Phd in ARCHITECTURE. THEORIES AND PROJECT

email: gianpaola.spirito@uniroma1.it
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Architect, PhD in ‘Architectural Composition (Theories of Architecture)’, Type B Researcher in Architectural and Urban Design.
He is lecturer in charge of the Laboratory of Architectural Design I - Master's Degree in Architecture (Restoration) and the Course in Theories of Contemporary Architectural Research.
He is a member of the teaching board of the PhD programme ‘Architecture. Theories and Design', where he conducts seminar activities related to his research areas.
Since 2012, he has been an international correspondent of the magazine ‘DCpapers’ - publicación del Departamento de Composición Arquitectónica de la ETSAB, Barcelona - and a member of the editorial secretariat of the magazine ‘Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica’. Since 2019, he has been a member of the editorial board of ArchiDiAP. In 2018 he is a member of the organising committee of the Study Days ‘Bruno Zevi and the didactics of architecture’ and a member of the editorial committee formed for the elaboration of the Proceedings of the same conference; in 2022 a member of the curatorial committee of the international conference ‘Rino Levi, architecture as a synthesis of techniques and arts’. He curates and organises various conferences of international contemporary architects and from 2020 he is the promoter of the cultural collaboration with the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome and the curator of two cycles of conferences: in 2022 the cycle ‘Essence - Essentiality of Architecture, Methods and Elements of the 21st Century Architectural Project’; in 2024 the cycle ‘Italy-Spain Dialogues on the Modification of the Existing’.
His research mainly investigates the relationships between architecture and the city, the project of reuse and modification of the existing architectural heritage, the tools and methods of the 21st century architectural project; the transformations of Rome.
These themes have also been developed by participating in national and international conferences and study seminars.
His publications include the monographs: Toni Gironès. Returning to the Land. 1995-2024 (Libria 2024); Alberto Campo Baeza (Libria 2017); In-between places. Forms of relational space from the 1960s to the present (Quodlibet 2015); Forms of the void. Cavities, concavities and holes in contemporary architecture (Gangemi 2011).
Among the curatorships: Recinti, edited by G. Spirito, S. Leoni (Quodlibet 2021); Bruno Zevi e la didattica dell'architettura, edited by P. O. Rossi with F. R. Castelli, L. Porqueddu and G. Spirito, (Quodlibet 2019); Lisbona: trasformazioni urbane negli anni della crisi, edited by G. Spirito, A. B. Menghini, ‘Rassegna di architettura e urbanistica’ no. 159/2019; Poesia e tecnica nel restauro, edited by C. Conforti, G. Spirito, ‘Rassegna di architettura e urbanistica’ no. 145/2015.
She is the author of numerous essays published in class A scientific journals, collective volumes and conference proceedings.
She has participated in numerous national and international design competitions, winning prizes and awards.