Alessandro Rocca

Architect MSc – Ph.D., he is a full professor of Architectural and Urban Design and former Head of the Ph.D. program of Architectural Urban Interior Design (2019-24) at the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU) of Politecnico di Milano (POLIMI).

At the Polimi School of Architecture Urban Planning Construction Engineering (AUIC), he teaches courses in Architectural Design (since 2000) and Elements of Architectural Typology. He was visiting professor at the University of Clemson (SC, USA) for 7 semesters, the School of Architecture of Ferrara, Brera Academy of Fine Arts (Milan), Polytechnic School of Design (Milan), and he lectured in foreign and Italian universities (Polytech Saint Petersburg, Higher School of Economics Saint Petersburg, ENSA Paris-Belleville, ENSA Lyon, ENSP Versailles, TU Delft, FAUP Porto, University of Jordan, ENAU Tunis, Polimi Leonardo and Bovisa, Polimi Lecco, Roma La Sapienza, Iuav Venezia, Politecnico di Torino, Gorizia, Trieste, Genova, Parma, Ferrara, Firenze, Bologna, Reggio Calabria, Siracusa). He is the author and curator of several books on architecture and landscape (“Lo spazio smontabile” “Architecture low-cost low tech”, “Natural Architecture”, “Nine Planetary Gardens”), he published essays and articles on Italian and international architectural reviews and magazines, such as “Lotus”, “Interni”, “Domus”, “Abitare”, “Parametro”, “Archis”, “Bauwelt”, “Territorio” “Fuoco amico”, “Syllabus”, “Viceversa”. From 1990 to 2003 he was editor of the reviews “Lotus international”, “Lotus Documents” and “Navigator”; he contributed to the magazine “Interni” (2008-21), and since 2015 he is founder and editor in chief of the reviews “Fuoco amico” and “Syllabus”, https://issuu.com/mmxiipress.

He worked on some projects of architectural, urban, and landscape design, such as the Linear Park in Nembro and the Martesana Regional Park in Milan; he co-designed the Cereals Cluster at Milan (built, at Expo 2015) and led the design team for the Milano-Bovisa campus masterplan (2016). He co-curated some international workshops, such as the yearly Miaw (Milan Architectural International Workshop, Polimi, from 2014 to 2018), “Landscape in Art and Science” (Polimi, 2016), “Plaine de France” (Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles – Polimi, 2015), “Mines Landscape Design” (Iglesias – Milan, Polimi, 2013), “The Garden of the Righteous” (Milan, Polimi, 2012), “Costruire Naturale” (Piedmont, Polimi, 2010), “Picnic al Tempio” (Sicily, 2007, 2008, 2009).

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