Phd in LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT

email: lauravaleria.ferretti@uniroma1.it
phone: 3482945919

Architect, PhD in Urban and Territorial Planning, 1993.
Researcher at the Faculty of Architecture of Rome 2004-19.
Member of the scientific board and the teacher’s college of the PhD program in Landscape and Environment.
Scientific coordinator of the executive agreement between the Islamic Art University of Tabriz and DiAP (Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto).
Scientific coordinator of the executive agreement between the Université Alger 1 Benyoucef Benkhedda and DiAP (Dipartimento di Architettura e Progetto).
From 2004 LVF teaches Architectural and Urban Design in the Sapienza five-year degree course.

LVF’s research activity has focused on the following topics:
• the Urban Project as an implementation tool and methodology of urban transformation, analyzing in depth some European cities through researches and relationships with local administrations;
• the Urban Landscape, dealing in particular with the open public space from the point of view of the urban policies and the relationship between these and urban quality, as well as the project of public space taxonomy and its different typologies.
• Housing emergency and Traditional habitat on two lines of research deriving from the long experience acquired by LVF in African and Middle Eastern countries: intervention in contexts with consolidated local traditions; the housing crisis and low-cost housing.
Since 2013 LVF has also carried out a line of research on Middle Eastern and Maghreb architecture and cities on which she has worked since his PhD, focusing in particular on two themes: the cities and architecture of the Iranian plateau and the transformations of Algerian cites.
On these issues, LVF published several papers and took part as a speaker and coordinator in international workshops and seminars, national and international conferences.

Besides teaching, over the years LVF was active in working on various urban and architectural projects: the Layout Plan for the use of the Central Archaeological Area and the Palatine Hill, on behalf of the SBAAR; the update of the Management Plan of the UNESCO sites of Tarquinia and Cerveteri for the landscape part; the project for public spaces in urban centrality EUR Casellaccio; numerous international architectural competitions including the two-phasis competition for the design of Lalla Yeddouna square in Fez, Morocco, which won the second prize.

Before 2004 LVF worked free-lance on issues pertaining to different urban and architectural problems in Italy and abroad. Among the latest projects of that period: the preliminary study for the tourist development of the municipality of Carrara; the projects and studies as expert and head of mission - between 2001 and 2004 - for the guidelines, types and location of tourist facilities, infrastructures in the National Parks of the W (Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger) and Zakouma (Chad) within the framework of the ECOPAS and CURESS programs financed by the European Union; the coordination in 2003-04 of the "Cultural Heritage" axis of the MEDINA pilot project (MEDiterranean by INternet Access) as part of the EUMEDIS initiatives of the European Community. LVF experience covers not only the drafting of projects at all levels, but also the coordination of teams and relations with administrations.