New Academic Year of the School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage of the University Federico II The inaugural ceremony of the new academic year of the School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage of the University Federico II was opened by the Lectio of Professor Carlo Blasi on “The Basilica of San Benedetto in Norcia”.
THEevent's audience took place in the evocative choir of the fourteenth-century Church of Donnaregina, where the School is located. Blasi's lecture was preceded by speeches by various academic and institutional figures, including the Rector of the University of Naples Federico II, the Director of the Department of Architecture of Federico II, and the Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan Area of Naples.
'The School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage of the Federico II University has a national and international level of importance and is located in an extraordinary structure, dating back to the 300th century, among the most beautiful in Naples and Campania. There is full identity between the place and the activities that take place – underlined the rector Lorito -. The new academic year starts with the new director, Professor Valentina Russo. For more than half a century, she has offered a very high-profile education thanks to the participation of great experts in the light of a great tradition.
'The Federico II School of Specialization is approaching its 55th year of age, it is very solid and finds its roots in the authority of masters such as Roberto Pane and Roberto Di Stefano and all those who have followed their teaching. – recalls the director Valentina Russo -. Today, also due to its long history of activity, the Neapolitan School of Specialization is certainly one of the jewels in the crown of specialized training in Italian architectural restoration and we are proud of it, and we also have a sense of responsibility in maintaining the attractiveness and quality of teaching in a strongly interdisciplinary way and strongly open to the challenges of contemporaneity, while dealing with heritages of the most distant and recent past. This requires, in any case, to be extremely up to date on the contemporary challenges that are posed to the professional, to the scholar called to deal with complex heritages such as the historical-architectural ones that must be reinterpreted.
Article published on 21 February 2024 - 17:42
