Coordinator: prof. Mario Losasso

The Course investigates and develops a large variety of themes concerning the transformations of the built environment and establishes relations between architectural design and construction processes.

It is based on two different curricula:
1) Product and process innovation in design and transformation of the built environment
2) Processes and technologies for the built environment sustainability.

The main topics investigated in the Doctoral Course are:
1) Methodology and design strategies for improving the human environment
2) Complexity and innovation in building process
3) Principles of contemporary sustainable building
4) Production and buildability of architectural design
5 Environmental quality controls
6) Enhancement of raw building materials and renewable sources of energy
7) Control of environmental behaviour of living spaces
8) Control of energy leaks and Life Cycle Thinking

The Course relies on two Departments with their know-how, libraries, laboratories; the direction is at the Department of Urban Design and Planning. The College is composed by the coordinator prof. Augusto Vitale and twelve Professors.
The Course is part of the Doctoral School of Architecture, composed by ten Doctorates. As a part of the overall formation given by the School, in its first year the Course gives basic lectures and seminars on different topics, such as Introduction to technology research, Technology for environmental sustainability, Innovation for environmental transformation.
In the following two years the Course exploits specialization seminars, research activity at research institutions in or outside Italy

The aim of the Course is therefore the shaping of professional and research skills fit to understand, control and manage strategies for a sustainable development of the human environment.

Go to OSDOTTA, the site in the community of PhD in Architectural Technology
http://www.osdotta.unifi.it/

Thesis published