Stefania Filo Speziale belongs to the record of architecture as a figure whose buildings outlasted the taste that commissioned them.
The record lists Stefania Filo Speziale as Italian architect (1905-1988).
Stefania Filo Speziale was born at Naples in 1905. Her recorded nationality is Italy. She trained at University of Naples Federico II.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
She is recorded as architect.
Architecture is the art that cannot be avoided: people live inside the argument.
That the work was built in Italy shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Stefania Filo Speziale died in 1988, aged 83. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- Trained at University of Naples Federico II
