Giovanni Santamaria

Giovanni Santamaria

Title: Professor

Department: Architecture

Campus: New York City

Areas of Expertise: Architecture and Urban Design

Education Credentials: Ph.D.

Industry Credentials: OAI

Joined New York Tech: 2008


Giovanni Santamaria is an architect and educator. His research focuses on landscape and ecological urbanism which integrates the scale of architecture in a dimension concerning issues not only related to the history of urban settlements, to politics, sociology and technologies but most of all, to the complex ecology of our transforming environments understood through a metabolic approach.

Santamaria earned a Ph.D in Architecture and Urban Design with laude from the Facoltà di Architettura of Politecnico di Milano, after obtaining the degree in Architecture with laude from the I.U.A.V. in Venice, Italy. At Politecnico di Milano he taught Architecture Theory and Urban Design studios while he received postdoctoral research grants and participated in EU-sponsored research projects. He is currently Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Operations at the School of Architecture and Design at New York Institute of Technology, where he has been teaching and coordinating final theses along with several studios and theory courses at the undergraduate and graduate level.

His teaching approach and full commitment towards the growth of his students have shaped a generation of architects and designers who proactively proceeded as agents of change within local and global communities through their academic and professional careers. In the same institution, he has been coordinating summer abroad programs and has been responsible for the International Exchange Agreement with Politecnico di Milano. He curated, organized, and participated in several renowned international symposia, exhibitions, and design competitions receiving prestigious awards global wide for his professional and academic work. He is active in lecturing in Universities between Europe and the U.S.A., and authoring books, book chapters, and essays published by prestigious editors. He has been part of the Post-Sandy Design Committee at AIA NYC, served on several international design juries, and has been member of the Fulbright Committee for several years.

Recent Projects and Research

  1. Participation to the exhibition "La Citta' dell'Inclusione" (The City of Inclusion). MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome. Title of the work "One City Thousands Narratives."
  2. Coordination and Participation to the International Design Workshop "M.A.R.I.O.-II: Metropolitan Architecture for Rio de Janeiro-Brazil." The issues in 'Largo do Boticario," between adaptive reuse and water management.
  3. Co-creator and Coordinator of the International Design Workshops "Metabolism of a City: NYCER (Lab)-New York City East River Laboratory."
  4. Instructor and lecturer at the International Workshop at MIT, School of Architecture within the "Metro-Lab International Seminar." Re-thinking the future of the Matanza Riouciuelo river basin in Buenos Aires.
  5. Participation and Presentation at the IALE Seminar (International Association for Landscape Ecology). Paper titled "Anatomy of a Mutating Landscape" Milan, Italy.
  6. Participation and Presentation at the ACSA Seminar (Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture). Paper titled "Merging Thresholds and New Landscapes of Knowledge," Antwerp, Belgium.

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Professional Honors and Awards

Courses Taught at New York Tech

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