Nicola Di Battista (Teramo 1953) graduated in Architecture in Rome in 1985, after completing a period of work experience in Giorgio Grassi’s practice in Milan from 1981 to 1985.

He embarked on his solo career in Rome in 1986 and immediately won a national competition for a residential home for the elderly in Giulianova (TE), a building that is only now being constructed.

From 1989 to 1994, he was a professor at the “Naples, Architecture and the City” international design seminars of the Federico II University in Naples.

He has lectured and spoken in several universities in Italy and abroad.

He has been a contract professor in the Faculties of Architecture of Rome, Ascoli Piceno, Mendrisio and Vienna. He was invited by ETH in Zurich as a visiting professor of Architectural Composition for the 1997-1999 course. He is currently a professor at the Faculty of Architecture in Cagliari. In 2012, he gained the national academic qualification in architectural design as a full university professor.

The development of Nicola Di Battista’s research can be followed via his theoretical work, consisting in essays and articles written since 1987 and published in numerous Italian and foreign architecture magazines, and some of which as editorials in Domus magazine when he was its deputy-editor, between 1992 and 1996.  In September 2013, he curated the “Adalberto Libera, The Ideal City” exhibition at MART in Rovereto, and edited the catalogue, which included an essay by him on Libera’s work.

He has participated in numerous design competitions, including the international competition for the Tor Tre Teste parish centre in Rome (mention), 1995, and the competition design for the refurbishment of the Borghetto Flaminio in Rome (2nd place).

 In 1998, he started working with H. Kollhoff, with whom he won the international competition for the new Enti Centrali della Difesa offices in Rome – and was appointed to execute their winning design by the Ministry, a decision later revoked – and entered the competition for the Centro Congressi Italia in EUR, Rome (mention). In 2000, again he and H. Kollhoff participated in a competition by invitation for the extension of the Galleria d’Arte Moderna in Rome (shortlisted for phase 2). In the same year, he entered a competition for the expansion of the Swiss National Museum in Zurich.  In 2001, he was invited to participate in a competition for the new San Giacomo parish centre in Foligno and he won a competition for the expansion of the Museo Archeologico-Naturalistico in Santa Corona, Vicenza; this is currently underway and the restoration of the church of Santa Corona has been completed. In 2002, he entered an international competition for MACRO, Museo d’arte contemporanea, in Rome (2nd place).

In 2010, he started working with E. Souto de Moura, with whom he regenerated the Castello Fienga in Nocera (SA) and the Castello San Michele in Santa Maria del Cedro (CS).

In 2011, he won a competition for the extension of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Reggio Calabria.

Exhibitions on Nicola di Battista’s work have been held by ETH in Zurich, 1998, the Galleria A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna in Rome, 1999, and the Accademia Britannica in Rome, 2007.

Since September 2013, he has been the editor of the architecture magazine Domus.