Heritage in Architecture

The exhibition "Heritage in Architecture: Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia–Park" , hosted in the Renato De Fusco Hall at Palazzo Gravina in Naples, marks the fourth chapter of the biennial program dedicated to contemporary Italian architecture promoted by the Department of Architecture of the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II. The exhibition offers an articulated reflection on the notion of heritage as a design, cultural, and operative tool, inviting visitors to consider the built environment not as a constraint, but as a resource capable of guiding conscious territorial transformation. Within this framework, Park’s contribution focuses on an approach that understands heritage as living matter, to be listened to, reinterpreted, and transformed. Park’s installation presents the studio’s research on adaptive reuse through two complementary trajectories. On the one hand, a focused investigation into two emblematic projects, La Serenissima and Torre della Permanente, respectively the first and most recent adaptive reuse interventions completed by the studio, engaged in a curious urban dialogue as they face one another along the same street in Milan. On the other, a transversal and thematic reading weaves together selected projects, reflections, and conversations with contributors to Reinventing Heritage, including Koenraad Van Cleempoel, Barbara Rossi, Formafantasma, Jorge Pérez-Jaramillo, Stefanie Weidner, and Margherita Guccione, expanding the discussion of heritage as a shared practice and a field of disciplinary experimentation. Exhibition curated by Giovanni Multari, Francesco Iuliano and Lorenzo Renzullo, realized with the patronage of HouseEurope!, the support of Zumtobel, and in collaboration with the Forum of Young People of the City of Naples.