The aim of the course is outlining the state of the art in Urban Morphology Studies, introducing and discussing the recent studies by five scholars coming from different schools: Peter J. Larkham, Sylvaine Manfroy, Attilio Petruccioli, CHEN Fei and Tim Stonor

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LECTURE 1: Peter J. Larkham (University's School of Engineering and the Built Environment, Birmingham) “URBAN MORPHOLOGY”, ISUF AND URBAN SHAPES IN TRANSITION. STATE OF THE ART Peter Larkham, editor of the journal “Urban Morhology” and member of the Scientific committee of ISUF, teaches courses in Building Surveying, Property Development and Planning, and Real Estate, as well as the MA Planning Built Environments and the Postgraduate Certificate in Research Practice. Peter studied his PhD in Urban Geography at the University of Birmingham, where he then worked on projects that were funded by the Leverhulme Trust and British Academy, before joining Birmingham Polytechnic (now Birmingham City University) in 1991. He has published over 65 refereed journal papers and 40 book chapters, presented numerous papers at conferences across the globe, and edited and written several books. Peter is also Director of Research Degrees for the School of Engineering and the Built Environment. He has vast experience as a PhD supervisor and examiner, having supervised 17 PhDs, examined 33 and chaired 25 vivas. Peter J. Larkham and Andrew N. Jones .A Glossary of urban form, Urban Morphology Research Group, School of Geography, University of Birmingham Birmingham 1991. LECTURE 2: Sylvain Malfroy (ZHAW School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering, Winterthur) THE ITALIAN TRADITION OF URBAN MORPHOLOGY STUDIES Sylvain Malfroy is art and architecture historian and lecturer at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW). He was assistant at the Chair for the History of Urban Design and researcher at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich. He is co-founder of the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) and member of the editorial committee of the journal “Urban Morphology”. Ref. Sylvain Malfroy A Morphological Approach to Cities and Regions Trieste Verlag, Zürich 2019 LECTURE 3: Attilio Petruccioli (Bibliotheca Orientalis Attilio Petruccioli and the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre) MEDITERRANEAN BASIN AND MID ASIA. A WORK’S HYPOTHESIS Attilio Petruccioli has been Professor of Landscape Architecture and Dean of the School of Architecture at the Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Aga Khan Professor of Design for Islamic Societies at the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. From 2012-2013 he was the Msheireb Property Chair at Qatar University. He funded, in 2018 the Bibliotheca Orientalis Attilio Petruccioli and the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre in Trani (Italy). As a result of his longlasting and passionate interest, he has written and edited more than 32 books on the topics of architectural design and the history of Islamic architecture. His research interests are the methodology of design (landscape and contextual design, typological research and the work of modern architects), traditional settlements and housing, Islamic architecture, town and territory and Mediterranean landscape architecture. Ref. Attilio Petruccioli After Amnesia: learning from the Islamic Mediterranean urban fabric ICAR, Bari 2007 LECTURE 4: CHEN Fei (Liverpool University) THE CHINESE TYPO-MORPHOLOGICAL APPROACH CHEN Fei joined the Liverpool School of Architecture in April 2010. She was trained as an architect and urban designer in the University of Bath (2004-5) and Southeast University, China (1999-04). She got her PhD on Chinese urbanism from the University of Strathclyde (2005-9). She was previously appointed as a researcher working on the AHRC funded project 'Sensory Urbanism' in Strathclyde. She is the co-founder and convenor of the 'Urban Morphology and Representation Research Network' under IAPS. She i salso Fellow of The Higher Education Academy (The Higher Education Academy, 2012) Ref. Fei Chen, Kevin Thwaite Chinese Urban Design: The Typomorphological Approach Ashgate Publishing, London 2013) LECTURE 5: Tim Stonor (Managing Director, Space Syntax / UCL, London) TOWARDS A NEW GENERATION OF TYPOLOGICAL MAPS THROUGH SPACE SYNTAX Tim Stonor is an architect and urban planner who has devoted his career to the analysis and design of human behaviour patterns – the ways in which people move, interact and transact in buildings and urban places. He is an internationally recognised expert in the design of spatial layouts and, in particular, the role of space in the generation of social, economic and environmental value. Tim was appointed Managing Director of Space Syntax in 1995. He has led the company from its origins at University College London to its position today as practice operating globally. He is a Director of The Academy of Urbanism, a Visiting Professor at The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, a Harvard Loeb Fellow and Deputy Chair of the UK Design Council. Ref. https://spacesyntax.com/

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