Professor of the first level of Elements of architecture and urban planning and of History of contemporary architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, qualified as a second-level university professor in the Sector 08 / E2: Restoration and History of Architecture (2012 round) duration 2014-2020). He carries out his research in the history of Renaissance architecture and contemporary age. In particular, his studies focus on the thought and work of Leon Battista Alberti.
Education
Graduated in Architecture at the Milan Polytechnic in 1986; PhD in Conservation of Architectural Heritage (IV Cycle) in 1993; winner of the competition for the award of a post-doctoral scholarship in Conservation of Architectural Heritage (1994-1996); winner of a research grant for "Conservation and recovery projects of historic Lombard centers", organized by the Politecnico di Milano (1999).
Academic career
After several years of contract teaching at the Politecnico di Milano (1996-2002, for the teaching of Theory and history of restoration), he took the role as professor of Elements of architecture and urban planning in 2001, teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin (2001-2003) and then at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (2003 to present).
Teaching activity
He did early teaching at the Milan Polytechnic (1996-2002) and at the Turin Academy of Fine Arts (2001-2003); from 2003 to today he has been carrying out this activity as a tenured teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice; from 1995 to today as a lecturer at the Ravenna Academy of Fine Arts; since 2020 as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University of Milan.
Scientific activity
He participated in international conferences (in particular on the figure of Leon Battista Alberti). Between these: International Conference Leon Battista Alberti, organized by the École Normale Supérieure de Fontenay / Saint-Cloud (Center de Recherche sur la Pensée Politique Italienne), Université de Paris-Sorbonne (UFR d'études latines, UFR d'italien et de roumain), Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (UPR 76), responsible F. Furlan, P. Laurens, S. Matton, 10-15 April 1995, Paris, Sorbonne, Institut de France, Institut culturel italien, Collège de France, International study conference Le Due Rome del Quattrocento. Melozzo, Antoniazzo e la cultura artistica del ’400 romano, Rome February 21-24, 1996, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Faculty of Letters and philosophy, Institute of Art History; National Conference Leon Battista Alberti oggi: storia, conservazione, progetto, Milan, Milan Polytechnic, Department of Architecture Design, May 19-20, 1999; Study Conference Corrado Ricci storico dell’arte tra esperienza e progetto, Ravenna, Sala D'Attorre, September 27-28, 2001; International Congress of Sciences and Arts: Philologie et politique à la Renaissance, first part: L.B. Alberti, edited by Maurice Brock, Francesco Furlan, Frank La Brasca, Centre d'Études Supérieurs de la Renaissance, Université François Rabelais, Tours, Center National de la Recherche Scientifique (CHPM-UPR 2337), Société internationale Leon Battista Alberti, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Université de Paris-Sorbonne (UFR d'Italien et Roumain & EA 1496 - Littérature et culture italienne), Paris & Tours, May 16-17-18, 2002; Conference La “difficile armonia”: Attualità di Leon Battista Alberti, edited by Luciano Patetta, Marco Dezzi Bardeschi and Alberto Giorgio Cassani, Milan, Milan Polytechnic, March 29-30, 2004; International Conference of Studies Leon Battista Alberti a Napoli: La corte aragonese e la lezione albertiana, Capri, Congress Center, May 21-22, 2004, under the high patronage of the President of the Republic, with the patronage of the Ministry of Education, University and Research Scientific, of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities, of the Campania Region and of the City of Capri, by the Benecon Center of Competence for Cultural Heritage Ecology Economics, of the Second University of Naples, Faculty of Architecture 'Luigi Vanvitelli', Department of History and Processes of the Humanized Environment, Study Center for Architecture and Visual Arts in Southern Europe; International Conference Le Legazioni di Romagna e i loro archivi fra Restaurazione e Risorgimento, per il 150° dell’Unità d’Italia, for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, Ravenna (Palazzo Comunale, Casa Matha, Department of Stories and Methods for the Conservation of Cultural Heritage), October 21-23, 2011, edited by Angelo Turchini; International Conference of Studies Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72) tra scienze e lettere, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, November 19-20, 2004, edited by the Ligurian Academy of Sciences and Letters; International Conference: Gli Este e l’Alberti: Tempo e misura, organized by the Institute of Renaissance Studies of Ferrara in collaboration with the Société Internationale Leon Battista Alberti, Paris, under the high patronage of the President of the Italian Republic under the patronage of the Committee National for the celebrations of the VI Centenary of the birth of LB Alberti, December 29-30, 2004, Ferrara, Palazzo dei Diamanti / Castello Estense; X International Conference of “Spagna Contemporanea”. La città ispanica contemporanea: Metamorfosi e modernizzazione di un paradigma urbano (dalle Indipendenze al secolo XXI), Modena, December 21, 2010, Aula Magna Faculty of Letters and Philosophy; National Conference Tomaso Buzzi, protagonista di un gusto italiano moderno, Venice, Island of San Giorgio (Giorgio Cini Foundation) February 21, 2014; National Conference Camillo Boito moderno, Milan (Academy of Brera, Milan Polythecnic-Bovisa), December 3-4, 2014; Study Day, Leon Battista Alberti. Da Vitruvio al Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini, City Museum, 11 December 2015; International Conference L’Alberti e la riscoperta di Luciano: il Momus, Palazzo Bonacossi, Ferrara, 13-14 May 2016, edited by the Institute of Renaissance Studies of Ferrara; International Conference The Ancients at the Malatesta Court. Echoes, models and fortune of the classical tradition in the Romagna of the fifteenth century, Rimini, 9-11 June 2016; International Conference Die Brücke zwischen Artefakt und Symbol, Internationales Zentrum Für Kultur-Und Technikforschung, University of Stuttgart, 17-18 November 2016, curated by Luca Farulli and Sabrina Maag; International Conference: Alberti Ludens. A Conference in Memory of Cecil Grayson, Monday 26 - Tuesday 27 June, Room 2, Taylor Institution, St Giles, Oxford; International conference Roma 1347-1527. Linee di un’evoluzione, in collaboration with "RR. Rome in the Renaissance », 13-15 November 2017, Rome; Symposium Leopoldo Cicognara. Filosofo dell’Arte 1767-2017, Venice, Academy of Fine Arts, 22-23 november 2017; International Conference Leon Battista Alberti, De pictura (red. Latina). Kunsttheorie-Rhetorik-Narrative / Teoria dell’arte-retorica-narrative [sic] / Art theory-Rhetoric-Narratives, Vienna, University of Vienna, 7-8 October 2021.
Membership of scientific and editorial committees
He is a member of the scientific committee of the magazine «Anfione e Zeto», a magazine of architecture and art, directed by Margherita Petranzan (Il Poligrafo).
He is a member of the scientific committee of the «Annuario dell'Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia», as well as editor of the same (Laterza).
He is a member of the Comité científico of the Colleción Poliědrica of the Ediciones Asimétricas publishing house in Madrid.
Other activities
Member of the Gramsci Circle of Ravenna from 1990 to 2002; he has organized conferences with Marco Biraghi, Alberto Boatto, Massimo Cacciari, Francesco Dal Co, Fabrizio Desideri, Marco Dezzi Bardeschi, Lucio Gambi, Gianni Scalia, Manfredo Tafuri, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán.
Member of the "Ravenna Capital" Foundation, from 2003 to 2013 and President for the three-year period 2007-2010; he has organized conferences with Marco Bertozzi, Guglielmo Bilancioni, Marco Biraghi, Massimo Cacciari, Franco Cardini, Paolo Fabbri, Eugenio Russo.
Member of Executive Committee (Editorial) of "Albertiana" (Fabrizio Serra Editore), official organ of the Société Internationale Leon Battista Alberti, with the sponsorship of the Italian Institute of Philosophical Studies, a magazine recognized by the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique.
Correspondent from the Veneto of the magazine '''ΑΝΑΓΚΗ". Quarterly of culture, history and conservation techniques for the project (Altralinea Editions).
Correspondent of «Artes Renascentes», international magazine (Fabrizio Serra Editore).
He was Editorial coordinator (with Marco Vitale) of the series "Le Città Letterarie" (Unicopli Editions).
Curator of the exhibitions: (with Guido Zucconi) Guido Cirilli. Architetto dell’Accademia, Magazzino del Sale 3, Dorsoduro 264, Venice, June 5-November 16, 2014; (with Claudia Giuliani and Donatino Domini) La biblioteca dell’architetto Camillo Morigia. I libri, le incisioni, i disegni all’origine del progetto architettonico del sepolcro dantesco, Ravenna, Classense Library, Aula Magna and Corridor Grande, September 13, 2015 - January 6, 2016; (with the collaboration of Angela Munari and Evelina Piera Zanon) of the exhibition: «Tanto sono sublimi e maestosi che nulla più». La didattica dell’architettura all’Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia ai tempi di Giacomo Quarenghi, Event included in the celebrations of the bicentenary of the death of Giacomo Quarenghi under the aegis of the Quarenghi Observatory of Bergamo, With the collaboration of: Gallerie of the Academy, Archival and Bibliographic Superintendency of Veneto and Trentino Alto Adige, Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, Magazzino del Sale n. 3, Dorsoduro 264 (Zattere) Venice, 15 December 2017 - 15 March 2018"Enrico Galassi. The outlaw artist 1907-1980", Ravenna, Palazzo Rasponi dalle Teste, 16 February - 22 March 2020, Cycle "Novecento revealed / 4.
