Phd in ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCE FOR ENERGY
AND INDUSTRY

email: gianluigi.lerza@uniroma1.it
phone: 06 44585796

Gianluigi Lerza, graduate in Architecture, is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Engineering “Sapienza” University at Rome, for the scientific sector of ICAR/18 – S.C.: 08/E2 (History of Architecture and Restauration). He is a member of “Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering” (D.I.C.E.A.), where he carries out his studies. In 2004 Lerza starts collaborating with the “Enciclopedia Italiana Treccani” suggesting new entries for the “Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani”, in particular architects and artists lived in the XVI and the XVII century. He teaches “History of Architecture and Aesthetics” in the 5 year Specialist Degree in EU Building and Architectural Engineering. From 2006 to 2008, Lerza was a member of the scientific board of Doctorate in “History of Architecture” at the “Department of Science, History of Architecture, Restauration and Graphic Representation” (D.S.S.A.R.R.) in “G. D’Annunzio” University in Chieti, Faculty of Architecture – Pescara. From 2016, he is a member and Coordinator of the scientific board of the multidisciplinary Doctorate in “Science and Technologies for complex Systems”, in the faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering of the university of Rome “Sapienza” (for the study concerning the interaction between structures and the physical environment, including its transformation – gardens, city landscape and territory – starting from cogent historical studies on the evolution of architecture and society, study of the mechanics of materials, non-traditional structures starting from the historical development of behavioral models and from the structural interpretation of historical artifacts and monuments). From the same year Lerza is a member of the permanent Commission for Sacred Art of the diocese of Teramo-Atri. He is the Scientific Director of the “Centro Studi per la Storia delle Arti, Tradizioni e Territorio. Viggiù – Varese e l’Insubria” (Study center for the History of Arts, Traditions and Territory. Viggiù – Varese and Insubria) from 2012 and also a member of the “Centro Studi per la Storia dell’architettura” (Study center for the History of Architecture) in Rome, from 1982. In 2015 partecipates in the activites of the Laboratory of studies and design experiments LAC (Laboratory Living the city) of which CEDRAP (Documentation Centre and Public Art Research) is part. Gianluigi Lerza’s studies show a prevalent interest in the architecture of XVI and XVII century. More recently, Lerza extended his interests to the issues regarding contemporary architecture, with his critical contributions on key figures, as well as single works of architecture in Rome and Insubria during XIX and XX century. His work has provided a significant contribute to the criticism of architecture in the 500s and in the contemporary age. The results of his studies have been presented by means of publications and presentations in national and international conferences.