Professor at the Department of Building Technology of the University of Ferrara, is actually former chair of “Stone construction” in the Study Course of Architecture, and of “Methods for design project definition ” in the Study Course of Industrial Design. In the same department he is also the Director of External Relations and Communication Office. Deputy chairman of SITdA. President of the Scientific Committee for the Dynamic Museum of brickwork and terracotta of Marsciano, in 2006 was the curator of the exhibition “Rossoitaliano”. Currently he is at the Head of the editorial board for Architecture in the magazine “Costruire in laterizio”, ANDIL.

With a long list of publications, lectures, and other activities on his record, he authored:

L’edilizia residenziale pubblica in Italia dal 1945 ad oggi (Padova, Cedam, 1980)

Complessi residenziali nell’Italia degli anni Settanta (Firenze, Alinea,1981)

Architettura italiana contemporanea (Firenze, Alinea,1984)

Celli Tognon. Opere d’architettura (Firenze, Alinea,1987)

L’architettura del mattone faccia a vista (Laterconsult, Roma, 1989)

Il Terminal di via Valfonda (Firenze, Alinea,1990)

Mauro Andreini. Architetture in corso (Milano, Electa, 1991)

L’architettura dei Luoghi (Roma, Laterconsult, 1992)

Tetti in laterizio (Roma, Laterconsult, 1994)

Il tetto come elemento di architettura (Milano, Brianza Plastica,1999)

Involucri in cotto (Firenze, Sannini, 2000)

L’architettura di pietra (Firenze, Alinea-Lucense, 2004)

Rosso Italiano (Firenze, Firenze, Alinea, 2006)

Stone Architecture (Milano, Skira, 2006)

Involucri in cotto (Firenze, Sannini 2008 riedizione)

Travertino di Siena (Firenze, Alinea, 2010)

In 2005 he edited the first architectural thematic Blog: www.architetturadipietra.it, on Lithic Style, characterized by an innovative and multidisciplinary approach based on Collective intelligence.

alfonso.acocella@unife.it