Luigi Vanvitelli. Il linguaggio e la tecnica

Full Professor of History of Architecture - University of Naples Federico II, PhD in History of Architecture and Urban Planning, director of the scientific journal Eikonocity (FeDOA Press) and of the series “UrbsHistoriaeImago. History and Image of Territories, Urban Centers and Architectures” and “History and Iconography of Architecture, Cities and European Sites” (CIRICE-FeDOA Press), and director of CIRICE - Interdepartmental Center for Research on Iconography of the European City, Federico II University of Naples.

His main studies concern: the thought of Leonardo and its influence on architecture and engineering in the Southern Italy during the Modern age; public works in Naples and in the Kingdom during the Bourbon period; the spread of the Vanvitellian language in the Russian context during the eighteenth century; the Digital History applied to archival documents and to historical cartography of Naples.

He has published among numerous studies: Istituzioni e trasformazioni urbane nella Napoli dell’Ottocento (1985), Opere pubbliche e tipologie urbane nel Mezzogiorno preunitario (1992), Napoli millenovecento. Dai catasti del XIX secolo ad oggi (with G.C. Alisio, 2000), Antonio Rinaldi architetto vanvitelliano a San Pietroburgo (with G. Kjučarianc e P. Miltenov, 2003), Architettura e urbanistica dell’età borbonica. Le opere dello Stato, i luoghi dell’industria (with G. Matacena, 2004), Leonardo da Vinci. Il Codice Corazza nella Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli (2011), Leonardo e il Rinascimento nei Codici napoletani. Influenze e modelli per l’architettura e l’ingegneria (ed. with Maria Rascaglia, 2020), Forma Urbis Neapolis. Genesi e permanenza del disegno della città greca (with A. Mele e T. Tauro, 2023).

Full professor of architectural history belonging to the DiARC- University Federico II of Naples. He teaches at the Master's degree program Design of Excellence for the Historic City: L'antica Neapolis come cittadella degli studi and at the School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage. He is related to the Research Institute for Innovation and Development Services (IRISS-CNR). His publications include August Schmarsow: dalla Raumgestaltung alla critica d'arte contemporanea; Verso l'architettura contemporanea. Percorsi dal classico al contemporaneo; Napoli e la cultura architettonica internazionale 1974-1991. Mostre e convegni di Camillo Gubitosi e Alberto Izzo; Giuseppe e Ugo Mannajuolo (in collaboration); La Mostra d'Oltremare nella Napoli occidentale. Ricerche storiche e restauro del moderno (co-edited).

He has carried out research activities in Italy and abroad, participating in national and international research programs and in around 120 conferences as speaker or session coordinator; his research concerns on the one hand themes of twentieth-century urban history and on the other specific themes of nineteenth-century architecture and debate, with particular reference to Italian and German cases. He has published 4 monographs, edited 11 collective volumes, published 8 articles in class A journals, 18 articles in other journals, over 90 essays in volume. Among his publications, the monographs are the following: Hannes Meyer: un razionalista in esilio. Architettura, urbanistica e politica 1930-54 (2002), Berlino prima del muro. La ricostruzione negli anni 1945-1961 (2003), L’Arcadia è una terra straniera. Gli architetti tedeschi e il mito dell’Italia nell’Ottocento (2009), Friedrich von Gärtner 1791-1847. Un’estate in Sicilia nel 1816 (2012).

Fabio Mangone, Full Professor for Historic Preservation and History of Architecture, Director of Ph. D. Course in Architecture, Member of Scientific Commettees; Archeological Park of Paestum and Velia; Museo Correale of Sorrento. Fabio Mangone was born in Naples, Italy, 1965. Master Degree cun Laude in Architecture, University of Naples “Federico II”, 1989. Ph D in History of Architecture and Town Planning, University of Florence, 1993. Architectural and art historian. Professor of History of Architecture since 1995: full professor since 2005. He published many monographic works and collaborated on important scientific reviews. He wrote entries in scientific dictionaries and coordinated various national and international research programs. He heads up several book series. He’s been coordinating the researches in the field of architecture for the celebration of the 150^th anniversary of Italian Unity. He organized lots of exhibitions, among which Architettare l’unità (Rome 2001). As a speaker, he took part in over 100 national and international conferences, organized by universities or by important cultural institutions, and furthermore he organized some conferences too.