PhD Program ARCHITECTURE. History and Project Research Center “Transitional Morphologies”

Department

Department of oArchitecture and Design, Politecnico of Turin

Main research activities/topics/projects

 At the PhD and Postdoc level, the “Transitional Morphologies” Research Center (linked to the Joint Research Unit established btw Southeast University of Nanjing and Politecnico di Torino in 2018), works on researches strategies and methods used by human settlements to incrementally change and assemble buildings and spaces from one period to another, from one place to another, and from one culture to another.

 Four actions for urban analysis are there provided to highlight urban dynamics through the use of different tools: (a) sorting the transitional steps of urban morphologies (within rapid market processes), (b) underlining rules and processes that characterize urban coding in transitions, (c) mapping urban assemblages in an adaptive city, and (d) reading and representing the phenomenon of urban permutation.

 Such a multidimensional set of analytical tools make it possible a new paradigm for design thinking that moves towards a parametric approach for the urban design of cities in transition by broadening the extent of urban regeneration process and supporting urban policies in the framework of a community-based approach. The “Transitional Morphologies” Research Center will organize in Torino the 2025 ISUF international conference “Urban Morphology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”.

 Because of the inter-national and inter-cultural composition of the team, the official language of the Research Center is English.

Working language

English

Special entry requirements

Having a background as: architects, urban planner, anthropologists, archaeologists, geomatics, geographers, experts in GIS and/or ICT related to mapping, image recognising, generative design, evidence based design and data analysis

Duration in months (min-max)

Phd Sanswhich: 6 -12