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MARIA GRAZIA D’AMELIO

Professor of History of Architecture (ICAR/18)

Maria Grazia d’Amelio is an Architect and Professor in History of Architecture (ICAR/18) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. 

Since 2000 she has been teaching History of Architecture and is a Member of the Faculty of the PhD Board in Civil Engineering (2003) as well as the PhD Program of National Interest in Cultural Heritage (2022).

Since 1994, she has been conducting research on Italian architecture of the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, as well as that of the early twentieth century, with a particular focus on the relationships between design and construction.

She has organized national and international conferences, among them: Il palazzo a Roma nel Cinquecento (with C. Conforti, G. Sapori, P. Gori, P. Picardi, G. Bonaccorso), University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, University of Rome Tre, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen Instituut voor Kunst-en Architectuurgeschiedenis (2010); Luigi Moretti at the Foro Mussolini (with T.C. Brennan FAAR’88), with the support of CONI and the American Academy in Rome (2012); Per non dimenticare: l’architettura per la memoria collettiva. I sacrari e i cimiteri militari della prima metà del Novecento in Europa / Lest we forget: Cemeteries and Military Ossuaries of Twentieth-Century in Europe (with C. Conforti, H. Malone), University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, University of Cambridge, Magdalene College, UK, with the institutional support of the Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri (2016); Materia e costruzione. Le parole del cantiere – Contributo al Glossario dell’Edilizia Rinascimentale e Barocca / Materiality and construction. Building site vocabulary (with C. Conforti, H. Schlimme, T. Michalsky), Max-Planck-Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Rome, University of Rome “Tor Vergata”.  

She has been and still is a member of scientific committees for national and international conferences. She is also a member of editorial and editorial boards of journals and specialized monographic series. Since 1988 she has been involved in design activities and has served as a consultant in numerous national and international contests since 1995, in some of which she has won or received awards. In 2015 she won the contest (in collaboration) for the restoration and enhancement of the Torre di Mercurio and the Northern sector of the walls of Pompeii, organized by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, Cultural Activities and Tourism (MIBACT).

SSD: ICAR/18

EXTERNAL LINKS: www.mariagrazia.damelio.com

CURRICULUM: History and Conservation of Built Heritage

MAIN RESEARCH EXPERTISE

History of Italian Renaissance and Baroque Architecture.

History of Italian Twentieth Century Architecture.

DIRECTION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH PROJECTS

Wood, Luxury, Antiquity and Crafts in The Coffered Ceilings of Renaissance and Baroque in Rome. Progetto di ricerca di M.G. D’Amelio. Bando Uncovering Excellence 2014. Principal investigator, dal 2014 al 2019.

Palazzo Riario (della Cancelleria). Progetto di ricerca promossa in accordo tra Amministrazione del patrimonio della Sede Apostolica (APSA), Città del Vaticano e Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Impresa ‘Mario Lucertini’, Università di Roma Tor Vergata. Responsabile della ricerca (in coll. C. Conforti, L. Grieco), 2019-2020.

Vittoriano, Ala Fori Imperiali (già Ala Brasini), restauro delle strutture, adeguamento degli impianti e recupero delle funzioni didattico-espositive. Ricerca scientifica promossa da Vi-Ve, Vittoriano e Palazzo Venezia e Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Impresa ‘Mario Lucertini’, Università di Roma Tor Vergata. Responsabile della ricerca, 2022-2024.

DIRECTION OR PARTICIPATION IN EDITORIAL COMMITTEES AND EDITORIAL MAGAZINES AND SERIES

Since 2020, she has been a member of the editorial board of: “Opus Incertum”, University of Florence – Department of Architecture DiDA, Section: History of Architecture and of the City.

Since 2016, she has been a member of the editorial board of: “Edificare”, Revue internationale d’histoire de la construction, l’Association francophone d’histoire de la construction e Architecture histoire technique territoire patrimoine (ENSA Paris La Villette, UMR 3329).

Since 2021, she has been a member of the editorial board of the serial publication: “Arte, Architettura, Archeologia” di Textus Edizioni.

Since 2022, she has been a member of the editorial board of the serial publication: “Architettura nel tempo” di University Press-Palermo.

She ha salso served as a referee for scientific journals and serial publications of Architecture, among them “Disegnare con”; “Studi e Ricerche di Storia dell’architettura” (AISTARCH); “Lexicon”; “Opus Incertum”; “Presente storico”, “Quaderni dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Architettura”, Quaderni di Storia della Costruzione by Construction History Group, Politecnico di Torino, DAD.

TEACHING OR RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS GRANTED BY QUALIFIED UNIVERSITIES OR FOREIGN OR SUPRANATIONAL RESEARCH CENTERS

She is a foreign research consultant for: Portugal Builds 19-20/Digital Knowledge Platform for Portugal Construction History, nineteenth and twentieth centuries, PI da João Mascarenhas Mateus (FAUL-CIAUD), 2019-2023.