Chair: Prof. Giorgio di Giorgio

Starting from academic year 2011-2012, the PhD program in Interior design has been integrated with a specific curriculum within the PhD program in Architecture, Theory and Design. For more information, refer to the website.

Chair: Prof. Livio de Santoli (Energy Manager of "Sapienza" University)

The Distributed Generation (DG) represents a strategy for energy production and distribution, characterized by an improved reliability and a better quality compared to a pure hierarchical structure. The ability to provide power to network users, reacting quickly, through the redistribution of energy controlled by intelligent systems, and to face on disturbances on the demand, will give greater availability to the system, reducing the risks and the effects of possible blackouts, without increasing the installed power production.
The interest in this type of activity is high and internationally recognized, as confirmed by the activities foreseen in the Technology Platform "Smart Grid" in the Sixth and Seventh Framework Program of the European Union.
 

Chair: Prof. Benedetto Todaro

The PhD Program in Architecture and Construction - Space and Society, aims at educating researchers who will be able to inquire into the entire disciplinary and phenomenological breadth leading architectural design and theorization to be embodies in built space, binding the ars aedificandi with the emerging needs of society.
These researchers will need to be able to reconstruct the links between design and building, recovering and reformulating the theorical-operational paradigms which have today lost much of their strength, bound to the invention of figuration, typology and urban morphology. The recovery of this fundamental knowledge will be carried out within a problematic field of highly innovative character, where the issues of the environmental crisis, the role of media, the recent urban transformations for the spectacularization of the, and the new technological resources all play a fundamental role.

Chair: Prof. Achille M. Ippolito

The doctorate will be aiming to promote qualified researchers education at both practical and theoretical level. The attendants will be qualified to deal with the different environmental issues, from large scale to urban furniture. In order to create such qualification different subjects mainly related to agronomy, ecology, landscape architecture and planning will be discussed.
Long term design and control of environmental transformations and above all their management are now central in order to achieve sustainable transformation of the city, the territory and the landscape at international level.
Specialized people able to achieve a global vision at both research and professional level are required.