Prof. Bertin studies in Zurich, Switzerland and Kyoto, Japan and have practical experience in Switzerland and Zimbabwe. He also taught in Zurich, Switzerland; Nanjing, China; and Kobe, Japan.

He has several collaborative research like the vernacular contained – Hong Kong container architecture, a type and its variations – Hong Kong police housing 1960+,
graphic analysis of contemporary architecture and Tectonics laboratory – types of space definition. For his Individual research, there is, for example, Lever beam structures – a class of mutually supported beam structures, Objects of potential form – range of studies relating to parametric description of form and interactive and animated graphics, and visualisation of hidden properties.

He currently teaches tectonics studio, introduction to computer-aided design and research studies: Form as graphic and text.

Selected Publication
Vito Bertin, Bruce Lonnman A Study of Form: Mutually Supported Stick Structures
Proceedings of the 89th ACSA Annual Meeting Baltimore 2001

Vito Bertin Variations of Lever Beam Structures On Growth and Form: the Engineering of Nature Cambridge Ontario 2001

Vito Bertin. Hebelstabwerke, Arch+ 159/160, Zeitschrift für Architektur und Städtebau
Aachen May 2002

Vito Bertin, Gu Daqing, Woo Pui Leng Vernacular Contained – Hong Kong Container Architecture CUHK Architecture Monographs, China Architecture & Building Press
Beijing 2004

Vito Bertin, Gu Daqing, Woo Pui Leng Displacement – Misplacemant, Vice Versa: Displacing Acts, Lives & Threshold of a Hyper City from Hong Kong, China
Cities, Architecture and Society 10th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, Collateral Events Venice September-November 2006

Gu Daqing, Vito Bertin, Zhu Jingxiang Disappearing fabric: Old Hong Kong Police Quarters Refabricating City, Hong Kong & Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture Hong Kong January-March 2008