NATIONAL PHD IN PEACE STUDIES

email: maria.argenti@uniroma1.it
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PROFILE • Architectural degree, Università di Roma Sapienza in 1987.
• Post-graduate studies in "Theory of Architecture", Università di Roma Sapienza 1990.
• CEAA: Certificat d'Etudes Approfondies en Architecture "Theories et projets d'architecture", Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Villemin 1991.
• Post-graduate studies in Architectural Design, Università di Roma Sapienza 1992.
• PhD in Architectural Design, University of Genoa, 1995.
• Full Professor in Architectural and Urban Composition (SSD ICAR/14) 2007.
• Coordinator of the PhD program in Engineering-Based Architecture and Urban Planning since 2018.
• Associate Investigator in the PhD Program in Proyectos Arquitectónicos Avanzados. ETSAM, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, since 2022
• Referee of Università di Roma Sapienza for relations with sub-saharian region (2022-2024)
• Editorial director and editor in chief of the publication Rassegna di Architettura e Urbanistica (Class A) since 2011. • Editor of the International architectural review Area (Class A) since 1996.
• Member of the Scientific Boards of various publications on architectural issues.
• Referee for architectural magazines and publications
• Member and scientific coordinator of numerous research projects.
• Participant and organiser of conventions, round tables and debates on architectural research and design.
RESEARCH ACTIVITIES His research explores different themes: design solutions for the adaptive reuse of abandoned industrial buildings; the regeneration of informal settlements; the study of experimental materials and technologies for post-emergency temporary construction. In this context he created the LAPIS research group (Laboratory on Living, Project, Investigation, Experimentation). The group works to identify innovative solutions and tools for planning, designing, building and transforming to define new models of contemporary living.
She is scientific coordinator of recent research projects:
•PRIN 2022 Contemporary Models of Co-living for "the three human ages" (PI);
• PNRR research "PE08 AGE-IT SPOKE 9" 2023. Definition of innovative architectural-typological models for living and socialization spaces dedicated to the elderly population (Co-PI);
•RE-start Small TOwns. Strategies for small areas in the process of depopulation and abandonment; Sapienza SEED 2022 (PI);
•Shared Housing for Intergenerational Living. New Models with a Healthy Aging Perspective, Sapienza 2021 (PI);
•Do-it-together architecture for health. Constructive models for the architecture of cooperation, Sapienza 2018 (PI);
•ReHabFavela. Regenerating the informal, Sapienza, 2016 (PI)