Architect

Giancarlo Pediconi was born in Rome in 1937 and graduated in architecture at La Sapienza University of Rome in 1965. He has been a member of the Board of the Architects Association of Rome and Province; a contract professor at the Faculty of Architecture at La Sapienza University of Rome for the degree course in Interior Architecture and Design, module of Interior Architecture Workshop, and a member of the Degree Committee and of the Bar exam for the professional qualification of the architects.

In 2001 he published, together with MP Maino, Il Palazzo dell’Acquedotto Pugliese, a critical-historical analysis of the architecture of this building in Bari, with a dossier of the interior design by Duilio Cambellotti; moreover, Pediconi realised an intervention of restoration of the ground and first floor of the building.

He has taken part in some important public works projects with the renowned firm Paniconi-Pediconi, of which has inherited the business and the professional experience. Currently he is working as an associate of the firm C. and GC. Pediconi, R. Magagnini Architetti Associati.

Throughout his life, he has especially worked on the planning of public buildings and for individual, collective, private and public residencies, for sport and tourism, for social services (hospitals, schools, churches). He has also undertaken commissions for important public and private authorities, such as the Ministry of Post, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Association for the Sports Facilities, the IACP (Istituto Case Popolari), the Municipality of Rome, the Roman Agency for the Jubilee and the Municipality of Lucca.

In addition to his work as an architect, Pediconi has always been passionate about photography, a passion cultivated since his youth and aided by the gift of an old Leica F from his father.
His predilection for the black and white and a period of training in the darkroom, with uncountable sleepless hours, have fueled this passion causing him to intensify this activity, but always remaining in the amateur sector.
The camera is seen by Pediconi as a means of freedom, gratification of curiosity, companion of travels, research, exploration, discovery and reinvention of reality. This is valid both for his profession as an architect and for his personal delight in capturing and freezing first on foil, and then on file, situations and different places with carefully studied pictures or well-reasoned snapshots.

In 1996 and 2007, Pediconi displayed some of his works in two solo exhibitions at the Galleria dell’Oca of Luisa Laureati Briganti. Another exhibition of his photographs was at Gravina Palace, Faculty of Architecture at University Federico II in Naples in 2010.

In 2013 he was invited by the Municipality of Orbetello to curate a personal exhibition at the seventeenth-century Polveriera Guzman: the theme of the exhibit was the area of the State of the Presìdi, with both b/w and, for the first time, colour photographs of the astonishing interiors of the abandoned factory SI.TO.CO. in Orbetello Scalo.
In August 2017 he took part to an exhibition together with the photographer Simon D’Exea and curated by Christine Ferry at Petrucci Palace in Gagliano del Capo (Lecce).