Habitat Perspectives

Noelia Cervero Sánchez is Associate Professor in Architectural Drawing at the University of Zaragoza. Architect, University of Valladolid (2004). Master in Advanced Studies in Art History (2011) and PhD in Architecture (2016), University of Zaragoza. Visiting Scholar at the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2016). José Castillejo postdoctoral scholarship, awarded by the Ministry of Universities, at Sapienza Università di Roma (2022). She is the author of the books Las huellas de la vivienda protegida en Zaragoza: 1939-1959 (Rolde, 2017) and Atlas of Typologies. Public housing in Zaragoza (PUZ, 2022), selected at the XVI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (2023). Articles published in collective works and scientific journals such as Informes de la Construcción, Ciudad y Territorio Urbano, EGA: revista de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica, ACE: Architecture, City and Environment, VLC Arquitectura, Cuadernos de Vivienda y Urbanismo o Conservar Patrimonio. International collaborations with Politècnico di Milano, LNEC of Lisbon, Università di Perugia, Università di Napoli “Federico II” and Roma Tre.

Simona Salvo is Associate Professor in Architectural Conservation at “Sapienza” University of Rome. She is a licensed architect with a PhD and a Master of Science in Architectural Conservation. Her scientific focus stays on theoretical and methodological issues of architectural conservation, especially of modern architecture, and on the spread of conservation theories throughout the world, with specific attention to the trajectories of the Italian architectural culture. For these scopes she carries out research and teaching activity in collaboration with international universities and cultural institutions and has obtained the Keeping It Modern Award from the Getty Foundation in 2018 for research on Gio Ponti’s School of Mathematics. She is engaged in Third Mission activities within the historic center of Rome and works with institutions and active citizenship stressing the role of architectural heritage in the dynamics of the city’s transformation. She has published extensively including about the history, life, and conservation of modern residential estates in Italy.