Iarossi Maria Pompeiana

Maria Pompeiana Iarossi is Associate Professor of Drawing at the Polytechnic University of Milan, where she has taught since 1998.

Career

Degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic University of Milan (1985).

PhD in Architectural Composition from the IUAV University of Venice (1994).

Research

His research, which focuses on the representation of architectural and urban phenomena, along with the study of historical cartography, has in recent years focused on representation—understood both in the traditional form of drawing and in reference to the experimentation of the most advanced digital systems—as a support for the design process and project pedagogy.

Selected Publications

La cultura dell’abitare a Buenos Aires alle soglie del XX secolo. Un repertorio dell’architettura residenziale di matrice italiana. (con G. D’Amia) Maggioli editore, 2019. ISBN: 9788891630629

L’architettura del museo. Disegno, modello, progetto. (con M. G. Caja). Ed. La Scuola di Pitagora, 2018. ISBN: 9788865426395

Laboratorio La Boca. Tracce d'Italia a Buenos Aires. ALTRALINEA edizioni srl. 2017. ISBN: 9788894869231- Ritratti di città in un interno. BUP-Bononia University Press 2014, ISBN: 9788873959878.

Representation Systems and Theoretical Design Frameworks (con C. Santacroce). In: Diségno 16/2025, pp.149- 162. ISSN 2533-2899.

Politecnici meridiani. Il viaggio verso Pompei degli allievi architetti milanesi / Meridian Polytechnicians. The Scuola di Milano at Pompeii. (con L. Ferro). In: FAM-FESTIVAL DELL'ARCHITETTURA MAGAZINE, vol. 2024, p. 62-81, ISSN: 2039-0491, doi: 10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n69-70-2024/1096

Per un “outil à habiter”. Transizione digitale e modi della tutela del quartiere QT8 di Milano. (con A. Canziani, C. Santacroce, G. Gramegna, C. Repetti). In: Balzani, M., Baratin e al. (a cura di) (2025). Un Dialogo Possibile: rappresentare e conservare il contemporaneo, edito da Maggioli, ISBN 8891679390. DOI

Educational Power of Images. Visual Narrativity and Iconicity in Scientific Dissemination. (con L. Bollini) In: IMG JOURNAL, vol. 631, LNNS, 2023. p. 657-666, ISSN: 2724-2463, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-25906-7_73

Fotografare il patrimonio costruito, tra espressività narrativa e oggettività documentale. In: E. Cicalò, V. Menchetelli, M. Valentino (a cura di): Linguaggi Grafici. Fotografia. pp. 758-781 Alghero: PUBLICA

Dipartimento di Architettura, Urbanistica e Design Università degli Studi di Sassari. ISBN 978 88 99586 31 7

Talking walls and figurative polyphony in Buenos Aires. In: Street Art. Drawing on the walls. DisegnareCon Vol 13, No 24. 2020). ISSN 1828 5961, pp. 1-11 art. n. 11.

Community Service

Head of internationalization for the AUIC School of Architecture (LS) and member of the CMI (Internationalization Committee) of the AUIC School. Member of the D ABC Teaching Committee (since 2022).

Academic advisor and promoter of the Double Degree agreement with the FAU (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism), Belgrano (Buenos Aires).

Academic promoter of mobility agreements (Erasmus and non-EU) with the UPV Universitat Politècnica de Valencia (Spain) and the Universidad de Granada (Spain), Universidad Cardenal Herrera – CEU (Spain), as well as mobility agreements (Erasmus and non-EU) with the Universidad de Belgrano-Buenos Aires, the Universidad de Chile, the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana de Colombia, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico.

Since May 2022, member of the board of the PhD D ABC. Since June 2023, member of the board of the National Doctorate in Heritage Science, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

Member of the ABC Departmental Scientific Committee (2017-2019) Since 2021, member of the jury of the Piranesi Prize – Prix de Rome and of the judging committee of the Confalonieri Foundation Prize for doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships.

Since 2017, member of the GPA - Grupo Patrimonio Arquitectónico, FAU-Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Belgrano (Buenos Aires), as head of the research project: "El patrimonio architectónico de Buenos Aires realizado en los siglos 19th and 20th por arquitectos, ingenieros y constructores italianos" (The architectural heritage of Buenos Aires realized in the 19th and 20th centuries by Italian architects, engineers and builders), in partnership with: CABA-Comunidad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and the Italian Cultural Institute in Buenos Aires.