Prof. Arch. Tancredi Carunchio

Architect/Restoration Designer – Consulant

Former Associate Professor in Restoration at the Faculty of Architecture of SAPIENZA – UNIVERSITY OF ROME.

Former Member of the Board of the Department of History of Architecture Restoration and Conservation of Architectural Heritage in the three-year periods 2000/2003 and 2003/2006.

Former Member of the Coordination Committee of the Five-Year Degree Course of the Faculty of Architecture c.u. of SAPIENZA – University of Rome from 2013 to 2017.

Former Member of the Culture/Communication Commission of the Order of Architects of Rome and Province.

Former Scientific Director and Coordinator of the Master in Architectural Restoration at the QUASAR Institute of Rome from 1998 to 2004.

Former Coordinator of the “Communication” Group of the Cultural Heritage Commission of the Council of the Order of Architects of Rome.

Formerly a technical consultant at the Civil Court and the Bankruptcy Court of Rome since 1985. President and founder of the Association for the Survey, Study and Restoration of Architectural Heritage with headquarters in 00136 ROME, Via S. Cipriano 28.

President of the Roman cultural association AMICI DI VILLA LANTE AL GIANICOLO onlus for cultural exchanges with Finland, with headquarters in Rome, Passeggiata del Gianicolo, 10.

Corresponding academician of the REAL ACADEMIA DE BELLAS ARTES DE SAN FERNANDO – MADRID. Knight of the Order of the White Rose of the Republic of Finland since May 2014 for cultural merits and service.

Prof. Arch. Adnan Kazou

Architect/Restoration Designer

Phd Architectural and Urban Restoration from La Sapienza University, Italy. In 2013, with a thesis entitled The Use of Environmental Applications and Renewable Energy in the Restoration of Traditional Arab Architecture.

He obtained a third-cycle diploma in the history of architecture from the National Institute of Archaeology and Heritage in Rabat, Morocco, with a thesis entitled Colonial Architecture in Tangier and Tetouan in 2007. He also obtained a master degree from the same institute in 2003. He worked as a professor at the University of Amman Al Ahliyya between 2014 and 2017, where he taught restoration, conservation, architectural history and architectural design. He also supervised many graduation projects at that university.

Collaboration on the ‘Restoration of Monuments’ Course with Professor Daniela Esposito and Professor Tancredi Carunchio, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ Faculty of Architecture between 2017 and 2020. Lecturer at the Pantheon Institute in Rome, Collaboration with Professor Mariaelena Marani on the ‘Urban Regeneration’ course, in Master degree “Ecodesign” between 2020 and 2023.

Director and Lead Designer at Remus Restoration & Architecture in Rome, Italy
He organized and participated in many workshops related to archaeological excavation, restoration and architectural conservation. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Aleppo, Syria in 1996 and obtained a diploma from the Arab Scientific Heritage Institute in 2000. He worked as a chief designer for many important architectural projects at Nour Architecture Office in Aleppo, between 1996 and 2001, Many of these projects were in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Prof. Arch. Maria Elena Marani

Architect/Restoration Designer

Maria Elena Marani LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, PhD in “History and Restoration of Architecture”, Specialist in ‘Architectural and Landscape Heritage’ and Specialist in “Natural and Territorial Heritage”, Lighting Designer.

From 2019 to 2024, Professor of ‘Drawing’, of ‘Elements of Architecture and Urban Planning’, of EcoDesign 3 Planning in the “Design” Triennial, at the Pantheon Design & Technology Institute in Rome. From 2020 to 2024, Professor of ‘Ecodesign’ in the “Ecodesign” Master’s Degree, at the Pantheon Design & Technology Institute in Rome.

Referent as teacher for the stipulation of the Agreement between the Institute and the “Isola di Pantelleria” National Park Authority, for the carrying out of the curricular internships of the students of the “Ecodesign” Master’s Degree.

From 2016 to 2019, he collaborated in the Laboratory Course of ‘Restoration of Monuments’ of
Prof. T. Carunchio at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, for the specialist subject of
landscape and restoration of parks and historic gardens.

From 2015 to 2018, Professor of ‘Design II’, landscape projects, contemporary and
historic gardens, of the Course of “Green Design”, at the Quasar Design University Institute in Rome.

Dr. Ahmed Fatima Kzzo

Archaeologist

Dr. Ahmed Fatima Kzzo, Field Director of the Archaeological Mission of Sapienza in the Arab Peninsula and the Gulf (MASPAG) which, currently, operates in Wadi al-Ma’awil (Oman).

He is an Expert Member of the International Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management of ICOMOS. He was a lecturer at Potsdam University (Germany). He led different projects such as the Prevention of Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Property project at the American Center of Research in Amman (ACOR) where he published a manual for prevention of illicit trafficking in Jordan and a project to archive Ottoman-period inscriptions in Aleppo.

He conducted research at the universities of Bern and Zurich in Switzerland and the Columbia Global Center in Amman (funded by the Mellon Foundation). He published several scientific papers in archaeology and cultural heritage. Recently, with other collegues, he published a book about the Idrisi manuscript under the title “Al-Idrisi’s Norman Kingdom in the South: The Book of Roger in Translation”.

Lauren K. Erker

Archaeologist

Lauren Erker is an expert in Islamic Archaeology. She is concluding her PhD thesis in the Islamic Archaeology department at the University of Bonn in Germany.

Her research concentrated on socio-archaeological analysis of rural settlement in Palestine and Transjordan during the Ottoman period. She received her BA in Anthropology from Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colorado and her MSc in Late Antique, Byzantine and Islamic Studies from the University of Edinburgh.

She has archaeological excavation and survey experience in the states of Colorado and Wyoming in the USA as well as in the countries of Oman, Palestine, and Jordan.

Recently, she co-edited the report of the archaeological excavations in Madaba (Jordan) which publiched under the title “The Madaba Archaeological Park
Excavations (1992-1996)”.

Roberto Nadalin

Graphic Designer and Drone Photographer

Roberto Nadalin, a Roman architectural photographer, graduated in Political Science and International Relations with a thesis on the use of photography in the political field (‘Sapienza’ University of Rome).

Carries out research on the history of photography and its social role. He participates in national and international conferences where he presents his studies.

Curator of graphic projects and photo editing of various volumes. His photographs are published in numerous architectural books accompanying scientific texts.

He is the founder and author of the blog Photography as a political act
(www.lafotografiacomeattopolitico.it) and carries out his professional activity in the field of architectural and landscape photography.