Phd in HISTORY, REPRESENTATION AND RESTORATION OF ARCHITECTURE

email: daniela.esposito@uniroma1.it
phone: +39 06 49918807
building: piazza Borghese, 9

SCIENTIFIC PROFILE SUMMARY

Academy: Daniela Esposito, Architect, postgraduate in Monuments’ Conservation, is Full professor in restoration, ICAR/19 group. She works in the Faculty of Achitecture of “Sapienza” University of Rome, Dept. of History Representation and Restoration of Architecture Prof. Esposito is “Chercheur associé” of the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (LAMOP, UMR 8589), CNRS-Université Paris I-Sorbonne.
Prof. Esposito holds the chair of Architectural Restoration Lab. in the Master's degree course of Architecture (Restoration). From 2013 she is head (chairperson) of the Didactic Area 2, "Sciences of Architecture and landscape" in the faculty of Architecture, “Sapienza” Università di Roma.
Prof. Esposito was member of the research committee of “Sapienza” University. From 2011 to 2014. She at present is member of the validation committee for PhD courses, same University.

Professional experience: As a consultant, Prof. Esposito carried out several activities in the field of restoration. Namely: 1) on behalf of F.A.I: Scientific direction, Casa Noha restoration actions, Matera (2012-2014) and S. Maria di Cerrate restoration actions, Lecce (since 2011) expert advice for the preliminary restoration plan of the excavation area in the basement of the building near the S. Paolo fuori le mura basilica in Rome; 3) expert advice, in collaboration with Professor Carbonara, for the preliminary restoration plan of the excavation area in the basement of the the l'École française de Rome (2010), in Piazza Navona.

Professor Esposito carries out teaching and research activity addressed to examine in depth the theory of restoration and to the historic and historical-technical study of masonry, to the methods, criteria and rules that regulate the actions for conservation. Since 1997 she contributed as principal investigator and/or co-investigator in several national studies financed by ministry of University & Research or Sapienza University. Among them it is worth mentioning the PRIN 2002 “Construction sites and building techniques in Central Italy: Tuscia, Latium, Marques and Umbria between 10th and 15th centuries: knowledge and conservation problems” - P.I. Prof. S. Casiello - and PRIN 2005 “Planning and development of construction sites between 10th and 15th centuries: Tuscany, Latium and Umbria” - P.I. prof. S. Della Torre.
As principal investigator, prof. Esposito carried out the updated studies (researches) 1) “Architecture and building materials between Ancient Times and Middle Ages: knowledge, monitoring and conservation” and 2) ”Upper-class residential architecture in Roman area: materials and building methods as elements of knowledge and restoration”, both financed by Sapienza University.

She has organized and participated as a member of scientific and organizative committees, as well as a speaker, at several national and international conferences, among which, in the last ten years, the participation as member of Scientific Committee and as a speaker in the international conference The university towns of the 20th century and the Sapienza of Rome, in the 80th year of the new University Town of Rome 1935, entitled "War and reconstruction damages: the university city of Rome" (Nov 24th 2017); participation as organizer and as moderator of a session at the Rome, Tiber and Littoral International Convention. 3000 years of history. The challenges of the future, (Rome, May 29th-31th 2013), in collaboration with the British School of Rome, CROMA-University of Roma Tre, École française de Rome, Soprintendenza Speciale per i Beni Archeologici di Roma; the Magistral Conference within the 2nd International Symposium of ICOMOS (Puebla - Mexico, 2-4 October 2013), El Patrimonio: of the objeto arquitectónico at the urban contexto y su vulnerabilidad en el siglo XXI, entitled: "Restauración en Italia" (Oct 2nd, 2013), Autonomous University of Architecture in Puebla (Mexico); the coordination and the report of the 4th session of the seminar Histoire de la Construction (Jan-Jun 2011), organized by the Laboratoire de médiévistique occidentale de Paris (UMR 8589, Université Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne), the Institut d'histoire du droit (umr 7184, Université Panthéon-Assas - Paris 2), the Université de Paris Est / Marne-la-Vallée and the Laboratoire de recherche Géométrie-Structure-Architecture de l'Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture Paris-Malaquais, in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome and the Faculty of Architecture of Barcelona on Disassembly and deconstruction between the Middle Ages and the Modern Age; participation as a member (with J.F. Bernard, Ph. Bernardi, Ph. Dillmann, L. Foulquier) of the Organizing Committee of the International Colloquium «Chasteaus abatuz est demi refez». Recovery, recycling and use of reuse in architecture (Rome, Nov 8th-10th 2007), organized by the Ecole française de Rome, the CNRS, the LAMM - UMR 6572, Université de Provence, ANR program ACEUR-CNRS, IRAMAT - UMR 5060 and from the Department of History of Architecture, Restoration and Conservation of Architectural Heritage of Sapienza University of Rome.

Prof. Esposito has published more than a hundred scientific contributions, among which are the following monographs and essays:D. ESPOSITO, Tecniche costruttive murarie medievali. Murature ‘a tufelli’ in area romana, Roma, «L’Erma» di Bretschneider, 1998, 320 pp.
D. ESPOSITO, Conservazione degli edifici storici fra autenticità e bellezza, in *Bomarzo fra natura e società. Atti delle giornate di studio, Bomarzo, 19-20 giugno 2004, edit. Laura Donadono, Roma, Gangemi, 2004, pp. 21-30.
D. ESPOSITO, William Morris e la SPAB (1834-1896), in Che cos'è il restauro?, edit. B. Paolo Torsello, Venezia, Marsilio, 2005, pp. 99-102.
D. ESPOSITO, Architettura e costruzione dei casali della Campagna romana fra XII e XIV secolo, Società romana di storia patria, 50, Roma, Viella, 2005.
D. ESPOSITO, Danni bellici, ricostruzioni e restauri a Roma: 1943-1950, in Monumenti alla guerra. Città, danni bellici e ricostruzione nel secondo dopoguerra, edit. Gian Paolo Treccani, Milano, Franco Angeli, Storia urbana, 2007, pp. 13-67.
Reimpiego in architettura. Recupero, riciclo e uso. Atti del Colloquio internazionale, Roma, 8-10 novembre 2007, edit. Jean-François Bernard, Philippe Bernardi e Daniela Esposito e con la collaborazione di Philippe Dillmann, Laura Foulquier e Rossana Mancini, Roma, École française de Rome, 2008.
PH. BERNARDI - D. ESPOSITO, Recyclage, récuperation, remploi. Les diverses formes d’usage de l‘« ancien » dans l’architecture du Xe au XIIIe siècle, in Remploi, citation, plagiat. Conduites et pratiques médiévales (Xe-XIIe siècle), edit. P. Toubert e P. Moret, Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, 2009, pp. 191-210.
D. ESPOSITO – J. GALLO CURCIO, Beni culturali. Ambito di applicazione ai beni immobili, in Edilizia e urbanistica, edit. G.L. Rota e C. Chierchia, Torino, Utet, 2a ed., 2010, pp. 235-249.
D. ESPOSITO, Archeologia romana. Politiche, istituzioni e attività (1802-1940), in Aree archeologiche e centri storici. Costituzione dei Parchi archeologici e processi di trasformazione urbana, edit. G.P. Treccani, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2010, pp. 93-121.
D. ESPOSITO, L’Associazione nazionale per i monumenti danneggiati dalla guerra, in Guerra, Monumenti, Ricostruzione. Architetture e centri storici italiani nel secondo conflitto mondiale, edit. L. de Stefani e C. Coccoli, Venezia, Marsilio, 2011, pp. 245-248.
D. ESPOSITO, Il cantiere e le opere murarie in Roma fra Tardoantico e alto Medioevo, “Archeologia dell’Architettura”, XVIII, 2013, pp. 69-74.
D. ESPOSITO, The reuse building site in the Roman area through the Middle Ages and contemporary times, in Landscape as Architecture. Identity and conservation of Crapolla cultural site, edit. V. Russo, Nardini, Firenze, 2014, pp. 233-240.
D. ESPOSITO, Tecniche costruttive in laterizi a Roma e in area romana fra XIII e XIV secolo, “Archeologia dell’Architettura”, XX, 2015, pp. 80-87
D. ESPOSITO, Lacune e vuoti urbani a Roma, "Urbanform and design", 2015, 3-4, pp.78-79.
D. ESPOSITO, Franco Minissi, docente e museografo, in Palazzi storici e museogrfia moderna. Atti del convegno nazionale (Lecce, Rettorato, 23-24 ottobre 2014), Galatina, Congedo, 2016, pp. 27-36.
D. ESPOSITO, Tecniche murarie e organizzazione del cantiere a Roma e in area romana nei secoli XII-XIV. Alcuni indicatori, in L’Archeologia della produzione a Roma nei secoli V-XV, Atti del Convegno internazionale (Roma, 27-29 marzo), Bari, Edipuglia, 2016, pp. 345-354.
D. ESPOSITO, La guerra e la città. Lacerazioni irrisolte della Seconda Guerra Mondiale a Roma, in Le lacune urbane tra presente e futuro. Atti della Giornata di Studi, Pescara 4 marzo 2015, edit. R. Dalla Negra e C. Varagnoli, Roma, Ginevra Bentivoglio editori, 2017, pp. 29-40.
D. ESPOSITO - R. MANCINI - P. VITTI, Sulle tracce del cantiere onoriano, in Le Mura Aureliane nella Storia di Roma. 1. Da Aureliano a Onorio, Roma, Roma TrE-press, 2017, pp. 115-132.
D. ESPOSITO – P. PENSABENE, Il cantiere della cripta della cattedrale di Nepi: disposizione delle colonne, reimpieghi e officine, in Archeologia e Storia a Nepi III, edit. S. Francocci, Vetralla, Ghaleb, 2017, pp. 75-128.
R. CHIOVELLI - D. ESPOSITO, Un “castello a forme medievali”. Restauri neomedievali dell’architetto purista senese Giuseppe Partini, in Viollet-le-Duc e l’Ottocento. Contributi a margine di una celebrazione (1814-2014), “ArcHistoRExtra”, 1, 2017, pp. 314-343.
A. M. CONTE – L. CORDA - D. ESPOSITO – E. GIORGI, Characterization of mortars from the medieval Abbey of Cerrate (southern Italy, “Journal of Archaelogical Science: Reports”, 2017, 12, pp. 463-479.
D. ESPOSITO - S. PASSIGLI, Le strutture di accoglienza alle porte di Roma, in Scritti per l’Anno Santo della Msericordia 2016,a cura di C. Bellanca, Roma, Aracne, 2018, pp. 19-42.
D. ESPOSITO, Riflessioni sulle lacune e i vuoti urbani di Roma negli “Anni della Ricostruzione”, in Elogio della cornice. Giorgio Muratore. Un intellettuale dell’architettura italiana, a cura di Cl. Barucci, O. Muratore, S. Muratore, Roma, Campisano, 2018, pp. 158-169.
D. ESPOSITO - I. PECORARO, Il bianco calce, fattore identitario del paesaggio della valle d’Itria. Problemi di conservazione e restauro ecosostenibile, “ANANKE”, 2018, 85 speciale, pp. 83-87 (con Ilaria Pecoraro).
D. ESPOSITO - C. PANCALDI, Nell’abbraccio dei recinti: scavi e configurazione dei margini dell’area archeologica centrale di Roma fra Ottocento e primo Novecento, “Materiali e Strutture”, n.s., VII, 2018, 3, pp. 41-62.

Rome, 9th february 2019