Luca Tommasi - Curriculum Vitae

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Luca Tommasi

Via Carlo Borsani, 9 Bari, Italy

PhD Architect

+39 - 340 1863370 luca.tommasi@poliba.it luca.tommasi@rocketmail.com

Born on April 28th 1991 in Bari, Italy.

Academic experiences

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2021.03 Lecture Dortmund. Lecture; The renovation of european peripheries.

2019.12 Invited lecture Naples. Lecture; theories and praxis of architecture representation.

2019.11 International seminar. ProArch Naples. Selected paper; renovation of the modern built heritage.

2019.06 Seminar. SIU Bari. Selected paper; analysis and design for the periphery in Bari.

2018.09 International seminar. ISUF Bari. Selected paper; dwelling spaces and design in Aachen.

2017.01 International seminar. ISUF Rome. Selected paper; typo-morphological analysis of Aachen.

2016.12 International seminar. CISPUT meeting Artimino. Presentation; master graduation research and design.

2014.08 International seminar. SACU Camerino. Presentation and exhibition of a selected project.

2013.07 International seminar. SACU Camerino. Presentation and exhibition of a selected project.

Italian English

mother language IELTS certification C1 CEFR level

Skills Rhinoceros AutoCAD vRay, Cinema4D Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign

Professional experiences 2020.02 - 2021.06 Guest researcher and lecturer Eindhoven. “Rational Architecture” chair, led by professor Christian Rapp at the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.

2018.11 - 2022.05 PhD Bari - Eindhoven. “Design for Heritage: Knowledge and Innovation” PhD in Architectural and urban design. Research on the renovation project for the modern public housing heritage. Graduated with honors.

Internship 2017.03 - 2018.05 Bari - SMALL Architecture studio. Design and executive drafting for “Spazio 13” and “Piazza 2 Giugno”.

2017.02 Professional habilitation Bari. Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori della Provincia di Bari. Matricola n° 3621.

2016.09 Master graduation Bari - Aachen. Typological and Morphological analysis of the cities of Maastrich and Aachen, with a design on the latter. Graduated with honors.

Projects, competitions, workshops 2021.12 Re.Use Italy Competition. Renovation of a religious ruin - with Nicola Carofiglio.

2021.06 Sant’Anna Social housing Preliminar proposal. Social housing and public spaces in Sant’Anna, Bari - with Carlo Moccia (head designer) and Nicola Carofiglio.

2019.07 Europan 15 Competition. Renovation of a warehouse and sorrounding spaces in Graz - with Nicola Carofiglio, Davide Franco, Stefano Sangirardi.

2018.10 Museum of the Ancient Nile Competition. Exhibition space in Luxor - with Brigida Sciancalepore.

2017.08 Rome Contemporary Chapel Competition. Interreligious space - with Brigida Sciancalepore.

2016.07 Civic center for Mattinata Competition. New civic center - with Matteo Ieva (head designer).

2016.07 Expo dopo Expo Workshop. Masterplan for the Expo area - with Matteo Ieva (head designer).

2015.07 San Paride parish complex Competition. Church and parish complex - with Matteo Ieva (head designer).

2013.06 San Benedetto parish complex Competition. Church and parish complex - with Matteo Ieva (head designer).

2021 Worskhop tutor Bari. Tutor - “GreenVille”, renovation of two peripherical areas in Bari, part of the BiArch festival - with Maxime Enrico (LAN Paris).

2021 Worskhop tutor Dortmund. Tutor, lecturer - “International spring academy”, with Haike Apelt, Wouter Hilhorst, Anne-Marie Peters, Ilaria Zedda.

2020-2021 Graduation studio tutor Eindhoven. Tutor - “Florence, A room with a view”, supervisor Christian Rapp; prof. Francesco Collotti, Haike Apelt, Wouter Hilhorst; tutor Daan Jenniskens, Luca Tommasi.

2020 Graduation studio tutor Eindhoven. Tutor - “Naples II”, supervisor Christian Rapp; prof. Renato Capozzi, Federica Visconti, Haike Apelt, Wouter Hilhorst; tutor Daan Jenniskens, Luca Tommasi.

2020 Graduation studio tutor Eindhoven. Tutor - “Naples I”, supervisor Christian Rapp; prof. Renato Capozzi, Federica Visconti, Haike Apelt, Wouter Hilhorst; tutor Daan Jenniskens, Luca Tommasi.

2019-2021 Teaching assistant Bari. Tutor, lecturer. III year urban design course - prof. Francesco Defilippis.

2019-2020 Graduation studio tutor Bari. Tutor - Graduation studio “La riforma della città pubblica”, supervisor Francesco Defilippis; tutor Antonio Nitti and Luca Tommasi.

2018-2019 Teaching assistant Bari. Tutor, lecturer - III year urban design course - prof. Carlo Moccia.

2016-2018 Teaching assistant Bari. Tutor, lecturer - IV year urban design course - prof. Matteo Ieva.

PhD and licensed Architect, I completed the master degree at the Politecnico di Bari with a thesis which analyzed the typological and morphological characters of the north-european architecture, focusing on the cities of Maastricht and Aachen. I began my doctoral studies in November 2018, graduating in May 2022. My work was focused on the transformation of the large housing estates and on how the occasion of rehabilitating the built heritage of the Modern can trigger a profound renovation of the entire form of the city in all of its dimensions and spaces. From February 2020 to June 2021 I was guest researcher and lecturer in the Rational Architecture research group led by Christian Rapp at the TU Eindhoven.

Deeply interested in architecture, its theory and the way it is applied to project and design, I always considered fundamental to understand its syntax and language and the cultural heritage of every place I studied and intervened to. I find necessary to look at all of the different scales that regards architecture: from the relation with the historical and the modern city to the connection with the nature and open spaces, I look at the matter of architecture in space and time, from the geography and morphology scales to the typology and construction dimensions. The strong belief in the importance of theory has always been combined with a deep interest in practice: since my graduation, I continued my academic path as a teaching assistant and made a two years internship in an architecture and urban planning office.

Proactive and willing to learn, I attended several workshops, exhibitions and competition – as student and as tutor – focusing on different themes and goals, working with fast schedules as well as more organized and quiet environments. While working I try to be as organized and methodical as possible while keeping an high flexibility in order to give better response to the problems called to meet time after time and also to accept the swift change and turns that a thought process like the design can undergo. Beyond architecture, which arrived “late” in my path, my two main interests are music and the realm of graphic and illustration. In different ways, the studies and the large efforts given to these subjects influenced my formation, overlapping and conditioning my approach to architecture and design. I play drums since the age of 13 and I studied music and musical theory for more than ten years. I recorded different demos and eps, playing through central and southern Italy, both independently and professionally. The knowledge of rhythm and pause are to this day the foundation of how I perceive the composition of buildings and spaces, and the awareness of the prolific relation which lies between group and individuality affect the way I work, in solitude or within a team. The attention I pay to graphic and illustration, and more generally to the figurative arts, influenced the care I have for representation. Architecture and design use the drawing as a tool to transfer ideas to the worktable, and this has always given me the measure of the importance which drawing has for an architect.

From 2018 I am represented by Desplans, a Parisian gallery specialized in architecture illustrations, which edit and sell some of my drawings. I gained different experiences as graphic designer as well as illustrator, discovering and focusing on editorial design and making my passion for typography and posters fruitful. This passion settled in the last years, where the proximity to Millelibri – the only poetry specialized bookshop in Italy, which I manage with two booksellers – has opened the door to the publishing industry. I designed, wrote, illustrated and printed different books and pamphlet (fanzines, poems, essays and art books) which strengthen my concern about tangible object production and design as mind driven process.

I consider architecture as a complex, etheronomous subject, which permeates each side of my existence, both as architect and as inhabitant. It is important to find the different connection with every part of my personality and the intersection with all of the different disciplines we encounter in life. In a dual and tight relationship, I firmly believe that architecture is not only design and composition, but I’ve found that most of the things I concretely do or think can be overlapped to an operation of composition and design.