Zamparini, Alessandra; Gualtieri, Gastone & Lurati, Francesco

Bio Sketch

Alessandra Zamparini, Gastone Gualtieri and Francesco Lurati are researchers at the Institute of Marketing and Communication Management, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Switzerland. Their work examines the discursive construction of city identity and the role of architecture, communication and branding in collective identity and urban development.

Key Works

• "Iconic Buildings in the Making of City Identity: The Role of Aspirational Identity Artefacts" (2023) — the Locarno PalaCinema case; iconic buildings as "aspirational identity artefacts."

Key Concepts

Concepts associated with this author that have pages in this wiki:

• Aspirational Identity Artefact
• Iconic Architecture
• Star Architecture

Relevance to Geoffrey's Research

This team supplies a communication/discourse perspective on iconic architecture, showing how icons in the making anticipate and construct city identity through "aspirational" discourse — an empirical complement to Geoffrey's spectacle/iconic-architecture interests and to the star-architecture/identity literature.

Source Support

Source notes in this wiki drawn from this author's work:

• Iconic Buildings in the Making of City Identity (2023)