Lecturer, Ph.D. Position/Assistantship, and Postdoctoral Fellowship in Urban Studies

Thirty years after the proclamation of Bigness, a vision of architecture conceived as a scalar device of urban power, we are now in a position to critically reassess its ambitions and limitations. That moment in architectural discourse, fueled by a strong confidence...

Guest editors: Alejandro Aravena, Michela Bassanelli, Agim Kërçuku, Matteo Poli From the middle of the afternoon, after the violent tremors and rumbling pushing up from deep in the earth, the Tohoku area and its vicinity was cut off from everything. It was then that...

Session Chairs: Sofia Nannini, Politecnico di Torino and Víctor Muñoz Sanz, TU Delft With origins in mid-nineteenth-century France, the scientific discipline of zootechnics transformed animal husbandry into an industrial practice. Merging veterinary science, genetics,...

Department of Architecture and Design, Politecnico di Torino September 9–11, 2026 Call for applications The Castello del Valentino Dialogues is a platform that aims at creating a dynamic forum for crafting alternative ways of thinking, exploring and writing the urban....