Department

Director Maria Rosaria Santangelo , with responsibilities for Planning and Development, and for Personnel
Vicedirettore Alessandro Castagnaro, with responsibility for Culture

The Teaching Committee therefore remains unchanged: Delegate for Teaching: Massimo Perriccioli (until the end of the prorogatio) together with the Degree Program Coordinators: Antonio Acierno, Maria Cerreta, Nicola Flora, Andrea Pane, Federica Palestino, Alfonso Morone.
The President informed the Council about the delegates, who may, from time to time and on specific topics, establish working groups:

Departmental Committee

Maria Rita Pinto
Antonella Di Luggo
Salvatore di Liello
(for the category of Full Professors)

Gianluigi De Martino
Maria Teresa Giammetti
Vincenzo Gioffrè
(for the category of Associate Professors)

Viviana Saitto
Anna Terracciano
Ivo Caruso
(for the category of Researchers)

Coordinators of Degree Programs

Antonio Acierno
Maria Cerreta
Maria Federica Palestino
Massimo Perriccioli
Orfina Fatigato
Andrea Pane
Alfonso Morone
Nicola Flora

Joint Student-Teacher Committee

Lilia Pagano (President) 
Giovanni Multari
Ivo Caruso
Federica Visconti

Students: Francesca Gaeta, Beatrice Mariosa, Giovanni Spizuoco, Giacomo Viscovo

Students Representatives

 (DR/2023/2644 del 29/06/2023 biennio2023/2025)

AURICCHIO MARTINA
BENINCASA MIRIANA
D’AMMORA ELVIRA
D’AURIA ROBERTA
D’AVINO GIULIA
DE MIERI MICHELE
D’ORIANO CARLO
FEDELE FERDINANDO
LONDRINO CRISTOPHER
MASSA BRUNO
MICILLO MARZIA
MORRA GIULIA
PAPA ALFONSO
PROCACCINI MARCO
ROMANO SIMONE
SICA GIOVANNI
SQUILLANTE ANNA MARIA
SAMMARCO F. STEFANO (rapp.dottorandi)
(DR nomina 2941 del 17/7/23 scadenza 30/6/2025)
SIMIOLI MARIA  (rapp. ass. ricerca)
(DR nomina 1283 del 3/4/2024 scadenza 31/07/2025)

Locations

The Department is spread across multiple locations, all situated in the historic center of Naples, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here, students and staff work and study in a collaborative, creative, and well-equipped environment, supported by a network of cultural and logistical resources – such as libraries, laboratories, and study spaces – in constant dialogue with the city’s architectural heritage. 

Immagine del cortile di Palazzo gravina

Palazzo Gravina

Via Monteoliveto, 3 – 80134 Naples. The historic headquarters of the Department hosts the Architecture Area Library, the “Roberto Pane” Library, the Center for the Iconography of the European City, classrooms, and the offices of the Didactic Area of the Polytechnic and Basic Sciences School. The building was commissioned by Ferdinando Orsini (1513–1549) and designed by Gabriele d’Agnolo. It originally consisted of three blocks arranged around a rectangular courtyard, with a lower wing on the fourth side adjoining the green areas of the Monastery of Santa Chiara. The fourth side was completed by Mario Gioffredo in 1762. At the end of the eighteenth century, the building entered a phase of decline: damaged during the revolutionary uprisings of 1848 and later purchased by the Neapolitan Government, after major restorations it hosted various public offices from 1856 onward, including the Post Office and the Ministry of Finance. A true palimpsest of architectural periods and different restoration approaches, Palazzo Gravina today displays an apparent integrity, the outcome of multiple transformations up until 1936, when it became the seat of the Faculty of Architecture and underwent its last major restoration.

Immagine del complesso dello Spirito Santo

Complesso dello Spirito Santo

Via Toledo, 402 – 80134 Naples. This complex houses most of the Department’s facilities: classrooms for teaching and research, offices for professors and researchers, the Student Office, the “Marcello Canino” Library, the Interdepartmental Center L.U.P.T., the “Alberto Calza Bini” Center, and the Interdepartmental Research Center for Architectural and Environmental Heritage and Urban Planning (BAP). The site originally consisted of three buildings constructed by the Confraternity of the Holy Spirit: the church, begun in 1564; the Conservatory, probably organized in two buildings with a courtyard to host poor girls and the daughters of prostitutes; and the Bank, established in 1590 as a deposit institution, which later became one of the most important banking institutions in Naples. The complex underwent significant transformations between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but the most radical intervention was carried out by Marcello Canino for the owner Banco di Napoli (1965–1974). The complex was demolished and rebuilt with the same volume: the structure on Via Toledo was reconstructed in imitation of the original and incorporated the eighteenth-century piperno stone portal.

Palazzo Latilla

Via Tarsia, 31 – 80135 Naples. The building hosts teaching spaces, the MAED – Materials Library for Architecture and Design, the CITTAM Center, and the Urban/Eco Center. The palace is part of a complex of three “case palaziate” built by Mario Gioffredo for Councillor Latilla, starting from a pre-existing structure (1758–1761). Of the three modules constructed—presented as a single building volume with three entrances—only the first housed the client’s residence, while the others were intended as rental apartments. From a planimetric point of view, the building reflects the typical layout of eighteenth-century Neapolitan architecture, consisting of entrance, courtyard, and an open staircase located along the back wall. The façade is articulated with string-course entablatures and pilaster strips, making extensive use of grey piperno stone—also used for the arches of the shops—and red plaster.

Chiesa di Donnaregina vecchia

Vico Donnaregina, 26 – 80138 Naples. The building hosts the School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage. The church was built starting in 1293 at the behest of Charles II of Anjou, on the site of a pre-existing monastic complex. It represents a unique example of Angevin architecture in Naples: to the single-nave plan, covered by wooden trusses and ending with a French-inspired apse surmounted by a ribbed cross vault, was added an elevated choir set on a basilican structure. In the upper part of the church and in the Loffredo Chapel, a rich cycle of fourteenth-century frescoes of Pietro Cavallini’s school still survives. In the seventeenth century, the apse was partially demolished to enlarge the nave, while around the mid-eighteenth century a small rectangular cloister clad in polychrome marbles (today’s entrance) was built in front of the original façade. After the suppression of religious orders in the early nineteenth century, the complex was assigned to new functions: first as a school, then as housing for the poor, the seat of the Court of Assizes, and a meeting place for the Municipal Commission for the Conservation of Monuments. It underwent significant alterations and later a period of abandonment, until the restoration carried out by Gino Chierici (1928–1934), which brought to light the fourteenth-century structures and gave the church its current configuration.

Chiesa dei SS. Demetrio e Bonifacio

Piazzetta Teodoro Monticelli – 80134 Naples. The church was built by the Somascan Fathers, to a design by Giovan Battista Nauclerio (1706–1725), following the acquisition of several pre-existing lots. It features a Greek-cross plan surmounted by a dome without a drum. The present façade, resulting from the opening of Piazzetta Teodoro Monticelli in 1729, is characterized by a simple portal with aedicule. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, following the suppression of religious orders, the church was closed to worship and assigned to new uses: first as the seat of a student congregation (1821), then of the Archconfraternity of the Visitation (1907), and finally abandoned to a long period of decline. The church later underwent a major restoration, completed in 1987.

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