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Professor Teresa Stoppani

Professor of Architecture and Director of Architecture and Interior Design, BA (Hons) Architecture

Professor Teresa Stoppani is the Director of Architecture and Interior Design at Norwich University of the Arts. An Architetto (Italy) and architectural theorist, she lectures in history and theory, and teaches design studio across the disciplines.

Teresa Stoppani leans against the handrail of the Boardman House building at Norwich University of the Arts which houses the Architecture and Interior Design courses

Teresa studied Architecture at the IUAV University of Venice and received a PhD in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Florence. An Italian architect and architectural theorist, she has taught at the IUAV, the University of Greenwich and the Architectural Association in London, UT Sydney, and Leeds Beckett University where she was the Head of the School of Architecture.

 

My research focuses on the relationship between architecture theory and the design process, and on the influence of other spatial and critical practices and of philosophy on the specifically architectural.
Stemming from a study of urban paradigms that challenge both the classical and the modern city – Paradigm Islands: Manhattan and Venice (Routledge 2010), my recent work has proposed ‘unorthodox’ interpretations of key concepts and words in architecture and urbanism – Unorthodox Ways to Think the City (Routledge, 2019).
My ongoing project ‘Architecture_Dust’ explores the undoing of form in architecture, studying its materiality (‘Dust’, ‘Atomised’) and minor and aberrant practices (‘lnvisibles’, ‘Monsters’), as well as its responses to violence and disaster (‘Violent Acts of Architecture’, ‘Architecture of Disaster’, ‘Architecture and Trauma’).
On the background of it all are earlier studies of the tensions at play in architecture – between design and theory (essays on G.B. Piranesi’s etchings and an architecture of becoming), between history and the project (on Manfredo Tafuri and Aldo Rossi), between the project and representation (on mapping as a political project), between thinking and making in architecture (with the ThisThingCalledTheory collective) and its intrinsic relation with society and politics (‘Relational Architecture’, ‘StateS of Exception’).
I am a member of the Architectural Humanities Research Association Steering Group and executive editor of the AHRA journal Architecture and Culture. I am the instigator of the international architecture research collective ThisThingCalledTheory, for which I co-edited the book This Thing Called Theory (Routledge 2016).

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