I am an architect, a scholar, and an educator. I work at the intersection of architectural history and theory exploring the nexus between space and social, environmental, and gender justice. Currently, I am a PhD candidate at Cornell University’s History of Architecture and Urban Development (HAUD) program.
Being born and raised in Sicily in the Seventies, with half of my family arrived in Palermo from northern Italy in the fifties following my grandfather’s opening of one of the first Sicilian factories, I grew up in the cultural frame of Italy’s divide between an advanced North and a backward South. Sicily had to “catch up,” following the modernization path of the North. Going beyond my personal history, but certainly building on it, my work today questions the unequal integration of the world and hopes to foster regenerative thinking and practices.
I am the author of New Wombs, Electronic bodies and architectural disorder and Paesaggi Sensibili. Architetture a sostegno della vita (Sensitive landscapes. Architectures in Support of Life), the editor of several collective books, and the curator of numerous events, workshops, and debates. I taught architectural history, theory, and analysis at several institutions but mainly at the Italian National Institute of Architecture (INARCH), at Cornell Program in Rome and Cornell AAP, in Ithaca. I curated events, workshops, and exhibitions for and with Cornell AAP, INARCH, the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology, the Department of Urban Planning of the City of Rome, the Ecoweek international NGO, and the Italian feminist collective RebelArchitette, among others.
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