Main Focus
- Relationships between arts and architecture in the twentieth century;
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Palaces of power
and identity between Italian Unification and the fall of Fascism;
- Rural foundation
villages and post-disaster reconstructions in the twentieth century;
- History of
exhibitions with focus on colonial, identity and representative themes of Italy
abroad;
- Reception, diffusion and reworking of official iconographic and architectural models in peripheral contexts or abroad
Research project
Curriculum Vitae
Maria Stella Di Trapani is a postdoctoral researcher
at the Weddigen Department of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, specialized in
Architectural History. She graduated in Art History at the Università Cattolica
del Sacro Cuore in Milan and obtained her PhD in Art and Architectural History
at the University of Palermo, defending the thesis “Variations of the
relationship between arts and architecture in the first half of the twentieth
century: the Palazzi di Giustizia in Sicily”. As a Research fellow at the University of Catania
within the framework of the “Census of Italian architectures from 1945 to today”, she is currently
a member of the research units of the University of Catania for the following
projects:
- “SPAZIDENTITA: Material and immaterial spatiality of
Italian national construction from the Cisalpine Republic to the end of
Fascism: cities, architecture, museums”;
- “Building civic identity. For a historical atlas of
municipal palaces in the Italy of cities (XII-XX century)”.
She is a contract lecturer in History of Architecture
at the Department of Humanities of the University of Catania and in 2023 she
won the first edition of the International Competition for the Gianni Franzone
Scholarship at the Wolfsoniana Study Center - Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.