Mario Pisani

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Mario Pisani (born 8 September 1947, Rome) is an Italian architect, critic, historian and professor of architecture at the Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli.

Studies

Mario Pisani studied architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Rome, completing his studies in 1973.

Research

Pisani has been particularly interested in art and modern and contemporary architecture which until 2000 analyzes and studies both in Italy, in many European countries and in the Mediterranean basin.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the results of his research, as well as producing some volumes, were published in numerous Italian magazines such as Controspazio, L'Industria delle Costruzioni, Costruire in Laterizio, Eupalino, Materia, Demetra, Palladio, L'Arca, Domus and foreign as Art Forum in New York and Artics in Barcelona, while his studies increasingly focus on particularly important topics of the History of Art and Architecture of the twentieth century. In those years he studied and critically analyzed some particular types such as places of entertainment, museums, sacred buildings, designed by the Masters of the Modern Movement and by contemporary artists and designers.

At the beginning of the nineties he further deepened the study of twentieth century architecture in the city of Rome through the figures of two of the protagonists of the twenties and thirties: Armando Brasini and Marcello Piacentini and in particular their relationship with the artists of the period. He dedicates essays, researches and publications to them. In addition to these characters, he began to devote himself to the art and architecture of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries observed in particular by the capital, to which he dedicated an essay, through a cultural institution such as the Teatro alla Scala in Milan and the opera by the architect Giuseppe Piermarini and the artists of the time.

Since 1995 he holds the Course of Elements of Architecture and Urban Planning at the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia where he has been appointed Academic of Merit. He was appointed consultant for the art exhibitions of the "Antica Deruta" Gallery where he designed and created the Ceramics Museum.

Academic life

From the early nineties Pisani has teaching History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture at the Luigi Vanvitelli Faculty of Architecture in Naples. Since its foundation he collaborates with the monthly architecture The Ark that is printed in Monte Carlo in speaking English, French and Italian. 

From 2000 to 2010 his cultural interests are oriented towards architecture in the United States, where he deepens his knowledge of one of the most interesting studies of the moment such as the SITE to which he dedicates a volume. For studies and research he also travels to Canada and Bolivia where he holds meetings and conferences.

In 2000 he wins the Competition National for Professor Associate in History of Architecture and was named to the Faculty of Architecture in Aversa Luigi Vanvitelli (Naples II) University of Campania. In 2002 he also taught at the Faculty of Architecture Ludovico Quaroni in Rome, "La Sapienza" University, History of Art and Contemporary Architecture. In 2003, he obtains the certificate attesting the activity of the Ministry of Education, University and Research - Department for University, Higher Artistic Music and Coreutics and Scientific and Technological Research from the Committee of Guarantors. Reviewer in the selection of projects of significant national interest for the year 2003. In the same year he was appointed professor at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy, Florence headquarters, for the teaching of History of the twentieth century in a Master in Theology and Architecture of Churches.

Among the works published in those years, the update of the entry The city and architecture of the Universal Encyclopedia of Art, in the volume dedicated to Postmodernism, with an essay of 70 folders and a series of articles dedicated to the topic Learning from Nature that were published in the September 1999 issue of the monthly Domus. He has collaborated on some research by the National Research Council on Mediterranean Cities, with particular attention to Martina Franca, and on typologists and contemporary museums.

In 2001 he founded, with Paolo Portoghesi, the quarterly magazine Abitare la terra (Dwelling the Earth), a publication indicated in class A among the magazines in the sector, and he is its editor-in-chief.

Since 2000 he holds conferences, seminars, intervenes in conferences, does research with particular attention to the art and architecture of the twentieth century in Italy and abroad.

Since 2005 he studies the figure of Filippo Raguzzini, the author of Piazza Sant'Ignazio, among the most interesting of the Baroque, and has published a monographic work on the character.

In 2007 he was appointed Professor by the annual session of the IAA International Academy of Architecture, Sofia, Bulgary. In the same year he has been dealing with landscape and garden architecture, topic and courses held with wide success at the Luigi Vanvitelli Faculty of Architecture. On this same topic he has published essays and papers in Italy and abroad, while since 2009 he has collaborated monthly with Landscape magazine, a mensile that is printed in Dubai.

In 2008 the collaboration with the Construction and Territory begins, a supplement of Il Sole 24 Ore.

Selection of projects and works

Pisani has participated as group leader in over 60 national and foreign competitions and obtained in addition to numerous reports the First Prize at the National Competition for the expansion of the Terni Cemetery (1986, in progress), for Piazza Pagano in Potenza (1987), Piazza Annunziata in Acri (CS) (2001/2003), Piazza Giustino Fortunato in Rionero in Vulture (Pz) (2009). He organized the Italy Now Architecture in Italy 2000-2010 exhibition presented in Tokyo (September 2011), Novi Sad (December 2011), Toronto and Vancouver (March 2012). He organized with Alì Abu Ghanimeh 7 Italian architects in Amman and 8 Italian architects in Alexandria in Egypt and at the Arab University of Beirut (May 2018) and in the hall of the Municipality of Abha in Saudi Arabia (June 2018). Since 2016 he annually holds courses, seminars and conferences at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hangzhou, China On several occasions he is also invited by institutions such as: Italian Cultural Institutes (Toronto, Vancouver, Amman, La Valletta ), CNR, Department of Culture, Venice Biennale, Orders of Architects to present his studies, organize exhibitions, participate to debates and conferences, to be a member of national and international juries.

Publications

He has made over 30 monographic publications and 200 essays and articles in specialized magazines.

• Dialogo con Paolo Portoghesi, Per comprendere l'architettura, Officina Edizioni, Rome, Italy, 1989;
• Le stazioni di Nicola Pagliara a Napoli, Hetea, Alatri, Italy, 1989;
• Paolo Portoghesi: opere e progetti, Electa architectural documents, Milan, Italy, 1989 (3 Edition 1997);
• Architecture Studio Rites de Passages, Wordsearch Publishing London Secret Cards, Rome, Italy 1995;
• Le architetture di Armando Brasini, Officina Edizioni, Rome, Italy, 1996;
• Il Padiglione Italiano all’Esposizione delle Arti Decorative del 1925, ovvero “L’Onta di Parigi”, Librìa, Melfi, Italy, 1996;
• Cura, con Cristina Di Stefano, il volume di Paolo Portoghesi I grandi architetti del Novecento, Newton & Compton, Rome, Italy, 1998;
• Architetture di Paolo Luccioni, Officina Edizioni, Rome, Italy, 1999;
• Introduzione a Kling Linquisist, The Realm of Shadows, L'Arca, Milan, Italy, 2000;
• Studio Passarelli Palazzina in via Campania, Rome, Universale di Architettura, Riva near Chieri (TO), Italy, 2000
• Introduzione a Enzo Zacchiroli, La lezione della modernità, L'Arca, Milan, Italy, 2000;
• Introduzione a Sasaki, Designing the Continuum, L'Arca, Milan, Italy, 2001;
• Introduzione a Miguel Angel Aragonés, A Challenge of Introspection, L'Arca, Milan, 2001;
• Jafar Tukan, Architecture, con Ali Abu Ghanimeh, Librìa, Melfi, Italy 2001;
• Introduction AMA Alfonso Mercurio Associates, The Space of Modernity, L'Arca, Milan, Italy, 2002;
• Gilles Perraudin, Librìa, Melfi, Italy, 2002;
• Rosoni in Umbria, Centro Studi e Ricerche Arnaldo Caprai, Foligno, Italy, 2002;
• Richard England, Viaggio in Italia con Paolo Portoghesi, Librìa, Melfi, Italy, 2003; 
• La scuola edile a Perugia Paolo Belardi/Alessio Burini HOF Associati, Librìa, Melfi, Italy, 2003;
• Pica Ciamarra, Associati Città della Scienza and Other Works, Liguori Editore, Naples, Italy, 2003;
• Marcello Piacentini, Architetture, Le opere maestre, Preface by Sandro Benedetti, Editions Nuova Argos, Rome, Italy, 2004, ISBN 88-385-0106-8 Search this book on .;
• Signorini Architetture, Librìa, Melfi, Italy, 2004, ISBN 88-87202-61-3 Search this book on .;
• Architecture Studio, Edilstampa, Rome, Italy, 2005, ISBN 88-7864-005-0 Search this book on .;
• SITE, Edilstampa, Rome, 2006, ISBN 88-7864-025-5 Search this book on .;
• L’Architettura del tempo presente dagli anni settanta all’esordio del nuovo millennio, Librìa, Melfi, Italy, 2007, ISBN 978-88-87202-87-8 Search this book on .;
• Cura la mostra Franco Purini, Paesaggi, Librìa, Melfi, 2008, ISBN 978-88-87202-98-4 Search this book on .;
• 5 + 1 AA agenzia di architettura Alfonso Femìa e Gianluca Peluffo, Edilstampa, Rome, 2009, ISBN 978-88-7864-056-6 Search this book on .;
• Filippo Raguzzini, Piazza Sant'Ignazio, Un capolavoro inaspettato, Librìa, Melfi, Italy, 2011, ISBN 978-88-96067-65-9 Search this book on .;
• Piazze del nuovo millennio, Il Formichiere, Foligno, Italy, 2015 ISBN 978-88-98428-36-6 Search this book on .;
• Abitare in Cina oggi. Esperienze a confronto, Librìa, Melfi, Italy, 2020.

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