Born 1958. Graduated as architect from the University of Buenos Aires. Research fellow at the National Council for Research, Argentina, researcher and professor at the School of Architecture of Buenos Aires University, where he is the director of the Research Program on Color, Light and Visual Semiotics. He holds the highest category (level 1) in the national research system of Argentina. He has been a research associate at the Research Center for Language and Semiotic Studies of Indiana University, USA in 1989 and 1994.Caivano was the president of the International Color Association (AIC) for the term 2006-2009. He was president of the Argentine Color Group from 1994 to 2004, vice-president of the AIC in 2004-2005, and chairman of the AIC Study Group on Environmental Color Design from 1997 to 2005. Since 2001, he is one of the vice-presidents of the International Association on Visual Semiotics and was a member of the advisory board of the International Association for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry. Current or past membership in other scientific associations include: New York Academy of Sciences, International Association for Semiotic Studies, Semiotic Society of America, International Association for the Semiotics of Space, among others.Caivano has presented papers in 85 national and international congresses, lectured extensively, and tought various postgraduate courses in Argentina and abroad (Taiwan, France, Finland, Spain, Turkey, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Uruguay). He has published two books and 112 articles in proceedings of congresses and international journals such as Color Research and Application (New York, Wiley), Cruzeiro Semiotico (Portuguese Association of Semiotics), Die Farbe (Berlin, Muster-Schmidt), Languages of Design (Amsterdam, Elsevier), Leonardo (USA, MIT Press), Semiotica (Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter), Visio (Canada, Journal of the International Association of Visual Semiotics), DeSignis (Barcelona, Gedisa), Colour: Design & Creativity (UK, Society of Dyers and Colourists), Colore (Italy), and others.He was for 10 year the editor of the journal AREA, agenda of reflection on architecture, design and urbanism, and the monograph series Serie Difusión, published by the School of Architecture of Buenos Aires University. He is currently the main editor of the Proceedings of the Argentine Color Congresses (9 volumes published to date), associate editor of the journal Color Research and Application, and member of the editorial committee of the journals Visio, and Colour: Design & Creativity. He has been member of the advisory board of the journals Web Architecture Magazine (Spain), Languages of Design (USA), and The Story of Life (India).list Lis books:ArgenColor 1992, Actas del 1° Congreso Argentino del Color, in collab. with R.Lozano and G. Defeo (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color-INTI, 1994, ISBN 950-99498-3-3).ArgenColor 1994, Actas del 2° Congreso Argentino del Color, in collab. withR. Lozano (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color, 1996, ISBN 950-99498-4-1).ArgenColor 1996, Actas del 3° Congreso Argentino del Color, in collab. withM. Avila and P. Doria (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color, 1998, ISBN 950-99498-5-X).ArgenColor 1998, Actas del 4° Congreso Argentino del Color, in collab. with R. Amuchástegui (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color, 2000, ISBN 950-99498-6-8).Color: arte, diseño y tecnología. ArgenColor 2000, Actas del 5° Congreso Argentino del Color, in collab. with R. Amuchástegui (, ISBN 950-99498-7-6).Color: arte, diseño, tecnología y enseñanza. ArgenColor 2002, Actas del Sexto Congreso Argentino del Color, in collab. with R. Amuchástegui and M. López (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color and Editorial La Colmena,2004, ISBN 950-99498-8-4).AIC 2004, Color and Paints, Proceedings of the Interim Meeting of the International Color Association. Electronic version in www.fadu.uba.ar/sicyt/color/aic2004.htm.Color: ciencia, artes, proyecto y enseñanza. ArgenColor 2004, Actas del 7° Congreso Argentino del Color, in collab. with M. López (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color and Editorial Nobuko, 2006, ISBN 978-950-99498-9-8).Color: arquitectura, diseño, artes y cultura. ArgenColor 2006, in collab. with M. López (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color and Editorial Nobuko, 2008, ISBN 978-987-24707-1-5).Color: ciencia, tecnología y enseñanza. ArgenColor 2006, in collab. with M. López (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color and Editorial Nobuko, 2008, ISBN 978-987-24707-0-8).AIC 2010 Color and Food: From the Farm to the Table, Proceedings of the Interim Meeting of the International Color Association, in collab. with M. López (Buenos Aires: Grupo Argentino del Color and Editorial Nobuko, 2010), ISBN 978-987-24707-2-2/
