Carmen Andriani, architect Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Pescara Director of PPC Piano Progetto Città Coordinator of the Directorate Research Programme for the Department Infrastructure Design Engineering Architecture

Carmen Andriani is an architect and tenured professor with the Faculty of Architecture in Pescara. Her work focuses on the transformations of coastal landscapes and the design of abandoned and decommissioned areas.

She is the Director of PPC Piano Progetto Città, the bi-annual magazine produced by the Faculty of Architecture in Pescara and the Ossimori series of architectural pamphlets (SALA edizioni).

She coordinates the Doctorate Research Programme for the IDEA Department (Infrastructure Design Engineering Architecture), of which she is also a member.

Carmen Andriani has been a Visiting Professor at the Waterloo University School of Architecture in Canada and the School of Architecture at Syracuse University, in addition to being a Guest Critic at the University of Waterloo, Syracuse University, Temple University, Pratt University, and the Faculty of Architecture in Montevideo, Uruguay.

She has directed international research programmes as part of the Canadian Studies Faculty Research Award Program, financed by the Canadian Embassy and focused on “Waterways and the Infrastructural Systems of Canadian Waterways”, (1999-2001) and “The Metamorphosis of Post-Industrial Landscapes: The Example of the Montreal Port” (2003/2004).

Carmen Andriani is also a member of the European Scientific Committee for the 7th Edition of the EUROPAN International Design Competition and Member of the French Jury for the same edition.
Since 2003 she has been teaching the II° Level University Master in “Design Innovation – Controlled Rehabilitation of Reinforced Concrete Structures” directed by professor C. Nuti at the Roma Tre Faculty of Architecture and Engineering in Rome, Italy.

Since 2004 she is a member of the National Committee for the centenary celebration of the birth of the architect Mario Ridolfi (1904-1984), at the Academia di San Luca in Rome.

Her writings and projects have been published in numerous architectural catalogues and magazines, including Casabella, Domus, Topos European Landscape Magazine, Il Progetto, Parametro, Young Italian Architects (Birkhauser, 1998) and “From Futurism to a Possible Future”, Japan 2002.

She has been invited to present her work at conferences in Italy and abroad, in addition to being invited to participate in numerous architectural exhibitions (1995 Milan Triennale, 1996 & 2002 Venice Biennale, Montevideo 2002, Toronto, 2000, Graz 2001, Japan 2002, Istanbul 2005).

Of her completed projects some mention should be made of the Trevi-Pantheon historical-monumental paving project in Rome and the temporary urban projects realised in Pescara.

In 2002, as part of the International Competition for the New Waterfront in Trieste, she was awarded first prize for the area of Piazza Venezia (in progress).

She has presented numerous projects for Rome while participating in international and invited design competitions. Particular mention should be made of the project for the new bridge in EUR (2000), the new Centre for Contemporary Arts (1999), the addition to the National Gallery of Modern Art (1996), the Municipal Art Gallery in Modena, the new home of the Italian Space Agency (2000), the renovation of the head offices of the Acea Power Company in Rome (1997) and, finally, the project for a new parochial complex in Tor Tre Teste, also in Rome.

In 2005 she won an invited international competition for the design of one of the new metropolitan centralities in the area of Rome known as the Romanina (currently in the second phase).