The Biennale and Architectural History

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https://doi.org/10.6093/2532-2699/13174

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Biennale, Architectural History

Abstract

Proceedings of the forum La Biennale e la storia, curated by Rosa Caruso, Fulvia Vannuzzi, Aurora Riviezzo, September 29, 2025

Author Biographies

Maria Clara Ghia, Sapienza Università di Roma

Architect, PhD in Architecture and Philosophy, associate professor of History of Architecture at Sapienza University of Rome. She was a senior lecturer at Umeå University in Sweden. Her studies focus mainly on 20th and 21st century architecture and concentrate on the relationships between ethics and design and between art and architecture. She is an advisor at the American Academy in Rome, a member of the steering committee of Aistarch and the Association of City History, and sits on several editorial boards of architectural history series and journals and on the faculty of the doctoral program in “Architettura. Teorie e Progetto” at Sapienza University of Rome. Her monographs include: Architecture as a Living Act. Leonardo Ricci (San Francisco 2022); Da Roma verso il mare. Storie percorsi immagini della città moderna e contemporanea (Rome 2017) and Prescrivere Liberare. Saggio su ethos e architettura (Rome 2013). In 2011, she won the Bruno Zevi International Prize and in 2019 the Enrico Guidoni Prize.

Silvia Groaz, ENSA Paris-Est/Université de Liège

Silvia Groaz is a professor of architectural history at ENSA Paris-Est and the University of Liège. Her research on the history and criticism of post-World War II architecture investigates the role of media, materials, and bodies in defining the contours of architectural culture, both in permanent processes and ephemeral events, from the domestic interior to the urban scale. Trained at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (USI, 2010), the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, 2012), and the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL, MA in Architectural History, 2015), she received her doctorate from EPFL (2021), with a period of research as a visiting scholar at Columbia University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Université catholique de Louvain and Yale University and has received research funding from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), the Getty Research Institute, the Swiss Institute in Milan, and the Ministry of Culture (Italian Council). She is the author of New Brutalism. The Invention of a Style (EPFL Press, 2023) and Nanda Vigo's Interiors. The Metaphysics of Everyday Life (Birkhäuser, 2026).

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2026-02-05

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Ghia, M. C., & Groaz, S. (2026). The Biennale and Architectural History. Studi E Ricerche Di Storia dell’architettura, 2(18), 251–255. https://doi.org/10.6093/2532-2699/13174

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Vol. 2 No. 18 (2025): Scales

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Miscellanea

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