Manganaro Elvio

Born in Pavia, he graduated in Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano. In 2009, he obtained his PhD in Architectural Composition from the Politecnico di Milano, where he has been teaching and conducting research since the same year. Between 2016 and 2017, he also taught Architectural and Urban Composition at the Politecnico di Torino. Since 2024, he has been an associate professor of Architectural and Urban Composition at the Department of Architecture, Construction Engineering, and Built Environment at the Politecnico di Milano.

Research

His main research fields concern composition, investigated both in its theoretical and procedural structures and in the educational traditions, with a particular focus on the italian geography of the schools of architecture. He is currently working on the relationship between AI and combinatorial tradition.

Selected Publications

Durand incontra Balestrini a Venezia, 2022;

Il libro delle immagini/The book of images, 2020;

L’altra faccia della luna. Origini del neoliberty a Torino, 2018.

Community Service

He was one of the promoters of the Seminars dedicated to Italian researchers (from 2022 to 2025) and of Studio2 - Coordinamento nazionale dei laboratori di progettazione architettonica 2; member of the scientific committee of the series "PAMPHLET" and "Masterplan. Quaderni di progettazione architettonica e urbana"; since 2016, he has been editor of the magazine "Festival dell'Architettura Magazine".