Full professor of Elements of architecture and urban planning at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna, qualified as full professor in Sector 08/E2: Restoration and History of Architecture (session 2012; duration 17 February 2014 - 17 February 2025). He carries out his research in the history of Renaissance and contemporary architecture. 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 a few years of contract teaching at the Milan Polytechnic (1996-2002, for teaching Theory and history of restoration), he obtained the role of professor of Elements of architecture and urban planning in 2001, teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin (2001-2003), at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice (2003 to 31 December 2022) and now, from 1 January 2023, at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna.
Teaching activity
He carried out teaching activities at the Politecnico di Milano, School of Architecture (1996-2002), as tenured professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin (2001-2003), from 2003 to 31 December 2022 he carried out this activity at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice; from 1995 to 31 December 2022 as a contract professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna; from 2019 to today as a contract professor at the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna-Ravenna Campus; from 2020 to today as a contract professor at the Faculty of Philosophy of the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan; from 1 January 2023 to today he is a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna. He is a member of the doctoral board of the National Interest Research Doctorate in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, New Media, New Technologies, Music and Cultural Heritage, XL cycle, a.y. 2024-25 / 2025-26 / 2026-27 of the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples and of the Research Doctorate of National Interest in Mediascape. Transcultural research and artistic productions and artistic practices and art history, XL cycle, a.y. 2024-25 / 2025-26 / 2026-27.
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; International study conference Niccolò V: allegories of a pontiff, curated by Rome in the Renaissance, Marco Besso Foundation, Camillo Caetani Foundation, Rome, 18-20 October 2022; Leon Battista Alberti study day: culture and architecture, Organized by the Virgiliana National Academy and the Milan Polytechnic - Mantua Campus, within the L.B. Alberti 550: the architect and the basilica, 1472 Sant'Andrea, 550th anniversary of the death of Leon Battista Alberti and the beginning of the construction of the Basilica of S. Andrea in Mantua, promoted by the Diocese of Mantua, the Municipality of Mantua, the Foundation L.B. Alberti, Virgiliana National Academy, Milan Polytechnic 1863 - Mantua Territorial Pole, Unesco chair, with the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture, Cariverona Foundation, with the support of the Mantovana Banca Agricola Foundation, in collaboration with the Mantua Order of Architects, 27 October 2022, Bibiena Theater; International study conference The thought and work of Leon Battista Alberti. International conference 550 years after his death, organized by the University of Trento-Department of Letters and Philosophy and TRAME, Textes, Répresentations, Archeologie, Autorité et Mémoires de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance, Scientific responsibility Fabrizio Meroi, 27-28 October 2022, Room 001, Palazzo Paolo Prodi, Trento; Symposium Eva Tea (1886-1971). Interpreter and Pedagogist of the arts, scientific director Alessandro Di Chiara, speeches by Alessandro Di Chiara et alii, held on 13 April 2023, in the Sala delle Adunanze, Palazzo di Brera; Symposium Carlo Angelino philosopher of scepsis, interventions by David Beronio et alii, promoted by the Ligurian Philosophical Association and the University of Genoa DAFIST, held on 17 April 2023 in the Aula Magna of the School of Humanities, Genoa, via Balbi 2, Genoa; Giuseppe Galassi (1890-1957) Study Day, curated by Luca Ciancabilla, Marijan Erste and Gian Luca Tusini, organized by the Department of Cultural Heritage (University of Bologna, Ravenna Campus), in collaboration with the Classense Library Institution of Ravenna, held on 16 February 2024 in the Sala Muratori of the Classense Library in Ravenna.
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.
Was a member of the scientific committee of the "Tessere del '900" cultural association in Ravenna (until 2023).
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.
