Occupational and professional opportunities

The aim of the school is to train high-profile professional and research figures qualified for project management at the various scales

• urban/territorial - with particular attention to environmental dynamics and the forms and processes that characterise them;
• architectural, through methods, techniques and tools for the reading, interpretation, representation and management of the different project contexts of the territory, down to the scale of the object and design;
• environmental, with particular attention to the geological, ecological, botanical and land-use aspects of a territory.

After completing the PhD, one can find employment in research, teaching, the profession and public administration in managerial, coordination and management positions. An operator with a high cultural and technical level able to address with appropriate awareness and preparation the problems currently posed by the complexity of the urban and territorial reality such as:

• living and the evolution of the built environment;
• the historical, architectural and archaeological heritage;
• the overcoming of the city/countryside articulation and the diffuse city;
• the city of rights, forms of citizenship, injustices in their spatial articulation and inclusion;
• environment, territory and landscape: green infrastructures, sustainable development and the new environmental challenges;
• new demographic configurations, depopulation, and the fate of metropolises;
• geology, botany, ecology and land use as foundations of the territory;
• the many dimensions of design and planning;
• construction techniques, innovative technologies for architecture, materials and metamaterials;
• objects that make us intelligent and the digitisation of reality;
• graphic sciences and the representation of the contemporary project;
• the philosophy of architecture and the methodology of the project.