Manfredo TafuriManfredo Tafuri (Rome, 4 November 1935 – Venice, 23 February 1994) was an Italian Marxist architect, historian, theoretician, critic and academic. He was described by one commentator as the world's most important architectural historian of the second half of the 20th century. He is noted for his pointed critiques of the partisan "operative criticism" of previous architectural historians and critics like Bruno Zevi and Siegfried Giedion and for challenging the idea that the Renaissance was a "golden age" as it had been characterised in the work of earlier authorities like Heinrich Wölfflin and Rudolf Wittkower.
Enzo EusebiVincenzo Eusebi (ˈɛntso euˈzɛːbi; born 29 January 1960) is an Italian engineer, architect and designer. Eusebi studied engineering and architecture at the Marche Polytechnic University in Ancona. Eusebi is the founding partner of NOTHING STUDIO, atelier of architecture, planning, interior design, design and graphics. To the activity as a designer Enzo Eusebi associated over the years an intense work of study and critical reflection on the themes of social and sustainable architecture; he has held lectures and conferences with numerous organizations and institutions.
Ignazio GardellaIgnazio Gardella (30 March 1905 in Milan, Lombardy – 16 March 1999) was an Italian architect and designer. Born into a family of architects, the first of whom was his namesake Ignazio Gardella Sr. (1803–1867). Gardella graduated in engineering from the Politecnico di Milano university in 1928, and later earned a degree in architecture from the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) in 1949. In his university years he came into contact with other young protagonists of the Milanese scene together with whom he took part in the creation of the Italian Modern Movement.
Accusation in a mirrorAccusation in a mirror (AiM) (also called mirror politics, mirror propaganda, mirror image propaganda, or a mirror argument) is a hate-speech incitement technique where one falsely attributes to one's adversaries the intentions that one has for oneself and/or the actions that one is in the process of enacting. It has been cited, along with dehumanization, as one of the indirect or cloaked forms of incitement to genocide, which has contributed to the commission of genocide, for example in the Holocaust and the Rwandan genocide.
False advertisingFalse advertising is defined as the act of publishing, transmitting, or otherwise publicly circulating an advertisement containing a false claim, or statement, made intentionally (or recklessly) to promote the sale of property, goods, or services. A false advertisement can be classified as deceptive if the advertiser deliberately misleads the consumer, rather than making an unintentional mistake. A number of governments use regulations to limit false advertising.
Ophelia ProjectThe Ophelia Project by Giuseppe Quaroni and Marcello Piacentini refers to an innovative mental health hospital built in Potenza, Basilicata (Italy), in the 1910s. It was built in an area, Santa Maria, whose development over time has been greatly conditioned by this project. Nowadays this area is mainly made up of three or four-storey buildings with wide streets in between. The decision to build a new provincial institution for mental health in Potenza dates back to the early twentieth century.
Carmine BenincasaCarmine Benincasa (17 December 1947 – 3 August 2020) was an Italian art critic and art historian professor. Benincasa was born in Eboli in the south of Italy. After studying in a religious school he moved to Rome to study theology, philosophy and law. He was a professor of art history at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Macerata, the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence and Professor of History of Art at the Faculty of Architecture of the University La Sapienza in Rome.
Michela RamadoriMichela Ramadori (born 15 March 1984 in Rome) is an Italian art historian, author and academic. Born in Rome, Italy, on March 15, 1984, she graduated with in history of art and she obtained with the diploma of the School of Specialization in historical artistic heritage at Sapienza University of Rome. During the Specialization School She did an internship at the CARM, Collection of modern and contemporary art of Vatican Museums. Later on She obtained the Ph.D. in “Tools and methods for the history of art” at Sapienza University of Rome.
Eduardo Blasco FerrerEduardo Blasco Ferrer (Barcelona, 1956 – Bastia, 12 January 2017) was a Spanish-Italian linguist and a professor at the University of Cagliari, Sardinia. He is best known as the author of several studies about the Paleo-Sardinian and Sardinian language. Grammatica storica del catalano e dei suoi dialetti con speciale riguardo all'algherese. Tübingen: G. Narr, c1984. La lingua sarda contemporanea : grammatica del logudorese e del campidanese : norma e varietà dell'uso : sintesi storica. Cagliari : Della Torre, c1986.
Luigi ZojaLuigi Zoja (born 1943) is an Italian psychoanalyst and writer. He took a degree in economics and did research in sociology during the late 1960s. Soon thereafter he studied at the C. G. Jung Institute in Zurich. After taking his diploma, Zoja returned to Zurich to work at a clinic for several years. He maintains a private practice in Milan. He also practiced for two years in New York City, during a period that bracketed the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, D. C.
