La formazione

Moving to Rome after her marriage, she tried to reconcile her new tasks as a mother with her work as an architect, tackling her first jobs as a professional and at the same time trying to maintain contact with the university group. The relationship of esteem with Quaroni developed into a close friendship, which also appeared in her relations with the artists closest to her, such as Gallizio and Consagra. In 1965 she was involved in the “Experimental Course in Urban Preparation” held in Arezzo under the direction of Quaroni himself by the Study Centre of the Olivetti Foundation. This was one of the foundational acts of Italian urban planning. In 1966 the text La città nuova, which she wrote with M. Cusmano, B. Gabrielli, R. Mazzanti, R. Rozzi, was selected for the Olivetti Prize.

Her studies of urban planning issues continued in her research on Gallura conducted with Italo Insolera for Italia Nostra (1965-70).

In 1967 she returned to university as a voluntary assistant in the course of Architectural Composition at the Faculty of Architecture of Rome, directed first by Alberto Samonà and a year later by Ludovico Quaroni. But her passion for teaching clashed with a growing sense of estrangement from the spirit and methods of design in force that led her to leave the university, in January 1973, with a letter addressed to Quaroni himself: (...)

“For me, the objective impossibility emerged of being able to move the general interest from the object to the process, while everyone was possessed by the fascination of elevations, plans and sections.”