Enrico Prandi (scientific coordinator of the Parma local unit), Associate Professor in Architectural and Urban Design, is departmental referent for Erasmus+ activities. Since 2010 he has been Erasmus + delegate for Architecture courses and in 2012 and 2013 he participated in the CCA project (LLP-Intensive Programme).
He is director of the Festival of Architecture, that organizes events (exhibitions, conferences, seminars, etc.) for the dissemination of architectural and urban culture. He is Director of the Open Access Scientific e-Journal FAMagazine. Research and Projects on Architecture and City (ISSN: 2039-0491, Scopus and WoS indexed, www.famagazine.it), Placement and Internationalisation experts, Urban Design Expert. His pubblications include: L’architettura della città lineare (FrancoAngeli, Milan 2016); "The Architectural Project in European Schools" (in European City Architecture, FAEdizioni, Parma 2012); Mantova. Saggio sull'architettura (FAEdizioni, Parma 2005).
Carlo Quintelli is Full Professor in Architectural and Urban Design is the scientific director of the UAL - Urban and Architectural Laboratory based at the Department. In 2012-2013 he was scientific coordinator of CCA and CCA2 (LLP-IP) projects obtaining funding. From 2013 to 2017 he was pro-Rector for Building, Infrastructures and Urban Settlement of the University of Parma where he elaborates and promotes the "MASTERCAMPUS strategy" an interdisciplinary applied research (also with funding from POR FESR and Min. Environment) aimed at regenerating and enhancing functionality and the form of the university establishment in the city of Parma within a European context of comparison (www.mastercampus.it).
His pubblications include: The Abbey archive museum laboratory. An architectural project for the CSAC (Il Poligrafo, Padua 2018); What do we mean by Food Valley? (FAEdizioni, Parma 2011); The Church of San Luca (FAEdizioni, Parma 2011).
Marco Maretto. Associate Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Parma and I.S.U.F. member since 1999, Marco Maretto focuses his research on the interpretation of the urban form as a basis for urban design: Urban Morphology, Sustainability and Urban Design can be considered the key words of his work.
On these topics he published numerous studies and articles on Italian and international reviews. We can remember the following: "Teaching Urban Morphology" in a Sustainable Perspective (Springer, 2018); "Masterplanning and Regeneraton: Villa 31, Buenos Aires" (Wiley & Sons, 2017); "Sustainable urbanism: the role of urban morphology" (Urban Morphology, 2014). He published books, internationally reviewed, as: London Squares (Franco Angeli, 2019); Saverio Muratori. A Legacy in Urban Design (Franco Angeli, 2015); Ecocities. Il progetto urbano tra morfologia e sostenibilità (Franco Angeli, 2012). Marco Maretto is founder and director of RAM-Researches in Architecture and urban Morphology (www.r-a-m.it).
Carlo Gandolfi. Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Parma since 2013, Carlo Gandolfi focuses his research on the relationship between tectonics and architectural figure, in particular on the relationship between collective building and urban open space in the contemporary city. His studies are focused, in particular on the figure and work of the Brazilian architect Pritzker Prize Paulo Mendes da Rocha. He published books, internationally reviewed, as: Matter of Space. City and architecture in Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Accademia University Press, Torino 2018), Il padiglione come tema. Prove di progetto per Parma (Maggioli, Sant’arcangelo, 2018). He has translated, edited and written the afterword for Motion, émotions by Jacques Gubler.
In 2005 he founded "bunker" in Milan, a research office on design and on urban space, with which he developed important projects on the city, among which, the important regeneration project 'Mare Culturale Urbano', a cultural and artistic production center in the suburbs of Milan.
Paolo Strina. Graduated in architecture at the University of Parma. In 2015 he obtained the title of PhD at the same university with a thesis entitled "Densification technique through an urban centrality approach of metropolitan type”. The thesis is the result of a research project funded by the Emilia Romagna Region and entitled "Designing the built: new integrated quality models for the compact city". He collaborates in teaching at the Department of Engineering and Architecture of UNIPR, under the coordination of professors Carlo Quintelli and Enrico Prandi. He also carries out research activities mainly focused on the theme of urban regeneration, continuing and refining the results of the doctorate thesis.
In 2015 he founded the architecture firm PSAtelier, where he practices his profession. Among his publications: Strina P., The spectacularization of the dismission, in FAMagazine, Parma, 2017
Giuseppe Verterame, PhD candidate in Architettura e Città at Università di Parma, attended the Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto and worked in the same city from 2013 to 2015, then he graduated in 2016 at Università di Parma by presenting an architectural design thesis on a museum-archive for the urban regenaration of Fontainhas neighbourhood in Porto.
He participated in various international workshops as a tutor: in 2018 in the Milan International Architectural Design workshop at Politecnico di Milano; in 2016 in the Expo dopo Expo workshop, in 2015 in Ciudad comprendida como Campus at Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Granada, in 2014 and 2013 in the European Architecture Students Assembly held in Bulgaria and Slovenia respectively. Since 2015 he is assistant teacher at Laboratorio di Progettazione I held by prof. Gandolfi at Università di Parma. In 2018 he also started assisting Laboratorio di Sintesi Finale, held by professors Carlo Quintelli, Enrico Prandi and Marco Maretto.