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Papers by Chiara Ingrosso
Abitare la terra, Quaderno, supplemento al numero 59 Anno XXI, 2022 Trimestrale, 2022
The professional story of Stefania Filo Speziale represents in an emblematic way the process of d... more The professional story of Stefania Filo Speziale represents in an emblematic way the process of damnatio memoriae that post-World War II Neapolitan architecture underwent, branded for years as result of the real estate speculation and political malfeasance. During Achille Lauro's term of office (1952-57 and February-November 1961), but also throughout the 1960s, Naples was completely transformed: from 1951 to 1967, 469,854 rooms were built without a master plan and or with variants of the 1939 master plan 1. Since 1963, with the release of Francesco Rosi's famous movie "Le mani sulla città", the image of building speculation was inexorably associated with the entire city. Within this framework, Filo Speziale became the symbol of building speculation. She was guilty twice: having built the city's first skyscraper, the so-called Grattacielo of "La Cattolica" insurance company (1954-58), and being a woman, the first female architect and the first university female professor of a composition subject in Naples. In Rosi's feature film, the builder Edoardo Nottola, alias Mario Ottieri, dominated the city right from the top floor of the skyscraper, where he had made his "headquarters". With rare exceptions, in the national context Naples had ended up becoming a historiographical gap in contemporary architecture, not to mention the international one. The process of historiographical revision of this period started late and slowly, since the 1990s 2. Filo Speziale began to be studied from a different perspective only in 2003, but much remains to be done to illuminate this heavy shadow cast over her, as well as to re-evaluate post-World War II Neapolitan architecture 3. 2. Of aristocratic origins, her full name being Filo della Torre di Santa Susanna, married in Speziale, the young Stefania enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating from the new Regia Scuola Superiore di Architettura in Naples in 1932, even before the Faculty of Architecture was established (1935) 4. She was the only woman of the "first generation" of Neapolitan architects; her colleagues included Carlo Cocchia, Giulio De Luca and Renato Avolio De Martino. At the height of fascism, when the profession of architect was considered a man's business, she began her apprenticeship. Marcello Canino, Dean of the Faculty, immediately chose her as his collaborator, soon becoming his "right-hand man". She worked on the project for the Triennale delle Terre Italiane d'Oltremare (1940) in his studio from 1937, contributing not only to the northern sector, where she designed the entrance and a series of important pavilions that were unfortunately destroyed, but to the entire urban project 5. At the same time, she embarked on a university career. She was appointed first to teach "Caratteri Distributivi degli Edifici" (1937), and then became a full professor of the same subject (1955). In 1970 she was able to take over the chair of "Composizione Architettonica", the most masculine subject in the Faculty. Her first work was the Metropolitan Cinema-Theatre (1948) 6. Conceived in a natural cavity below the ancestral Palazzo Cellammare, it can be considered as an embryonic experimentation of a compositional theme she
Al femminile. L’architettura, le arti e la storia, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2023
Elena Mendia ha svolto un’intensa attività nella Napoli del secondo dopoguerra. Tranne Stefania F... more Elena Mendia ha svolto un’intensa attività nella Napoli del secondo
dopoguerra. Tranne Stefania Filo Speziale, che fu la prima donna a
diplomarsi in architettura nel 1932, in quegli anni non vi furono altre
architette così professionalmente impegnate.
Riuscì a farsi strada nel mondo dell’architettura e dell’ingegneria quasi
esclusivamente maschile al principio degli anni Cinquanta e fino agli
anni Settanta ebbe l’opportunità di collaborare con importanti istituzioni
e società pubbliche, ma rimanendo più o meno sullo sfondo delle
ricostruzioni critiche del periodo, pur ricoprendo ruoli apicali al pari dei
colleghi maschi. Sebbene sia senz’altro una “storia minore”, la storia di
Mendia risulta emblematica della realtà del professionismo napoletano
dal secondo dopoguerra, ancor più se inquadrato in una prospettiva
femminile.
MedWay. Open Atlas, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa, 2022
Condomini overlooking the Gulf is a story for words and images about living in Naples after the S... more Condomini overlooking the Gulf is a story for words and images about living in Naples after the Second World War, which focuses in particular on some of its buildings: the condominiums. It is an urban itinerary that unites some architecture of the 1950s overlooking the Gulf; a view of the city from the sea, looking at the hills; a crossing of the "middle town", between the centre and the suburbs, where the Neapolitan middle-class took place, moving from the ancient neighbourhoods or from the countryside in search of comfort and modernity; an inventory of small vertical communities divided into apartments of different properties, which describe ways of sharing private space; a story of places that is articulated through their history but also through oral testimonies, historical and contemporary images, with photos and videos that reconstruct in some cases open and personal narrations.
THE SOCIAL CITY. Urban Development and Housing Projects in Berlin and Naples in the Post-War Era – A Comparison: Theoretical Models, Implemented Projects, Social and Political Impacts Today, 2022
The paper will focus on the reconstruction in the suburban areas of Naples after the 1980 earthqu... more The paper will focus on the reconstruction in the suburban areas of Naples after the 1980 earthquake.This event, which took place on November 23rd, was a tremendous disaster for the provinces of Avellino, Salerno and Potenza, but also for Naples it was a dramatic episode in terms of victims and destruction. The 1980 Irpina earthquake was also remembered for the extensive reconstruction program that was planned especially for public housing. With the law 119/1981, which gave Naples extraordinary funds for the reconstruction, in the Neapolitan suburbs and in its metropolitan area, approximately 7000 units were planned. In districts like Soccavo, Pianura, Chiaiano, Piscinola, Marianella, Miano, Secondigliano, San Pietro a Patierno, Sant'Antimo, Ponticelli, Barra, San Giovanni a Teduccio and others, much important architecture was built. Most of these projects were the result of a significant study to recover these historical districts, once autonomous casali.
Among the most important public housing complexes, we must include the works of Michele Capobianco in Miano, which contributed to redefining a new typology of courtyard housing. The paper will deal with some of Capobianco’s works, together with architecture of other important authors (like Franco Purini, Costantino Dardi, Francesco Venezia and so on) in this important season of Neapolitan reconstruction.
Studies in History and Theory of Architecture, 2021
C. Ingrosso, L'altra modernità napoletana, in C. Ingrosso, E. Manzo, L. Molinari, R. Serraglio, a... more C. Ingrosso, L'altra modernità napoletana, in C. Ingrosso, E. Manzo, L. Molinari, R. Serraglio, a cura di, La Città che si rinnova. Dal manufatto architettonico alla forma urbana, La Scuola di Pitagora, Napoli 2018
C. Ingrosso, Oltre la deroga. Il caso di Villaggio Coppola a Castel Volturno, in C. de Biase, S. ... more C. Ingrosso, Oltre la deroga. Il caso di Villaggio Coppola a Castel Volturno, in C. de
Biase, S. Losco, L. Macchia, a cura di, Abusivismo urbanistico e sostenibilit
ambientale, Le Penseur, Brienza 2017
C. Ingrosso, Da utopia a inferno. Scampia attraverso la fotografia contemporanea/From utopia to h... more C. Ingrosso, Da utopia a inferno. Scampia attraverso la fotografia contemporanea/From utopia to hell. Scampia through contemporary photography, in A. Berrino, A. Buccaro, edited by, conference proceedings of VII International Conference Cirice 2016 Delli Aspetti de Paesi. Old and new media for the image of the landscape, Tomo I, Costruzione, descrizione, identità storica, Naples 27-29 October 2016, pp. 177-183
C. Ingrosso, Barcellona e il Forum delle Culture del 2004. Otto anni dopo, in E. Manzo, a cura di... more C. Ingrosso, Barcellona e il Forum delle Culture del 2004. Otto anni dopo, in E. Manzo, a cura di, La città che si rinnova. Architettura e scienze umane tra storia e attualità: prospettive di analisi a confronto, Franco Angeli, Milano 2014, pp. 161-170
C. Ingrosso, Napoli 1943-51. Scenari urbani di guerra e occupazione in C. Ingrosso, L. Molinari, ... more C. Ingrosso, Napoli 1943-51. Scenari urbani di guerra e occupazione in C. Ingrosso, L. Molinari, a cura di, La Napoli degli Americani dalla Liberazione alle basi Nato, numero monografico della rivista trimestrale “Meridione. Sud e Nord nel Mondo”, vol. 4, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane (ESI), Napoli 2011
Abitare la terra, Quaderno, supplemento al numero 59 Anno XXI, 2022 Trimestrale, 2022
The professional story of Stefania Filo Speziale represents in an emblematic way the process of d... more The professional story of Stefania Filo Speziale represents in an emblematic way the process of damnatio memoriae that post-World War II Neapolitan architecture underwent, branded for years as result of the real estate speculation and political malfeasance. During Achille Lauro's term of office (1952-57 and February-November 1961), but also throughout the 1960s, Naples was completely transformed: from 1951 to 1967, 469,854 rooms were built without a master plan and or with variants of the 1939 master plan 1. Since 1963, with the release of Francesco Rosi's famous movie "Le mani sulla città", the image of building speculation was inexorably associated with the entire city. Within this framework, Filo Speziale became the symbol of building speculation. She was guilty twice: having built the city's first skyscraper, the so-called Grattacielo of "La Cattolica" insurance company (1954-58), and being a woman, the first female architect and the first university female professor of a composition subject in Naples. In Rosi's feature film, the builder Edoardo Nottola, alias Mario Ottieri, dominated the city right from the top floor of the skyscraper, where he had made his "headquarters". With rare exceptions, in the national context Naples had ended up becoming a historiographical gap in contemporary architecture, not to mention the international one. The process of historiographical revision of this period started late and slowly, since the 1990s 2. Filo Speziale began to be studied from a different perspective only in 2003, but much remains to be done to illuminate this heavy shadow cast over her, as well as to re-evaluate post-World War II Neapolitan architecture 3. 2. Of aristocratic origins, her full name being Filo della Torre di Santa Susanna, married in Speziale, the young Stefania enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating from the new Regia Scuola Superiore di Architettura in Naples in 1932, even before the Faculty of Architecture was established (1935) 4. She was the only woman of the "first generation" of Neapolitan architects; her colleagues included Carlo Cocchia, Giulio De Luca and Renato Avolio De Martino. At the height of fascism, when the profession of architect was considered a man's business, she began her apprenticeship. Marcello Canino, Dean of the Faculty, immediately chose her as his collaborator, soon becoming his "right-hand man". She worked on the project for the Triennale delle Terre Italiane d'Oltremare (1940) in his studio from 1937, contributing not only to the northern sector, where she designed the entrance and a series of important pavilions that were unfortunately destroyed, but to the entire urban project 5. At the same time, she embarked on a university career. She was appointed first to teach "Caratteri Distributivi degli Edifici" (1937), and then became a full professor of the same subject (1955). In 1970 she was able to take over the chair of "Composizione Architettonica", the most masculine subject in the Faculty. Her first work was the Metropolitan Cinema-Theatre (1948) 6. Conceived in a natural cavity below the ancestral Palazzo Cellammare, it can be considered as an embryonic experimentation of a compositional theme she
Al femminile. L’architettura, le arti e la storia, Franco Angeli, Milano, 2023
Elena Mendia ha svolto un’intensa attività nella Napoli del secondo dopoguerra. Tranne Stefania F... more Elena Mendia ha svolto un’intensa attività nella Napoli del secondo
dopoguerra. Tranne Stefania Filo Speziale, che fu la prima donna a
diplomarsi in architettura nel 1932, in quegli anni non vi furono altre
architette così professionalmente impegnate.
Riuscì a farsi strada nel mondo dell’architettura e dell’ingegneria quasi
esclusivamente maschile al principio degli anni Cinquanta e fino agli
anni Settanta ebbe l’opportunità di collaborare con importanti istituzioni
e società pubbliche, ma rimanendo più o meno sullo sfondo delle
ricostruzioni critiche del periodo, pur ricoprendo ruoli apicali al pari dei
colleghi maschi. Sebbene sia senz’altro una “storia minore”, la storia di
Mendia risulta emblematica della realtà del professionismo napoletano
dal secondo dopoguerra, ancor più se inquadrato in una prospettiva
femminile.
MedWay. Open Atlas, LetteraVentidue, Siracusa, 2022
Condomini overlooking the Gulf is a story for words and images about living in Naples after the S... more Condomini overlooking the Gulf is a story for words and images about living in Naples after the Second World War, which focuses in particular on some of its buildings: the condominiums. It is an urban itinerary that unites some architecture of the 1950s overlooking the Gulf; a view of the city from the sea, looking at the hills; a crossing of the "middle town", between the centre and the suburbs, where the Neapolitan middle-class took place, moving from the ancient neighbourhoods or from the countryside in search of comfort and modernity; an inventory of small vertical communities divided into apartments of different properties, which describe ways of sharing private space; a story of places that is articulated through their history but also through oral testimonies, historical and contemporary images, with photos and videos that reconstruct in some cases open and personal narrations.
THE SOCIAL CITY. Urban Development and Housing Projects in Berlin and Naples in the Post-War Era – A Comparison: Theoretical Models, Implemented Projects, Social and Political Impacts Today, 2022
The paper will focus on the reconstruction in the suburban areas of Naples after the 1980 earthqu... more The paper will focus on the reconstruction in the suburban areas of Naples after the 1980 earthquake.This event, which took place on November 23rd, was a tremendous disaster for the provinces of Avellino, Salerno and Potenza, but also for Naples it was a dramatic episode in terms of victims and destruction. The 1980 Irpina earthquake was also remembered for the extensive reconstruction program that was planned especially for public housing. With the law 119/1981, which gave Naples extraordinary funds for the reconstruction, in the Neapolitan suburbs and in its metropolitan area, approximately 7000 units were planned. In districts like Soccavo, Pianura, Chiaiano, Piscinola, Marianella, Miano, Secondigliano, San Pietro a Patierno, Sant'Antimo, Ponticelli, Barra, San Giovanni a Teduccio and others, much important architecture was built. Most of these projects were the result of a significant study to recover these historical districts, once autonomous casali.
Among the most important public housing complexes, we must include the works of Michele Capobianco in Miano, which contributed to redefining a new typology of courtyard housing. The paper will deal with some of Capobianco’s works, together with architecture of other important authors (like Franco Purini, Costantino Dardi, Francesco Venezia and so on) in this important season of Neapolitan reconstruction.
Studies in History and Theory of Architecture, 2021
C. Ingrosso, L'altra modernità napoletana, in C. Ingrosso, E. Manzo, L. Molinari, R. Serraglio, a... more C. Ingrosso, L'altra modernità napoletana, in C. Ingrosso, E. Manzo, L. Molinari, R. Serraglio, a cura di, La Città che si rinnova. Dal manufatto architettonico alla forma urbana, La Scuola di Pitagora, Napoli 2018
C. Ingrosso, Oltre la deroga. Il caso di Villaggio Coppola a Castel Volturno, in C. de Biase, S. ... more C. Ingrosso, Oltre la deroga. Il caso di Villaggio Coppola a Castel Volturno, in C. de
Biase, S. Losco, L. Macchia, a cura di, Abusivismo urbanistico e sostenibilit
ambientale, Le Penseur, Brienza 2017
C. Ingrosso, Da utopia a inferno. Scampia attraverso la fotografia contemporanea/From utopia to h... more C. Ingrosso, Da utopia a inferno. Scampia attraverso la fotografia contemporanea/From utopia to hell. Scampia through contemporary photography, in A. Berrino, A. Buccaro, edited by, conference proceedings of VII International Conference Cirice 2016 Delli Aspetti de Paesi. Old and new media for the image of the landscape, Tomo I, Costruzione, descrizione, identità storica, Naples 27-29 October 2016, pp. 177-183
C. Ingrosso, Barcellona e il Forum delle Culture del 2004. Otto anni dopo, in E. Manzo, a cura di... more C. Ingrosso, Barcellona e il Forum delle Culture del 2004. Otto anni dopo, in E. Manzo, a cura di, La città che si rinnova. Architettura e scienze umane tra storia e attualità: prospettive di analisi a confronto, Franco Angeli, Milano 2014, pp. 161-170
C. Ingrosso, Napoli 1943-51. Scenari urbani di guerra e occupazione in C. Ingrosso, L. Molinari, ... more C. Ingrosso, Napoli 1943-51. Scenari urbani di guerra e occupazione in C. Ingrosso, L. Molinari, a cura di, La Napoli degli Americani dalla Liberazione alle basi Nato, numero monografico della rivista trimestrale “Meridione. Sud e Nord nel Mondo”, vol. 4, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane (ESI), Napoli 2011