Riccardo Dalisi Biography
Riccardo Dalisi (1931 - 2022), born in Potenza, held the chair of Planning at the Faculty of Architecture of the Federico II University of Naples until 2007. In the field of Architectural Design, we remember the interventions for the reconstruction after the Irpinia earthquake and the recent works in ecclesiastical buildings. He dealt with the relationship between school typology and teaching. It has always brought the skills and imagination of Neapolitan artisans into the design project, as well as "the spontaneous creativity of the kids". In the Seventies he was among the founders of "Global Tools", a counter-school of architecture and design that brought together groups and people from the most advanced area of the so-called Italian "radical architecture". Always involved in social issues (the experience with the children of the Traiano district and, in recent years, the commitment with the young people of the Sanità district of Naples and Scampia was fundamental), he has combined research and teaching in the field of architecture and design increasingly approaching artistic expression. In 1975 he began his activity as a designer collaborating with companies such as Baleri and Zanotta. In 1981 he won the Compasso d'Oro award for his research on the Neapolitan coffee maker (which resulted in an object for Alessi). He published The Architecture of Unpredictability (1970), Pulcinella's Coffee Pot (1987), Designing Without Thinking (1998). Over the last thirty years he has dedicated himself to creating an increasingly complex and fruitful relationship between university research, architecture, design, sculpture, painting, art and craftsmanship.
