Angelo Maggi is associate professor of History of Architecture and Architectural photography at the Universitá Iuav di Venezia. He trained as architect and historian at the School of Architecture, Edinburgh College of Art (now the University of Edinburgh), from where his doctorate (2002) focused on a special study of the later medieval Rosslyn Chapel in Midlothian.

His research and teaching, both in Italy and elsewhere, examines the study of architectural photography, its origins, evolution, and its role equally as an analytical tool for architectural historians and as a documentation of world heritage. He has curated many exhibitions and published widely. His recent substantial volume G.E.Kidder Smith Builds. The Travel of Architectural Photography (ORO Editions, Novato California, 2022) is an award-winning book.