Elisabetta Procida & Steven Semes
Elisabetta Procida is an Italian architectural historian specializing in the work of architects in interwar Rome, with particular focus on Armando Brasini (1879-1965). From 2000 to 2018, she was curator of Brasini’s private archive. Her publications include La sede storica dell’INAIL a Roma: il palazzo in via IV Novembre, a 2019 scholarly study of one of Brasini’s most important buildings in Rome.
Steven W. Semes is Professor of Architecture and Director of the Michael Christopher Duda Center for Preservation, Resilience, and Sustainability at the University of Notre Dame. He is translator and co-editor of New Building in Old Cities: Writings by Gustavo Giovannoni on Architectural and Urban Conservation (2024) and author of The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism, and Historic Preservation (2009) and The Architecture of the Classical Interior (2004).
Articles by Elisabetta Procida & Steven Semes
One of the undeniable masterpieces of the early twentieth-century architect Armando Brasini (1879-1965) is the Basilica of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in the Parioli district in the north of Rome. Principal Roman seat of the Missionary Congregation of the Sons of the Heart of Mary (the Claretians), the monumental scale and incomplete profile of the church give it a grandiose but melancholy character offering important lessons for architects and their patrons.
