Phd in ENGINEERING-BASED ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

email: ruggero.lenci@uniroma1.it
phone: 0644585170
building: Facoltà di Ingegneria Civile e Industriale, via Eudossiana 18, Roma
room: 1A

1978
Degree in Architecture with highest honors and publication, Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome "La Sapienza".
The thesis wins the first prize of the C.O.N.I. Design Competition

1979
Registered Architect in Italy.

1980
"Master of Architecture" with "Highest Honor" at the Faculty of Architecture of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.

1980-82
Works in the U.S. in the Offices of FABRAP and Finch-Heery (Atlanta); Di Stefano and Lockwood-Greene (Houston).

1982
Registered Architect in the U.S. in the State of Georgia.

1982
Member of the "American Institute of Architects".

1984
Patent in Italy with Ing. Massimo Ciccarello Parking Sensors.

since 1986
Organizes and promotes architecture events, conferences and exhibitions (Rome, Berlin, Ravenna, Milan, Arles, Agrigento, ...).

since 1989
Coordinates CNR Research.

since 1989
Teaches as a volunteer in Architectural Design.

since 1990
Ph.D. in Architectural Composition, with thesis entitled:
The linguistic acquisitions of contemporary architecture between content and expression.

1992
Postdoctoral in Architectural Design.

1995
Researcher in Architectural and Urban Composition (ICAR 14), Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

1998
Confirmed as a Researcher.

since 1998
Associate Professor in Architectural and Urban Composition (ICAR 14, 1997 competition), takes up service at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Rome "La Sapienza", (Arch. And Architectural Composition V, 1998-2006, and Arch. And Composition Architectural III, from 2007 to today).

2000
Member of the PhD program - first at the University of Pavia, then at the Sapienza - in Architecture and Urban Engineering.

2001
Confirmed ad Associate Professor.

2003
Co-founded the Annals of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning for Engineering.

2004
Promotes and is a member of the Commission for the awarding of the Honoris Causa Degree in Architecture to I. M. Pei - Faculty of Architecture "Valle Giulia", University of Rome "La Sapienza".

2012
Founder and director of the editorial series "Enigmatic Architecture", Gangemi Editore.

2013-17
Patents - first in Italy (2013-2016), then in the United States (2016-2017) - a locking device with magnetic interlocking mark.

MAIN PUBLICATIONS IN VOLUME (and in Treccani Encyclopedia)

2018
Ruggero Lenci
The enigma of the polygonal work with concave blocks
and the relief of the walls of Amelia
Gangemi, 2018
ISBN: 978-88-492-3607-1
The book, with contributions by Gianluigi Lerza and Chiara Luchino, deals with studying the structure of the polygonal walls of various cities, not only in Umbria and Lazio, but also from ancient Greece, South America and the Far East.
It contains the survey of the polygonal walls of Amelia made by the author.

2017
Tiziana Ferrante, Ruggero Lenci, Enzo Scandurra (edited by)
Rome, Crisis of the Project and of Civitas
Ingramspark, 2017
ISBN: 979-12-200-2376-4
The book is the result of a day of study of the Ph.D. in Architectural Engineering and is dedicated to Giorgio Muratore. It contains texts, as well as curators, by Paolo Berdini, Francesco Erbani, Franco Purini, Giorgio Muratore, Massimo Ilardi, Roberto De Angelis, Giulio Tamburini, others.

2014
Ruggero Lenci
Eurosky's Enigma
Critical reading of a work of architecture
by Franco Purini - Laura Thermes
Gangemi, Rome 2014
ISBN: 978-88-492-2928-8
The book, containing texts by Pietro Barucci, Paolo Berdini, Lina Malfona, Alessandra Muntoni, Giuseppe Pullara, Giuseppe Rebecchini, Valentina Ricciuti, Carlo Severati, Claudio Strinati, analyzes the Eurosky tower located in Rome-EUR Castellaccio.

2013
Ruggero Lenci and other authors (edited by)
The Europe's Become, The Becoming of Europe, 欧洲 之 形成
Gangemi, Rome 2013
ISBN: 978-88-492-2732-4
The book, with other texts by Serena Angioli, Maria Angela Falà, Paolo Palomba and Claudio Strinati, was published on the occasion of the International Architecture Competition on the Becoming of Europe.

2013
Ruggero Lenci and other authors (edited by)
The Roman Summer by Renato Nicolini
Gangemi, Rome 2013
ISBN 13: 978-88-492-2657-7
ISBN 10: 88-492-2657-8
The book, with other texts by Franco Luccichenti, Paolo Palomba, Giorgio Palumbi, Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi, Giuseppe Pullara, Franco Purini, Claudio Strinati, was released on the occasion of the collective exhibition of paintings and graphics (110 works) in memory of the Roman Summer by Renato Nicolini.

2012
Ruggero Lenci
The Enigma of the Sunflower
Critical reading of an architectural work by Luigi Moretti
Gangemi, Rome 2012
ISBN: 978-88-492-2494-8
The book, with preface by Franco Purini, introduction by Alessandra Muntoni and afterword by Claudia Conforti, analyzes the Casa del Girasole by Luigi Moretti, from 1948-50, located in Viale Bruno Buozzi in Rome.

2011
Ruggero Lenci
Laurentino Mutations 38
Ontogeny and phylogeny of a Roman district
Perspectives Ed., Rome 2011
ISBN: 978-88-89400-69-2
The book, introduced by Pietro Barucci and Franco Purini, deals with the redesign of the residential area Laurentino 38 in Rome. In it are published over 200 projects of students of architectural and urban composition of the Course of Ruggero Lenci, at the Faculty of Engineering, "Sapienza" University of Rome.

2011
Ruggero Lenci
Dynamic morphemes / Dynamic Morphemes
Perspectives Ed., Rome 2011
ISBN: 978-88-89400-64-7
The book shows the result of a sculptural research undertaken by the author during the 2000s. It contains critical texts by Nicoletta Agostini, Giancarlo Galdi, Franco Purini and Maria Claudia Simotti.

2009
Ruggero Lenci
Pietro Barucci Architect
Electa Ed., Milan 2009
ISBN: 978-88-370-6749-6
The book analyzes the architectural works that the architect Pietro Barucci (1922) has carried out over the past 50 years in Rome, Naples, Livorno, Turin and Tunisia. The book contains critical texts by Leonardo Benevolo, Alessandra Muntoni, Giorgio Muratore and Franco Purini.

2008
Ruggero Lenci
Evolution and Architecture between science and project
Evolution and architecture between science and design
Perspectives Ed., Rome 2008
ISBN: 978-88-89400-2
The book presents a theoretical contribution on the theme "Evolution and architecture between science and design", that is a combination of the scientific disciplines that study the evolution and the design ones.
The assumption by Ernst Haeckel, according to which "ontogenesis recapitulates phylogeny" here becomes: the morphogenesis of the project recapitulates the history of architecture.

2008
Giuseppe Imbesi, Ruggero Lenci, Marina Sennato (edited by)
Annals of the DAU - In Search
Gangemi Editions, Rome 2008
ISBN: 978-88-492-1535-9
The book (co-curated by Ruggero Lenci) contains over 20 essays on research in architecture, written by Professors and Research Doctors of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning for Engineering.

2007
Ruggero Lenci
Didactics and Architecture
Thesis in Architectural Composition
Prospettive Editions, Rome 2007
ISBN: 88-89400-18-8
The book collects more than 120 degree theses in architectural composition, followed by Ruggero Lenci as speaker, on several topics including: the congress center, the town hall, the railway station, the museum, the residence. It contains texts by Tullio Bucciarelli, Enzo Cartapati, Paolo Colarossi, Franco Storelli among others.

2006
Ruggero Lenci
Studio Passarelli - one hundred years one hundred projects
Electa Editions, Milan 2006
ISBN: 88-370-4204-3
The book analyzes the works of Studio Passarelli - the longest-lived Roman architecture studio - executed from 1898 to 2006. The founders of the studio, Tullio Passarelli, sons Vincenzo, Fausto and Lucio, were protagonists of more than a century of projects. The book contains critical texts by Alessandro Anselmi and Giorgio Muratore.

2006
Massimo Birindelli (published posthumously edited by Ruggero Lenci)
The look on the wall
architecture of details and taste of imperfection
Mancosu, Rome 2006
ISBN: 88-87017-47-6
The book (edited by Ruggero Lenci) deals with the theme of constructive imperfections found in some ancient Roman buildings.

2005
Ruggero Lenci
Lenci Valentin - Theorematic Architecture
Mancosu Editions, Rome 2005
ISBN: 88-87017-43-3
The book collects the projects elaborated by Ruggero Lenci and Nilda Valentin from 1978 to 2005. It contains critical texts by Mario Antonio Arnaboldi,
Lucio Passarelli, Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi, I.M. Pei, Marcello Rebecchini, Adele Naudé Santos.

2005
Giuseppe Imbesi, Ruggero Lenci, Marina Sennato (edited by)
Annals of the DAU - Intersections
Gangemi Editions, Rome 2005
ISBN: 88-492-0679-8
The book (co-curated by Ruggero Lenci) contains over 20 essays on the topic of possible disciplinary intersections between the research in architecture, written by Professors and PhDs of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning for Engineering.

2004
Ruggero Lenci
I.M. Pei - spatial theorems
Universal of Architecture, directed by Bruno Zevi
Text & Image, Turin 2004
ISBN: 88-8382-143-2
The book is the only one published in Italy on the work of I.M. Pei who, on the occasion of its publication, came to Rome to accept the Laurea Honoris Causa from the Faculty of Architecture Valle Giulia of the University of Rome "La Sapienza".

2000
Ruggero Lenci (edited by)
Sergio Lenci - the architectural work from 1950-2000
Diagonale, Rome 2000
ISBN: 88-8263-033-1
The book analyzes the architectural works that Sergio Lenci (1927-2001) has realized over the course of 50 years in Rome, Venice, Livorno, Turin, Ancona, Spoleto, Rimini, Chioggia, Matera, Agrigento, Potenza, Brindisi, Lecce, Tuscania, Lugo di Romagna. The book contains critical texts by Lucio Barbera and Marcello Rebecchini.

1997
Ruggero Lenci
Manzone Architect
Gangemi Editions, Rome 1997
ISBN: 88-7448-759-2
The book analyzes the architectural works that Antonino Manzone (1924-1996) made mainly in Ravenna and Iran. It contains a critical text by Arnaldo Bruschi.

1996
Ruggero Lenci
Massimiliano Fuksas - oscillations and trespassing
Universal of Architecture, directed by Bruno Zevi
Text & Image, Turin 1996
ISBN: 88-86498-06-3
The book analyzes the architectural works that Massimiliano Fuksas made from his degree in 1996 in Italy and France.

1995
Ruggero Lenci
John Mac Lane Johansen
I.M. Pei
Paolo Soleri
Bruno Zevi
Italian Encyclopedia Treccani, fifth appendix. Four encyclopedic voices of the above mentioned protagonists of contemporary architecture.

1990
Valter Bordini, Paola Coppola Pignatelli, Ruggero Lenci,
Sergio Lenci (edited by)
Thirty architecture lessons plus one
Gangemi, Rome 1990
ISBN: 88-7448-279-5
The book (co-curated by Ruggero Lenci) contains more than 20 essays on the topic of research in architecture, written by teachers of the former DPAU Department of the School of Architecture of Rome.


SUMMARY OF RESEARCH ACTIVITY

Ruggero Lenci is interested in the following research fields: the housing project; special residential types; relationships between content and expression in the architectural project; relationships between architecture and sculpture; fractal geometry; structure and architecture; evolution and architecture; realism and abstraction; the urban scale of architectural design; architecture, city and civic sense; the project of empty spaces; history, memory and innovation in theory and teaching; new insertions in existing urban fabrics; Science and Technology Parks.

Search selection:

1989
CNR research: Types of innovative housing for the elderly.
Director of research Sergio Lenci.

1991
Research BIC Lazio: Incubators and Science and Technology Parks.
Director of research Paolo Palomba.

1991
Research BIC Lazio: Innovation and Territory.
Director of research Paolo Palomba.

1993
CNR research: Science parks and their economic and productive impact.
Director of research: Paolo Palomba; coordinator for the BIC Lazio: Ruggero Lenci.

1996
Research on the architecture of fractals.
Department of Architectural and Urban Design, School of Architecture of Rome "La Sapienza".

1996
Research on the architecture of the residence.
Department of Architectural and Urban Design, School of Architecture of Rome "La Sapienza".

1997
Applications of multimedia in the design.
Research by the University, responsible Prof. Paola Coppola Pignatelli, Department of Architectural and Urban Design, School of Architecture of Rome "La Sapienza".

2001
Types of buildings for mobility.
Faculty research (as a component Prof. Prof. Eng. Carlo Cecere).

2002
New arrangement and preliminary design of the Policlinico Umberto I in Rome.
Director of research: Prof. Ing. Gianfranco Carrara.

2003
The figure and the works of Federico Gorio.
Funding for congresses and conferences (scientific director Prof. Paolo Cavallari).

2002-03
Architecture on an urban scale in the works of Ludovico Quaroni and those of Mario Fiorentino.
Research of the Faculty of Engineering as a scientific director.

2004
The "cultured" architectural planning between profession and teaching: the trends of Italian architectural culture in the transition from the search for a "conforming dimension" to that of "a sustainable architecture".
Research of the Faculty of Engineering as a scientific director.

2005-06
The project of the "Studio Asse" read through the contributions of its members: Vinicio Dellani, Mario Fiorentino, Riccardo Morandi, Lucio Passarelli, Ludovico Quaroni, Bruno Zevi.
Research of the Faculty of Engineering as a scientific director.

2007
The areas of relevance of the degree thesis in Architectural Composition.
University research as scientific director.

2008
Towards a theory of evolution in architecture between science, design, art.
University research as scientific director.

2009
Pietro Barucci Architect: the Laurentino 38, Piazzale Caravaggio, the PSER of Naples and other architectural/urban designs.
University research as scientific director.

2011
Dynamic morphemes: Art and architecture.
University research as scientific director.

2012
The enigma of the Sunflower.
University research as scientific director.

2014
The enigma of Eurosky.

2016
The enigma of the polygonal walls of Amelia.
University research as scientific director.


SUMMARY OF THE DIDACTIC ACTIVITY

1989/1994
He teaches in Architectural Composition Courses II.
Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

1995/1997
He teaches in the course of improvement in architectural design, directed by Alessandro Anselmi.
Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

since 1995 Researcher (Faculty of Architecture).

1995/1998
Architectural Design Courses of the 1st and 3rd year.
Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

1996/1998
Thesis supervisor and correlator.
Faculty of Architecture, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

since 1998
Associate Professor (Faculty of Engineering).

1998/2005
Architectural course and architectural composition of the 5th year.
Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

2006/2018
Architectural course and architectural composition of the 4th year.
Faculty of Civil and Industrial Engineering, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

1998/2018
Thesis supervisor.
Faculty of Engineering, University of Rome "La Sapienza".

1999/2000
Member of the PhD, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pavia.

2001/2018
Member of the PhD in Architectural and Urban Engineering.
Faculty of Engineering, "Sapienza" University of Rome.


SUMMARY OF THE ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Ruggero Lenci has developed over 200 projects, 30 of which have been realized and exhibited in over 100 exhibitions. His works have been published in over 110 books and magazines of architecture and art, sometimes on the cover.
He has participated in numerous national and international competitions with 39 awards and other awards, including 11 first prizes in architecture competitions (7 first prizes in national competitions and 4 first prizes in international competitions) and 5 first prizes in art competitions.

12 awards in international architectural competitions:

1988 Sanctuary of Padre Pio from Pietrelcina to San Giovanni Rotondo, second prize;
1989 Europan 1, awarded (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1989 New Library Alessan¬drina, honorable mention (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1997 New Offices for the Ministry of Defense in via Marsala, Rome, second prize;
1998 Housing typologies BO 2000, Sweden, selected (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1998 Italian Congress Center at the EUR, mentioned, reimbursed, 8th ex-aequo (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1999 Pedestrian bridges for the Jubilee in Rome, among the six winners (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2000 Transformation and Urban Renewal of the Area of ​​San Lorenzo in Rome, first prize ex-aequo;
2002 Tokyo, life-plan for the new century, types of housing, mentioned (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2004 New housing for the Carabinieri in the Salvo D'Acquisto barracks in Rome, first prize (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2007 Small Stations Italian Railway Network, mentioned, silver plate RFI (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2011 "I Portici", Frosinone, among the six winners, fifth in the rankings (Ruggero Lenci, team leader).

19 awards in national architecture competitions:

1979 CONI Award for Degree Thesis, first prize (Ruggero Lenci, with R. Richiardi);
1984 Park of the Standiana area in Ravenna, first prize ex-aequo;
1984 Restructuring of the Ospedale di Muro Lucano, Basilicata, first prize;
1986 ACER competition for housing types for the Third Age, mentioned (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1986 Functional reorganization of the Salone del Sede of Banco San Paolo, Turin, 4th prize (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1987 Social and sporting center in the Municipality of Botticino, mentioned (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1990 ACER Competition Which suburbs for Rome Capital? mentioned (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1991 Urban reorganization of the "Old Sports Field", Santarcangelo di Romagna, first prize;
1991 IGI Competition, reported (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1994 New parish center in Tor Tre Teste, mentioned (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1997 Cento Squares, Scalinata Ugo Bassi, 1997, mentioned;
1997 New residential interventions in the urban crown of Bergamo, mentioned (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
1999 Arrangement of the entrance to the Grotte di Frasassi, Genga, second prize;
2001 Maurizio Sacripanti Award, reported (Ruggero Lenci, team leader with P. Quagliani);
2005 New S. Pio da Pietrelcina parish complex in Rome, invited competition;
2007 Senior Center in Guidonia, Collefiorito, first prize;
2008 Italian Pavilion at Shanghai EXPO 2010, selected among the first eight (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2009 New Agora of the Municipality of Fonte Nuova, RM, first prize (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2009 New office of the Cassa dei Dottori Commercialisti in Rome first prize (Ruggero Lenci, team leader).

8 awards in art competitions:

2006 Sculptural work for a square in Pomezia, second prize (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2006 Monument to the Fallen of Nassiriya at the Basilica of St. Paul in Rome, selected for the second phase, second prize ex-aequo (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2009 The Fountain of the People of Fonte Nuova, RM, first prize (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2010 Sculpture for the earthquake in L'Aquila, Rome, first prize ex-aequo (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2010 Monumental structure celebrating the founding values ​​of the Republic and the Constitution and in memory of the Lotte di Liberazione and the Valori of Europe, Lugo di Romagna, third place (Ruggero Lenci, team leader);
2014 Picture "Ascot", oil on canvas 205x245, 2012, first prize of painting, White Gallery, Rome;
2017 Picture "Metamorphosis and Antelopes", oil on canvas 100x150, 2015, winner of the Arte in Luce painting prize of the "Sapienza" Foundation, March 8th, 2017.
2018 "Ascot" painting, mixed technique on canvas 100x150, 2014, winner of the Arte in Luce painting prize of the "Sapienza" Foundation, April 11th, 2018.