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Giuseppe Resta is a Researcher at the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (PORTofCALL project). He previously held teaching positions at Yeditepe University, Istanbul (2021-23) and Bilkent University, Ankara, TR (2019-21) as an assistant professor, at Politecnico di Bari, Bari, IT (2019) as an adjunct professor, and at Polis University, Tirana, AL (2017) as a lecturer. Resta received his Ph.D. in architecture from Università degli Studi RomaTRE, Roma, IT (2017) and his M.Arch from Politecnico di Bari, Bari, IT (2013). He is the owner and curator of Antilia Gallery (IT) and co-founder of the architecture think tank PROFFERLO Architecture (IT-UK). Resta has been architecture editor at Artwort Magazine and Artwort.com. His work has been published in architectural journals such as The Plan Journal, STUDIO, Lunch journal, FAM, Architecture and Urban Planning, Inflection. His latest monographic books are "Journey to Albania: Architectures, expeditions and landscapes of tourism" (Accademia University Press, 2022) and "Jean-Christophe Quinton. A few houses and shelters 2002-2021" (Libria, 2021). Resta is a member of the COST Action CA18137 "European Middle-Class Mass Housing" and co-leader of the Working Group 2 of the COST Action CA18126 "Writing Urban Places".
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Giuseppe Resta

Citation names

  • Resta, Giuseppe

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
3814-27F4-6253
ORCID iD
0000-0001-8489-5291

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Architectural design

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Italian (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2) Beginner (A1) Elementary (A2)
Turkish Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2022/02/22
Concluded
 NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC QUALIFICATION AS ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR (Licence)
Governo Italiano Ministero dell'Istruzione dell'Università e della Ricerca, Italy
 Awarded
2014/10/31 - 2018/04/24
Concluded
 PH.D. IN ARCHITECTURE (WITH DOCTOR EUROPAEUS LABEL) (Dottorato di Ricerca)
Università degli Studi Roma Tre Facoltà di Scienza Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali, Italy
 Awarded
2014/03/30
Concluded
 LICENSED ARCHITECT (Licence)
National Chamber of Italian Architects - Ordine Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori, Italy
2007/10 - 2013/06
Concluded
 Mater of Architecture (Laurea Magistrale)
Politecnico di Bari, Italy
"Sperimentazione progettuale nella direzione di una riforma urbana di Bari" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 110/110
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2023/03/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Arquitectura, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/09/01 - 2023/02/01 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Yeditepe Üniversitesi, Turkey
2019/09/01 - 2021/08/31 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Bilkent Üniversitesi, Turkey
2019/01/31 - 2019/06/26 Visiting Professor (University Teacher) Politecnico di Bari, Italy
2018 - 2019 Assistant (University Teacher) Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2017/01/31 - 2017/07/14 Lecturer (University Teacher) Universiteti POLIS, Albania
2014 - 2016 Tutor (University Teacher) Politecnico di Bari, Italy
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2019 - 2023 Writing Urban Places
CA18126
Researcher
Ongoing
2017/04 - 2017/07 Erasmus+ program International Credit Mobility (KA107)
KA107
 European Commission
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Resta, Giuseppe; Gasco, Giorgio. Ankara: Çeperler boyunca / Lungo i bordi. Ankara, Turkey: Ka Görsel Kültür ve Sanatsal Düsünce Için Mekan. 2024.
    Published
  2. Resta, Giuseppe; Porfido, Enrico. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. Journey to Albania. Architecture, Expeditions and Landscapes of Tourism. Torino, Italy: Accademia University Press. 2022.
    Published
  3. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. Jean-Christophe Quinton. A few houses and shelters 2002-2021. Melfi, Italy: Libria. 2021.
    Published
  4. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. AB Chvoya. Architectural bureau. Melfi, Italy: Libria. 2020.
    Published
  5. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. Atlante di progetti per l'Albania. Melfi, Italy: Libria. 2019.
    Published
  6. Resta, Giuseppe; Cappello, Fabio. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. SPONTANEOUS. Do-it-yourself domesticity. Melfi, Italy: Libria. 2018.
    Published • Editor
Book chapter
  1. Resta, Giuseppe; Dicuonzo, Fabiana. "Towards a Digital Shift in Museum Visiting Experience. Drafting the Research Agenda Between Academic Research and Practice of Museum Management". In Architecture and Design for Industry 4.0, edited by Barberio, Maurizio; Colella, Micaela; Figliola, Angelo; Battisti, Alessandra, 609-648. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-36922-3_34
  2. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Synecdochic Architecture. Tectonics for the People". In Design Build Record: Acting and Reflecting upon an Inaugural Work, 129-134. Istanbul, Turkey: Yeditepe University Press, 2024.
    Published
  3. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Metaverse and Architecture. A Review on Representation and Fruition of Virtual Worlds". In Contemporary Heritage Lexicon: Volume 1, 83-107. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2024.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-65104-5_5
  4. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Aestheticization". In Adaptive Reuse. Theoretical Glossary and Design Labs, 40-42. Firenze, Italy: STH Press, 2024.
    Published
  5. Resta, Giuseppe; Akkar, Müge; Karaçor, Ercan Elif Kutay; Tiryaki, Irem Duygu. Corresponding author: Akkar, Müge. "Middle-Class Mass Housing in Türkiye". In European Middle-Class Mass Housing: Past and Present of the Modern Community, 616-635. Lisboa, Portugal: DINÂMIA’CET-Iscte, 2023.
    Published
  6. Resta, Giuseppe; Fabiana Dicuonzo. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Isn't Metaverse just a Secular Version of Paradise?". In Meta.space – Visions of Space from the Middle Ages to the Digital Age, 260-273. Berlin, Germany: Distanz Verlag, 2022.
    Published
  7. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Guardare come progettare: ipotesi di un catalogo dei paesaggi albanesi". In Albania nel terzo millennio / Albania in the third millennium, 143-146. Roma, Italy: Gangemi, 2021.
    Published
  8. Resta, Giuseppe; Karacan, Evrim. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Virtual exhibition and visitor experience: how digital storytelling enhances online exhibition spaces". In Experience in Architecture. Space, perception, function, 135-154. Istanbul, Turkey: DAKAM, 2020.
    Published
  9. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Toolkit design / Architectural analysis and project by classification and taxonomy". In Projecting Shkodra: Operative fragments in-between lake, river and sea, edited by Besnik Aliaj Loris Rossi Enrico Porfido,, 206-213. Tirana, Albania: POLIS press, 2018.
    Published
  10. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Identità e modelli italiani in Albania. La dimensione territoriale e urbana del progetto nel primo Novecento". In La ricerca che cambia: Atti del secondo convegno nazionale dei dottorati italiani dell’architettura, della pianificazione e del design, edited by Fabian Lorenzo;Marzo Mauro,, 476-492. Siracusa, Italy: LetteraVentidue Edizioni, 2017.
    Published
  11. Resta, Giuseppe; Menghini, Anna Bruna; Calace, Francesca. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Il razionalismo nei Balcani: il problema della identità architettonica in una complessa geografia culturale". In Luoghi del moderno-Klares Bauen 1920-1950, edited by Tiziano Rosani Patrick Rina Marina Mascher Ulrike Kindl,, 94-103. Bolzano, Italy: La Fabbrica del Tempo / Die Zeitfabrik, 2017.
    Published
  12. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "I progetti urbani dell'Ufficio Centrale per l'Edilizia e l'Urbanistica d'Albania". In La presenza italiana in Albania tra il 1924 e il 1943: la ricerca archeologica, la conservazione, le scelte progettuali, edited by Belli Pasqua R. Caliò L. M. Menghini A. B.,, 479-492. Roma, Italy: Edizioni Quasar, 2016.
    Published
  13. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "A house by the sea: the ritual of the informality / Una casa al mare: il rito dell'informale". In Evoked. Architectural diptychs, edited by Domenico Pastore,, 28-33. Bari, Italy: Edizioni Giuseppe Laterza, 2016.
    Published
  14. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Space and power: WWII Italian urban design in Albania". In Spatiality and Temporality: An Interdisciplinary Approach, edited by Ingrida Egle Žindžiuviene,, 115-125. Warsaw, Poland: IRF Press, 2016.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Cláudia Gomes Duarte; Mendiratta, Sidh Losa; Resta, Giuseppe. "Building Old Goa: Identity, Patronage and Labour in Early Modern Colonial Construction Sites". Paper presented in IASTE 2025 Alexandria: Cosmopolitanism & Tradition, Cairo, 2025.
    Submitted
Conference paper
  1. Resta, Giuseppe. "Exhibiting the Occupation: How the Italian Presence in Albania has been Represented through Exhibitions over the last Century". Paper presented in ICAMT 49th International Conference 2023, Porto, 2023.
    Published
  2. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Wallpapers from the Eastern Europe. A visual research on the façades of post-war mass housing". Paper presented in Optimistic Suburbia 2, Lisboa, 2021.
    Published
  3. Resta, Giuseppe; Calace, Francesca. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Riuso, co-Living e nuove pratiche urbane". Paper presented in La città contemporanea: un gigante dai piedi di argilla, Torino, 2020.
    Published
  4. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Shape-Memory Cities. Through The Urban Archipelago In Contemporary Albania". Paper presented in [CO]habitation tactics. Imagining future spaces in architecture, city and planning, Tirana, 2018.
    Published
  5. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "I modelli urbani italiani in Albania. Un atlante delle città del primo Novecento come strumento di progetto". Paper presented in La domanda di architettura, le risposte del progetto, Roma, 2017.
    Published
  6. Resta, Giuseppe; Menghini, Anna Bruna. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "The Grammar of Italian Modernism in Albania: Transforming the Ottoman Built Environment". Paper presented in 3rd international Congress: Learning from Rome. Historical cities and contemporary design, Roma, 2017.
  7. Resta, Giuseppe; Tupputi, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "The grammar of Italian design in Albania: transforming landscape in the early twentieth century". Paper presented in Caumme III symposium "Migration and the Built Environment in the Mediterranean and the Middle East", Napoli, 2016.
    Published
  8. Resta, Giuseppe; Menghini, Anna Bruna. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. ""Structures of light". Structural morphologies as devices for capturing light". Tirana, 2016.
    Published
  9. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Italian urban legacy in Albania". Paper presented in Riga Technical University, 56 International Scientific Conference, Riga, 2015.
    Published
Edited book
  1. Resta, Giuseppe; Novak, Sonja; Kelly, Michael G.; Mejía Hernández, Jorge. OTHER DESTINATIONS. Translating the Mid-sized European City. Osijek, Croatia: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek. 2023.
    Published • https://doi.org/10.34961/researchrepository-ul.24426895.v1 • Editor
  2. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. The City and the Myth. Melfi, Italy: Libria. 2022.
    Published • Editor
  3. Resta, Giuseppe; Dicuonzo, Fabiana. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. Don't try this at home: The group exhibition. Gioia del Colle, Italy: Antilia. 2021.
    Published
  4. Resta, Giuseppe; Dicuonzo, Fabiana. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. Antilia: forme, visioni, immagini sull'isola. Gioia del Colle, Italy: Antilia. 2018.
    Published
  5. Resta, Giuseppe; Dicuonzo, Fabiana. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. PubliCITY: La città parlante. Gioia del Colle, Italy: Antilia. 2018.
    Published • Editor
  6. Resta, Giuseppe; Bliss, Martina. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. AWM#03 / Napoli. Italy: Youcanprint. 2016.
    Published • Editor
Journal article
  1. Resta, Giuseppe; Gonçalves, Samuel. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Design for disassembly and cultural sites. The use of modular architecture and prefabrication in exhibition venues". VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability 9 1 (2024): 124-141. https://doi.org/10.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2024.21442.
    Open access • Published • 10.4995/vitruvio-ijats.2024.21442
  2. Resta, Giuseppe; Berna Göl. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "The City and the Myth: Narrating Heritage through a Travelogue". The Plan Journal 9 1 (2024): 271-293. http://dx.doi.org/10.15274/tpj.2024.09.01.10.
    Published • 10.15274/tpj.2024.09.01.10
  3. Resta, Giuseppe; Dicuonzo, Fabiana. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Playgrounds as meeting places: Post-war experimentations and contemporary perspectives on the design of in-between areas in residential complexes". CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios 47 (2023): 1-22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15847/cct.29899.
    Open access • Published • 10.15847/cct.29899
  4. Resta, Giuseppe; Novak, Sonja. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Travelogues of a Sentimental Journey through Çanakkale, Turkey". Writingplace 8-9 (2023): 199-220. http://dx.doi.org/10.7480/writingplace.8-9.7258.
    Open access • Published • 10.7480/WRITINGPLACE.8-9.7258
  5. Sioli, Angeliki; Novak, Sonja; Resta, Giuseppe. "Intermediate European Cities. Conditions Between Metropolis and Town". Writingplace 8-9 (2023): 34-52. https://doi.org/10.7480/writingplace.8-9.7250.
    Open access • Published • 10.7480/WRITINGPLACE.8-9.7250
  6. Piran, Dilara; Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "A Brief Guide to being a Tourist in your Own Hometown. Strategize flâneurie in Besiktas, Istanbul". Seascape 2 (2023): 74-81. https://doi.org/10.57646/27857638H02.
    Open access • Published • 10.57646/27857638H02
  7. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "The Belly of Naples and Displaced Meanings, City-as-Body and City-as-Theatre in Commentaries on the Old Town Risanamento". Writingplace 6 (2022): 38-54. https://journals.open.tudelft.nl/writingplace/article/view/6353.
    Open access • Published • 10.7480/WRITINGPLACE.6.6353
  8. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Landscape transformations in Albania. A photographic survey on the traces of Italian travellers in the Balkans". Sophia Journal 6 1 (2022): 33-46. https://doi.org/10.24840/2183-8976_2021-0006_0001_8.
    Open access • Published • 10.24840/2183-8976_2021-0006_0001_8
  9. Resta, Giuseppe; Avci Hosanli, Deniz. Corresponding author: Avci Hosanli, Deniz. "Building a Nation, Building a Modern Capital City: A Comparative Study of Ankara,s and Tirana's First Master Plans". IDEALKENT 12 34 (2022): 1693-1721. http://dx.doi.org/10.31198/idealkent.980111.
    Open access • Published • 10.31198/idealkent.980111
  10. Giuseppe Resta; Fabiana Dicuonzo. "Liminal museum. Artistic installations at the threshold of public realm". Studia de Arte et Educatione (2022):
    10.24917/20813325.17.6
  11. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Collaborative Governance through Partnership Agreement: A book-sharing facility in Southern Italy". Charrette 7 2 (2021): 135-155. https://www.ingentaconnect.com/contentone/arched/char/2021/00000007/00000002/art00007#.
    Open access • Published
  12. Resta, Giuseppe; Gatip, John. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "The Aesthetic of Right. How Historical Fake Feeds Populist Agendas". img journal 4 (2021): 322-341. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2724-2463/12711.
    Open access • Published • 10.6092/ISSN.2724-2463/12711
  13. Resta, Giuseppe; Gasco, Giorgio. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "From the elizabethan long gallery to the turkish sofa: Rethinking the art of inhabitation". Festival dell'Architettura Magazine 52 (2021): 32-39. http://dx.doi.org/10.12838/fam/issn2039-0491/n52-53-2020/535.
    Open access • Published • 10.1283/fam/issn2039-0491/n52-2020/535
  14. Resta, Giuseppe; Dicuonzo, Fabiana; Karacan, Evrim; Pastore, Domenico. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "THE IMPACT OF VIRTUAL TOURS ON MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS AFTER THE ONSET OF Covid-19 restrictions: visitor engagement and long term PERSPECTIVES". SCIRES-IT 11 1 (2021): 151-166. http://dx.doi.org/10.2423/i22394303v11n1p151.
    Open access • Published • 10.2423/i22394303v11n1p151
  15. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "TABLINUM. On nomadic living and working". Forum A+P 21 (2019): 144-149.
    Open access • Published
  16. Resta, Giuseppe; Rossi, Loris; Pedata, Laura; Porfido, Enrico. Corresponding author: Rossi, Loris. "Fragile edges and floating strategies along the Albanian coastline". THE PLAN JOURNAL 2 (2017): 685-705.
    10.15274/tpj.2017.02.02.22
  17. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "The Italian Way: Urban Planning Heritage in Albania". ARHITEKTURA UN PILSETPLANOSANA 11 (2016): 19-23. http://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/j/aup.2016.11.issue-1/aup-2016-0003/aup-2016-0003.xml.
    Open access • Published • 10.1515/aup-2016-0003
  18. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "Models and Re-elaborations in Late Nineteenth Century Architecture: The Great Tower for London Competition". DISEGNO 1-2 (2016): 168-183. 10.21096/disegno_2016_1-2gr.
    Open access • Published • 10.21096/disegno_2016_1-2gr
  19. Resta, Giuseppe. Corresponding author: Resta, Giuseppe. "SCPTIPMFLIPPES. Enclose complexity: escape the hyper-connected space". INFLECTION 3 (2016): 94-97.
    Published

Artistic / Performance

Curatorial / Museum exhibition
  1. Catugier, Laure. 2022. "Prospettissimo#1 - Laure Catugier".
  2. Paixao, Filipe. 2022. "Visões Ficções - Corpo Atelier".
  3. 2021. "Nudge 2.0".
  4. 2021. "Lazy J".
  5. 2020. "Il giardino delle sculture volanti".
  6. 2020. "Don't try this at home". In Don't try this at home.
  7. 2020. "Mirabilia @ Casa Cava".
Activities

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2022 - Current Architectural Studies | Foundations, Positions, Words. Biyearly International Conference Series (2022)
Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Yeditepe Üniversitesi, Turkey

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2023 - Current International Journal of Heritage Studies (1352-7258) Taylor & Francis
2023 - Current Current Issues in Tourism (1368-3500) Taylor & Francis
2022 - Current GUD Journal (1720-075X)
2022 - 2022 Journal of Narrative and Language Studies (NALANS) (2148-4066)
2019 - 2019 PlaNext (2468-0648)

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/10/16 - Current Journal of South Architecture (3029-2336) Viser
Distinctions

Award

2020 Best Young Architect 2020 in Puglia
In/Arch (Italian National Architecture Association), Italy
2020 Profferlo Winner team of "City Benches" Competition for the 2020 London Festival of Architecture
London Festival of Architecture, United Kingdom
2016 First prize in the 57th "Premio Bice Bugatti - Giovanni Segantini"

Title

2022 National Scientific qualification as associate professor in the Italian higher education system
Ministry of Education, University and Research, Italy
2014 Licensed Architect Ordine degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori di Roma e provincia

Other distinction

2018 Honorable mention for the originality of the project proposal in the “Competition for the exhibition design of Museum of Sovizzo"