SORBO EMANUELA

Emanuela Sorbo is an architect, PhD, and Associate Professor in Architectural Restoration. She is a member of the PhD Board in Art History at Ca’ Foscari University and of the Board of the SSIBAP School of Specialization. She served on the Board of the DACC Department (2015–2018), on the Executive Committee of the SIRA Scientific Society (2017–2020), and was coordinator for teaching and international relations at SSIBAP (2017–2020). A reviewer for Reprise and ANVUR, she also served as Iuav Abroad delegate from 2015 to 2022.
In 2004, as a research fellow at the Fachhochschule in Munich, she conducted a study on post-war reconstruction in Germany and Italy. In 2008, she earned a PhD (Doctor Europaeus) in the Excellence Doctorate in History of Architecture and the City, Art Sciences and Restoration (SSAV), with a dissertation titled “Matter and Memories. Restorations in Herculaneum”, having also studied at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the Warburg Institute, and the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität.
She has authored and edited several monographs, including "Tra materia e memoria. Ercolano 1711–1961" (2014), "La memoria dell’oblio. Ex ospedale psichiatrico di Rovigo" (2017), "I liberi spazi di Maggiano" (2021), and "Rovina. Incompiuta. Chiesa di San Michele Arcangelo a Brendola" (2024).
She is the Iuav scientific coordinator of international projects and networks, including the Erasmus+ HERSUS project, the CarveLand network, and the Cespita Inter-University Centre. She also leads the MATESCA research cluster.
Her ongoing research and third-mission projects, in collaboration with local authorities and heritage agencies, focus on monuments and culturally significant sites, including the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, the Arena di Verona, the “Unfinished” Church of San Michele Arcangelo in Brendola, the former psychiatric hospital in Rovigo, the Fabbrica Alta in Schio, and the Scarpa Wing of the Gypsotheca Museum in Possagno.