Luca Cipriani is Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture – University of Bologna. He holds a degree in Engineering and a PhD in Civil and Territorial Engineering from the University of Bologna, where he has been working on architectural drawing and design since 1990.
He has taught Drawing since 1996 at the Faculty of Architecture of Ferrara and at the Polytechnic of Milan, at the Faculty of Engineering of Udine and in Bologna, where he has been a researcher and teacher since 1999. He has carried out research on the representation of architecture, on design systems and on surveying in different contexts and at different scales.
He has participated in various local research groups investigating the following topic: Formation and organization of areas in the service sector; Design systems in the sixteenth-century façade; Organization and localization in the urban fabric of monofunctional areas intended for collective use equipment; Architecture and commercial relations: historical shop windows of Bologna; Character of Modern Architecture: system and representation of the drawing; Urban redevelopment: design of modern systems for the redevelopment of disadvantaged industrial areas; Urban survey;
Architectural survey in monumental plan; Morphological and sedimentary characteristics of the city of foundation; Project drawing: from the representation of the project to the design for maintenance.
He has also carried out research in the field of the study of representation as an autonomous object of study with particular reference to the techniques of automatic formulation of images, of graphic restitution with the aid of electronic techniques and methods and of survey, also in photogram.