scientific committee

Università Iuav di Venezia

Benno Albrecht, Riccarda cantarelli, Armando Dal Fabbro, Agostino De Rosa, Andrea Iorio, Antonella Gallo, Giovanni Marras, Mauro Marzo, Patrizia Montini Zimolo, Guido Morpurgo, Gundula Rakowitz,

other universities

Viola Bertini (Sapienza Università di Roma), Ildebrando Clemente (Università degli Studi di Bologna), Maurizio Meriggi (Politecnico di Milano), Bruno Messina (Università di Catania), Luca Monica (Politecnico di Milano), Raffaella Neri (Politecnico di Milano), Claudia Pirina (Università di Udine)

experts

Giovanni Fabbri, Giorgio Grassi, Carlo Magnani, Eleonora Mantese

tutors

Claudia Angarano, Viola Bertini, Giacomo Calandra di Roccolino, Marvin Cukaj, Vincenzo D’Abramo, Gianluca Ferreri, Alessandro Mosetti, Piercarlo Palmarini

PhD students

Tommaso Bartoloni, Silvia Maria Binetti, Susanna Campeotto, Giona Carlotto, Claudia Cavallo, Alessia Cerri, Anna Ciprian, Mattia Cocozza, Giulia Conti, Matteo Corbellini, Vincenzo D’Abramo, Sarah Dal Buono, Matteo Isacco, Ludovica Landi, Giulia Lazzaretto, Bokyung Lee, Claretta Mazzonetto, Ciro Marco Musella, Martina Salvaneschi, Alessia Scudella, Andrea Valvason, Anna Veronese

PhD students with Iuav grants in doctoral courses of national interest

Federica Barraco - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"

Laura Papa - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"

Francesco Pavan - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"

Architectural composition is a distinct discipline, with its own type of studies and research methods, separate from other forms of design and from the history of architecture and the city. The field of Architectural Composition aims to provide theoretical and practical knowledge related to compositional theories and procedures, including the final and synthetic stages of the relationships between the figure, form, and construction of architecture and the city.

The study programme prioritises the analysis of the criteria and procedures underlying the form and the study of the figurative variations that determine the character of the architecture. The aim is to guide the activity of PhD students on research that highlights aspects of common interest and makes the developments and results of the work more comparable, particularly on the theme of the problematic relationships and contradictions between 'tradition' and 'invention', 'continuity' and 'experimentation' in the modern and contemporary cultural contexts.

In recent years, the issue of 'reconstruction', also understood as a mental place where memory, history, and the future intertwine, has become a privileged area of research activity.

With regard to the specific teaching and research activities that complement the transversal training provided by the Bembo Writing Workshop, the study programme in the field of Architectural composition is indicatively structured as follows:

1. during the first year, in conjunction with the programming of the Scientific committee, PhD students are required to submit at least three stages of progress reports on their doctoral thesis and to meet periodically with their lecturers and tutors. They are also involved in moments of debate through design seminars involving other doctorate schools.

For admission to the following year, PhD students conclude the year transition with the presentation of the first year's research results to the Scientific committee.

2. during the second year, in conjunction with the programming of the Scientific committee, PhD students are required to present at least three progress reports on their doctoral thesis and to meet regularly with their supervisors and tutors. For admission to the following year, PhD students are required to present the results of their second year of research to the Scientific committee. PhD students are also required to report on any activities carried out both in the PhD programme and abroad at international university institutes or research sites

3. third year: the final year is dedicated to the conclusion and formalisation of the PhD thesis. The Scientific committee will verify the regular activity carried out by the PhD students during the three-year programme (conferences, research, and design seminars etc.). They will then propose to the faculty the admission to the final examination procedure and the external evaluation of their PhD thesis.

Every year, the following are also proposed:

- project seminars shared with some doctorate schools of great tradition, with the aim of building a real moment of exchange of strategies, methods and reflections. The schools involved - Rome, Naples and Bari - alternate moments of work within the individual doctorates with collective meetings during some months, which are strategic for the dialogue on different visions and approaches. The seminars are also organised in cooperation with international universities and/or bodies and associations active in the locations of project investigation. The aim is to compare the operation of theoretical research with design practice. The work focuses on large European cities that still play a crucial role nowadays in the urban imagery of architectural culture and that, in recent years, have been affected by interventions to transform some of the city's significant places. Recent seminars have been 'Berlin City West' - in collaboration with the Deutscher Werkbund Berlin and the Technische Universität Berlin, concluded with a collective volume collecting the results of the research - and 'Vchutemas 100', in cooperation with various universities and international organisations concluded with an inter-university seminar and a publication: 'Vkhutemas 100. Space, Design, Teaching', with leading international institutions.

- cycles of meetings, conferences, study days, and theoretical seminars sometimes carried out in collaboration with the Phd programmes in Composition of the universities of Rome, Naples and Bari. These activities are a time of in-depth study for PhD students on their respective research topics and/or on disciplinary issues that characterise the current Italian and European debate.