Full professor of Technology of Architecture and Design at the Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara.
He is Coordinator of the Study Course of Industrial design he is also Director of External Relations and Communication Office at the same Department of Architecture of the University of Ferrara.
Currently Acocella is a member of the Scientific Committee and Head of the editorial board for the section "Architecture" of the magazine "Costruire in laterizio", published by ANDIL.
He is Scientific director of the following series: MD (Alinea Publishings), Lithos (Libria Publishings), Didattica (Media MD Publishings), Micropress (Media MD Publishings).

With a long list of publications, lectures, and other activities on his record, he authored:
L’edilizia residenziale pubblica in Italia dal 1945 ad oggi (Padova, Cedam, 1980)
Complessi residenziali nell’Italia degli anni Settanta (Florence, Alinea,1981)
Architettura italiana contemporanea (Florence, Alinea,1984)
Celli Tognon. Opere d’architettura (Florence, Alinea,1987)
L’architettura del mattone faccia a vista (Laterconsult, Rome, 1989)
Il Terminal di via Valfonda (Florence, Alinea,1990)
Mauro Andreini. Architetture in corso (Milan, Electa, 1991)
L’architettura dei Luoghi (Rome, Laterconsult, 1992)
Tetti in laterizio (Roma, Laterconsult, 1994)
Il tetto come elemento di architettura (Milan, Brianza Plastica,1999)
Involucri in cotto (Florence, Sannini, 2000)
L’architettura di pietra (Florence, Alinea-Lucense, 2004)
Rosso Italiano (Florence, Firenze, Alinea, 2006)
Stone Architecture (Milan, Skira, 2006)
Involucri in cotto (Florence, Sannini 2008 riedizione)
Travertino di Siena (Florence, Alinea, 2010)
Comunicare idee con carta e cartone (Ferrara, Media MD , 2012, edited by)
Stile laterizio. Origini e permanenze del mattone nell’architettura contemporanea (Media MD, 2013)
Stile laterizio. I laterizio cotti fra Cisalpina e Roma (Media MD, 2013)
Artefatti comunicativi (Media MD, 2013, edited by)
Il tetto come elemento di architettura (Brianza Plastica, re-edition 2013)
MD project 2007-2015 (Media MD, 2015)


In 2004 he edited the first architectural thematic Blog about Stone Architecture and Stone Design: www.architetturadipietra.it (ISSN 2280-434X)
In 2010 he edited the institutional thematic website Material Design: www.materialdesign.it (ISSN 2239-6063).
In 2016 he founded the scientific magazine MD Journal.

alfonso.acocella@unife.it