Time:

2:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Nov. 18, 2023

Venue:

Conference Room No.2, 2nd floor, School of Architecture, Weijin Road Campus of Tianjin University

About the Speakers:

Gianluca Belli is a professor and PhD supervisor, and in 2012 he became an honorary member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence. His research interests include the history of Italian architecture, construction techniques and urban development of Italy in the 15th and 16th centuries, as well as the development and conservation of Italian cities in the 19th and 20th centuries. He was the academic editor-in-chief of Opus Incertum, a journal on the history of architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Florence, and is now a member of the academic committees of important professional journals, such as Storia dell' Urbanistica, Archivio Storico Italiano, and Critica d'Aarte.

Wang Qiong, an Italian expatriate scholar, graduated from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) majoring in Italian and received a master's degree in Economics from the University of Florence, has taught at the University of Urbino, University of Siena and University of Florence. She has been a part-time professor at Zhejiang Normal University, and has visited and exchanged with many universities in China, such as Tongji University, Zhejiang Normal University and Sichuan Fine Arts Institute. Her main research interests are Italian art social history and cultural heritage protection.

About the lecture:

Florence, as the birthplace of the European Renaissance, is one of the most famous art capitals in the world, but in the 1940s and 1950s, Florentines were also faced with the very serious and complex problem of post-war reconstruction of the ancient city center. This lecture will analyze and summarize the difficulties that Florence faced in architectural conservation after the end of the Second World War and the responses to them, taking into account the damage done to the area around the Ponte Vecchio during the war, as well as the cultural context of the post-war reconstruction, the various discussions and attempts to rebuild the city.

Palazzo Davanzati is a 14th-century merchant's house in Florence that has been preserved to this day. It represents the transition from medieval tower architecture to Renaissance palaces. Taking Palazzo Davanzati as an example, this lecture will introduce and analyze the interior spatial styles of late medieval Florentine houses, covering the development and evolution of 13th and 14th century houses in Florence, the interior spatial layout and decorations of the Palazzo Davanzati building, and the boom in the collection and trading of cultural relics and artifacts in Europe from the end of the 19th century to the beginning of the 20th century.

All students and staff of Tianjin University are welcome.