ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION

Seminars

PhD students hold two or more theoretical and planning seminars every year.
The one-year design seminar includes lectures by scholars during which the theme is taught and, in parallel, the phd students of the two subsequent cycles, divided into working groups, develop a project followed by tutors from the teaching board.
The results are subject to publication.

In addition to the on-site seminars, from the a.y. 2019/2020, the design seminar organized in collaboration with three other Italian doctorates: the doctorate in Architectural Composition of the IUAV of Venice, the DRiCIPP doctorate of the Polytechnic of Bari, the doctorate in Architecture of the Federico II University of Naples.

Every year a cycle of lessons of the PERMANENT SEMINAR "The reasons for research" is held in which the teaching board present their research in progress.

Current and past seminar activities are listed below, sorted by year.
The video recordings of some of the following events are accessible through the YouTube channels of the DRACo Doctorate, the Doctoral School and the DiAP Department, accessible through the links on this page.

2023

Estimate and projects economic evaluation
Apr 2022 - May 2023
Cycle of lessons on the research topics of estimation and evaluation

Encounters | Confrontations - Lesser known architects
Feb 2023 - May 2023
Theoretical lessons aimed at refining the research method. Scholars and researchers talk about architects whose critical acclaim has not been remarkable.

Evaluations in the processes of financialization of urban transformations
Feb 3rd 2023
Curated by SIEV - Italian Society of Estimation and Evaluation

Clorindo's Houses
Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
The seminar focuses on the work and the design process of the Italian-Argentine architect Clorindo Testa. During the year, the study and research work of the PhD students will be supported by a cycle of theoretical lessons.

New Ruralism for Old
Nov 2022 - Sep 2023
The seminar focuses the issue of rural areas and their environmental relevance in the light of the rapid transformations that have occurred with the Pandemic. The rural dimension in Italy constitutes an area of reflection which implies history and design. Through lectures and a designing exercise on a study case, the seminar will contribute to broadening the methods and knowledge on the concept of rurality.

2022

Telling the work
Dec 2022 - Jan 2023
Doctoral seminar by the ArchiDiAP editorial board and scientific committee

WDI - Siracusa and Palazzolo Acreide
Sep 2022 - Jul 2023
Designing seminar that sees the doctoral students involved with three other national doctoral schools. Analysis and design of areas identified by a preliminary work of the teaching board.

An architect a detail
Jun 2022 - Jul 2022
Theoretical seminar and essay writing exercise "An architect a city". The professors of the Teaching Board carried out a cycle of lessons on the subject and, at the end of the seminar, the phd students produced an essay on the subject itself, agreed upon with the tutors and the teaching staff.

Estimate and projects economic evaluation
May 2022 - Jun 2022
The cycle of lessons on the research topics of estimation and evaluation

VERSUS - Architects speak of architects
Jan 2022 - Feb 2022
The VERSUS seminar, created within the activities of the Doctoral School in Architecture Sciences, offered a cycle of conferences held by architects and researchers on the theme of the Roman School and its exponents. The conferences were curated by: Paolo Melis, Franco Purini, Francesco Cellini, Carlo Severati, Laura Thermes and Alessandra Muntoni.

2021

Of Every Order and Degree
21st June 2021
"OF EVERY ORDER AND DEGREE" - Design workshop on the design of some schools in Mantova.

An architect a city
May 2021 - June 2021
Theoretical seminar and essay writing exercise "An architect a city". The professors of the Teaching Board carried out a cycle of lessons on the subject and, at the end of the seminar, the phd students produced an essay on the subject itself, agreed upon with the tutors and the teaching staff.

WDI - Вхутемас — Vkhutemas 100
May 25th 2020
Within the framework of exchange provided by the Workshop Dottorati Italiani, and on the occasion of the centenary of the foundation of the VKhUTEMAS, the seminar "VKhUTEMAS 100", has as its object the theoretical and design research on the theme of the contemporary museum.

2020

XXI Century Museum
December 2020 - February 2021
Lectures on designing Museum in today's World

Colin Rowe 100
Nov 2020 - Mar 2021
On the centenary of the birth of the great scholar, who so significantly influenced architectural studies, the seminar organizes a theoretical research on the figure of Colin Rowe.

Fences - Thematic seminar on project reading
May 2020
The seminar provides for the reading and redesign of selected architectures to reflect on the theme of the fence and on the role that this architectural type assumes in contemporary thought, to analyze its permanence and diffusion, to investigate the multiple forms and meanings that it assumes in the architectural project .

Estimation and evaluation: Identity and interdisciplinary challenges
Jan 24th 2020
Curated by SIEV - Italian Society of Estimation and Evaluation

WDI - Berlin City West
May 17th 2019
Within the exchange framework provided by the Workshop Dottorati Italiani, the BERLIN CITY WEST seminar has as its object the theoretical and design research on the theme of urban design. The application area are Ernst-Reuter-Platz and An der Urania, in the city of Berlin.

Urban morphology: new scenarios. From the city of proximity to the city of sharing
30/10/2020
Symposium Urban morphology: new scenarios. From the city of proximity to the city of sharing SMART - RECYCLED - TEMPORARY

2019

Fernand Pouillon. Construction City Landscape - Selected Works 1948-1968
2019-2020

The Great Akragas
Jun 28th 2019
Lesson by Andrea Sciascia. "La grande Akragas"

Reasons of research - Pisana Posocco
Jun 25th 2019
Lesson of Pisana Posocco "Architettura del carcere, architettura per il carcere"

Armony in space. A small Introduction to Chinese Architecture
Jun 17th 2019
Lesson of Paolo Vincenzo Genovese

An architect a work
May 2019 - Jun 2019
Theoretical seminar and essay writing exercise "An architect a work". The professors of the Teaching Board carried out a cycle of lessons on the subject and, at the end of the seminar, the phd students produced an essay on the subject itself, agreed upon with the tutors and the teaching staff.

Design Workshop
Apr 16th 2019
The Romanian Pavillion in time ...Let's make toghether a better future

Estimate and economic evaluation of projects
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Cycle of lessons on the research topics of project estimation and evaluation