Carola Gentilini

Graduated in Architecture at the University Institute of Architecture of Venice – Iuav with a thesis on museum architecture, since 2003 she has collaborated and realised projects for public commissions in architecture, museography and exhibition design in collaboration with Pier Federico Caliari. These include the Madonna del Ghisallo Cycling Museum in Magreglio (CO) (2006), the MUST in Vimercate (MI) (2010), which was awarded the ICOM Italy prize for the best Italian museum layout in 2011, the Museo Profano at the Vatican Museums (2013), the Musei Civici di Monza (2015), the restoration of the Palazzina Ex Africa of the Circolo Montecitorio of the Chamber of Deputies and the renovation of the Sala della Vittoria at the Palazzo della Farnesina of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. Ha collaborato come progettista alla ideazione degli allestimenti di mostre temporanee presso il Palazzo Montecitorio, i Musei Vaticani, la Triennale di Milano e la Curia Senatus presso il Foro Romano.
Dal 2011 è direttore del Museo del Ciclismo Madonna del Ghisallo.
Dal 2003 è fra gli organizzatori del Piranesi Prix de Rome. International Seminar on Architecture for the Archaeology of Hadrian’s Villa and coordinator of the Itinerant Master’s Course in Architecture for Archaeology promoted by the Accademia Adrianea.
She was Councillor for Culture and Tourism of the Municipality of Como from March 2019 to July 2020.
He is the editor of several volumes, including ‘Aufklärung e Grand Tour. Research and Education for a Museography without Frontiers’ (2009), ’Palestrina. La città e il tempio’ (2009), “Premio Piranesi – Tomo secondo Progetti per Villa Adriana 2007-2008” (2009), Tractatus Logico Sintattico, “La forma trasparente di Villa Adriana, (2012), ”La serie e il paradigma. Franco Purini and the art of drawing among moderns’. (2014).