(Analecta Romana Instituti Danici. Supplementum 61, Edizoni Quasar, 2025)
The book critically examines how architectural canons and their icons are formed, contested, and transformed through long-term processes of transcultural exchange. Responding to the growing need to pluralize and nuance these categories against dogmatic Western-centred narratives, the volume addresses canon and icon not as fixed reference points, but as historically contingent constructs shaped by power, mediation, and epistemic struggle against dogmatic Western-centred narratives, the volume addresses canon and icon not as fixed reference points, but as historically contingent constructs shaped by power, mediation, and epistemic struggle.
Event programme:
Welcome by Director Mikkel Harder Munck-Hansen,
Introduction by the editors: Dr. Angela Gigliotti, Dr. Chiara Monterumisi and Dr. Monica Prencipe
Three Dialogues on: Wanders & Encounters with the chapters author Associate Professor Dr. Carlotta Torricelli and Dr. Alina Aggujaro, Media & Communication with the chapters author Dr. Rebecca Carrai and the response of Dr. Francesca Romana Forlini, Agencies & Infrastructures with the chapter´s author Assistant Professor Dr. Marco Moro and the response of Dr. Cosimo Campani.
Response to the overall book by Assistant Professor Dr. Maria Luisa Palumbo