Fabrizio Antonelli

LAMA Director | Università Iuav di Venezia

Fabrizio Antonelli is Associate Professor of Georesources and minero-petrographic applications for the environment and cultural heritage (GEO/09) at Iuav University of Venice (Italy) where he teaches “Applied Petrography” and “Mineral geo-resources and minero-petrographic applications for cultural heritage” at M.Sc. and B.Sc. levels, respectively. Since 2015 he has been the Scientific Head of the LAMA - Laboratory for the Analysis of Ancient Materials and the Laboratory for the Conservation of Building Materials (LabCoMaC) of the IUAV University of Venice. Prof. Antonelli is an internationally recognized expert in archaeometric studies of ancient marbles and stones. His main research interests include also ceramics, mortars, and glass as well as the application of mineralogy and petrography sciences to the restoration and conservation of building and ornamental materials of the cultural heritage. Prof. Antonelli has been the PI and key-person of many peer-reviewed national and European research projects. He organized several conferences and sessions at international and national congresses on archaeometry and geosciences for cultural heritage. He has published more than 100 papers in national and international ISI journals.

Aldo Aymonino
Department of Architecture and Arts Director, Università Iuav di Venezia

Graduated in Architectural Design in Rome (1980). Register of Professional Architects of Rome since December 1981. Since 1999 is a member of the Seste Engineering, based in Rome, which operate in the field of architecture, landscape and urban design. His research and teaching projects have appeared in some Italian and foreign magazines and he has lectured on his work in Italian and foreign universities. In 1991 he was invited by the Venice Biennale to exhibit his work in the Italian Pavilion in the ""Fifth International Exhibition of Architecture”. In 1995 he was invited by the Triennale di Milano to the exhibition "The center elsewhere”. In 1996 was invited by the RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) in London to the exhibition ""Architecture on the Horizon”. In 2002 and 2006 he was invited again by the Biennale di Venezia. Since 1992 he has been Visiting Scholar at the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo-Ontario (Canada), the School of Architecture at the University of Toronto (Canada), and Visiting professor at the School of Architecture at Cornell (USA) Rome Programme, the Illinois Institute of Technology of Chicago, the Universidade Moderna in Lisbon and the TU Delft (Holland). In 1999 he was one of the founders of the International Seminar Design “Villard”. From 2000 onward he is Full Professor of Architeture Design at the Department of Architecture and Arts at the Università Iuav di Venezia where he teach ""Architectural and Urban Design"", and his a member of the scientific committee of the International European PhD program “Villard de Honnecourt”. He is the founder, in 2009, of the International Program “Laboratori Metropolitani/Metropolitan Laboratories”. Currently he is the Head of Department of Architecture and Arts and a design consultant for the realization of a moving barrier system for the protection of the Venice lagoon (Project MOSE).

Peregrine Bryant

Director Studio Peregrine Bryant, London

Peregrine studied architecture at Cambridge University under Sir Leslie Martin. On leaving Cambridge in 1969, he worked for the GLC Housing Division. He soon joined the practice of Benson & Benson, founded in the 1950’s by Jeremy Benson and his wife Patricia, specialising in historic building work. In 1980 he became a partner in this practice, thereafter known as Benson & Bryant. Upon Jeremy Benson’s retirement in October1994 he established Peregrine Bryant Architecture and Building Conservation which now operates from offices in the courtyard at Fulham Palace in London.

The practice specialises in the conservative repair and adaptation of historic buildings across the UK.

In 2017 the practice employed a talented young Italian architect Gloria Trevisan who had studied at IUAV. Very sadly soon after she started in the studio she and her architect fiancé Marco Gottardi perished in the Grenfell Tower fire in London. Since that awful night we have established a charity, the Gloria e Marco Charity, to bring a graduate from IUAV each year to the UK to experience the UK approach to conservation.

As a Vice-Chairman of the Georgian Group he chairs its Casework Committee which reviews applications made for changes to buildings from the Georgian era.

In 2009, at the suggestion of a colleague, he first visited Jamaica having been asked to look at the repair of an 18th century building in Falmouth, a historic port on the north coast. He has since returned every year and built up a network of colleagues and friends across the island to work for the conservation of its surviving historic fabric. He has helped to organise three 3-day courses on the repair and conservation of historic buildings.

This link with Jamaica has led first to increasing interest in the historic buildings of the other islands of the Caribbean, through the Caribbean Heritage Network, and now to the wider Commonwealth. With his colleagues he is helping to develop the Commonwealth Heritage at Risk programme.

Massimo Carmassi

Architect, former professor at Università Iuav di Venezia

Massimo Carmassi received his degree in Florence in 1970. In 1974, he founded the Project Office of the City of Pisa, which he directed until 1990. In the following years, he opened a new professional practice in Florence with his wife Gabriella Ioli, where his son Lorenzo joined him in 2003. He has dedicated himself to the study of the historical heritage of Pisa with a major campaign and developed a methodological approach for architectural restoration, publishing “Il Manuale del Restauro” with Mancosu in 2004, as well as monographs on several restorations including Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa (1976-80), Teatro Verde in Pisa (1986-89), the Senigallia Public Library, Ancona (1995-99), the reconstruction of San Michele in Borgo in Pisa (1985-2000), the restoration of the “Pelanda” at the former Abattoir in Testaccio, Rome (2006-2010), and the restoration of the former military bakery in the Santa Marta Barracks for the University of Verona (2002-2015). He has taught architecture and urban planning at Syracuse University in New York, the l'Università della Svizzera Italiana in Mendrisio and the Hochschule der Kunst in Berlin. From 2000 to 2013, he was a professor at Iuav University in Venice. In 2015, he was awarded the 2015 Gold Medal at the Triennale di Milano for the restoration of the former military bakery in the Santa Marta Barracks for the University of Verona. Among his other awards are the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal in 1993 and the Philippe Rotthier European Architecture Prize for the restoration of the abattoir in Rome in 2011. Since 1990, he has been a member of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in Florence and since 2004, a member of the Accademia Nazionale of San Luca. He has been an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) since 2005, and a member of the International Bauakademie Ev in Berlin since 2006. His work has been published in monographs and in numerous Italian and foreign publications, in France, Spain, the UK, the United States, China, Korea, Japan, among others.

Marco Chiuso

Architect

After receiving a degree in Architecture, Marco Chuiso pursued a Research Doctorate in the History of Architecture and Urban Studies at Iuav University in Venice. Until 2018, he was a teaching assistant in the Restoration labs and in courses on the Theory of Restoration, and served as a tutor in the Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici under Professor Mario Piana. From 2009 to 2014, he collaborated with Professor Massimo Carmassi, both academically and professionally, and contributed to the editing of publications on restoration interventions. Since 2018, he has been an Official Architect for the Ministry of Culture with the Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio in Lucca and Massa Carrara, where his principal task is the preservation of monuments and landscapes for the City of Lucca and other minor centres. He is currently responsible for architectural planning and oversight for the restoration of the Palazzo Ducale in Lucca, with lead architects Bartolomeo Ammannati and Filippo Juvarra, and a portion of the Medieval Walls of Montecarlo with Porta Fiorentina.

Maria Gabriella De Monte

Restorer, Società S.E.I. 1983

Maria Gabriella De Monte has been a conservator for 44 years. She graduated from the Istituto Centrale di Restauro in the painting department in 1980. She specialized at the ICR in “Conservation of Stone Materials” in 1981. In 1983, she founded the company S.E.I. 1983 Conservazione e Restauro Opere d’Arte. She graduated in Art History from the Università degli Studi La Sapienza in Rome in 1984 and did a specialization at the Università degli Studi in Urbino in 1987. In 2003, she obtained a Maîtrise de Sciences et Techniques – Spécialité Conservation-Restauration des Biens Culturels at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 2004, she received the Minerva Prize for “Cultural Research”. In 2007, she was named a “Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres” by the Ministry of Culture and Communication in Paris. In 2017, she was named “Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres” at the prefecture of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. She is a licensed professional in the restoration of Cultural Heritage in the areas of: stone, mosaic and related materials; decorative surfaces in architecture; paintings on wood and textiles; sculpture, furniture and structures in wood; decorated, assembled and/or painted artefacts in synthetic materials; textiles, organic materials and leather. She has worked for Italian and foreign clients including, among others: State Authorities, Cities, the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro, the Chamber of Deputies, the Senate of the Republic, the Vatican and Embassies. Major work she has undertaken includes: the exterior travertine and stucco surfaces of the porticoes of Palazzo Barberini in Rome, sculptural groups in stucco in the Galerie d’Apollon in the Louvre, decorative surfaces in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles, the Antonini Column in Rome, the façade facing the garden and the façade of the library of the Villa Medici, the Tempio Rotondo at the Boario Forum in Rome, Giotto’s wall paintings at the Basilica Superiore in Assisi, Giotto’s wall painitngs in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padova, the façades of the Palazzo Farnese in Rome, paintings on wood and on canvas in the Pinacoteca di Brera in Milan, the nave of the church of San Luigi dei Francesi, sculptural groups in marble and travertine and hemicycles in the Piazza del Popolo in Rome, the frescoes and wooden ceiling in the Sala Marcone and the Sala della Costituzione in the Senate of the Republic of Italy, the external and internal surfaces of the church of San Nicola dei Lorenesi in Rome, and the wall paintings of the burial chamber in the Pyramid of Caius Cestius in Rome. She participates in seminars in Italy and France, works on project planning and oversight (Villa San Remigio in Verbania, the Egyptian Museum in Turin, Teatro Principe di Carignano in Turin, Casa delle Nozze d’Argento in Pompeii) and has taught at Università degli Studi in Urbino “Carlo Bo”, Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre and Istituto Centrale per il Restauro.

Luigi Ficacci
Former Director Istituto Centrale per il Restauro

Luigi Ficacci is an art historian and was a student of Giulio Carlo Argan. His research interests include themes related to art of the 17th and 18th centuries and the contemporary period. Since 1980, he has been active in the preservation of Italy’s historical artistic heritage, working within the Ministry of Cultural Heritage, first as an inspector with the Soprintendenza of Modena and Reggio Emilia, then with the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica in Rome. He was the first Superintendent of the Soprintendenza of Lucca and Massa Carrara, which he founded in 2005, and the most recent Superintendent for the Soprintendenza per i Beni Artistici e Storici of Bologna, from 2008 until its dissolution in 2015. Since March 2015, he has returned to lead the Soprintendenza of Lucca and Massa Carrara, with a project to develop it based on his decade-long study in Tourism Sciences. After having taught various art historical subjects at the University of Cassino from 1992 to 1995, and at the University of Viterbo from 1996 to 2006, he taught Cultural Management at the Lucca campus of the University of Pisa from 2006 to 2018. For the past two years he has collaborated with the School of Specialization in Art History at La Sapienza University in Rome, teaching History of Design and Graphics. Since 2018, he has been Director of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro.

Laura Fregolent

Director of Research – Università Iuav di Venezia

Laura Fregolent is an architect with a PhD in Sciences and Methods for Cities and the Territory of Europe and Professor of Section 1 s.s.d Icar 20 – Urban Planning and Techniques. She has conducted research and collaborated in the field of Urban Studies with particular emphasis on processes of urban transformation and urban sprawl and the social dynamics associated with them. She has participated in conferences and seminars on these topics nationally and internationally and has published books and essays. Her publications include: with L. Vettoretto (2017) Genesis of a Fluid Metropolitan Space: Urban Metamorphoses in Venice and Veneto, in A. Balducci, V. Fedeli, F. Curci (eds.), Post-Metropolitan Territories, Routledge; with R. Ewing, S. Hamidi, G. Tian, D. Proffitt, S.Tonin (2017), Testing Newman and Kenworthy’s Theory of Density and Automobile Dependence, Journal of Planning Education and Research; with A. Valenzuela Aguilera (editor) (2017), Casa e crisi: dinamiche finanziarie, concentrazione di capitali e mercato immobiliare, Archivio di studi urbani e regionali (all. 118/2017); with S. Tonin (editor) (2015), Growing Compact, FrancoAngeli; Conflitti e territorio (editor) (2014), FrancoAngeli; Governare la dispersione (2005), FrancoAngeli. She is a member of the Doctoral committee for Territorial Planning and Public Policy at Iuav University in Venice. She is Co-Director of the magazine Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali (listed on Scopus) published by FrancoAngeli.

Claudio Gulli

Curator, Valsecchi collection at Palazzo Butera, Palermo

Dr Claudio Gulli was born in Palermo in 1987. He read History of Art at the Università degli Studi di Siena and gained his Ph.D. at the prestigious Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, with a thesis on the late-nineteenth century Chiaramonte Bordonaro collection (soon to be published by Officina Libraria). Between 2009 and 2011, he worked in the Paintings Department of the Louvre Museum in Paris, where his contributions to the research on Leonardo da Vinci focused on the literary popularity of the master's Saint John the Baptist (published Skira, 2009) and Saint Anne (published Officina Libraria, 2011). Since 2016 he has been curator at Palazzo Butera in Palermo, where Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi are building a new centre for the arts and culture, with their collection - currently partly on loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford - as the starting point.

Renato Leotta

Artist, vincitore Maxxi Bvlgari Prize 2020

Renato Leotta was born in Turin in 1982. He lives and works between Acireale and Turin. His research investigates natural processes and how they interact with human cultural, social and political life. He is the co-founder of the Cripta747 Art Centre in Turin and the Sicilian Institute for Art and Landscape. In 2021 he will present a solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art at Castello di Rivoli and will participate in the MAXXI prize at MAXXI in Rome. His solo exhibitions include: Magazzino Italian Art Foundation and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, New York in 2019; Eine Sandsammlung at the Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen in 2018; Aventura at Madragoa Gallery, Lisbon in 2016, and Piccola Patria with Galleria Fonti in Naples in 2015. His group exhibitions include: Garden of Earthly Delights at Gropius Bau Berlin, 2019; Manifesta 12, Palermo and Matriz do Tempo Real at Museu de Arte de São Paulo, 2018; Intuition at Palazzo Fortuny, Venice, and Pompei@Madre, Materia Archeologica, Museo Madre, Naples, 2017; the XVI Quadriennale nazionale d’arte di Roma, at Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome and TERRAE NUBILUS, NAK, Aquisgrana, 2016.

Alessandra Marino

Director, Istituto Centrale per il Restauro

Alessandra Marino was born on December 25, 1956. In 1982, she received her degree in Architecture from Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”. In December 1983, she qualified in first place in the competition for admission to the Research Doctorate in Conservation of Architectural Heritage at the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” with “La storia dell’architettura, ricerca pura e applicata ai programmi di conservazione”. In 1984, she was awarded a teaching position for Art History in secondary schools, and joined the Ministry of Public Education within the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activity, in the role of architectural director. She later became coordinating architectural director. Within the Ministry of Heritage and Cultural Activity, she was director of the Soprintendenza for Architectural Heritage and Landscape for the province of Bologna, Modena and Reggio Emilia and subsequently director of the Soprintendenza for Architectural Heritage, Landscape and Ethno-anthropology for the province of Florence, Pistoia and Prato. In the scholastic years 91-92, 92-93, 93-94, she worked with the C.N.R - Istituto per le Tecnologie Applicate ai Beni Culturali, and with the Consorzio Civita (a mixed public-private group) and on behalf of the C.N.R., affiliated with the Consorzio, she directed and coordinated activities related to their fine statuary, with particular emphasis on the development of research in the area of Cultural and Environmental Heritage, forms of activation and communication and the use of applied technology within the fields of culture and the environment. In 1994, she was architectural director for the Soprintendenza for Environmental and Architectural Heritage in Florence, Pistoia and Prato, where she worked on preservation and surveillance as a qualified architect for the following neighbourhoods of Florence: Oltrarno, Santa Maria Novella, Quariere 3 (Galluzzo) and for the communities of Sesto Fiorentino and Signa. In 2002, she worked with the Regional Soprintendenza for Cultural Heritage and Activity for the Region of Tuscany, now the Regional Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Landscape of Tuscany, where she was responsible for the Architectural Heritage and Landscape Unit for the province of Florence, Pistoia, Prato, Pisa, Lucca, Massa Carrara and Livorno. Following this, she was coordinating architectural director within the Directorate for Cultural Heritage and Landscape in Tuscany, responsible for the Architectural and Landscape Unit for the provinces of Pisa and Livorno.

Angela Mengoni

Università Iuav di Venezia

Angela Mengoni is teacher at Iuav University of Venice. After a PhD in Semiotics (University of Siena, Italy) she was a post-doc Fellow at the Centre for Philosophy of Culture at the University of Leuven KUL, then post-doc researcher (assegnista di ricerca) at the University of Siena. From 2009 to 2012 she worked as full-time researcher at eikones, the Swiss NCR research program on “Iconic Criticism: The Power and Meaning of Images” at the University of Basel. Since 2010 she takes part in the research group “ACTH – Art contemporain et temps de l’histoire / Contemporary art and historical temporalities” (EHESS, Paris – Ecole de Beaux-Arts de Lyon). Her research interests concern the relationship between image and memory with special reference to the European art of the post-war period, the representation of the body in late modernity and its relationship with a biopolitics of the bodies (Ferite. Il corpo e la carne nell’arte della tarda modernità, Siena 2012), the visual strategies of montage in contemporary art, the plural temporality of the image (Anacronie, Carte Semiotiche 2013) and, more widely, visual semiotics and image theory. Among her recent publications: Interpositions. Montage d’images et production de sens (with A. Beyer and A. von Schöning, Paris 2014) and the first monography on the Flemish artist Berlinde de Bruyckere (Bruxelles/New Haven/Berlin 2014).

Laura Morgante

Architect, Studio Peregrine Bryant

Laura studied architecture at La Sapienza University and Conservation at The Conservation of Monuments School in Rome. She is registered as an architect in Great Britain (RIBA and ARB) and Italy and is a registered Conservation Architect on the RIBA register. She practiced in Italy from 1996 to 2000 and worked on a number of listed buildings, among them several buildings damaged by the 1998 earthquake in Umbria and Marche. In 2000 she joined a group of architects, lead by Prof. Giovanni Carbonara on a conservation project of the Mediaeval Cloister of Ss. Quattro Coronati Monastery in Rome listed within the 100 Most Endangered Sites by the World Monuments Watch. Lauras interests lie in the analysis of the history of buildings and their degree of conservation, which are key instruments in the preservation of historic and artistic integrity of monuments.

Simona Sajeva

Engineer, INP (Institut National du Patrimoine)

Simona Sajeva is a civil engineer specialized in the conservation and restoration of historical buildings. In 2002, she began her own professional activity focusing on a less-commonly addressed subject: the role of structural supports in the conservation of mural painting. In 2014, she published “Pitture murali i degradi di origine meccanica. Manuale per restauratori ed ingegneri” (Dei, Rome), the first monograph on the topic. Within her own Conservation practice, INTERFACES/Ingegneria, she has developed methodologies that are also applicable to different types of decoration and from earlier periods (B.C), establishing technical-cultural coordination between engineering and conservation-restoration, with projects both within and outside the EU. She was a consultant for the MNAC in Barcelona in the restoration project of mural paintings preserved in Room 16. Since 2005, she has taught in specialized educational programs at institutions such as the Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris, and, most recently, the Académie des Arts Traditionnels-Fondation de la Mosquée Hassan II in Casablanca. She has been a member of the European working group CEN/TC 346 for the development of guidelines for “Investigation of architectural finishes. Procedure, methodology and documentation of results” since 2016, and a member of the Comitato Scientifico Nazionale Pitture Murali of ICOMOS Italy since 2020.

Giorgio Sobrà

Director SAF - ICR Matera (Scuola di Alta Formazione e studio)

Giorgio Sobrà (born in Moncalieri, TO, January 29, 1980) is an architect with the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro (ICR). He graduated with a degree from the Politecnico Univeristy in Turin with a thesis on the restoration of archaeological structures (2003), and received a Research Doctorate in Architectural History from the same university (2007), continuing his academic career with a post-doctoral fellowship (2008-2011) and participating in research projects on the study and conservation of archaeological heritage. In 2012, he joined the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activity and Tourism, working for the first three years as an employee of the Regional Directorate of Piedmont. Since 2015, he has worked with the ICR, where he is Director of the “Scuola di Alta Formazione e Studio” in Matera and Vice-Director in Rome and teaches the History of Ancient Architecture (ICAR/18) and Architectural Restoration (ICAR/19). At Università della Basilicata, he teaches Architectural History and Theory and History of Restoration (L-ART/04). He is the author and co-author of more than thirty scientific publications, and has participated in numerous archaeological campaigns and other cultural heritage conservation projects in Europe (Italy, France, Greece, Poland), the Middle East (Turkey, Jordan) and Central Asia (Afghanistan and Nepal).

Emanuela Sorbo

Associate Professor, Università Iuav di Venezia

Emanuela Sorbo is Associate Professor of Architectonic Restoration, she is a member of the executive committee of the Architecture, Construction and Conservation Department, (DACC,) for the three-year period 2015-2018. She is a member of the Board of Directors and officer in charge of the communication group of the Italian society for architectural restoration(SIRA), for the three-year period, 2017-2020. She has worked as architect functionary of the Architectural and Landscapes Heritage Superintendency(Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici) of the provinces of Verona, Vicenza and Rovigo. Prof. Sorbo graduated in Architecture in 2003. In 2004, she obtained a specialisation grant to study at the Fachhochschule in Munich (Image and Construction: post-war reconstruction in Germany and Italy). Since 2005, Prof. Sorbo has held a doctorate studies scholarship in History of architecture and of the city, Sciences of the arts and Restoration (SSAV, Università Iuav di Venezia, Università Cà Foscari Venezia). She also conducts her research at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), the Warburg Institute (London) and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (Munich). In 2008, Prof. Sorbo received the qualification of Doctor od Philosphy (PhD) with a dissertation on Matter and Memories. Restoration at Herculaneum. In 2012 she was appointed as Assistant Professor. Since 2017 she has been an Associate Professor. Her research activities regard the forms and techniques of restoration of ruins, with particular attention paid to the themes of post-war reconstruction (M. A. Crippa, E. Sorbo, Liliana Grassi e il recupero creativo della memoriastorica, Bonsignori 2004), of restoration in the Vesuvian archaeological area (C. G. Malacrino, E. Sorbo, Architetti, Architettura e città del mediterraneoAntico, Bruno Mondadori 2007; E. Sorbo, Tra Materia e Memoria. Ercolano1711-1961, Maggioli Editore 2014) and of conservation of abandoned locations (E. Sorbo, La memoria dell'Oblio. Ex Ospedale Psichiatrico di Rovigo, Marsilio 2017).

Fernando Vegas & Camilla Mileto

Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura,
Universitat Politècnica de València

Camilla Mileto and Fernando Vegas are architects and professors at the Universitat Politècnica of València (Spain). They have been guest lecturers in the universities of Venice and Palermo (Italy), Cordoba (Argentina) and the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) and have given lectures in many other universities and events. They have received several international awards for their research, new projects and built work on architectural conservation. Among other monuments, they have developed conservation projects for the Alhambra of Granada and for the Finca Güell of Barcelona by Gaudí. They are editors of the journal Loggia (https://polipapers.upv.es/index.php/loggia) and have extensively published on architectural heritage, vernacular architecture and design. They are coordinators of the UNESCO Unitwin Chair for Earthen Architecture, Constructive Cultures and Sustainable Development in Spain: https://resarquitectura.blogs.upv.es/

Alessandro Viscogliosi

Università La Sapienza, Roma

Alessandro Viscogliosi is full professor of Ancient and Medieval History of Architecture at the Department of History, Design and Restoration of Architecture (DSDRA) of Sapienza University of Rome, where he holds the courses of "Ancient and Medieval History of Architecture" and "Tools and methods for historical studies ". He is Director of the School of Specialization in Architectural Heritage and Landscape of Sapienza University of Rome, where since 2011 he has taught "History of Architectural Techniques". He teaches "History of Ancient Architecture" at the Italian Archaeological School of Athens. From 1993 to 2014 he was Cultural Manager for the Lazio Region of the FAI - Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano, and is Scientific Advisor to the Committee for the restoration of Villa Gregoriana in Tivoli. Since 1987 he has taken care of hundreds of educational initiatives for the same institution, regulated by a special agreement with the DSDRA Department of Sapienza - University of Rome. In the years 1995-1996 he was consultant of the Superintendence of Cultural Heritage of the Municipality of Rome for the historical-architectural study of the Forum of Nerva, a sector of which he is taking care of the scientific publication, and for the museumization of the Ara Pacis and the Mausoleum of Augustus (2008-2012). He designed and set up the exhibition "Ulysses. The myth and memory" (Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, February - September 1996), then: Aurea Roma. From pagan Rome to Christian Rome "", Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, December 2000 - April 2001. He was a member of the scientific committee of the exhibition La Roma di Leon Battista Alberti, Rome, Musei Capitolini, 24 June - 16 October 2005, of the exhibition Nerone, Rome, Colosseum-Curia Iulia etc., 12 April - 18 September 2011, and of the exhibition: Raphael, Rome, Scuderie del Quirinale, 5 March - 2 June 2020. Scientific director of the exhibition The Order and the Light, Mantua, Fruttiere di Palazzo Te, 14 December 2013 - 4 May 2014. He conceived and oversaw the construction of the model of Amatrice 1908, donated to the Municipality of Amatrice by the Dino and Ernesta Santarelli non-profit foundation. As a historian of ancient architecture, he participated in the competition for the restoration of the Temple of Augustus and the Cathedral of Pozzuoli, as part of a group that reached the final selection (2003-2004) as well as the competition for the restoration of Piazza Augusto Imperatore and the Mausoleum of Augustus, as part of a group that stood out for its historical and architectural analysis of the monument (2006-2007). From 2008 to 2015 he directed the working group of the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University of Rome at the Italian Archaeological Mission of Iasos (Turkey) for the study of the architectural monuments of Iasos di Caria. Since 2014 he has been directing the DSDRA working group of the Faculty of Architecture of Sapienza University of Rome, which studies urban planning and architectural monuments of the medieval city of Ninfa (LT) and Amatrice (RI). In 2016 he was awarded the "Grotta di Tiberio" Prize for his studies in the History of Ancient Architecture. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the "Romula" magazine of the Pablo de Olavide University, Sevilla; of the Steering Committee of the magazine "Quaderni of the Institute of the History of Architecture", published by the DSDRA of Sapienza - University of Rome; of the Scientific Committee of the magazine "Storia dell urbanistica"; of the Scientific Committee of the magazine ""Bulletin of the Municipal Archaeological Commission of Rome". He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Roffredo Caetani Foundation (Sermoneta Castle and Garden of Ninfa).