Bruna Di Palma, architect and PhD, is a Tenure-Track Researcher (type B) in Architectural and Urban Composition in the Department of Architecture at the University of Naples Federico II.
At both national and international levels, since 2011 she has carried out continuous research and design activities –independently or in collaboration – focusing on consolidated cities and vulnerable territories, with particular attention to transformations of the built heritage. The scientific and experimental results of this work, published and presented at conferences in Italy and abroad, have earned her several awards and mentions.
With roles of responsibility and coordination, she conducts her work within funded projects, agreements, and institutional partnerships, in constant dialogue with local authorities and within second- and third-level educational programs.
She is regularly invited to give lectures at various academic institutions, has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Seville and Coimbra, and is a member of the teaching faculty of the Second-Level Master’s RISCAPE. Landscapes at Risk. Landscape Design in Vulnerable Territories at the University of Naples Federico II. She is also a member of the Academic Board of the PhD Program in Architecture and City Construction at Sapienza University of Rome, a research associate at the Institute of Heritage Science of the National Research Council (CNR), and vice-president of the Italian National Association of Historic-Artistic Centers.
She has written and edited – also in collaboration – numerous essays, articles, and volumes on architectural design in relation to time and vulnerability. Among her publications: Verso un’architettura terrestre. Riflessioni teoriche ed esplorazioni progettuali (2025); Paesaggi a rischio. Fragilità, vulnerabilità e progetto (2024); Abitare i centri storici (2024); Unveiled ruins. Exhibition narrative and open prospects for the Archaeological Museum of Paestum (2023); At the roots of architecture. The project in the Mediterranean rural landscape (2023); L’intermittenza dell’architettura. Teoria e progetti sui luoghi dell’archeologia (2019); Rovine in attesa. Il progetto di architettura per Babilonia e Baghdad (2019); Ruins, amnesia and design. Strategic approaches for the enhancement of Doclea’s archaeological area in Montenegro (2019).