Mauro Volpiano
Job Title: Architect, Associate Professor of Architectural History
Institutional affiliation: Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
Architectural and city historian, Ph.D., M. Volpiano teaches Comparative City History, Urban and Landscape Heritage at the Politecnico di Torino. He authored more than 150 publications on built heritage related to Piedmont and Italy. His research focuses on the architectural and urban history in the Savoyard States in the late modern and contemporary age and on the architectural profession and sociability. He is also interested in studies connected to historic landscapes and cities in the context of cultural heritage policies and planning. In recent years, he has been involved in research and didactic projects with the universities of Nagoya (invited research fellow 2016), Tokyo, Hosei-Tokyo, Hokkaido, KIT Kyoto, Grenoble, Aix-Marseille, TU Delft, MIT Boston (Awardee of a MISTI Grant and invited lecturer, 2017).
Publications
Volpiano, M. “Le città italiane e l’Ancsa: mezzo secolo di proposte, dibattiti e battaglie sui centri storici.” In Vivere la città, edited by F. Mancuso, N. Russi, S. Storchi, F. Topetti and M. Volpiano, 153-165. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2015. ISBN 9788871159027. www.ancsa.org/pubblicazioni
Volpiano, M. “L’associazionismo degli architetti e degli ingegneri in Italia.” Atti e Rassegna Tecnica – Società degli Ingegneri e Architetti in Torino, vol. LXVII, no. 1-2-3 (2013): 9, 106-114. ISSN: 0004-7287. LXVII, n. 1-2-3. Torino e la Società degli Ingegneri e degli Architetti dal 1866 – A&RT – Atti e Rassegna Tecnica (siat.torino.it)
Volpiano, M. Torino 1890. La Prima Esposizione Italiana di Architettura. Torino: Celid, 1999. ISBN: 9788876613944. https://polito.academia.edu/MauroVolpiano/Books