Maria Segantini
Reader in Architecture, School of Architecture, Computing and Engineering (ACE)
Maria Alessandra Segantini is partner and director of C+S Architects based in Italy and London, UK. Her work, in practice as well as in academia, spreads from city master plans to product design and focuses on the combination of heritage and innovation.
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School of Architecture Computing and Engineering (ACE)
University of East London
4-6 University Way
London
E16 2RD - m.segantini@uel.ac.uk
She was recently invited to exhibit at the 15th Venice Architecture Biennale, where she presented the installation Aequilibrium, based on her research on the role of school buildings in contemporary cities.
Her works have been published internationally and exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, in the 8th, 12th and 13th and 14th Biennale of Architecture of Venice, at the MIT in Boston, at the Triennale of Milan, at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris, the Architekturzentrum in Wien and the RIBA in London, among others.
Maria Alessandra has participated in symposia such as the more recent Construction Conference in Udine 2016, the Idea-Tops International Conference and Award in Shenzhen and the Moscow City Conference in Russia.
She has lectured in some of the most prestigious international universities such as Columbia GSAPP, Cornell and Syracuse University in the State of New York, USA, Rhode Island School of Architecture, USA, at Cambridge University and Bath in the UK, at Hasselt University in Belgium, at the IUAV in Venice and the Universities of Alghero, Ferrara and Roma La Sapienza in Italy, Moratuwa University in Colombo, Sri Lanka as well as being a visiting professor at MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Overview
Current Research
Maria Alessandra Segantini is presently leading the UEL ‘Future Heritage’ research group in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture and investigating the Riviera del Brenta.
Other ongoing research is related to the role of school buildings in contemporary cities, a work which was presented and published for the Venice Architecture Biennale 2016 and the potential of new materials in the productions of public spaces.
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Research
Publications
Maria Alessandra Segantini was leading a funded research on sustainable low-cost housing at the University of Architecture of Venice funded by the ATER (social housing institute).
She is also the curator of the November Lecture Series at the UEL, funded by the Sto Foundation.
Funding
Portfolio
Maria Alessandra Segantini is co-teaching UNIT 5 MArch studio with Carlo Cappai, as well as a theoretical seminar on heritage and the consumption and production of spaces. She is a PhD supervisor.