Personale docente

Giulia Favaretto (Venice, 1988) graduated with highest honors in Architecture in 2013, discussing a thesis in Architectural Restoration at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Bologna. Since the same year, she is qualified to practice the profession of Architect and she carriers out collaborative activities in teaching at the Architectural Restoration Laboratories at the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna. Since 2015, she held a Doctorate studies scholarship in Architecture at the University of Bologna and she also conducted her research at the Study and Documentation Centre of Villa Tugendhat in Brno and the Bauhaus Foundation in Dessau. In 2019, she received the qualification of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Architecture with a dissertation on "Modernity and Restoration. Materiality and transformation of the rationalist architecture in Forlì in the scenario of the restoration of the 20th century heritage" (ICAR/19). Since 2019, she is an Adjunct Professor and Research Fellow at the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna. Since 2020, she is also an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Parma.

She is the author of papers on the restoration of the 20th century heritage, on the conservation of the autarchic materials, on the rationalist architecture in Forlì and on the relationship between Modernity and Restoration. In parallel with these fields of investigation, her research path develops the themes connected with the combination of improving energy behaviour and preserving heritage buildings. She is a member of the research groups "Rationalist architecture" and "Microclimate analysis and risk assessment for preventive conservation of Historic Buildings" at the Department of Architecture at the University of Bologna.

She is a speaker in national and international conferences, among which DOCOMOMO (Lisbon 2016, Ljubljana 2018), REHAB (Braga 2017), CONCRETE (Termoli 2016, Matera 2018), SIRA (Rome 2016, Bologna 2018, Genoa 2020), AISU (Naples 2017, Bologna 2019, Pavia 2020), AAIS (Sorrento 2018), GEORES (Milan 2019) and Scienza e Beni Culturali (Bressanone 2014-2019, Venice 2020).

She worked in international design competitions in the field of restoration (among these, the one dedicated to the Feminine Boarding School in Tirana, 2015). Among her collaborations, there are the exhibitions "Le Corbusier. Sette architetture" (IUAV, Venice 2015), "Cesare Valle. Un’altra modernità: architettura in Romagna" (ATRIUM, Forlì 2015) and "Borghi of Italy - #NO(F)EARTHQUAKE" (Side Event of the 16. Mostra Internazionale di Architettura - La Biennale di Venezia. CEA-UniBo-IUAV, Venice 2018). In 2015, she obtained a scholarship at the University of Bologna for a research project finalized to the documentation of Palazzo Borsari in Finale Emilia and, in the same year, she edited the final revision of the "Guidelines for the Restoration of Modern Architecture" (ATRIUM, Forlì 2015). In 2018, she was the candidate of the PhD in Architecture of the University of Bologna at the Three Minute Thesis (3MT). Since 2019, she joins the European project of third mission in Asia denominated "BECK - Integrating education with consumer behaviour relevant to energy efficiency and climate change at the Universities of Russia, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh" (Erasmus+ Programme. Key Action 2: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices. Action Type: Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education) working on "Multidisciplinary MOOC modules on consumer behaviour relevant to energy efficiency and climate change in the field of heritage buildings". In 2020, she is also a lecturer at the Professional Master’s Programme 1st Level “MIXR - Master in Innovation in eXtended Reality” (UniBo, EON Reality - Worklife Innovation Hub, Bologna).

Since 2017, she is a member of the Società Italiana per il Restauro dell'Architettura (SIRA) and of the Associazione Italiana di Storia Urbana (AISU). Since 2018 she is also a member of the Italian group of the Centro Internazionale per la Conservazione del Patrimonio Architettonico (CICOP Italia) and of the Committee for Documentation and Conservation of buildings, sites and neighbourhoods of the Modern Movement (DOCOMOMO Italia).