The Department of Urban Design and Planning (DPUU), founded with D.R. 4813 of December 20th 2006, represents a complex and articulated reality both in the Division of Sciences and Technologies and in the whole Athenaeum “Federico II.” A numerically remarkable structure, characterized by multi-disciplinary scientific and didactic specificities, transversal to the most general areas of interest and knowledge; a structure that has today the possibility to affect some of the most strategic sectors for the advancement and positioning of an university institution in relation to the national and international overview.



The Urban Design and Planning complexity has an useful repercussion on the multiplicity of disciplinary competences, from the humanistic to the techno-scientific: Architectural Composition, Urban, Territorial and Environmental Planning, Architectural Technology, Drawing, Technical Architecture and Interior Design, achieving a variety of approaches to researches that guarantee originality and continuity in obtaining scientific results.

The Department structure owns such characteristics to be included in numerous agreements stipulated with various Authorities and Institutions; it gives a support of competences that, ranging in different interactive and complementary disciplinary areas, are connected both with the regional and the national productive network and with the organisms in charge for the territory governance.

The Department professors are currently busy in all the degree courses placed in class 4, 4S, 54 and 54S in the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering. They are also busy in third level education activities, particularly in the two PhD (Urban Design and Planning, Architectural Technology and Survey and Representation of Architecture and Environment), and in different Master courses resulting from the society, the local realities, the production and entrepreneurship world specific demands.

The DPUU has a detached division at the Faculty of Engineering in Piazzale Tecchio.