Matteo Agnoletto is an Associate professor in “Architectural
Composition” at the University of Bologna's Department of
Architecture. He is a member of the Doctoral school for
Architecture. He graduated in Venice, in Architecture, with honours
(supervisor: Professor Franco Purini) with a project on the
expansion of Modena's cemetery by Aldo Rossi and Gianni Braghieri.
He subsequently received a PhD in architectural and urban planning
at Milan's Polytechnic, with the thesis Il Pittoresco. Immagini
di città tra architettura e natura (The Picturesque.
Images of the city with architecture and nature - supervisor:
Professor Cino Zucchi). He worked professionally at the studios of
Renzo Piano and Jean Nouvel. He was chief editor of the magazine
“Parametro” from 2003 to 2008, editing the special issues of
ANY. Un'antologia e Sul
pittoresco (An anthology and On the
picturesque). From 2005 to 2008 he collaborated on the
“Architecture” section of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan,
where he was advisor for the Gold Medal in Italian
Architecture award and section curator for the exhibitions Good
N.E.W.S. (2006) and Casa per
tutti (2008).
He has participated as a speaker at conferences and has held
lectures in Rome, Turin, Ascoli Piceno, Perugia, Florence, Venice,
Mendrisio, Buenos Aires, Potsdam and Milan.
From 2005 to 2010, with Andrea Cavani and Andrea Zamboni, he
founded the ACZ studio of architecture, based in Modena, receiving
prizes and awards in national and international competitions, in
particular he was amongst the planners chosen for the final round
of the Competition “Novello” in Cesena to redevelop the railway
buffer zone (coordinator: Secchi-Viganò) and to plan the integrated
complex at Bologna's High Speed Station (coordinator: Boeri
studio).
He was awarded first prize in the competition for
ideas to redevelop the old town centre of Nonantola (project: "La
conservazione della memoria", or Preserving Memory) and of
area 3 of the town of Mirandola (project: "Il cielo di Mirandola",
or The Sky of Mirandola). He won the competitions to design
the temporary auditorium in San Felice sul Panaro and for
Mirandola's new music school, as part of the reconstruction
programme following the earthquake that hit the Region of
Emilia-Romagna. Since 2012 he has been coordinating the Workshop
“Ricerca Emilia”, a unit that is working in the places affected by
the quake. His many activities have included organising the photo
exhibition Giovanni Chiaramonte. Interno perduto which took
place at the University of Potsdam, at the Festival of Philosophy
in Modena, at the national headquarters of the FAI in Milan, at the
Faculty of Architecture in Cesena, at the Rocca di Vignola and at
the Hochschule in Munich. He also curated the exhibition
Architetture padane (2013) dedicated to the areas hit by the
earthquake and Mirabilia (2014) a project carried out with
photographer Giancarlo Pradelli on the places, architecture and
landscape of Finale Emilia. The Workshop “Ricerca Emilia” also
developed studies on the town of Cavezzo's rural heritage, with
planning of the San Biagio parish church area and redevelopment of
the village of Gavello.
He is coordinator of the “Staveco Project” for the recovery of
the former state owned land to be converted into a new university
complex for Alma Mater Studiorum.
