Giuseppe Castellucci was born in Arezzo, and active throughout Tuscany as an architect.
Among his mentors and teachers were Luigi del Moro, Vincenzo Micheli, and Crescentino Caselli.
As a young man, he helped illustrate with K. Von Stegmann and H. Von Geymuller the text of Architetture del Rinascimento in Toscana (Die Architekur der Renaissance in Toscana), published in 1885 in Munich.
He became a frequent commentator and illustrater for the journal of Ricordi di Architettura.
In 1889, he was appointed as professor of Architectural design for the Accademia delle Belle Arti di Firenze.