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Angelo Maggi is a Professor of History of Architecture and History of Photographic Representation of Architecture at the IUAV University of Venice. He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture and Visual Studies from the Edinburgh College of Art (UK). Maggi has widely published essays, articles, and books focusing on topics related to the photographic representation of architecture as a tool for historiographical investigation.

EDUCATION
1997: Degree from the IUAV University of Venice
2002: Awarded Ph.D. at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh
EXPERIENCE
From 1999 to 2002, he taught History of Photography and History of Architecture at the Edinburgh College of Art - Heriot-Watt University (School of Architecture – Edinburgh). Since 2002, he has been teaching History of Photography at claSA (IUAV - Bachelor's Degree in Science of Architecture), and in the same degree program, he teaches the course on the History of Photographic Representation of Architecture. He also teaches at the Faculties of Humanities and Philosophy at the Universities of Trento and Ca’ Foscari and gives courses on the History of Contemporary Art and Graphic Design at the Bachelor's Degree in Sciences and Techniques of Graphic and Multimedia Communication (ISRE-SISF campuses in Mestre and Verona).

In 2003, he was officially awarded the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture and Visual Studies at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh College of Art.

In 2001, he won the Sir John Soane Foundation Fellowship for his studies on architect John Soane and Swiss wooden bridges. That same year, he began collaborating with the Sir John Soane’s Museum in London as a curator (together with Dr. Nicola Navone) of the traveling exhibition John Soane and Swiss Wooden Bridges. Architecture and Technical Culture from Palladio to the Grubenmanns.

Since 2000, he has been a fellow and researcher at the Archivio del Moderno of the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera Italiana.

In May 1999, at the Architecture and Design Conference “Glasgow 99”, the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) awarded him the Thomas Ross Award for his Ph.D. research on Rosslyn Chapel.

Since December 1998, he has been collaborating with the Italian Cultural Institute for Scotland and Northern Ireland. Together with the Institute, he launched investigations aimed at outlining the relationships between Italian architectural-photographic culture and the Anglo-Saxon world. On the occasion of the 1999 Italian Festival, he curated the photography exhibition by Luigi Ghirri, Il profilo delle nuvole, at the Edinburgh College of Art (October 5-21, 1999). That same year, he won the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs scholarship to conduct further research for his Ph.D.