Gianluca Buoncore
Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, 22 June 2026, 17H00

Docomomo Portugal is happy to announce that the next talk of the IST-CiTUA ARCH TALKS Summer 2026 organized by CiTUA together with Docomomo Portugal is taking place on  22 June2026 at 17H00 at DECivil Museum at Instituto Superior Técnico.
Titled “The Architecture of the Sacred between the Tangible and Intangible: Twentieth Century Experiences in Italy, Spain and Germany” this lecture will be held by professor Gianluca Buoncore from University of Florence.

Gianluca Buoncore is an architect, PhD, and Adjunct Professor of Architectural Design at the University of Florence and the Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel” in Tirana. He obtained his PhD with honors at DIDA (Department of Architecture, University of Florence), exploring the relationships between space, light, and 20th-century sacred architecture, with a focus on the architect Giuseppe Vaccaro. Alongside teaching and international research, he carries out extensive scientific and editorial activities, serving on the editorial board of in_bo. Ricerche e progetti per il territorio, la città e l’architettura, an international scientific journal of the University of Bologna. Actively engaged in the safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, he served as the National President of the Italian Youth Association for UNESCO (AIGU) from 2023 to 2026. He is a member of the “The Construction of Light” Research Unit at DIDA and the Research Center on Mediterranean Architecture at the Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel” in Tirana. He is also a member of ProArch, the national scientific society of professors of Architectural Design.