XXXIX Cycle
Sustainable vernacular architecture is a resource from the past. The case of Qatar, in a hot, dry region, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Deema Alattar
Supervisor: Valentina M. Dessì
The Archive as space-medium: architecture between permanence and oblivion, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Filippo Lorenzo Balma
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca, Nina Bassoli
Architecture, landscape, and territories in the work of Pier Paolo Pasolini, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Riccardo M. Balzarotti
Supervisor: Luca M. F. Fabris
Opacity: a reflection on spaces in architecture, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Federico Casati
Supervisors: Carles Muro, Fabrizia Berlingieri
Living a mirage. The existenz-maximum of Italian interiors, 1968-1990, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Isabella Giola
Supervisor: Immacolata C. Forino
Threshold. Milanese Relativity, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Guan Kaiyue
Supervisor: Carles Muro
Neo-rural architecture: integrating land renaturation through circular economy processes, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Francesco Gugliotta
Supervisor: Alessio Battistella
Spatial acting. Performance as architectural production in the 21st century exhibitions, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Alessandro Pasero
Supervisors: Alessandro Rocca, Nina Bassoli
Exposing domesticities. Experimentation and dissemination of new dwelling paradigms, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Miriam Pistocchi
Supervisors: Alessandro Rocca, Nina Bassoli
The redesign of social housing suburbs in Italy: targeted actions on built heritage, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Marco Patruno
Supervisor: Prof. Luigi Spinelli
Strategies and projects for the rural architectural heritage. The “casa a torre” in the Reggio Apennines, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Erika Sezzi
Supervisors: Pierre Alain Croset, Emilia Corradi
The design of students’ learning spaces in academic architecture, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Shilu Huang
Supervisor: Maria Fianchini
Karachi’s public space. Design enhancement of the leftover spaces as a tool to curtail the impact of social polarization, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Babar Khan
Supervisor: Cassandra Cozza
Informal practices as a drive: Exploring the potential of social infrastructure in urban renewal, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Li Dongni
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto
Community-based architecture for the elderly: Towards the integration of healthcare spaces with nature, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Lin Zhihang
Supervisor: Stamatina Kousidi
A comparative study on spatial adaptive design of large-scale sports infrastructure in China and Europe, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Liu Siyu
Supervisor: Filippo Orsini
Social housing projects between process and architectural design, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Giuliana Miglierina
Supervisor: Camillo Magni
From space to time. Air mobility for current evolving infrastructural urban forms, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Francesca Monteleone
Supervisors: Fabrizia Berlingieri, Giuseppe Quaranta
Architectural heritage reuse: a comparative study of spatial design methods for commercial buildings in Italy and China, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Qi Yangyi
Supervisor: Ferdinando Zanzottera
Abandoned buildings and compounds of public real estate in Italy, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Maria Scandroglio Anelli
Supervisor: Ilaria Valente
Enabling houses: reflecting perceptions and needs of older adults in the architecture project, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Joana Teixeira Pinho
Supervisors: António Carvalho, Gennaro Postiglione
Countryside, the naked land. A new urban-rural linkage in responding metropolitan dynamics, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Yang Dicheng
Supervisor: Antonella Contin
Reused Material Considerations for Practical Time Efficiency in Architectural Design, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Zhang Wen Quan
Supervisors: Josep Maria Garcia-Fuentes, Alberto Bologna
Essence-form-architecture: critical research on the work of Yang Tingbao, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Zhong Yue
Supervisor: Maurizio Meriggi
Community gardens: assessment and strategies to improve microclimate and usability in different urban contexts, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Zhu Lixuan
Supervisor: Valentina M. Dessì
Upcycling as a New Preservation. Component-Driven Design in Existing Building Upcycling, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Zhu Zhengwen
Supervisor: Josep Maria Garcia-Fuentes
XXXVIII Cycle
Co-design: theories and practices for transformation, mitigation, and resilience, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Francesco Airoldi
Supervisor: Emilia Corradi
Temporary Architecture in Qatar. The stimulus, practice, and performance, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Alma Ahmad Al Malki
Supervisors: Jacopo Leveratto, Mohd. Faris (Qatar University)
Theories and projects for the regeneration of rural architecture in mountain areas, 2023 – ongoing
Candidate: Giulia Azzini
Supervisor: Emilia Corradi
Rewriting Railway Infrastructure. From the caesura to the dialogue: an opportunity of environmental, urban and architectural regeneration, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Beatrice Basile
Supervisors: Michele Ugolini
Windowless Architecture: Towards Expanded Interiority and Exteriority, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Đorđe Bulajić
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca
Ecological fragments: expressing landscapes of transition, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Thomas Cabai
Supervisors: Matteo Poli, Chiara Geroldi
Hybrid Learning Spaces. Open Schools and Educational Architecture, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Raffaella Cavallaro
Supervisor: Barbara Coppetti
Age-appropriate architectural design in the COVID-19 era, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Tian Qin Chen
Supervisor: Antonio da Silva de Carvalho
Sustainable Mobility as an opportunity for Urban and Landscape Regeneration. Rethinking Milan Ring Road System for the Ecological Transition, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Nicolò Chierichetti
Supervisor: Laura Montedoro
Small-Scale Architecture. Recycling abandoned buildings for the ecological transition of minor centers, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Silvia Di Mauro
Supervisor: Marco Bovati
Italian Yards of Tbilisi. Forms of Resistance, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Duccio Fantoni
Supervisor: Fabrizia Berlingieri
The Ecology of Logistics Platforms. Future Scenarios for the Architecture of Logistics in Emilia-Romagna, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Andrea Foppiani
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni
The Last Lifetime Period of Buildings: Installation Art in Extending of Lives of Abandoned Buildings as Memorials or Monuments, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Yiling Fu
Supervisor: Marco Borsotti
Adaptive Reuse of Historic Buildings through HUL approach, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Xiao Hu
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset
Eco-digital design in Architecture. Environmental design protocols for energy and water self-sufficient affordable housing, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Maddalena Laddaga
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset
Sinking Landscapes. Living with Water in the Age of Climate-Crisis, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Davide Montanari
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni
Artificial Paradises: Leisure as an Architectural Question, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Margherita Marri
Supervisor: Imma Forino
Building Paranoia: Rendering Trauma-Wares, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Valentina Noce
Supervisors: Matteo Poli, Andrea Gritti
Pioneering infrastructure. Architectural strategies for vertiport design in Italy, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Ottavio Pedretti
Supervisor: Giulia Setti
Biodiverse Public Spaces as a Common Resource: Spatial and Social Potential of Site-specific Interventions of Naturalization, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Michele Porcelluzzi
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto
Contemporary Representation of Traditional Rural Architecture in Hebei Mountain Areas, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Rui Ren
Supervisor: Ilaria Valente
Transgressing Boundaries: The Urban Space Appropriated by Domestic Practice, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Yuwei Ren
Supervisor: Jacopo Leveratto
Architecture project for the regeneration of river areas: Lura River as an opportunity for experimental relationships between humans and environment, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Andrea Renucci
Supervisor: Michele Ugolini
Design strategies for the revitalization of the Rural: Contemporary Transformation of Spatial forms of Traditional Settlements, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Likun Shen
Supervisor: Ilaria Valente
Mobility Platform: Conception and Perception in Urban Architecture, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Hao Wang
Supervisor: Pierre Alain Croset
Tutor: Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi
Study on the overall cooling benefit of urban ventilation corridors, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Zheng Wu
Supervisors: Matteo Poli, Eugenio Morello
Architecture Communities online. Participatory Design and Collaborative Processes, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Qianqian Yang
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca
Yingjin Driven Architectural Design. Interpretation, Re-elaboration, and Re-production of the Ancient Chinese Craftsmen’s Book, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Junliang Zhou
Supervisor: Luigi Cocchiarella
Sustainable and memorial urban green space design method in the post-pandemic era, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Yuhan Zhou
Supervisor: Sara Protasoni
XXXVII Cycle
Architects’ Trip in Represented Places, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Fuat Arabaci
Supervisor: Giovanni Corbellini
Tutor: Jacopo Leveratto
Engines of Sustainable Development: Architectures for Highway Service Areas, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Beatrice Azzola
Supervisor: Andrea Gritti
Tutor: Elena Fontanella
Cage and Vat City, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Nicola Campri
Supervisors: Pierluigi Salvadeo, Sergio Pignari
Tutor: Jacopo Leveratto
Design tools for Underground Quarries. An architectural inventory of extractive landscapes, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Chiara Caravello
Supervisors: Andrea Gritti, Rita Occhiuto (ULG), Martina Barcelloni Corte (ULG)
Tutor: Andrea Oldani
Resilience of rural/vernacular inhabiting in urban friction areas in the cities of Global South, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Michela Caserini
Supervisor: Camillo Magni
Tutor: Chiara Geroldi
Research on Public Art and Urban Micro-Renewal in Yulin, ChengDu, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Ai Cheng
Supervisor: Filippo Orsini
Tutor: Cassandra Cozza
Productive environment. The re-definition of spaces for production in the contemporary context, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Jiarui Cui
Supervisor: Pierluigi Salvadeo
Tutors: Michela Bassanelli, Fabio Lepratto
Revitalization of the Lost: Exploring the Potential of Urban Voids in Tripoli’s Medina, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Majdulin Elmansuri
Supervisor: Silvia Bodei
Tutor: Giulia Setti
The Role of Social Lighting and Art Light on Urban Spaces, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Aya Glida
Supervisor: Stamatina Kousidi
Tutor: Michela Bassanelli
Affective Architecture. Synesthetic Representation through Architectural Drawing, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Jin Lin
Supervisor: Marco Bovati
Tutor: Jacopo Leveratto
Research on the Spatial Adaptability of Traditional Miao Villages in Guizhou Based on Three-Dimensional Quantification, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Yidan Liu
Supervisor: Marco Bovati
Feeding Cities. Design guidelines for the introduction and development of vertical farming in urban systems, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Filippo Oppimitti
Supervisor: Filippo Orsini
Designing Hospitality in Healthcare Centers Architecture, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Francesca Ripamonti
Supervisor: Michele Ugolini
Architettura minore. Metodologie progettuali per le aree interne. Il caso studio della valle Roveto, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Stefano Sartorio
Supervisor: Emilia Corradi
Tutor: Cassandra Cozza
Designing Her Space. Elements Forms and Processes of Inhabiting. Feminist Approaches for the Design of Collective Living at a Neighborhood Scale in the Italian Context, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Arianna Scaioli
Supervisors: Ilaria Valente, Emilia Corradi
Beyond Arrival. The Architecture of Europe’s Refugee Reception, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Yona Schreyer
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca
Tutor: Giulia Setti
Preservation of colonial architecture in post-colonial port cities in China, 2022 – ongoing
Candidate: Jiajia Wei
Supervisor: Filippo Orsini
Tutor: Cassandra Cozza
XXXVI Cycle
Pierre Jeanneret’s technical eye: Images, projects, and topics into the technical and poetic thought of his work 1920-1967, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Oljer Cardenas Nino
Supervisors: Orsina Simona Pierini, Carmen Espegel (ETSAM)
An Alternative Urban Form of Park City, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Hailong Chai
Supervisor: Maurizio Meriggi
Architectural Design Strategies for the Preservation of Qiang Historical Villages in China: A Research Approach based on Digital Methodologies, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Hu Dan
Supervisor: Luigi Cocchiarella
Tutor: Jacopo Leveratto
Narrative as a design tool in the marginal landscape, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Marianna Frangipane
Supervisor: Andrea Di Franco
Spatial Practices for Empowerment, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Francesca Gotti
Supervisors: Francesco Careri (Università di Roma Tre), Francesca Lanz (Northumbria University)
The Paradigm of Interior Public Space, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Sarah Javed Shah
Supervisor: Carles Muro Soler
Tutor: Giulia Setti
Open Spaces Architecture. For a New Urban Hydrogeography: Tackling the Water Issues in High-Density Environments, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Li Jiaxi
Supervisor: Andrea Oldani
The Housing Issue in the Global South. A methodological framework to define innovative housing solutions and strategies in informal urban settlements in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Alessia Macchiavello
Supervisors: Laura Montedoro, Nelson Mota (TU Delft)
Digitalization evolution in housing design, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Elena Maj
Supervisors: Alessandro Rocca, Pascal Terracol (Université de Paris Val de Seine)
Healing Homes. Investigating Housing Design for Wellbeing, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Rose-Ann Mishio
Supervisor: António Carvalho
Mutations of the Domestic Space in Plan. From the Arts & Crafts to Nowadays, for a Post-Pandemic Future, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Carla Rizzo
Supervisor: Marco Biraghi
Tutor: Francesca Lanz
Grounds and Roofs as a Project. Morphology and technic as an architectural reflection on climate risks
2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Kevin Santus
Supervisors: Ilaria Valente, Monica Lavagna
Precision Wildland. Designing Third Landscape within the Smart City, a Focus on Railyard Marginalia, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Sara Anna Sapone
Supervisors: Sara Protasoni, Emilia Corradi, Michela Longo, Saskia de Wit (TU Delft)
Candidate: Li Xiang
Supervisor: Maurizio Meriggi
Tutor: Giulia Setti
Epiphany in Vernacular. Adaptive Construction in Dong Architecture, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Liu Xiaoyun
Supervisor: Alessandro Rocca
Tutor: Stamatina Kousidi
Toward a Contemporary Architectural Identity in China, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Lu Zhaozhan
Supervisor: Marco Bovati
Tutor: Cassandra Cozza
Architecture for a Therapeutic Approach. Establishing Design Guidelines for Healing Gardens in Modern Healthcare Centres, 2021 – ongoing
Candidate: Liheng Zhu
Supervisor: Stamatina Kousidi
Tutor: Andrea Oldani
XXXV Cycle
Design the spaces of mediation. The peri-urban edge as a challenge for antifragile city growth, 2020 – ongoing
Candidate: Cecilia Cempini
Supervisors: Andrea Gritti, Antonio Di Campli (Politecnico di Torino)
Executive Ph.D. in partnership with Universidad Técnica Particular De Loja (Ecuador)
Rural Architecture at 0´ latitude. A critical investigation on Andean dwelling, 2020 – ongoing
Candidate: Valentina Dell’Orto
Supervisors: Andrea Gritti, Antonio Di Campli (Politecnico di Torino), Karina Monteros Cueva (UTPL)
Executive Ph.D. in partnership with Universidad Técnica Particular De Loja (Ecuador)
The Evaporative City: Guidelines on Bioclimatic Adaptation and Regeneration using Water, 2020 – ongoing
Candidate: Mariana Pereira Guimarães
Supervisors: Valentina Dessì, Matteo Clementi, Eugenio Morello
SOLOCLIM / ITN Marie Sklodowska-Curie Action
The Latin American University Campus, a resilient urban model: Architectural Design Research on “Ciudad Universitaria” of the UNAL in Bogotá, 2020 – ongoing
Candidate: Pablo Gamboa Samper
Supervisor: Andrea Gritti
Executive Ph.D. in partnership with Universidad Nacional de Colombia
XXXIII Cycle
Wild Gardens. An Investigation into Contemporary Planting Design, 2017 – ongoing
Candidate: Silvia Mundula
Supervisors: Alessandro Rocca, Annalisa Metta (Università di Roma Tre)
