Walking through Federico II University… in a few years

Lilia Pagano

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-324-0

Walking through Federico II University… in a few years

Authors

Lilia Pagano

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1347-5403

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-324-0

Keywords:

University buildings, Federico II, University of Naples, strategic plan, Neapolitan metropolis, geography, urban landscape, hilly parks

Synopsis

Editore: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: Miscellaneous

Pages: 258

Language: Italian

Abstract: This small volume celebrates the 800th anniversary of the “Federico II” by summarizing through themes and images a long design experimentation on the architectural heritage of the University that sees the Architecture students as protagonists in the dual role of designers and users. As the title itself tells, “Walking through the Federico II ... in a few years” prefigures, in the wake of the evocative ‘knowledge walk’ curated by Alessandro Castagnaro (FedOAPress 2019, 2024), itineraries between new relational spaces of the Federico II locations, visionary scenarios that reveal aspirations and ideas for a university life intertwined with the cultural everyday life of the city and with the environmental myths of the Greek polis latent in the Neapolitan geomorphological matrix. This significant broadening of the gaze is the prospective horizon outlined by the “Strategic Plan of the University” drawn up in July 2021, in the aftermath of the pandemic phase. The huge and prestigious architectural heritage of the Federico II pervades all the urban parts of the Neapolitan territory. In the suburbs as in the center, its physical and cultural presence is manifested through a heterogeneous multiplicity of typological solutions that include both the reuse of convents and civil buildings and university complexes built from scratch in contexts with strong landscape values. The different interpretative angles of the disciplinary sectors involved in the Design Laboratories reveal its great potential as structuring poles of urban centrality in the four large geographical-urban contexts directly projected onto the Neapolitan metropolitan dimension.

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Author Biography

Lilia Pagano, University of Naples Federico II

Architect and full professor of Architectural and Urban Design, Lilia Pagano graduated in 1984 with Alberto Samonà and collaborated on the courses of Agostino Renna and Alberto Ferlenga. A scholarship holder in 1988 at the ETSAB Urbanism Laboratory directed by Manuel de Solà Morales, in 1990 she was among the winners of the ‘Luigi Cosenza Architecture Award’ and in 1992 she obtained the title of PhD in Architectural Composition (Uni. Napoli_Palermo_Reggio Calabria). She is a professor at the ‘Federico II’ University of Naples in the degree courses of the Diarc, in the PhD in Architecture and in the Master Riscape and is the coordinator for Naples of the Villard International Seminar. She has carried out scientific consultancy for public institutions relating to important transformation projects in Naples (Industrial area and suburbs in the Variante al Prg, Bagnoli -Coroglio, Manifattura Tabacchi, Parco delle Colline, Port of Naples). Among his publications, the monographs: Periferie di Napoli. La geografia il quartiere l’edilizia pubblica, Electa Napoli, Napoli 2001 (poi Aracne, 2012); Architettura e centralità geografiche, Aracne 2012, Agostino Renna. Rimontaggio di un pensiero sulla conoscenza dell’architettura, Clean, Napoli 2012, Cuma architettura e geografia. Passato e futuro della polis, Ermes, Roma 2016.