Renato Bocchi (Trento, 1949), is full professor of architectural and urban design at the Iuav University of Venice, where he was director of the Department of architectural design from 2006 to 2009. He is currently teaching Theories of architecture within the master’s degree in Visual Arts and Fashion Design. He has held seminars, workshops and conferences in many European universities and has been a visiting professor at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina, in 2005 and 2011.
The main field of his research is the relationship between architecture, art and landscape. He was editor of the magazine ‘Restauro & Città’ (1990-95) and director of the architectural magazine ‘Archint’, 1998-2000. He currently directs for the publisher Gangemi, Rome, the series ‘Spazio Paesaggio Architettura’ and for the Aracne editions the series ‘Re-cycle Italy’, the result of the three-year research programme he coordinated between 2013 and 2016.
His numerous publications include: La materia del vuoto, Universalia, Pordenone, 2015, Progettare lo spazio e il movimento, Gangemi, Rome, 2010, Spazio arte architettura. Un percorso teorico, Carocci, Rome, 2022.