ARCHITECTURE, URBAN PLANNING AND HERITAGE IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
Faculty
Director
Prof. Camillo Magni
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.
Co-director
Prof. Laura Montedoro
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.
CO-DIRECTOR
Prof. Sonia Pistidda
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
Prof. Camillo Magni
ASF - Italia
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. LAURA MONTEDORO
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. Sonia Pistidda
Politecnico di Milano
DOTT. Alessio Battistella
Politecnico di Milano
Prof. ANDREA RIGON
Politecnico di Milano
advisory board
Luca Astorri
Argot ou La Maison Mobile
Camillo Boano
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL
Luca Bonifacio
Hopeandspace
MARTA MACCAGLIA
Semillas
GABRIELE TARDIVO
AVSI Foundation
teaching staff
Luca Astorri
Argot ou La Maison Mobile
Alessio Battistella
Arcò
Camillo Boano
The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL
Luca Bonifacio
Hopeandspace
RAFAEL DE BALANZO JOUE
ASF-International, Pratt Institute & City University of New York
JENNIFER DUYNE-BARENSTEIN
Alessandro Frigerio
Politecnico di Milano
Maria Cristina Giambruno
Politecnico di Milano
ALESSIA MACCHIAVELLO
SAWA
Camillo Magni
ASF-Italia, Politecnico di Milano
FABIO MANFREDINI
Politecnico di Milano
ROBERTA MASTROPIRRO
Politecnico di Milano
ANNA MAZZOLINI
UN-Habitat
GIULIANA MIGLIERINA
Politecnico di Milano
Laura Montedoro
Politecnico di Milano
PAOLO PERULLI
SONIA PISTIDDA
Politecnico di Milano
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