Andrea Longhi
Architect PhD, associate professor in History of architecture at Politecnico di Torino, Vice head of the Interuniversity Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning (DIST), teaches classes of History and criticism of urban and regional cultural heritage in MSc in “Territorial, Urban, Environmental and Landscape Planning”; he teaches also in the Master Degree in “Conservation and restoration of cultural heritage” (University of Turin and CCR Venaria Reale); he is faculty member of the PhD programme in “Architectural and landscape heritage”; he also lectures in the Postgraduate Masters in “Architecture and arts for liturgy” (Pontifical University Sant’Anselmo/Pontifical Institute for Liturgy, Roma) and in “Design of Worship Buildings” (Sapienza, Università di Roma). Among his research activities, he has been studying religious heritage, dealing specifically with ecclesial dimensions and – recently – with the issues of the dismissal and the assessment of risks threatening historical churches and complexes. He is member of ICOMOS Italia, scientific national committee PRERICO (Committee for Places of Religion and Ritual) and ICORP (International Scientific Committee on Risk Preparedness); member of the Council of Future for Religious Heritage (FRH), an independent, non-faith, and non-profit network of charities and conservation departments of governmental, religious and university institutions, and other professionals working to protect religious heritage buildings across Europe.
