Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture

Claudio Gambardella (1953), architect and designer, is Associate Professor of Industrial Design at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design (DADI) of the Università degli Studi di Napoli "Luigi Vanvitelli" (SUN) - formerly known as Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli - since 2010. He is currently working on two main research branches: the first one concerns a new concept of company museums, that he has been studying for years, to create a distinctive identity that differentiates them from other types of museums. On this topic he directed a series of publications for publishing company Alinea, being the author of the publication entitled "OFFICIAMUSEUM. The Regional Museum System of Design and Applied Arts" (2008). He is scientific advisor and artistic director for the project "Temporary Museum of Enterprise" product of excellence in Campania, under construction in Pompeii, under an agreement between the city of Pompeii and Vanvitelli University. The second research branch he is focusing on is about the preservation and enhancement of those forms of design that are capable of connecting with local craftsmanship, thus developing what Gambardella calls "Handmade in Italy", i.e. a kind of design that is strongly linked to local diversity over the country, competing with the more globalized "Made in Italy". FRANCESCA TOSI Francesca Tosi, Architect, is Full Professor of Industrial Design at Department of Architecture - DIDA, University of Florence. Currently develops her research and didactic activities in the fields of Product and Interior Design, Ergonomics in Design, Design for All. In particular on: daily use products and environments, and products and services for health and care. On the same subjects: she is author of books, essays and articles on topics and she organized conferences and events. She has been scientific responsible of research programs funded by: the European Union 7th FP; the Italian Ministry of University; the Italian Ministry of Labour and Social Policy; public administrations; private enterprises. Since 1996 until 2007 she was Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Faculty of Design of Politecnico di Milano. Since November 2007 she is full professor at the Faculty (now Department) of Architecture, University of Florence, where she was: Responsible of "Design" section of the PhD in "Architecture", University of Florence (2011-14). Director of "Master in Ergonomics, of envinronment, products and organizations" (first edition 2012-13, second edition 2013-14). She is currently: Head of Degree Course in "Industrial Design" (first mandate 2012-16, second mandate 2016 today).President of CUID, Italian Design Conference (first mandate 2013-16, second mandate 2016 today). Scientific Director of LED, Ergonomics & Design Laboratory (since 2013). Prof. Luigi MaffeiLuigi Maffei. Mechanical Engineer, Ph.D. in Architectural Acoustics. Full Professor of Building Environmental Control and Applied Acoustics at the Università della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli". Dean of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design (2015-2021). Director of the Master in Acoustics and Noise Control. Coordinator of two international didactic projects co-funded by the Italian University and Research Ministry: MEDACOUSTICS Master "Acoustics and Noise Control in Mediterranean Countries" with the Yildiz Technical University di Istanbul a.a. 2006/2007, Summer School on "Built Environment Control" with the Togliatti State University a.a. 2009/2010. Scientific Coordinator for the ITN Marie Curie Project "SONORUS- Urban Sound Planner" FP-7.President of the EAA European Acoustics Association (2007-2010). Vice President of the I-INCE Institute of Noise Control Engineering (2010-2021). President of the Acoustical Society of Italy (2014-2017). Chairman of the European Conference on Noise Control EURONOISE 2003, Co-Technical Chairman of the INTERNOISE

Sacral Buildings as an Expression of Hope.- The Holy Place: History of Catholic Liturgical Architecture.- A small Jerusalem in Milan.- Designing the Intangible.- Sacred Places: The Interaction between Space, Time and Faith.- Re-Construction and Virtual Fruition of a Fourteenth-Century Religious Building.- From Amalfi to Pompeii. Utopia of the Twentieth Century Sacred. The Architectural Epithelium for the House of God.- A Preliminary Structural Analysis of Typical Arches of Italian Gothic Churches.- Changing the History of Architectural Heritage Palaeologan Renaissance - the Style that Never was?.- Exploring Utopian Representations in the Architecture of Art Museums in the Middle East.- Dantesque Allegories in the Symbolic Architecture of Triduum Structures.- Architecture, Territory, Traditions. The Cult of the Madonna del Carmine Called "Delle Galline" in Pagani.- Oblique Plane; Layering; Spatial Layering - The Construction of Pavel Janák's Formal Language.- Use of Natural Light for Catholic Sacred Architecture: Technological Strategies and Symbolic Values.