Donatella Mazzoleni

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Donatella Mazzoleni (* 1943 in Florence , Italy ; lives in Naples ) is an Italian architect , architectural theorist , author and university professor.

life and work

Donatella Mazzoleni studied architecture at the University of Naples until 1967 . She went on extensive study trips through Europe , Asia , Africa , America and Australia .

She was a professor of architectural design at the University of Naples and also taught at various universities in Europe, America and Australia. Her work as an architect included in particular the areas of architectural design, urban development , landscape architecture, exhibition architecture, historical building research and museum planning.

Donatella Mazzoleni designed the plan for the utopian vertical city together with the Italian architect Aldo Loris Rossi from 1960 . This city model was based on the idea that the city will disappear completely from the surface and concentrate only on a few, huge high-rise buildings, which themselves form cities with all functions such as production, distribution, traffic, consumption and the corresponding structures. In 1972 she and Rossi took part in Documenta 5 in Kassel in the Department of Parallel Imagery: Utopia and Planning with a model and drawings for the " Vertical City " .

Literature and Sources

  • Rossi, Aldo Loris; Mazzoleni, Donatella: Un solo verticale materiale abitabile per una città - struttura; in: L'Architettura - chronaca - storia ; Rome 1970
  • Mazzoleni, Donatella; Pappalardo, Umberto; Romano, Luciano; Scamperle, Silvia: Pompeian wall painting: architecture and illusionistic decoration ; Munich 2005 ISBN 3-7774-2445-5
  • Exhibition catalog: documenta 5. Survey of Reality - Imagery Today ; Catalog (as a file folder) Volume 1: (Material); Volume 2: (list of exhibits); Kassel 1972
  • documenta archive (ed.); Resubmission d5 - A survey of the archive on documenta 1972 ; Kassel / Ostfildern 2001, ISBN 3-7757-1121-X

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personal data
SURNAME Mazzoleni, Donatella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian architect and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence , Italy