Instructor: Dr. Riccardo Liberotti
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Course schedule (2 CFU):
12 hours, 2 CFU
Day 1: October 6, 14:30-18:30
Day 2, October 9, 14:30-18:30
Day 3, October 13, 14:30-18:30
Location
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Campus of Engineering of University of Perugia
Via G. Duranti, 93 - Perugia
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Instructor
PhD Riccardo Liberotti
Adjunct professor at the Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering
University of Perugia
Short Bio
PhD Riccardo Liberotti has been a registered Architect since 2019 and an Engineer since 2018, the same year in which he obtained his Master’s degree in Building Engineering–Architecture at the University of Perugia. From that year to the present, he has been working at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DICA), University of Perugia; initially in parallel with his doctoral studies—culminating in the award of a PhD in 2023—and subsequently as Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct Professor in Architectural Restoration Laboratory.
Within the same Department, he has also taught in design workshops and doctoral courses of an interdisciplinary nature, both nationally and internationally oriented. He serves as Guest Editor and member of the Editorial Board for the journals Sustainability and Recent Patents on Engineering, respectively, and is part of the organising committee of the international conference AID Monuments 2025 as well as of the Editorial review board for its proceedings.
He has delivered numerous papers at international conferences in the scientific-disciplinary field ICAR/19 and has authored more than twenty articles in international journals, several of which ranked in Q1 and in Class-A, consistently within the domain of Architectural Conservation and Restoration. Since 2025, he has been appointed representative of the Chamber of Architects of the city of Perugia (Italy) at the “Sisto Mastrodicasa” Study Centre.
His research activities involve PRIN, FISR and PNRR projects devoted to the safeguarding and adaptive reuse of heritage, conceived as a common good for activities of public interest and of a museological character. At the international level, he collaborates actively with Prof Paulo B. Lourenço at the Universidade do Minho (Portugal).
Course Description
Since ever the relationship between people and their habitat has been complex. Humans could not imagine themselves outside a built environment and fuel a paradox whereby they feel excluded from nature, as something serving as background/container.
This cultural construct causes an anthropocentric bias: not necessarily our actions are inherently destructive just as it is questionable to separate and hierarchize anthropic and natural elements, especially at an age when are inextricably mixed.
The course introduces contemporary challenges in the heritage safeguard, identifying in the research a common ground to meet different disciplines.
At first, the theoretical and technical rudiments for existing buildings' critical analysis are provided. Then, the current design paradigms and their consequences are addressed in relation to real cases. Finally, the interactions between engineering, architecture, restoration and management are pinpointed to define new intervention and reuse strategies.