Giovanni Santamaria

Giovanni Santamaria is an architect and educator. His research focuses on Landscape and Ecological Urbanism which integrates the scale of architecture in a dimension concerning issues not only related to the history of urban settlements, to politics, sociology and technologies but most of all, to the complex ecology of our transforming environments understood through a metabolic approach. Santamaria earned a Ph.D in Architecture and Urban Design with laude from the Facoltà di Architettura of Politecnico di Milano, after obtaining the degree in Architecture with laude from the I.U.A.V. in Venice, Italy. At Politecnico di Milano he taught Architecture Theory and Urban Design studios, while he received postdoctoral research grants and participated to EU-sponsored research projects. He is currently Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Operations at the School of Architecture and Design at NYIT- New York Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching and coordinating final thesis along with several studios and theory courses at undergraduate and graduate level. His teaching approach and full commitment towards the growth of his students have shaped a generation of architects and designers who proactively proceeded as ‘agents of change’ within local and global communities through their academic and professional careers. In the same Institution he has been coordinating Summer Abroad Programs and has been responsible for the Internation Exchange Agreement with Politecnico di Milano. He curated, organized, and participated to several renowned international symposia, exhibitions, and design competitions receiving prestigious awards global wide for his professional and academic work. He is active in lecturing in Universities between Europe and USA, author of books, book chapters, and essays published by prestigious editors. He has been part of the Post-Sandy Design Committee at AIA NYC, of several international design juries, and he has been member for several years of the Fulbright Committee.

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