Program of study

The aim of the PhD course is to develop the subjects related to Building Technology and to strengthen the synergistic cooperation of design, process and building. The field of interest ranges from technologies based on innovative materials , to industrial design and restoration. The PhD will explore cross field research approaches, based on the research activities of the PhD Student and the active debate with the teachers taking part at the joint sittings. The researches will be developed under both a national and an international scale.

The starting point of the PhD is the necessity of developing an effective strategy to relate the needs of the design process and those of Building technology which involve the building process, its strategies and its means.

The critical issues of those two aspects are clear when they have to deal with technological innovation. Nowadays it’s more and more important to understand the changes occurred to the building process: since it left the rules of tradition, a deep revision of its techniques is needed do meet the changes given by “hard” (materials, technical components, techniques) and “soft” (mutual interaction of the actors involved) innovations.

According with this idea the goal of this PhD course is to get through the schematic division of the areas in which an architectural, design or restoration project is artificially partitioned.