Marco de Michelis (b. 1945) is the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Design at the IUAV University of Venice and a member of that faculty's PhD programme "Theories and History of the Arts." Having earned his degree in 1969 at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, de Michelis has since taught History of Architecture within that institution working closely with Manfredo Tafuri. A former scholar at the Getty Center for the History of Arts in Santa Monica, at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, and at the Institute of Fine Arts and Cooper Union in NYC, de Michelis has focused on the major protagonists of architecture in his research - including Walter Gropius, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Leberecht Migge, Luis Barragan, Rudolf Schindler, Carlo Scarpa, Aldo Rossi among others. De Michelis contributes regularly to international journals including Domus, Casabella, Abitare and Lotus International. Currently he devotes his research to the crossover in contemporary art and architecture.