Architect, critic, curator, full professor of Theory and Architectural Design at the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”.
Editorial director of Platform Architecture and Design magazine, he collaborates as an independent author with Italian and foreign newspapers and magazines, including Corriere della Sera, La Stampa, L’Espresso, Domani, Domus, Lotus.
From 1995 to 2019 he was editorial manager of the Architecture and Design for Skira publishing. He has collaborated for Architecture and special projects with the Marsilio Group. In October 2020 Luca Molinari has been appointed scientific director of M9 Museum In Mestre for three years period 2020-23.
He received the Ernesto Nathan Rogers Award for architectural criticism and communication in the context of the 10th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia and the UIA Jean Tschumi Prize for Architectural Criticism.
In 2010 he curated AILATI for the Italian pavilion at the XII Architecture International Exhibition of Venetian Biennale.
In 2014 he founded his own firm Luca Molinari Studio in Milan, which tailors and supplies integrated services of curatorship, consulting, and project management within the fields of architecture and museum management.
Among his latest publications: Stanze.Abitare il desiderio (Nottetempo, 2024) La meraviglia è di tutti (Einaudi, 2023) Dismisura (Skira, 2019) and Le case che siamo (Nottetempo, 2016 and 2020).
He curated some podcast for Rai Radio 3 (La Meraviglia, Nove Stanze).
Among the latest curatorial projects: La Grande Brera. Una comunità di arti e scienze (Palazzo Citterio, Milano, 2024); Hommage-Architecture as a form of dialogue (La Galerie de l’Architecture, Parigi, 2024); Casa Museo Giacomo Matteotti (Fratta Polesine, Rovigo, 2024); Pedrali60.We design a better future (Mornico al Serio, Bergamo,2023). The new Together. Casa Platform 2023 (Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venezia, 2023) Bergamo ’23. Visioni per un futuro presente (Palazzo della Libertà, Bergamo 2023), Il Palazzo Ducale di Urbino. I frammenti e il tutto (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche, Urbino 2023) Città di Dio. Città degli uomini, (Galleria Nazionale delle Marche – Palazzo Ducale di Urbino, 2021/2022); Moderno Desiderio. Fotografia e immaginario popolare, terra di Bari 1945-2021 (BiArch 2021, Bari); Wunderkammer LAND, (Milano, 2021); Manifesto alla carriera, (ADI Museum, 2021); Est. Italian stories of travels, cities, and architectures, (Fondazione Cini, Venezia, 2021); Foresta M9, (M9 Museo del ‘900, Venezia Mestre, 2021); Architecture coordinator for the ADI Design Museum (Milan, 2019); The Master of the Net Garden (Suzhou, 2019); The far / o / other, (Istanbul, 2019); Divine Section. Italian architecture for the Divine Comedy (Reggia di Caserta, 2018); scientific curatorship for the new Museum of the History of the City of Istanbul (Istanbul, 2016 – 2019); scientific coordination of the Nine Clusters Exhibitions, Expo Milano 2015.