Paola Pellegrini

Paola Pellegrini holds a Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Architecture and a PhD in Urbanism from the University of Architecture in Venice - IUAV, Italy. She was Visiting Associate in Urban Planning and Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Cambridge MA. Before joining XJTLU Paola was adjunct Associate Professor at the European postgraduate Master in Urbanism, Consortium of TU Delft, KU Leuven, UPC Barcelona, IUAV; at the School of Architecture and Society of the Polytechnic in Milan; at University of Architecture in Venice - IUAV and at Udine University, Engineering and Architecture Department, Italy. Since 2018 she is Visiting Professor of Urbanism at the Master program in Urbanism at the Universidade Estadual Paulista UNESP, FAAC - Faculdade de Arquitetura, Artes e Comunicação, Bauru, Brazil.

Paola is registered Architect in Italy, and has always combined academic research and professional practice in City Planning and Urban Design; in 2016 and 2017 she was Member of the Operating Board for European Projects and Urban Policies of the Italian National Chamber of Architects. Among other design activities she was involved in the “Strategisch Ruimtelijk Structuurplan Antwerpen”, Belgium, in the “Le grand pari de l’agglomération parisienne, marché de recherche et développement pour l'avenir du Paris métropolitain“, France, in several projects on mobility infrastructures financed by the European Union.

Research interests

• The on-going researches deal with 2 emerging topics related to the Chinese and Italian contexts: consolidating urban China, towards a sustainable middle class city; wasted urban heritage, the abandonment processes of historic city centers in Italy and the requalification projects.
• In the past the research activity explored some urgent topics: conservation and regeneration of the urban heritage; design for low density scattered territories; the integrated project of infrastructures for mobility; the scenario and vision as tools for the complexity of contemporary urban phenomena.
• Key words: Urbanization, High-density, urban heritage, sprawl, densification and sustainability

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Università Iuav di Venezia (2000 — 2003)
• Laurea in Architettura Università Iuav di Venezia

Articles

• co-author with Ezio Micelli, Dinamiche dei centri storici italiani e nuove gerarchie territoriali, In Territorio 94 2020, pp.5-15.
• co-author with Ezio Micelli, Paradoxes of the Italian Historic Centres between Underutilisation and Planning Policies for Sustainability, In Sustainability Volume 11 2019, issue 9, Special Issue: Enhancement of Public Real-estate Assets and Cultural Heritage: Management Plans and Models, Innovative Practices and Tools in Supporting the Local Sustainable Development. DOI: 10.3390/su11092614, open access article.
• co-author with Ezio Micelli, Wasting heritage. The slow abandonment of the Italian Historic Centers, In Journal of Cultural Heritage Volume 31, May–June 2018, Pages 180-188, Elsevier, DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2017.11.011.
• On distance and Bernardo Secchi, Paola Pellegrini interviewed by Giovanna Astolfo and Camillo Boano, In Society and Space, Dec. 2014, The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College of London, ISSN 0263-7758 (print) 1472-3433 (electronic), http://societyandspace.org/2014/12/16/on-21/
• co-author with Christina Conti, La valorizzazione delle caserme dismesse, un metodo per affrontarne la restituzione all’uso. Il caso del Friuli Venezia Giulia e la ex caserma Patussi, In TECHNE Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, n.3/12 Valorizzazione del patrimonio edilizio pubblico p. 224 – 236, Firenze University Press.
• In the reviewer board of IJERPH - International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, IF 2.62 (declared 2.849, for benchmarking: Town Planning Review of the LUP has an IF 1.6).

Awards and honours

• SUZHOU DESIGN WEEK 2019 Project Leader of ‘REINVENTING SUZHOU’ exhibition of recent projects combining research and educational outcomes from the XJTLU Department of Urban Planning and Design and the Design Research Center. The exhibition received the “Heritage and Innovation” award.