Paul Cornaglia is a Associate Professor of Architecture and Design at Polytechnic University of Turin. In 1990 Degree in architecture at the Politecnico di Torino, with thesis titled Venaria Reale 1699 - 1798 / From Ponente to Mezzogiorno: the geography of taste in a century of construction site and in 2009, commissioned as part of the teaching activity as a researcher, the course of history of the gardens, 3 credits, 2nd semester, Design of gardens, parks and landscape, academic year 2008/09. In 2003-2009 is a professor at the Master of Landscape Design and Green Areas (Biella, City Studies). he central theme is civilian architecture in the Baroque and late-Baroque times, with particular reference to court residences in the Sardinian states of mainland, in relation to the city-capital and the European context. The analysis - open to the topics of commissions, professional project and site designers, architectural reference models, distribution, decoration and social use of space - also addressed some of the results related to the first half of the nineteenth century in Piedmont and To the city of Genoa. Alongside this main strand lies the study of noble dwellings, analyzed through exemplary cases, and that of the facilities for assistance. The activity was developed within the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Torino.

Architecture history