Brescia University

Department Member, Civil Engineering, Architecture, Land and Environment (DICATA)

Other Affiliations: Gakushuin University, Intercultural Communication
Politecnico di Milano, DIAP Dipartimento di Architettura e Pianificazione
Università degli Studi di Padova, Dipartimento di storia delle arti visive e della musica

Visiting Lecturer

Thesis Title: «War damage and “repair” of the Italian monuments during the Second World War: the role of the Allies (1943-1945)»

About

Carlotta Coccoli, architect, is a Ph.D. in Preservation of Architectural Heritage and a Specialist in Restoration of Monuments. She is a visiting lecturer at the Polytechnic of Milan and at Santagiulia Academy of Fine Arts of Brescia. Her main field of research is the protection of cultural (mainly architectural) heritage in the event of armed conflict. In particular, she has been studying the organization of the ‘Subcommission of Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives’ in Italy and Japan during the Second World War, from the time of her Ph.D. thesis up to two recent fellowships at Italian and Japanese Universities. She has written and lectured on this topic both in Italy and abroad (Tokyo, Gakushuin Women’s College; Munich, Zentralinstituts für Kunstgeschichte; Swansea, Swansea University). Among her publications are: “Repertorio dei fondi dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato relativi alla tutela dei monumenti italiani dalle offese belliche nella seconda guerra mondiale” (2008); “Il destino del patrimonio artistico bresciano durante la seconda guerra mondiale” (2010); “I «fortilizi inespugnabili della civiltà italiana»: la protezione antiaerea del patrimonio monumentale italiano durante la seconda guerra mondiale” (2010); “«First Aid and Repairs»: il ruolo degli Alleati nella salvaguardia dei monumenti italiani” (2011); “Die Denkmäler Italiens und der Krieg: Präventiver Schutz, Erste Hilfe und Instandsetzungen. Die Rolle der Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives Subcommission in Italien während des Zweiten Weltkriegs” (2012). She is co-editor of Guerra, monumenti, ricostruzione. Architetture e centri storici italiani nel secondo conflitto mondiale (Marsilio,Venezia, 2011).

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