MANFREDI Tommaso

Tommaso Manfredi is Full Professor of Architectural History at the Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria and he obtained the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale as Full Professor (February 2014). He has published widely on subjects of architectural history, history of the city, and history of the territory in the modern and contemporary period, including both Roman and national topics, and extending to the larger European context. He is the author of: I Virtuosi al Pantheon. 1750-1758 (1998, together with G. Bonaccorso), La costruzione dell’architetto. Maderno, Borromini, i Fontana e la fomazione degli architetti ticinesi a Roma (2008) and Filippo Juvarra. Gli anni giovanili (2010); he curated Voyage Pittoresque. I. Esplorazioni nell’Italia del Sud sulle tracce della spedizione Saint-Non (2018), Voyage Pittoresque. II. Osservazioni sul paesaggio storico della Calabria 2018); He co-curated the catalogue of drawings at the Centro di Studi di Storia dell’architettura, Giacomo Quarenghi e la cultura architettonica britannica. Da Roma a San Pietroburgo (2021), Ferdinando Fuga architetto di corte (2024). He is also the author of numerous articles, published in both national and international scholarly journals, on subjects such as, Borromini, Carlo Fontana and the Ticinese architects in Italy, Filippo Juvarra, Francesco Milizia, Giacomo Quarenghi, European architects in Rome in the XVIII-XIXth centuries, the urban history of Rome and architectural treatises of the XVI-XVIIIth centuries. His teaching at the Università Mediterranea encompasses courses on the History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture, History of the City and the Territory, History of the Garden and Landscape.
He is co-founder and chief editor of the open access Journal ArcHistoR.
At the Mediterranean University, he was director of the PAU Department and a member of the Academic Senate (2018-2024), and has been a member of the University Scientific Committee (since 2025).