ABCPhD Open Talks 2017Alberto Leva (from DEIB to ABC)

Multi-physics modelling and simulation toolsApplication in NZEBuildings design and managementFebruary 28th - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 14:30-16:30

The main research interest of Alberto Leva (Dept. of Elettro-nica, Informazione e Bioing.) is process modeling, simulation and control, a natural arena for interdisciplinary cooperation.He will tell us his history as researcher and provide an overview of his field activity, in particular, modern multiphy-sics modeling paradigms and the use of simulation tools( ), with a special focus on energy-related aspects. The topic we share is energy efficient buildings: he sees them as systems, we as architectures. Both we use simulators as a decision aid in design or management practice. It will be a very interesting confrontation meeting.

Per informazioni:

ABCPhD go-to TalksPolimi @EURAC (and Klimahaus)

January (2017) Thursday 26+27thLeaving from Politecnico toward Bolzano the 26th, at 7:15 am, and from Bolzano back to Milano at 5:00 pm the 27th

ABCPhD Open Talks 08Daniel Barber @PolimiArchitecture, Media and the Great AccelerationDecember 19th 2016 - 12h00-17h00 (with a pause)Aula Consiglio Dept. ABC, Campus Leonardo.

Assistant Professor of Architecture at Penn Design, Daniel makesresearch about the relationship between the design fields and the emergence of global environmental culture, in the last century.

His speach will tell us his history as historian of design, who triedto integrate narratives and methods from the histories of architecture, art, landscape architecture, technology, science, politics and, last but not least, economics..

Per informazioni: elena.seghezzi@polimi.it

ABCPhD OpenTalks 07 JOHN PENDLEBURY @polimi

The Authorised Heritage Discourse (AHD) questions why material objects from the past should be considered valuable and extend this to what should be protected and to how that protection should take place; that is, what constitutes heritage and acceptable conservation practice. Using the AHD as a framing device, this lecture is focused upon the practice of conservation applied through the English planning system. It will reflect upon how, in tandem with the growth and extension of a system of conservation-planning, the protection of the historic environment has, over recent decades, become increasingly intertwined with other public policy objectives, especially with urban regeneration and economic development.

Info: cristina.pallini@polimi.it, cecilia.fumagalli@polimi.it

The Authorised Heritage Discourse.Conservation, Planning and Urban Policy

After the lecture, we shall present the book “Waterfronts Revisited. European Ports in a Historic and Global Perspective”, eds H. Porfyriou & M. Sepe, Routledge 2017 (here)

Town planner and urban conservationist with practice experience, John Pendlebury, teaches at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University

November 25th – Aula Beltrami, Bldg.5 (PT) - Campus Leonardo 9:30 – 12:30

ABCPhD Open Talks 06JOSEP-MARIA GARCIA FUENTES @Polimi

Building memories and inventing spaceMay 25th - room S.1.7, Building 3 - Campus Leonardo, 9h30-11h30

Josep-Maria Garcia Fuentes is researcher at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape of Newcastle University and will talk with us about John Soane’s House and Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.John Soane, Royal Gold Medal for architecture in 1776, was one of the most brilliant architects of his time. He had a thorough understanding of historical architectures, thanks to his travels in continental Europe, and a pioneering and visionary approach to architecture that let him become a constant reference for many twentieth-century architects in Europe and beyond. Our main questions: How a journey can provide the basis to the architect’s “formal education”? Does collective history need the architect’s imagination? And, what is the role of “nostalgia” in the never-ending reconstruction/invention of the past?

Per informazioni: Cristina Pallini

ABCPhD Open Talks 04ROBERT OWEN @Polimi

Linking Integrated Design and Delivery Solutionswith Infrastructure (IDDS) June 7th – aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, 14:30-18:30

Robert Owen is associate professor @QUT, and Coordinator of the CIB Task Group 91 Infrastructure. involved in Research Development for the School of Civil Engineering and Built Environment and Institute for Future Environments in the Science and Engineering Faculty.Bob has wide-ranging expertise in electronics, as a military pilot, and in intelligence and defence projects development and their management. He worked for the NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD), the highly praised Integration of Geospatial and Built Environment – National Data Policy, and The Use of Smart ICT in the Planning, Design and Use of Infrastructure in Australia.

Information: silvia.mastrolembo@polimi.it, Tel. 02.2399.6017

ABCPhD Open Talks 03PROTEZIONE CIVILE @Polimi

Seismic vulnerability of buildings and risk mitigation April 27th - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, h.14:30-18:30

h. 14.00 -14.30 – Le attività del Dipartimento della Protezione Civile per la mitigazione del rischio sismico – Dott. Geol. Giuseppe Naso

h. 14.30 -15.15 – Monitoraggio strutturale attraverso misure di vibrazioni –Ing. Daniele Spina

h. 15.15 -16.30 – L'Operational Modal Analysis e la valutazione dell'indice dell’operatività strutturale degli edifici (IOPS) – ing. Gianluca Acunzo

Per informazioni: chiara.tardini@polimi.it, Tel. 02.23994334See here for a list of research themes.

ABCPhD Open Talks 02CATHERINE MAUMI @Polimi

The job of the Architectural Historian May 18th - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, h.14:30-16:30

Catherine Maumi is the head of the Laboratoire Métiers de l’Histoire de l’Architecture, édifices-villes, tèrritoires and joint supervisor, with Emilio Faroldi, of Caterina Franco, PhD Candidate here (30th cycle) and at the école nationale supérieure d’architecture (ENSAG). The philosophy of the Laboratoire is to use the history of architecture as a way to understand and study the present at the scale of an architecture, of a town or of a country.The meeting is an opportunity for interaction and exchange between the guest, our PhD Candidates and D.ABC faculty about the meaning of the “research in architecture” and its practice at ENSAG as well as at polimi.

See here for a list of research themes.

ABCPhD Open Talks 01BILAL SUCCAR @Polimi

The Digitization of the AEC Industryand the Policy Makers' AttitudesApril 22nd - aula Consiglio, Campus Leonardo, h.11:00-16:00

Thanks to Angelo Ciribini and Marzia Bolpagni, we have the opportunity to meet and interview Bilal Succar, a worldwide ackowledged BIM Guru, basedin Melbourne, Australia, and to discuss with him the ultimate meanings of the Digital Turning Points in front of the Governmental Strategies and the National or Regional Levels of BIM Maturity to be reached. His research (quoting from: https://www.newcastle.edu.au/profile/bilal-succar) «focuses on the technologies, processes and policies enablingconstruction industry stakeholders to collaboratively design, build and operate a facility»

You can see his full academic profile and publicationshere: http://bit.ly/Bilal_Succar.