Politecnico di Milano. Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU)
Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi is Assistant Professor (ricercatore RTDA) at Politecnico di Milano. He is an Italian PhD architect who encompasses and tackles the ambiguous complexity and different ambassadorial roles and practices of architecture, both relying on fundamental historical-theoretical references and inspiring the improvement of innovative approaches.
He graduated at PoliMI, PoliTO, A.S.P. Alta Scuola Politecnica. He received his PhD at IUAV and TU Delft Universities as a Joint Doctorate with research on “The Heart of the City” (published by Routledge in 2018).
Articles
Between Utopia and History
“Any map of the world that does not include Utopia is not even worth glancing at.”— Oscar Wilde (1891) [then quoted by Lewis Mumford (1921), Bernardo Secchi (2005)] Utopia has always been adopted as a critique of coeval societies. Sir Thomas…