Annunziata Maria Oteri is an architect, specialist and PhD in Conservation of Architectural Heritage; she is Full Professor in Architectural Restoration at the Polytechnic of Milan, Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU); Head of the Post-graduate School in Architecture and Heritage landscape and member of the international PhD board in Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Polytechnic of Milan. She is co-director of the Journal “Storia urbana” (with Renato Sansa) and co-founder and member of the Scientific Committee of the open access journal “ArcHistoR. Architecture History Restoration”. She also is member of Sira (Italian Society for Architectural Restoration) and she has also been member and Secretary (2017-2021) of the Executive Committee of Sira. She attended many national and international congress, seminars, workshops on conservation of architectural heritage.
Author of many essays and books on theory and practice in Architectural Conservation. In particular, her research interests have been addressed, on the one hand, to theoretical issues of Conservation from the origin of the discipline up to contemporary debates, while, on the other hand, her studies deal with some issues of the field of practice of conservation with particular reference to ruins or abandoned buildings and urban fabric and to the methods which conservation borrows from other disciplines, such as archaeology. From the collaboration with “Storia urbana”, an interest in the relationship between conservation and transformation in historical city centres in modern times was born, also in relation to destruction due to catastrophic events, such as wars, earthquakes and so on. Her more recent studies have been addressed to the processes of depopulation in small towns and the strategies for conservation and enhancement of abandoned heritage.
È professore ordinariodi Restauro presso il Dipartimento di Patrimonio, Architettura e Studi Urbani del Politecnico di Milano.
Tra i suoi saggi: Scienze, storia e aspirazioni politiche: La cornice del restauro nella Sicilia dell’Ottocento (2013); Identità dei luoghi, monumenti e promozione turistica: Taormina tra Otto e Novecento (2014).
