Fifth Edition 2015-2016
Nicola Navone
Switzerland
Secretary
Nicola Navone (Lugano, 1967), secretary of the Award since its foundation in 2007, is Deputy Director of the Archivio del Moderno, a lecturer at the Accademia di architettura di Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana, and member of the Collegio di Dottorato (PhD) “Architecture. Innovation and Heritage”, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre. Trained as an architect, he focuses his research on Italian architectural culture in Russia from the eighteenth century until the nineteenth century, a subject area to which he has devoted numerous publications, and the crystallization of a contemporary, internationally recognized Ticinese architecture, which is the focus of his courses at the Accademia di architettura and his researches in 2013 as a visiting professor at the Università IUAV in Venice.