PhD in Architecture and Design Cultures

Academic Year 2024-2025
Subject area Engineering Studies
Cycle 40
Coordinator Prof. Matteo Cassani Simonetti
Language English, Italian
Duration 3 years

Application deadline: Aug 07, 2024 at 11:59 PM (Expired)

PhD Call for Applications, with scholarships funded by NRRP and other funds

Enrolment: From Sep 09, 2024 to Sep 12, 2024

Doctoral programme start date: Nov 01, 2024

40 Bando PNRR

Application deadline: Jun 17, 2024 at 11:59 PM (Expired)

Call for Applications

Enrolment: From Jul 30, 2024 to Aug 08, 2024

Doctoral programme start date: Nov 01, 2024

Operating centre
Bologna
Main Department
Department of Architecture - DA
Research topics

Architecture

  • Architectural composition
  • Theory of architectural design
  • Autonomy of architecture
  • Space, form and structure in architecture

Planning and Urban Design

  • Sustainability in planning and in urban design
  • Relations between planning and environment/landscape protection and promotion
  • Urban and rural regeneration: techniques, tools and experimentations
  • Theories of planning and urban design

Construction Technologies and Building Performances

  • Sustainable building design
  • Energy efficient building
  • Architectural building renovation
  • Project construction management
  • Innovation Technologies
  • Indoor quality and building performances
  • Outdoor quality, climate change adaptation and mitigation strategies
  • Acoustics

Advanced Design

  • Design driven product and service innovation
  • Advanced design cultures: beyond processes and thinking
  • Design thinking social innovation
  • Industry 4.0
  • Cultural and Creative Industries
  • Social Innovation
  • Visions of the futures in material forms: a dynamic relationship between past, present, and future

Cultural Heritage

  • Protection, Restoration and Preservation
  • Technologies for conservation
  • Digital Heritage
  • Design for Cultural Heritage in the digital era
  • Humanities and Technology for Cultural Heritage
  • Cultural Heritage and sustainability

Architectural Humanities

  • History of architecture
  • History of design
  • Aesthetics of design and architecture
  • Aesthetics of everyday life
  • Philosophy and architecture
  • Architecture and arts
  • Architecture and literature, film, tv
  • Urban and visual culture
Job opportunities and potential areas of employment
Job opportunities are directly related to research activities in the field of architecture with particular reference to the areas here described in general terms: Architectural composition; Urban Design; Construction Technologies; Advanced Design; Restoration and Preservation; Humanities and Technology for Cultural Heritage; History of architecture; Aesthetics of design and architecture.
Admission Board

NRRP Call for applications
Appointed by Rectoral Decree n. 1148 Prot. n. 0193313 of July 9th, 2024

Surname and Name University/Institution Role email
Agnoletto Matteo Università di Bologna Member matteo.agnoletto@unibo.it
Santangelo Angela Università di Bologna Member angela.santangelo@unibo.it
Tondelli Simona Università di Bologna Member simona.tondelli@unibo.it
Elisa Conticelli Università di Bologna Substitute elisa.conticelli@unibo.it
Predari Giorgia Università di Bologna Substitute giorgia.predari@unibo.it
Zannoni Michele Università di Bologna Substitute michele.zannoni@unibo.it

Call for Applications
Appointed by RD n. 802 Prot. n. 0143275 of May 23rd, 2024

Surname and Name University / Institution Role email
Apollonio Fabrizio Ivan Università di Bologna Member fabrizio.apollonio@unibo.it
Cassani Simonetti Matteo Università di Bologna Member matteo.cassani@unibo.it
Longo Danila Università di Bologna Member danila.longo@unibo.it
Predari Giorgia Università di Bologna Member giorgia.predari@unibo.it
Zannoni Michele Università di Bologna Member michele.zannoni@unibo.it
Antonini Ernesto Università di Bologna Substitute ernesto.antonini@unibo.it
Fallavollita Federico Università di Bologna Substitute federico.fallavollita@unibo.it
Ferrante Annarita Università di Bologna Substitute annarita.ferrante@unibo.it
Formia Elena Maria Università di Bologna Substitute elena.formia@unibo.it
Leoni Giovanni Università di Bologna Substitute giovanni.leoni@unibo.it

* The following shall take part in the work of the Examination Board as expert members for positions linked to specific research topics:

  • Riccardo Varini - Università di San Marino