Manlio Brusatin Biography
Manlio Brusatin was born in Castelfranco Veneto in 1943. After completing primary school, following the death of his father, he was welcomed at the Jesuit college in Piacenza, where he had the opportunity to teach catechism to Pierluigino Bersani di Bettola ( PC). He continued his studies at the Jesuit gymnasium at the Leone XIII college in Milan, under the protection of his father Arcangelo Favaro da Castelfranco. Subsequently he attended the Giorgione high school in Castelfranco, where he obtained his classical high school diploma without particular recognition, but having constantly participated in television quizzes such as Campanile Sera both in Castelfranco and Marostica, when television had a single channel and shows with Mike Bongiorno and Enzo Tortora reached over thirty million Italians. Having been champion of Campanile Sera, thanks to the proceeds obtained in gold tokens, he was able to enroll in the degree course in Architecture at the University of Venice, graduating with top marks and honors under the guidance of architect Carlo Scarpa, with whom he collaborated for a certain period as a "fair copy designer". He began his career as an architect working for wealthy clients without receiving compensation, and subsequently worked as a scholarship holder and researcher at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, within the faculty of Cultural Heritage, which unfortunately ended in due to the premature death of Giuseppe Mazzariol, also a potential mayor of Venice. In the 60s and 70s he dealt with eighteenth-century Venice and organized and set up architectural exhibitions with Aldo Rossi, also taking part in Michel Foucault's philosophy lessons in Paris. He collaborated and organized exhibitions for the Venice Biennale, such as "The presence of the past" on Postmodernism (1980) and "Identity and otherness" on the occasion of the Centenary of the Biennale (1895-1995). He dedicated himself to the restoration of monumental buildings, including the fortress of Asolo, the walls and the Giorgione tower of Castelfranco and the walls of Treviso, obtaining public contributions and private sponsors, but to a limited extent. Due to his many reasons, the Venetian environment became oppressive, so he accepted the opportunity to become a teacher at the first design degree course of the Polytechnic of Milan, inaugurated in 2000. In the last six years he collaborated in the foundation of the first degree course in Design in Sardinia at the Faculty of Architecture of Alghero (University of Sassari), which has been classified as the best course in Italy in the last three years, among the 21 faculties of architecture according to the Censis parameters. He currently holds the role of full professor at the Turritana University, which in 2012 celebrates its 450th anniversary since its foundation as a Jesuit College of Studies and University in the kingdom of Aragon.
