PhD in

email: capurso@ing.uniroma2.it
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Gianluca Capurso is a Fixed-term researcher (art. 24, paragraph 3 (letter b), Law 240/2010) for the Scientific Disciplinary Sector ICAR / 10 - Technical Architecture, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, from April 2022. He teaches Technology of Constructive Elements for the Degree Course in Engineering and Building Techniques and the course of Technology of Constructive Elements + Laboratory for the Degree Course in Building Engineering - Architecture at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. He holds a PhD in "Building Engineering: Architecture and Construction" from the University of Rome "Tor Vergata". Since 2005, he has participated in the "Architecture and Construction" research group coordinated by Prof. Sergio Poretti, focusing his studies on the relationship between structure and architectural language in Italy in the second half of the 20th century. In the same group, he is involved in projects aimed at the conservation of modern Italian architecture. Since 2012 he has been a senior researcher in the research project SIXXI (XX Century Structural Engineering: The Italian Contribution. ERC Advanced Grant 2011, PI: Prof. Sergio Poretti, Tullia Iori), in progress at the same University, in which he deals with the modernisation of construction techniques and structural calculations, also in relation to the socio-economic transformations of the country after the economic boom. Since 2005, he has been involved in teaching courses in Technical Architecture and Architectural Construction (ssd ICAR/10 - Technical Architecture) at the University of Rome Tor Vergata. In 2020, he was awarded the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor, for Competition Sector 08/C1 - Design and Technological Planning of Architecture.

SSD: ICAR/10

CURRICULUM: HISTORY AND CONSERVATION OF BUILT HERITAGE

MAIN RESEARCH EXPERTISE: Construction history of twentieth-century Italian architecture.

History of structural engineering.

DIRECTION OR PARTICIPATION IN EDITORIAL COMMITTEES AND EDITORIAL MAGAZINES AND SERIES:

Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “L’Industria italiana del cemento”.