Advances in Utopian Studies and Sacred Architecture

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.

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 della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" - formerly known as Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli (SUN) - 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".

Prof. Claudia Cennamo (University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy)Claudia Cennamo. PhD in Science and Technique in the Historic and Modern Architecture at the University of Rome La Sapienza since 1996. She is Researcher in the field of Structural Mechanics since 2002 and carries out didactic activity as Aggregate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", since the academic year 2004/2005 to today. Her principal research topics are about structural control and masonry structures, with particular attention to calculation methods for unilateral