Laura Anna Pezzetti

ICAR/14 - Architectural and urban design

MA in Architecture 100/100 Honours degree (Politecnico di Milano). PhD in Architectural Composition with the Merit of Publication (Venice, IUAV 2005). Associate Professor since 2017.
She is coordinator of the Double Master Degree Program with the College of Architecture of XAUAT (China) and supervisor of PhD thesis funded by CSC.
Visiting Scholar at ETSAM Madrid in 2001. Visiting Professor at College of Architecture di XAUAT since 2014; Visiting Critic at CAA (2015, prof. Wang Shu) and at Florida University (2016).

Her research involves both theory and design according to two major subjects: the relationship between the Old and the New at both architectural and urban scale and the architecture for collective activities.
– The first explores composition strategies and language construction: Stanze Architettoniche. La Bank of England di John Soane (2008); Principi compositivi nell’opera di Louis I. Kahn (2010); Picturesque tools in the idea of Modernity (2014); A Design-led Approach within Historical Urban Landscape (2015); Working within Historic Layering in the Urban Regeneration of “SNIA” Industrial Heritage Site (2015). The theme is also investigated within the Chinese context through exhibitions and conferences: Chinese Contemporary Architecture-Tradition and Transformation- Yung Ho Chang, Wang Shu, Liu Jakun, Zhang Lei (2005; 2012); Yung Ho Chang, Post Euphoria Architecture (2013); Liu Kecheng and Xian Planning Office’s Heritage Protection (“Cultural Landscapes 1 and 2”, EXPO2015); Liu Kecheng (“MantovaArchitettura”, 2016).
– the second is explored in the prospect of the “knowledge City”: Architetture per la scuola. Impianto, forma, idea (2012); Knowledge Hubs: la questione urbana. Città europee e città cinesi (2013); Architettura educatrice nella città della conoscenza (2016).

Design research, developed through consultancy, assignments, and contests (some awarded), enhances spaces and buildings for cultural/collective activities in historical and brownfields sites, or in Chinese development areas.She has been involved in funded researches, among which: ETSAM di Madrid (Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 2001); Knowledge Hubs (Lombardy Region, 2011-13); PUMAH – Planning Urban Managment Architectural Heritage (FP7 Marie Curie Action, 2012-16); EU-GUGLE (FP7 Smart Cities-Nearly Zero Energy Building, 2012-ongoing).