Nicola Santopuoli, Architect and Associate Professor of Architectural Restoration at Alma Mater Studiorum – University of Bologna, teaches in the Graduate School of Archaeological Heritage and in the Master’s Degree of Archaeology and Cultures of the Ancient World.
He is member of the School Board of Doctorate in “Architecture and Construction”, Sapienza University of Rome.
Until 31 August 2021 he was in service at the Faculty of Architecture and the Department of "History, Design and Restoration of Architecture" of the Sapienza University of Rome, where he held the position of President of the Master Degree Course in "Architecture (Restoration) - Architecture (Conservation)" (Class: LM-4) and of the Faculty of Architecture. (Class: LM-4) and has been the Dean's delegate for Orientation and Tutoring in the Faculty of Architecture.
He developed and directed research on scientific and theoretical aspects of restoration, especially on survey, diagnostics, executive procedures and criteria for conservation work.
He developed and directed research on scientific and theoretical aspects of restoration, specially on survey, diagnostics, executive procedures and criteria for conservation work. He has been involved, in quality of expert in the restoration and training field, in programs of Italian mission for cooperation and development concerning the cultural heritage for Syria and Iran (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). Inside the Specialization School in Architectonical and Landscape Heritage he coordinates workshops.
He took lectures at the Specialization School in Restoration of Monuments at the Politecnico in Athens, at the Mosaic Restoration School in Ravenna (other seat of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure of Florence), at the Thermodynamics Institute at Technische Universität in Berlin, at the Specialization School in Archaeology at the Cattolica University of Milan and at the University of Pisa and the Department of Archaeology of the University of Damasco. He has been involved, in quality of expert in the restoration and training field, in programs of Italian mission for cooperation and development concerning the cultural heritage for Syria and Iran (Ministry of Foreign Affairs - D.G.C.S).
As building site supervisor or consultant he carried out numerous restoration works: Basilica della Natività in Bethlehem (2010-16); “Sala della volta dorata” of Domus Aurea in Rome (2008-09); altar of San Basilio and Church of Santa Maria in Aventino in Rome, by G. B. Piranesi (2013-15); Palazzo degli Ambasciatori in Coppedè district, Rome (2012-15); Church of San Antonio, Predappio, (2016-17) of C. Bazzani; il palazzo degli ambasciatori del quartiere Coppedè di Roma (2012-15); Anfiteatro Flavio in Rome (2001-04); bell tower of Duomo di Agrigento (2003); castle of Harim in Siria (1999-2000); Arco di Traiano in Benevento (2000-01); portici of San Luca in Bologna (1995-97); Church of S. Caterina in La Valletta, Malta (1998-99); Tempio Malatestiano in Rimini (1998).
He has been the mail projectors and the director of the restoration work of some facades in via dell’Abbondanza in the archaeological site of Pompeii (Regio IX, Insulae 7 e 11), (2004-07).
He projected and defined the conservative normative to write out a new planning for the historical architecture and the guide-lines for the interventions on historical surfaces and the normative actions for conservation of physical integrity the Municipality of Bologna (Colours in the city of Bologna – Plasters and paints of fronts in the historical centre), (1997-2001).
The research results are contained in more then 170 publications: articles, monographs and assays.
He founded and he is the Director of the series of publications about Architecture and Restoration named Quaderni di Architettura (Nardini Editore, Florence).
