Concetta Lenza

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Concetta Lenza (* 1954 in Salerno ) is an Italian architectural historian and university professor .

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Lenza has been Full Professor of Architectural History at the University of Naples Federico II since 2001 and was Dean of the Faculty of Architecture there from 2005 to 2009 . She is a senior member of the Council of the National Conference of Presidents of the Faculties of Architecture. As scientific director, she coordinated research projects in the field of Italian cultural heritage, such as the project initiated by Benitalia for the ecological and architectural redesign and upgrading of the historic center of Lecce or the project funded by the company Grandi Stazioni to review the history of the city's central train station in Naples . In 2008 her focus was on the PRIN research project (Project of Significant National Interest) The asylum complexes in Italy between the nineth and twentyieth century.

Lenza is currently a member of the board of directors of ICOMOS Italia, the Istituto Nazionale di Studi sul Rinascimento Meridionale and the Centro di Studi per la Storia dell'Architettura in Rome as well as a corresponding member of the Accademia di Archeologia and the association Lettere e Belle Arti in Naples. She is also a member of the scientific advisory board of the Werner Oechslin Library Foundation and the scientific advisory board of the Palladio magazine . Rivista di Storia dell'Architettura e Restauro as well as the series Architettura & Conservazione (Paparo Editore, Naples) and Architetti del Novecento. History and Archives (Edifir, Florence).

Fonts (selection)

  • The Concept of Tradition in the Theoretical and Aesthetic Debate from the 1920s to the Second Post-War Period, in: Carmen M. Enss and Luigi Monzo (eds.): Townscapes in Transition. Transformation and Reorganization of Italian Cities and Their Architecture in the Interwar Period. Bielefeld 2019, pp. 61–82, ISBN 978-3-8376-4660-3 .
  • Monumento e tipo nell'architettura neoclassica: l'opera di Pietro Valente nella cultura napoletana dell'800. Naples 1996.
  • La cultura architettonica e le antichita scavi, rilievi, editoria antiquaria e dibattito teorico. Naples 2000.
  • Architettura medievale: etica, estetica e tecnica. Naples 2010.
  • Le donne e la arti figurative nel rinascimento napoletano: pratica artistica, committenza e iconografia, in: Marco Santoro (ed.): La donna nel Rinascimento meridionale: atti del Convegno internazionale, Roma, November 11–13, 2009. Pisa / Rome 2010.
  • L'estetica dell'architettura e altri scritti di Salvatore Vitale . Bologna 2010.
  • (as editor): La stazione centrale di Napoli. Storia e architettura di un palinsesto urbano . Milan: Electa 2010. ISBN 978-88-370-7473-9
  • I viaggi pittoreschi nel Sud: origine e fortuna di un genere editoriale nella produione napoletana del primo Ottocento. Bologna 2012.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Sa Concetta Lenza | Fondazione Ranieri di Sorbello - Perugia (Italy). Retrieved February 20, 2019 (it-IT).
personal data
SURNAME Lenza, Concetta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architectural historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Salerno