The spaces of the Architecture Faculty of Ferrara have significantly expanded in 2009 with the Palazzo Tassoni building, completely re-functionalized after a scientific restoration of the historical structure, finalizing the project of a veritable university campus embedded in the historic city of the Estes.

In this way, the educational and institutional activities acquire in full potentiality the articulated complex of buildings coinciding with the monumental centre of the noble Tassoni family’s residence, destined to the enlargement of the spaces for didactical or research activities or for cultural events.
Built during the Borsian Addiction in mid-15th century near the “contrada” of Ghiara, the palace was confiscated by Ercole I Este from the ducal administrator Bonvicino dalla Carte in order to give it as a present to the Tassoni counts in 1476. The letter sent to the Duke in which the architect Biagio Rossetti claims to be following the restoring activities of the palace is dated 1491. The building was the house of the Tassonis until 1858, when it was destined to become the city hospital. Throughout the 20th century the structured has hosted several different activities which have wasted the original function and fruition of the building. In the 80s the administration of the palace went to the University and its restoring was inserted in the “Project of Valorization of the Walls and the Museum System of Ferrara”.
Since 1997 Palazzo Tassoni has been object of studies and researches at the Architecture Faculty of Ferrara, where the project and the intervention of scientific restoration were conceived.
The project was written by the team of professors composed by Pietromaria Davoli (general coordination and architectural project), Claudio Alessandri (structural project), Sante Mazzacane (engineering project) with the involvement of Andrea Alberti on the behalf of the Operative centre of the Direction of the National Cultural and Architectural Heritage.
In addiction to didactical, research or representational activities, a part of the monumental quarters – in particular the Salone at the ground floor and the big Salone d’Onore at the first floor – hosts exhibitions and cultural events; other rooms can be available for meetings, round-tables and seminars open to the public (both private individuals and companies) according to a precise timetable of specific open days or open weeks for initiatives in strict collaboration with Institutions, public or private commissioners, productive Organizations, cultural Associations both in the panorama of the city of Ferrara and in a wider national or international perspective.