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Fabrizio Gay conducts studies on theory (semiotics and anthropology) of images, on history and techniques of graphic representation and on morphology of artefacts, especially referring to the field of architecture.
He has treated these topics in about seventy scientific publications – 6 monographs, 45 essays in volumes, 18 national and international conference reports by invitation or selected by a peer review process – and in many university courses and seminars held since 1997.
In 2013 he obtained the National Academic Qualification as a full professor in the Italian Scientific Disciplinary Sector ICAR/17 (Drawing). Since 2005 he has been working as an associate professor at the IUAV University of Venice, where previously - since December 1996 - he had been a university researcher in the same Disciplinary Sector.
Since 1997 he has taught courses on the various subjects of this Disciplinary Sector. At the Faculty of Architecture in the University of Trieste he has taught courses on Architectural Drawing (2001-04), Graphic Expression, Techniques of Representation (2001-04) and Digital Drawing (2002-03).
At the IUAV University of Venice, he held, from 1997 to 2011, different courses on architectural Survey [≈, A01221], and, in full continuity (2000 to 2012), the courses on Descriptive Geometry [A01005]. As part of the Undergraduate program at the IUAV University, from 2006 to 2010, he held various courses on Architectural Drawing [A01117] and on Representation [A03002, A03005, A13006] and, from 2011 to 2013, on Design and visual Communication [A03030, A09605].
From 2001 to 2011, as part of the biennial IUAV degree programs, he continuously held various courses on “Drawing for the Architecture” and on “Representation” [A61009 and A63044].
He is currently the holder, at the IUAV University of Venice, of a course on Representation for the Architecture (the first year of Undergraduate courses) [B03005] as well as a course of Design and Visual Communication and other training activities in the field of visual representation and signification, in semiotics and in morphology of artefacts.
He initially approached these research fields thanks to a training as a sculptor (1980-82), as an architect (1982-1990) and then as a PhD in Surveying and Representation (1992-96). He has worked as a building designer, continuing a parallel publishing and exhibition activity in the field of arts.
Since '93 he has adhered to the Italian Union for Drawing (UID); in 2003-2006 he was a member of the teaching board of the PhD in Architectural Composition of the IUAV University of Venice and a member of the directive Board of the Department of Architectural Design.

Since 1993 – starting from his PhD thesis "Anatomy of a modern architecture" (1996) – and for more than twenty years, he has carried out a research in the field of morphology of the main aesthetic artefacts (from architecture to city). He has been gradually refining, for this purpose, the tools of semiotics of objects and anthropology of images.
In 2006 he joined the LISaV (International Laboratory of Semiotics in Venice), founded in 2005 by Paolo Fabbri at the IUAV University of Venice.
Between 2008 and 2010 he – together with Paolo Fabbri, Patrizia Magli, Simona Morini, Raimonda Riccini. Michele Sinico, Luciano Boi (EHESS - Paris), Pietro Perconti (University of Messina), Giorgio Vallortigara (Trento University) – was a member of the research unit "Forms of the visible: art and science" at the IUAV Department for research.
From 2011 to 2013 he was the scientific coordinator of the LISaV (International Laboratory of Semiotics in Venice) and, consequently, the responsible for its research and research grants.
From 2013 to 2014 he was co-founder - with Marco Bertozzi, Angela Mengoni and Angela Vettese – and coordinator of the research unit LABIM (Laboratory of Theory of Images) at the IUAV University of Venice.
Between 2007 and 2015 he was co-founder and co-curator (with P. Belardi, A. Cirafici, A. Di Luggo, E. Dotto, F. Maggio, F. Quici) of the editorial series "Ideas for the representation" whose volumes – "Ideas for the representation", (2008), "Hybridizations" (2009), "Artefacts" (2011), "Transcriptions" (2012), "Atopy" (2013),"Imprints" (2014), "Visuality" (2015) – are dedicated to the research of experimental theses in the field of representation.

In 2012 he participated in the Ateliers de Morphologie, architecture et sciences sociales in Paris organised by the EHESS (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), the ENSAD (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) and the PUCA (Plan Urbanisme Construction Architecture division du Ministère du Logement et de l'Aménagement du territoire).
Almost all of his publications of the past decade have been conceived as elements of a theory of “design imagination” descended from some conceptions of Gilbert Simondon and René Thom (Semiophysique).
Address: Università IUAV di Venezia
Dipartimento Culture del Progetto Dorsoduro 2196
30123 Venezia - Italy

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