Faculty

He studied architecture in Milan and Madrid, in 2006 he obtained his PhD in architectural design at Politecnico di Milano, where he has been acting as Associate Professor. He participated in the international research project ‘Casapartes’ to build low cost housing in Latin America.
Since 2008 he is the chair of “Architectes Sans Frontières – Italia” working in Argentina, Paraguay, Guatemala, Ghana, Egypt, Mozambique, Kosovo, Colombia and Cambodia. World Bank consultant, he has collaborated with the main italian organization. In 2016 he won the Honor Mention in “Medaglia d’oro dell’architettura italiana” and the Silver Medal in the International Prize Sustainable Architecture.
He also founded OPERASTUDIO, an architectural design firm in Milan and New York and from 2016 is editor for Casabella.

Architect and urban planner, specializing in the History of Art, she is Full Professor of Urban Design and Planning at Politecnico di Milano, where she has been teaching since 1998. Since 2011, she has been involved in research on urbanization in Global South countries, with particular attention to the african cities and the growth models of reference. She is the referent of the Agreement between Politecnico and the architectural schools in Cabo Verde and in Marrakech. She has been part and scientific reference of different researches in Mozambique into the Polisocial framework. She is part of the scientific committee of the PIMI Project – Master and Doctoral training project funded by the Italian Agency for Development Cooperation in Maputo. She is member of the PAUI Doctoral College.

Architect and PhD in “Architecture, Urban Design, Conservation of Housing and Landscape”, she is Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. From 2001, she has been involved in teaching, consulting and research activities in the field of preservation, protection and enhancement of cultural heritage, participating in important cultural promotion activities and international cooperation projects in Albania, Iran, Armenia, Pakistan and Vietnam with organizations as Unesco and World Bank. She has collaborated to organize conferences and exhibitions and participated to international teaching programs. Her main interests and expertise includes the tools for preservation of cultural heritage, the relationship between conservation and project for built heritage and the issues related to the role of cultural heritage in a sustainable development.

SCIENTIFIC committee

Politecnico di Milano

Director

Co-director

CO-DIRECTOR

SCIENTIFIC committee

Prof. Camillo Magni

Prof. LAURA MONTEDORO

Prof. Sonia Pistidda

DOTT. Alessio Battistella

Prof. ANDREA RIGON

advisory board

Luca Astorri

Camillo Boano

Luca Bonifacio

MARTA MACCAGLIA

GABRIELE TARDIVO

teaching staff

Luca Astorri

Alessio Battistella

Camillo Boano

Luca Bonifacio

RAFAEL DE BALANZO JOUE

JENNIFER DUYNE-BARENSTEIN

Alessandro Frigerio

Maria Cristina Giambruno

ALESSIA MACCHIAVELLO

Camillo Magni

FABIO MANFREDINI

ROBERTA MASTROPIRRO

ANNA MAZZOLINI

GIULIANA MIGLIERINA

Laura Montedoro

SONIA PISTIDDA