Phd in HISTORY, REPRESENTATION AND RESTORATION OF ARCHITECTURE

email: maurizio.caperna@uniroma1.it
phone: +39 06 49918807

Associate Professor of Architectural Restoration since 2005 at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Faculty of Architecture, where he graduated in Architecture in 1986 and gained his Ph.D. in Conservation of Architectural Heritage in 1994; in the same year he joined in as Assistant professor of Restoration.
He belongs to the Department of History of Architecture, Design and Restoration, within which he is member of the “Teachers in the Ph.D. in Conservation of Architectural Heritage” and – since 1997 to 2010 - responsible for coordinating the drafting of publications on the doctoral thesis in History of Architecture and Restoration.
He also teaches History of the restoration in the School of Specialization in Architectural Heritage and Landscape.
Member of the Centro Nazionale di Studi per la Storia dell'Architettura (Rome), he has worked with various magazines in the field of architectural history and restoration, including “Quaderni dell’Istituto di storia dell’architettura”, “Palladio”, “Materiali e strutture”.
He has worked with the Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana “Giovanni Treccani”, cooperating to the drafting of the Proceedings of the international study conference “Architettura: processualità e trasformazione”, (Roma, Castel Sant’Angelo, 24-27 novembre 1999), Roma, Bonsignori editore, 2002, pp. 600.
He also participated in numerous national and international conferences concerning architectural history and restoration, and has authored over 60 publications, including monographs, essays, articles, encyclopedia articles, reviews.
He deals mainly with the architecture of the late Sixteenth and the Nineteenth century in Rome. At the same time, he pays specific attention to studies of urban character, centered on Rome, dealing with investigations of monumental spaces and building fabrics.
More specifically, within the span of two decades, he dedicated himself to the city of Rome at the time of Sixtus V (1585-1590), to the nineteenth-century districts, such as Sallustiano and Macao, the Piazza del Quirinale, the areas of Corso del Rinascimento, of Borgo and of the Vatican, the district of Monteverde and the area of via della Lungara, about which recentily he has published a monograph.
As regards the study of the monuments, mainly addressed through the reconstruction process of architectural transformation, he primarily investigated the St. Prassede’s basilica, the Palazzo Altieri, the Palazzo Lancellotti, the Scuderie papali al Quirinale, the St. Peter’s basilica in the Vatican. In the city of Nettuno, he recently studied the history of the fortress by Antonio da Sangallo il Vecchio.
In recent years, he devoted his attention to the restoration of churches in Rome during the pontificate of Pius IX and the relationship between the restoration and Christian Archaeology in Rome during the Nineteenth century.