Paolo Zermani, born in Brescello in 1958, trained as an architect at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence. He was editor-in-chief of the international architecture journal Materia between 1990 and 2000. He was a Visiting Professor in 1988 at Syracuse University in New York and in Florence, and is a professor of Architectural Composition at the Faculty of Architecture in Florence and a professor of the Master's program in Church Construction at the Theological Faculty of Central Italy, also in Florence.
He was invited to the Venice Architecture Biennale in 1991, 1992, and 1996, and to the Milan Triennale in 1995 and 2003. In 2004, the Space Gallery in New York organized the exhibition "Paolo Zermani. Architecture in the Italian Landscape." In parallel with his academic work, he has promoted spaces for critical reflection on the discipline. He is the founder and coordinator of the "Identity of Italian Architecture" conference.
In 2008, Zermani, together with Eugenio Tessoni, founded their architectural studio "Zermani e Associati," based in Parma. Since 2008, he has been a member of the Accademia Nazionale di San Luca in Rome.
His work has been presented at conferences and exhibitions in cities such as Marseille, Paris, Lisbon, Nancy, London, Warsaw, Athens, Arc-et-Senans, Strasbourg, and New York.
