colosseum Archaeological Park. In 2011 he was responsible for research contracts on behalf of third parties with the Lazio Region and the Province of Rome. With the Appia Antica Park Authority, it has entered into a scientific collaboration agreement and has designed and organized in 2011 the International Design and Conference Workshop Il Parco e la Città. The historical territory of the Appia in the future of Rome. He is responsible for a Bilateral Agreement with the UNESCO and Environnement et Paysage Chaire of the University of Montréal, with whom he has been carrying out research and teaching activities since 2003 in international workshops (Morocco, Lebanon, Tunisia, Republic of Korea, China, Japan, Canada, Brazil, France). It is associated with the "Laboratoire d'innovation paysagère" of the same university. He has curated architecture exhibitions and debates. She has participated in numerous national and international conferences.

PUBLICATIONS
She is the author of over 130 publications including books, essays and articles. Among her books: she is author of "Temi e figure dell'architettura romana 1944-2004" (2005), "Iconologia della facciata nell'architettura italiana" (1995); co-author of the volumes "Roma e l'Appia. Rovine Utopie Progetto” (with F. Toppetti, 2017), "Il Parco e la Città. Il territorio storico dell'Appia nel futuro di Roma” (with O. Carpenzano and F. Toppetti, 2013), Roma città mediterranea (with A. Terranova, A. Criconia, A. Feo, F. Toppetti, 2007), Il "realismo costruttivo" per una banca moderna (1996), "Italia gli ultimi trent'anni. Guida all'architettura moderna” (with G. Muratore, F. Garofalo, E. Pellegrini, 1988); she has edited: ET Paesaggi del Novecento. Authors and projects (2021 with D. Frediani); #CURACITTÀ ROMA La Sapienza della cura urbana (2020 with A. Lanzetta); Streetscape Strade vitali, reti della mobilità sostenibile, vie verdi (2020); Stili di vita e città del futuro (2020, with F. Morgia); Cinque temi del modernocontemporaneo. Theories and practices of architecture (2020 with A. Lanzetta and B. Di Donato); Ruined landscapes. Ruined Landscapes (2014).

OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE
In 1992, together with Orazio Carpenzano, she founded the architectural firm Urbanlab Architetti Associati, where she worked on projects until 2010. They built the Fiumicino Interport, numerous interiors and participated in competitions, winning a few awards.

SCHOLARSHIPS, PRIZES AND AWARDS
International competition of ideas "The Becoming of Europe" 2013, Romarchitettura for the enhancement of contemporary architecture in Lazio, 2008, Centopiazze per Roma competition, 1996, Europe International Prize for Contemporary Culture 1988, Fulbright Fellow 1982-1984