Maurizio Barberio, PhD

Maurizio Barberio is an architect and holds a PhD. After completing his Master’s degree in Architecture at the Politecnico di Bari in 2014 with a grade of 110/110 with honours, he went on a PhD in Architecture – specialising in ‘Construction Culture’ – at the Argonauti consortium, which for several years linked Università degli Studi Roma Tre and the Politecnico di Bari, completing his studies in 2018 with a thesis dedicated to the new frontiers of stone architecture and the relationship between digital stereotomy and traditional construction techniques. His research trajectory, dating back to his PhD years, is conceived as an attempt to restore to a traditional material such as stone – a material historically caught between archaeology and contemporary marginality – a functional role in contemporary construction, facilitated by digital design tools and computer-numerically controlled machines. However, the framework is not merely material: the focus is on the encounter between a long-standing constructive grammar, namely stereotomy, and the contemporary technological apparatus of additive manufacturing, subtractive fabrication and robotic fabrication.

Professionally, in 2018 (following several years of collaboration) he co-founded Barberio Colella Architetti with Micaela Colella, establishing The Firm that operates across architecture, component design, the prototyping of innovative construction systems, and applied research commissioned by companies and research centres. Since 2020, he has been working on a permanent basis with the Politecnico di Bari as Knowledge Transfer Manager, initially as a postdoctoral research fellow and, since July 2023, as a senior research fellow in the field of technology transfer (sector ING/IND/35), dealing with the evaluation and protection of industrial property, the exploitation of the university’s patent portfolio and the management of competitive open innovation programmes. In May 2026, he took over as director of BINP – Boosting Innovation in Poliba Scarl, the Politecnico di Bari University’s incubator, following years of continuous collaboration as Knowledge Transfer Manager for the incubator itself.