Phd in HISTORY, REPRESENTATION AND RESTORATION OF ARCHITECTURE

email: donatella.fiorani@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649918846

Professor Donatella Fiorani began as an architect, specialist, and she gained a PhD in the conservation of architectural heritage. She worked as a researcher in conservation at the Faculty of Architecture of the Sapienza University of Rome, before becoming first an associate professor, and then a full professor, in the faculty of Engineering at the University of L’Aquila, where she taught architectural conservation. Since 2008 she has been a professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome, in the Department of History, Representation and Conservation of Architecture. From 2017 she coordinates the PhD course in History, Representation and Conservation of Architectural Heritage.
She is Director of the scientific magazine “Materiali e Strutture” and is a member of the scientific staff of other periodicals in the field of conservation ("Arkos", “Periodica Polytechnica” and “Quaderni dell’Istituto di Storia dell’Architettura”). Professor Fiorani has been President of the SIRA Association (Italian Society for Architectural Conservation), the scientific organization that connects academic researchers in the field of conservation, in the period 2013-2016. She has taught for the Institute for the Conservation and Restoration (ex ICR) of the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and for UNESCO.
She has been coordinator of a post-graduate course for architects, engineers and archaeologists at the Institute of Monuments in Albania, Tirana and scientific supervisor in a postgraduate conservation course in Moscow. She has given lectures at the universities of Valencia (Spain), Budapest (Hungary), and Podgorica (Montenegro). She has been visiting professor at the Ècole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL - Switzerland) in the year 2016-17.
Professor Fiorani has participated in and organised a number of national and international conferences, seminars and workshops, and has written more than 160 essays, most of which concern questions of method and restoration theory, the knowledge and conservation of traditional building techniques, and topics on the history of architecture. She coordinates university research and is a referee for the evaluation of scientific research.
She has been a member of several inter-ministerial working groups (Ministries MIUR, MIBACT and Public Works), working on didactic training of the restorers and the revision of the "Guidelines for seismic risk assessment and mitigation of cultural heritage" (Circular No 26. 2/12/2010).
She has developed studies to support conservation work in Rome and in central Italy, and has worked as an advisor for public and private agencies for monitoring intervention. She has been a member of committees for the award of tenders and contracts, and she provided expert advice to MiBAC and several Italian curiae.
Professor Fiorani has been responsible for the restoration of churches, monasteries and other buildings, and she works in monitoring, planning and scientific direction for the restoration of historical buildings in Italy and abroad.