Paolo Del Bianco


Paolo Del Bianco, is president of the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation, member of the ICOMOS Hungary Committee, member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Theory and Philosophy of Conservation and Restoration, honorary member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Committee for Mural Paintings, promoter and founder of Life Beyond Tourism Non Profit Portal, President of Centro Congressi al Duomo - CCAD Firenze affiliate member UNWTO.

Current positions

Biography

Born in Florence, Italy, Paolo Del Bianco graduated at the University of Florence in 1972 with a degree in architecture. In the period 1972–1975 he was assistant professor at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Florence. He then focused on building construction for the hotel industry. He designed and built hotels and a conference center in Florence, later overseeing their management.
In 1998 he founded the Romualdo Del Bianco Foundation.
In the period 2002–2006 Del Bianco was appointed Associate Professor of the Department of Architecture at the Slovak Technical University of Bratislava.

Biography note

Awards

For his activity as President of the Foundation, he received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from the Azerbaijan State University, the Yerevan State University, the University of Wisconsin Green Bay, the Tbilisi State University, the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts and the Moscow Architectural Institute-MARHI. He also received Honorary Professorships from the Ivanovo State University, the Kharkiv State Technical University, and the Higher School for Civil Engineering in Moscow. He is an Honorary Member of the Senate of the "Tadeusz Kościuszko" Technical University of Krakow, an Honorary Member of the Union of Architects of Belarus and a Professor of the International Academy of Architecture-Branch of Moscow.
He also received the "Ordre du Mérit Culturel" from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Poland, the "Gonfalone d'Argento" form the Tuscan Region, the "Premio Amerigo Vespucci – Ambasciatore ideale della città di Firenze", the "Freedom of the Town of Green Bay, Wisconsin", the Medal 'Honoris Gratiae' from the President of Krakow, Poland, the Honorary Citizenship of Tbilisi.