Daniele Calisi

Daniele Calisi (Perugia 1975), architect, Research Doctor of Science in Representation and Relief with a winning thesis of the UID 2007 National Prize, is a researcher at the University of Rome Tre. He taught at the Politecnico di Milano and Gabriele d’Annunzio University of Chieti Pescara. He deals with design, digital representation and descriptive geometry, with particular attention to the historical re-reading of the major theorists and encoders. He has been active in numerous publications on these issues and in particular has dealt with profound studies on Leonardo da Vinci and his premonitions, on the Musulman Alhazen and his theories on optics, on Canaletto with geometric analysis and studies on the dilated spatialities of his paintings.He has been engaged, with sectoral scientific publications, of instrumental survey in various photographic modeling researches: the basement of the church of Santa Maria di Loreto, Santa Agnese in Agone drum relief, virtual spatial analysis and reconstruction of Piazza Pius II in Pienza, the “sassi” of Matera, Piazza delle Sorgenti in Bagnovignoni, the relief of the loggia of the Palace of Priors in Dubrovnik and the virtual reconstruction of the Etruscan funeral urn of the Cacni family.He is also active in the representation of the city, with research on the evolution of the way of portraying the city over the centuries, with particular attention to some specific historical events such as the Imna icnography of Leonardo da Vinci and the use of particular instruments of ‘ era for the relief. Research on the representation of the city has also evolved to the present day with new virtual reconstruction technologies. Over the years he has collaborated in various researches concerning the virtual reconstruction, in whole or in part, of Roman neighborhoods lost or stalled by the twentieth century interventions: the area of the demolitions of via Zanardelli and Piazza Fiammetta, the Rione Monti and the realization of Via Cavour, and research, digitalizations and virtual reconstructions of the Alessandrino district and the Piazza Venezia area. Along with a specific research on the Alessandrino district aimed at the realization of the wooden plastic, strongly wanted by the Department of Architecture of Roma Tre and donated to the Museum of Rome, which photographs the state of the art of the archaeological area in 1871.He attended lectures at Universities in Italy and abroad. He is also the author of personal photographic exhibitions in Italy and New York with some social reports of anthropological interest.