Renato Capozzi was born in Naples in 1971, where he graduated in Architecture in 1997 with a thesis on architectural design on the eastern area of Naples. He worked for many years with Salvatore Bisogni, whose internal pupil, assistant and then collaborator he was on various projects and research projects, including MURST 2000 ‘Function and figure of public architecture and services for the sustainable development of metropolitan areas: Florence, Milan, Naples, Mestre’. In 2004 he obtained a PhD in Architectural Composition from the IUAV in Venice, in 2005 he specialised in Urban Design at the University; of Naples ‘Federico II’. From 2006 to 2012 he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture in Naples, where he held the course in Theories of Contemporary Architectural Research in the 5UE degree course. From 2012 to 2015 he is University Researcher in Architectural and Urban Composition at the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples ‘Federico II’ and, as aggregate professor, he held the course of Theory of Contemporary Architectural Research and the Architectural Composition Workshop. From 2015 to 2023 he was an associate professor of Architectural and Urban Composition and held the Design Theory Course and the Architectural and Urban Composition Workshop 1 at the 5UE single-cycle CDS, the Final Synthesis Workshop in Architectural Design at the MAPA CDS, the Urban design studio for Heritage at the ARCHER CDS, and the Architectural Design Workshop 3 at the SCAR three-year degree course. Since 2016, he has been qualified as a university lecturer for SSD ICAR/14. He is currently full professor of Architectural and Urban Composition and holds the Laboratory of Architectural and Urban Composition 1 at the single-cycle CdS 5UE, the Laboratory of Implementation Processes for the Circularity of the Architectural Project in the CdS ACTA, the Urban design studio for Heritage in the CdS ARCHER. He has published numerous essays, monographs and articles on issues concerning the architectural project in its theoretical dimension, the recovery of the lesson of the masters, the relationship between architecture and reality, and the constitution of public buildings..His recent publications include: Le architetture ad Aula: il paradigma Mies van der Rohe (2011), L'idea di riparo (2011), Arne Jacobsen. La ricerca dell'astrazione (2012), L'architettura dell'Ipostilo (2016), L'esattezza di Jacobsen (2017), (con F. Visconti) Kahn e Mies. Tre modi dell'abitare (2019), Lo spazio universale di Mies (2020), Sull'ordine. Architettura come cosmogonia (2023). He has taken part in numerous design competitions including: National competition of ideas for the reconfiguration of Piazza Mercato in Naples, 1st prize ex aequo, National competition for the redesign of Piazza Carlo Maria Carafa in Grammichele; International competition for the port and waterfront of Portici (Naples), 1st International competition for the ‘Children's City’ in Frattamaggiore (Caserta) 3rd prize; PRU_Programma di Recupero Urbano per il rione Sant'Alfonso in Naples winner of the competition. He has realised a number of buildings such as: the Multipurpose Hall and the Open Court Hotel, both in Castelvolturno (Caserta) and a nursery school in Naples. He has realised and curated numerous exhibitions and conferences such as in 2012 the International Study Conference ‘Architecture and Realism’ co-sponsored by the University of Naples_Department of Urban Design and Urban Planning, the Polytechnic of Turin and the Polytechnic of Milan at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples. He has directed the research and activities sector of the Fondazione Internazionale per gli Studi Superiori di Architettura in Naples. He is a member of the editorial board of the online magazine FA_Magazine and of the scientific committee of the international magazine EdA_Esempi di Architettura and of the scientific committee of the international class A magazine AION. Together with Federica Visconti, he edits the thematic area ‘Architettura della Ragione: tra tradizione storia e città’; of the on-line journal EdA_Esempi di Architettura and is a member of the editorial board of the series TAC_Theoria, Architettura, Città for Clean types in Naples. He has been a member of the teaching board of the DoARC Doctorate in Architecture (Thematic Area 1 - The architectural project for the city, the landscape and the environment) of the Department of Architecture of the University of Naples ‘Federico II’. He is currently (from cycle XXXIII) a member of the teaching board of the DRACo Doctorate in Architecture and City Construction, which is part of the Doctorate School in Architectural Sciences at ‘La Sapienza’ University of Rome and of the PASAP Doctorate of National Interest in Mediterranean archaeological, historical, architectural and landscape heritage.