Organizative Structure

Until 2020 member of the Dipartimento di Culture del Progetto, Tolentini 191, Universita’ IUAV di Venezia,  

Academic Status : Formerly, full professor in History of Architecture at the IUAV (Venice).  Member of the board in the joint Ph.D. programme of-University of  Ca’ Foscari in “History of Arts”. Member of the board of the international TPTI  master  as a part of the “Erasmus Mundus” European Programme of Education in association with Université Paris 1-Panthèon, Universidade de Evora, Università di Padova.

University education : Born in Modena (1950). Graduated in Architecture first at Politecnico of Milan (1969-75), then at the, Princeton University, USA (1976-77) getting a Master of Arts  on Architecture and Urban History.

 Teaching jobs and appointments   (Until October 2020) full professor in History of Architecture and Urban History at the IUAV (Venice) from November 2000 to today, doing class also at the University of Padua (“History of Techniques”)  and  at the Venice International University (“Architectural History of Venice”), He has also taught in the 1990,s at the Politecnico di Milano and at the University of Udine, and has been visiting professor at the and the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes in Paris, University of Edinburgh, Fudan University in Shanghai, and CUJAE of La Habana. Lectures done also in Athens, Duke University (USA), Brasilia, Evora, Goiania (Brazil), Granada, Helsinki, Leuven, Lyon, Madrid, Paris, Philadelphia, Salvador de Bahia, Sao Paulo, Seoul, Stockholm, Zurich.

 Appointments and jobs in extra-Academic fields :  President of the Ateneo Veneto from January 2013.to December 2017. President of the  Italian Society for Urban History (AISU) from September 2007 to September 2013. Co-leader in three main sessions of symposiums held by the European Association of Urban History: Venice 1998, Edinburgh 2002, Athens 2004.  

Major fields of interest : Architecture and Urban History mainly focused on Italy about the 19.th and the 20.th centuries. Author of various publications in Italian, such as the book on national town planning bodies at the turn of the century. The problem has been also taken in a broader perspective, concerning in particular 19.th century urban centres.  Pivotal figures of architecture and urban planning have been described in some books and articles. Venetian architecture and urban design of the XIX-XX.th centuries is another field of studies. 

Research Projects: . Responsible for the Italian side of the three-years international research programme “Venezia y Granada: Orientalismo y Arquitectura” (2010-12) . Member of the board in the nationwide two-years research programme “Il museo della città” (“The urban museum”, 2011-12) led y Donatella Calabi. Member of the Steering Committee of the International Programme “Visualizing Venice” (since 2009 up to today). Co-responsible for the Swiss-Italian project “Pietro Nobile e il suo tempo” supported by the Swiss National Fund (since 2014 up to today)..

 Selected list of  publications (in Italian)

La città contesa. Dagli ingegneri sanitari agli urbanisti, 1885-1942  (Milano, 1989); Camillo Sitte e i suoi interpreti (editor, Milano 1992); L'invenzione del passato. Camillo Boito e l'architettura neo-medievale, 1855-1890  (Venezia. 1997); Gustavo Giovannoni. Dal capitello alla città  (editor,  Milano 1997); Camillo Boito. Un’architettura per l’Italia unita (co-editor with F. Castellani, Venezia 2000); La città dell’Ottocento , (Roma 2001); La Grande Venezia  (editor, Venezia 2002); Daniele Donghi, i molti aspetti di un ingegnere totale,  coeditor with G. Mazzi, (Padova 2006); Una città cosmopolita. Fiume nell’età dualistica (Roma,  2009); Officina I U A V, 1925–1980. Saggi sulla scuola di architettura di Venezia, (co-editor with M. Carraro (Venezia, 2011); Il bello e l’utile. Prato della Valle nella Padova di Memmo, (Venezia, 2012); Guido Cirilli, architetto dell’accademia,  (co-editor with A. Cassani, (Padova, 2014); Medioevo fantastico. L’invenzione di uno stile nell’architettura tra fine 800 e inizio 900,  (co-editor with A. Chavarria),   Firenze 2016; Giannatonio Selva e la nuova Accademia di Belle Arti, in “Ateneo Veneto” CCV (2018). 

  Selected publications in other languages

A cidade do século XIX, ( São Paulo 2009); Orientalismo. Arte y arquitectura entre Granada y Venecia, co-editor with J. Calatrava, (Madrid 2012); ).; Plans et projets pour une ville en mutation ,  in Venise XX.e siècle , edited by X.Tabet (Paris 2014);  Gustavo Giovannoni: A Theory and A Practice of Urban Conservation, in “Change Over Time”. vol. IV, n.1 (Philadelphia 2014); Le patrimoine portuaire. Le cas des villes méditerranéennes, in L’ingènieur et le patrimoine. Savoirs techniques, aménagement du territoire et mutation du paysage,  edited by A, Cardoso de Mato (Paris 2016): “La festa è finita !”. The Question of “Centri storici” in 1970s Italy , in Cities Contested. Urban Politics, Heritage and Social Movements in Italy and West Germany in the 1970s ,  edited by M. Baumeister (Frankfurt/New York 2017), Building and dismantling the stronghold of Corfu in the span of three centuries, i n “Rivista da Historia de Arte” (ºLisbona) 13, 2018,

Jafar Jafari is a cultural anthropologist (PhD, University of Minnesota, USA), with BA (English, University of Isfahan, Iran) and BS and MS (Hotel and Tourism Management, Cornell University, USA), he is the recipient of the 2005 UNWTO Ulysses Prize and of Honorary Doctorate (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain). Visiting Professor at Sun Yat-sen University (China), University of Algarve (Portugal), and University of Isfahan (Iran), Lifetime Honorary Professorship of Bundelkhand University (India), and professor Emeritus of University of Wisconsin-Stout (USA). He is  Founding Editor of Annals of Tourism Research; Chief Editor of Tourism Social Science Series; Co-editor of Bridging Tourism Theory and Practice; Co-editor,
of Encyclopedia of Tourism; Co-Founding Editor of Information Technology & Tourism; Co-Founder, of TRINET; Founding President of International Academy for the Stuly of Tourism; and Founding President of Tourism Intelligence Forum. 

Professor in the Faculty of Arts, University of Oporto, where he directs the Department of Sociology and the doctoral programme.

He is graduated in Sociology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto (1992),  Master in Social Sciences at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (1995) with the Master's Thesis Sad Schools - A Study on Student’s Cultural Practices in the Urban Scholar Space  (Porto: Afrontamento Editions, 1997), Ph.D. in Sociology of Culture and Education (1999) with the Essay The City and the Culture - A Study on Urban Cultural Practices  (Porto: Afrontamento Editions, 2000). He was coordinator of the Institute of Sociology (University of Porto) between 2002 and 2010 and was director of the Sociology Journal (Revista Sociologia ) between 2009 and February 2013.

Professor João Teixeira Lopes has published 14 books (including co-authorship) in the domains of Sociology of Culture, youth and education, as well as in Museology and territorial studies. Now he also is Vice-President of the Portuguese Association of Sociology.