ICAUD 2025

ORAZIO CARPENZANO

Full Professor of Architectural Design at the Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome. Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Director of the Doctoral School in Architectural Sciences, and Coordinator of the Ph.D. in Architecture—Theory and Design. Formerly Director of the Department of Architecture and Design (2016–2020).

He has participated in architectural competitions, earning various awards and honorable mentions. His projects and writings have been featured in both national and international publications and journals. Among his most recent works are the new Corso Trento e Trieste in Lanciano, the Piazza delle Pietre d’Italia in Redipuglia, and the Federico Fellini Museum in Rimini, currently under construction.

In addition to his research in urban design, primarily focused on contemporary urban conditions, he has pursued more complex and original explorations at the intersection of architecture, art, and emerging technologies. He is the author of over a hundred essays on theories and techniques of architectural and urban design. Besides maintaining a prolific editorial role in publications by Public Entities and Institutions, he also curates national and international architecture exhibitions and conferences.

ANTONINO SAGGIO

Antonino Saggio (Rome 1955) is an Architect and Full Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at “Sapienza” Università di Roma. He has been for several years coordinator of the Ph.D. School in “Theory and Design” and director of the International book series “The It Revolution In Architecture”’ He has written several books among which one of the most important ones – ‘Architecture and Modernity: from Bauhaus to the IT Revolution’ – has also been edited in Albanian by POLIS University. Three main guidelines distinguish his work: first, the confidence in the concrete possibility of teaching architectural design through making its methods evident and transmissible. This approach has been tested with many students and graduands, with the members of nITro (New Information Technology Research Office), and with many assistants and collaborators that are currently teaching in foreign institutions such as POLIS University. The second fundamental aspect of Saggio’s work is the continuous interrelation between the critical historian moment and the design phase. Particularly, this research path permeated his intense critical activity and led to the birth of books regarding Giuseppe Terragni (published by Laterza), Giuseppe Pagano (published by Dedalo), Louis Sauer (published by Officina Edizioni), Peter Eisenman and Frank O. Gehry (published by Testo&Immagine). The third peculiarity of his work concern the belief of today’s catalyzing role of Information Technology in the definition of a proper ‘IT Revolution in Architecture.’ This topic has been part of his early teaching years at Carnegie Mellon-Pittsburgh and has continued at ETH Zürich and is currently part of his commitment at the Faculty of Architecture at “Sapienza.’ The book series ‘The IT Revolution In Architecture,’ founded by Saggio in 1998 and also edited in English by Birkhäuser, has been a focal point for the deepening of this topic and contributed to influence a whole generation of architects that are currently at the forefront of the international debate. Furthermore, the presence of IT also characterized critical urban projects for the city of Rome (Urban voids, Urban Green Line, Tevere Cavo, UNLost Territories) that link together the different historical and landscape peculiarities of the city that urgently needs for the development of new infrastructures within the urban fabric that can treasure the impact of the new IT possibilities.

MONIKA ARCZYŃSKA

Dr. Eng. Arch. Monika Arczyńska studied at Gdańsk University of Technology and TU Delft. In her doctoral dissertation, which she defended with distinction, she examined the relationship between consumer society and sustainable housing.From 2006 to 2017, she worked for Heneghan Peng Architects, based in Dublin, where she designed public buildings around the world, including the Grand Egyptian Museum, the Palestinian Museum, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts in Moscow, and the award-winning Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre in Northern Ireland.She is a regular contributor to the monthly magazine Architektura-Murator and the Czech magazine INTRO, runs the urban-architectural blog Six Letter City, and organizes a series of lectures on architectural topics. In 2015, she founded the consulting and design office A2P2 architecture&planning, where she focuses on consulting, design, and participatory processes operating between the architectural and urban scales. She collaborates with institutions such as the Institute of Public Space Research in Warsaw, the Gdańsk–Gdynia–Sopot Metropolitan Area, and the National Museum in Gdańsk, for which she developed the urban and architectural concept for the planned New Museum of Art (NOMUS). In 2018, in consortium with Henning Larsen and BBGK, she won an international competition for the masterplan of the Imperial Shipyard area in Gdańsk.
She lectures at the University of Gdańsk and teaches design courses at Gdańsk University of Technology in the format of an urban laboratory, with an emphasis on team management.

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