PAOLA PELLEGRINI
CURRICULUM VITAE
birth: 20 july 1971, Gemona (Udine, Italy)
citizenship: italian
residence: piazzale cavedalis 6/d, 33100 Udine, Italy
cell phone: 0039 349 3107345
e-mail: [email protected]
Paola Pellegrini holds a Laurea in Architecture and a PhD in Urbanistica (i.e. Urban
planning and Urban design) from Università IUAV di Venezia (Venice University of
Architecture) and worked as research associate at the Department of Urbanistica of the
same University from 2004 to 2009 under the supervision of prof. Bernardo Secchi, always
combining urban design and architecture for the project of the contemporary city.
To accomplish her PhD thesis in 2002 she was Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design (GSD), Cambridge MA, and took part to the GSD PhD Program proposed
by prof. Margaret Crawford.
Her research mainly focused on spatial analysis, critique of city planning design tools and
theory – in particular the “scenario construction” both as a cognitive practice and proper
urban plan, planning proposals for tackling sprawling metropolitan areas in USA and in
Northern Italy (the Veneto region), new concepts of infrastructure for water and mobility.
Paola Pellegrini has always combined professional practice and academic research; among
other professional activities she was involved recently as designer in the “Strategisch
Ruimtelijk Structuurplan Antwerpen” (Structural plan of Antwerp, 2004-‘05) and in the “Le
grand pari de l’agglomération parisienne, marché de recherche et développement pour
l'avenir du Paris métropolitain“ (2008-‘09).
From 2005 to 2007 she was research associate at the Department of Civil Engineering and
Architecture at Università degli Studi di Udine (Udine University), where she joined in to
develop the general plan for the city of Udine, a middle size town in Italy, in close relation
with the city government and to study current possibilities of medium size city planning.
Paola Pellegrini is currently temporary Professor at Università IUAV di Venezia, Faculty of
Architecture, European Master in Urbanism, and at Università degli Studi di Udine, Faculty of
Civil Engineering; she teaches city planning and urban design both to master students and to
undergraduate students.
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EDUCATION
june 2003, IUAV – Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Ph.D. in Urbanistica
Thesis: Smart Growth e la costruzione di un diverso scenario per l’America ex-urbana (Smart
growth and the construction of a different vision for ex-urban America).
Supervision: prof. Bernardo Secchi, Coordinator of the PhD program
Tutor: prof. Margaret Crawford, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA
february 2002 – august 2002, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA
Visiting scholar
Patronage: prof. Margaret Crawford, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA
july 1998, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Laurea degree in Architecture (Bachelor’s + Master’s)
Thesis (110/110): Il Gruppo Architettura a Pesaro, analisi, riflessioni ed esercizi di progetto
(The Gruppo Architettura in Pesaro: analysis, ideas and design exercises).
Supervisor: prof. Bernardo Secchi
RESEARCH
Research activity started during the drafting of the final dissertation for the post-graduate
degree and since then it has focused on some correlated topics, considered extremely
important for the contemporary city: dispersion and proximity in inhabited territories (spatial
characteristics, re-conceptualization and design possibilities), scenario construction as a
design tool (considered as a “what… if” process), infrastructures of mobility (exploration of
more efficient and sustainable systems integrated in the sprawling territory).
Research was done at the Department of Urbanistica of Università IUAV di Venezia and at
the Department of Civil Engineering of Udine University; sometimes research topics and
occasions were nourished by some professional appointments and local governments.
may 2008 – november 2009
Municipality of Mantua, Italy
Researcher
Subject: re-conceptualizing “periphery”: its meaning, its spatial characteristics and social
implications in a medium size Italian industrial town, involving citizens in describing past and
present and offering new interpretations of current conditions to the city government.
Research group composed by photographer, a photo-historian, an architecture theorist and
me as urban designer.
Research financed by the city government and some private sponsors.
may 2007 – april 2009
Department of Urbanistica, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Research associate
Subject: re-considering mobility and water infrastructures in the Veneto central region to
explore more efficient and sustainable systems integrated into the inhabited sprawling
territory.
Member of the research group: Water and Asphalt, the project of isotropy, coordinated by
prof. Paola Viganò.
Research financed by Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca as Relevant
National Research Project 2006 - Mobility Infrastructures and the construction of
metropolitan territories: guidelines for integrated design.
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june 2007 – february 2008
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Research fellow
Subject: enquiry into the possibility to define a different individual mobility: a network of areas
for very light jets in the Friuli region using the existing sprawling inhabited territory.
Research financed by Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca as Relevant
National Research Project 2006 - Small airports, big European networks.
may 2006 – april 2007
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Research associate
Subject: planning an Italian medium size town, what is average and what exceptional
considering general urban trends: density, proximity, sprawl, individual practices,
connections and mobility, commercial areas...
Research financed by the city municipality.
june – july 2006
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Tutor in the PhD program in Civil Engineering and Architecture
Design project “Seminario Internacional de Arquitectura: proyectar el paisaje”, Barranco de
Bajadoz a Tenerife Islas Canarias.
Research financed by the Department.
july 2005 – march 2006
Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia Planning Office, project partner
Member of INTERREG ISA-Map II project team
Subject: harmonisation of regional data resources for cross-border planning between
Carinthia, the Autonomous Region Friuli-Venezia Giulia and Slovenia.
Research financed by the European Community, INTERREG III B CADSES Project.
september 2002 – june 2003
Studio Associato Secchi – Viganò, Milano for the French Ministere de l'Equipement, des
Transports et du Logement
Researcher
Subject: “Comprendre et décrire les territoires: étude sur l’action urbaine en ville diffuse” in
order to offer to local municipalities guide-lines to cope with sprawling urban areas.
Research financed by the French Ministere de l'Equipement, des Transports et du Logement.
may 2000 – june 2003
Ph.D. School, Ph.D. Program in Urbanistica, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
PhD student
Subject: USA contemporary ex-urban dynamics, starting from the edge cities concept;
visioning processes of some metropolitan areas; contemporary ex-urban design proposals
for/against sprawl.
The PhD thesis - Smart Growth and the construction of a different vision for ex-urban
America - started from the general hypothesis that future has grown more and more
uncertain and new planning tools are needed to face contemporary uncertainty and
complexity; for this reason “scenarios” and “visions” have become popular in urban planning
since the ‘90s. The thesis upheld that scenario and vision belong to the same family of urban
planning practices, but are not equivalent in defining their “relation with the future”. Both
starts from existing conditions, but a scenario follows a “what is going to happen if…?”
argument construction, while for the visioning process the future is a matter of choice rather
than a matter of chance.
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The thesis investigated these tools in sprawling metropolitan areas in USA and upheld that
the American dream does not guarantee its promises anymore, urban conditions have
changed, many are searching for new solutions. The thesis analyzed ideas, proposals and
planning tools for restructuring sprawling metropolitan areas in USA, in particular Smart
Growth and visioning processes with their cultural premises.
september 2002 – december 2002
Department of Urbanistica, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Research fellow
Subject: an organized archive of urban designs in / for / against sprawl (un-aware of or
accepting or refusing the phenomenon) in the last 10 years in Europe as published in the
main architecture and urban design magazines.
february 2002 – august 2002
Harvard Graduate School of Design and Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MASS
Ph.D. Program in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning
Visiting scholar
Subject: US contemporary urban dynamics and the latest restructuring of urban America,
under the supervision of prof. Margaret Crawford.
august 1999
Department of Architecture, Ferrara University, Ferrara
Municipality of Nova Gorica, Slovenia
Junior researcher
International Design Seminar “Progettare il confine: Gorizia Nova Gorica”; re-designing the
Nova Gorica cross border rail station
september 1997 - july 1998
Faculty of Architecture, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Postgraduate student, Laurea Degree dissertation
Subject: the legacy of Gruppo_Architettura in the ‘70ies (archh. Aymonino, Rossi, Polesello,
Semerani, Dardi, Panella): the role of contemporary architecture in historical city center and
the relation between architecture and urbanism.
TEACHING ACTIVITY
present position
since AY 08/09
EMU – European Master in Urbanism (Consortium of TU Delft, KU Leuven, UPC Barcelona,
IUAV) at Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Associate Professor of “Forms of kwoledge, forms of rationalities”, postgraduate master
level course, 3 ECTS
since AY 11/12
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Associate Professor of “Laboratorio integrato di urbanistica e paesaggio”, graduate level
course, 5 ECTS
since AY 04/05
Ph.D. School, Ph.D. Program in Urbanistica, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
tutor
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previous academic years
since AY 09/10
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Associate Professor of “Urbanistica”, undergraduate level course, 9 ECTS
AY 09-10
Faculty of Architecture, Università IUAV di Venezia, Italy
Associate Professor of “Urbanistica”, postgraduate level course, 6 ECTS
from AY 06/07 to 08/09
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Associate Professor of “City planning theory and techniques”, postgraduate level course, 5
ECTS
AY 05/06
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Associate Professor of “Territorial design studio”, postgraduate level course, 7,5 ECTS
from AY 02/03 to 07/08
Teaching assistant of prof. Bernardo Secchi for the “Urbanistica” course (undergraduate
level) and for the final thesis Studio (postgraduate level).
PUBLICATIONS
2011 book
Smart Growth e la costruzione di un diverso scenario per l’America ex-urbana,
Università IUAV di Venezia, Venezia, ISBN 978-88-87697-59-9
2011 essay
The re-definition of collective image. Between representation and politics in a northern
Italia middle size city, in My Ideal City. Scenarios for the European City of the 3rd
Millennium, pp. 183-189, Università IUAV di Venezia, Venezia, ISBN 978-88-87697-57-5
2011 book, co-author with Lodovico Tramontin, Giovanna Astolfo
Patussi, premesse per l’uso di una ex caserma, FORUM, Udine
2010 essay
On mobility linee guida: lo stato dell’arte, in “On mobility, infrastrutture per la mobilità e
costruzione del territorio”, Bernardo Secchi editor, pagg.10 - 12, Marsilio, Venezia, 2010
2010 essay
Tubi e spugne 1. Le trasformazioni recenti della città diffusa, in Atti della XIII
Conferenza della Società Italiana Urbanisti, Roma, “Città e crisi globale: clima, sviluppo e
convivenza”, a cura di Marco Cremaschi, Daniela De Leo, Sandra Annunziata, Planum, The
European Journal of Planning on-line, ISSN 1723-0993
2010 essay
Le trasformazioni della città diffusa del Veneto centrale. Premessa per la
riconcettualizzazione del sistema della mobilità del territorio (Transformations in “città
diffusa”. Premises for a new concepts for mobility), Università IUAV di Venezia, Digital
Library, Venezia, ISBN 978-88-87697-53-7
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2009 essay
Smart growth: esperimenti di prossimità negli Stati Uniti, in “Territori dell’urbano, storie e
linguaggi dello spazio comune”, Anna Laura palazzo and Lucio Giecillo editors, pagg.110131, Quodlibet, Macerata
2009 editor
La periferia interiore, racconti della periferia nord di Mantova, Quodlibet, Macerata
2009 essay
Frammenti di periferia, in “La periferia interiore, racconti della periferia nord di Mantova”,
pagg.13 – 14, 23 – 38, 49 – 56, Quodlibet, Macerata
2008 essay
Superfici diffuse: i piccoli aeroporti in Friuli Venezia Giulia, in "Piccoli Aeroporti,
infrastruttura, città e paesaggio nel territorio italiano", Fernanda de Majo and Pippo Ciorra
editors, pagg. 68 – 75, Marsilio, Venezia
2008 essay with Piotr Barbarewicz, Alberto Bertagna, Elena Olivo, Giovanni Tubaro
Superiorità aerea: piste e recinti, in "Piccoli Aeroporti, infrastruttura, città e paesaggio nel
territorio italiano", Fernanda de Majo and Pippo Ciorra editors, pagg. 136 – 143, Marsilio,
Venezia
2008 book, co-author with Paolo Bozzuto, Andrea Costa, Lorenzo Fabian
Storie del futuro, scenari e progetto urbanistico, Quaderno del dottorato in Urbanistica
n.4, Officina Edizioni, Roma
2008 essay
Scenario versus vision, la costruzione collettiva del futuro desiderato nelle esperienze
recenti del Nord America, in “Storie del futuro, scenari e progetto urbanistico”, pagg. 176 –
215, Officina Edizioni, Roma
2006 editor with Paola Viganò
Comment vivre ensemble, prototypes of idiorrhythmic conglomerates and shared
spaces, Quaderno del dottorato in Urbanistica n.3, Officina Edizioni, Roma
2006 essay
Suburban America e la proposta di prossimità, in "Comment vivre ensemble", pagg. 261280, Officina Edizioni, Roma
2006 essay
Il patrimonio edilizio rurale del comune di Udine: l’esperienza della catalogazione e
della formulazione di una norma di tutela per il PRGC, in “Parlando di architettura
spontanea”, Valentina Piccinno editors, pagg. 271-279, Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese,
Udine
2006 essay
The local and wide area planning in Carinthia, Slovenia, Friuli Venezia Giulia, the
current legislation and some case studies, in “ISAMap project, Harmonisation of regional
data resources for cross-border planning”, pagg. 65 – 135, INTERREG IIIB CADSES
Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia, Trieste
2006 editor with Viviana Ferrario
A new modernity. Approaches, theories and designs, Seminar proceedings, III
International PhD Seminar Urbanism & Urbanization, Università IUAV di Venezia, Venezia,
2006
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2004 essay with Luigia Capurso, Annamaria Gagliardi, Laura Mascino, Roberto Raimondi
No Risk Europe, in "New Territories, situations, projects, scenarios for the European city
and territory", Paola Viganò editor, pagg. 146 – 153, Quaderno del dottorato in Urbanistica
n.2, Officina Edizioni, Roma
2004 essay
The reaction to discomfort in a post-metropolitan different world, Atlanta vision 2020,
in “After the city. A genealogy of urban concepts”, Seminar proceedings, I International PhD
Seminar Urbanism & Urbanization, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
2001 essay
La costruzione di scenari nell'esperienza del Vancouver City Plan, in “La costruzione di
scenari per la città contemporanea: ipotesi e casi studio”, Maria Chiara Tosi editor, pagg. 99114, Quaderno del dottorato di Urbanistica n.1, Riprografico Iuav, IUAV
forthcoming essay
La dimensione urbana degli interventi di ri-conversione, in AA.VV., “Rottamazioni, Area
ex Safau”, scritti di A.R. Burelli, A. Pratelli, C. Conti, E. Olivo, P. Pellegrini, C. Perraro, A.
Santarossa, L. Tramontin, Forum Editrice Universitaria Udinese, Udine
forthcoming book
Paola Pellegrini, editor with Bernardo Secchi, Paola Viganò and Lorenzo Fabian
On the road, esperienze di progettazione per le infrastrutture stradali
Marsilio, Venezia
LECTURES AND OTHER ACADEMIC EXPERIENCES
Main lectures have been held to present research results and to discuss proposed topics at
Venice 2010 Architecture Biennale “Universities meet in Architecture”, at Italian Society of
Urban planners in Roma, at Faculty of Architecture of Roma 3 University, at Faculty of
Architecture of École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, at PhD School at Università IUAV
di Venezia, at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
Main recent experiences are as follows:
10/11 lecture
“Conversion of Radaelli military brownfield (Italy)”
at the final conference “Conversion of military brownfields: processes and perspectives” of
the project “F.A.T.E. - From Army To Entrepreneruship”, SEE, Trieste
05/11 seminario
convegno internazionale My Ideal City, a European Project, Scenarios for the European City
of the 3rd Millennium, sessione The image of the city in the digital world, Università IUAV di
Venezia
04/11
“Sustainability and city planning”
2 Seminari presso la Qatar University, Doha, Department of Architecture and Urban Planning
01/11 final jury
fall semester studio of European Masters in Urbanism at Delft University of Technology
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11/10 seminar
“Nostalgie di macrostrutture” (Nostalgias of macrostructures)
Venice Biennale of Architecture 2010 "Universities meet in Architecture", coordinator prof.
Piotr Barbarewicz
06/10 lecture
“Neologismi. Parole per l’urbanistica” (Neologisms. Words for urban planning)
Seminar on city planning, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
02/10 research presentation
“Tubi e spugne. Le trasformazioni recenti della città diffusa” (Pipes e sponges, recent
transformations of sprawl city)
XIII Conference of Italian Society of Urban planners “Città e crisi globale”, Roma
11/09 presentation of book
book and project “La periferia interiore, visioni e racconti del territorio nord della città di
Mantova” (Interior periphery, visions and tales of the northern territory of Mantua)
Mantua city government
10/09 organization of international conference
“Pipes & Sponges, reconceptualizing mobility infrastructure” conference concluding the
Relevant National Research Project 2006, Università IUAV di Venezia
06/08 final jury
spring semester studio of European Masters in Urbanism at Delft University of Technology
05/08 lecture
“Smart growth, tendenze dell’urbanistica statunitense” (Smart growth, trends of American
urban planning)
Faculty of Architecture, Roma 3 University
04/08 debate about the exhibition
“Racconti Urbani. Anversa, Copenhagen, Barcellona” (Urban tales. Antwerp, Copenhagen,
Barcelona) exhibition and movies edited by Paola Viganò
Festival Città Territorio, Ferrara (Festival city territory)
08/06 organization of international conference
III international PhD Seminar Urbanism&Urbanization, a new modernity, approaches,
theories and designs, Università IUAV di Venezia
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION
Member of Ordine degli Architetti della Provincia di Udine (1998: Professional License as full
Architect); President of the City Planning Commission of the Ordine degli Architetti della
Provincia di Udine.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
may 1011 – november 2011
Comunita’ Montana della Carnia
Urban planner _ project leader
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La carta dei valori della Carnia, azione pilota di pianificazione di area vasta prevista dal progetto
“Susplan: pianificazione sostenibile in aree montane”, finanziato nell’ambito del programma
INTERREG iv Italia Austria 2007-2013
june 2011 – november 2011
Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Servizio Integrazione Europea, Rapporti Internazionali e Gestione
Finanziaria
Urban planner
Studio di impatto urbanistico e sociale derivante dalla trasformazione del sito della ex caserma
Radaelli di Latisana e guida metodologica per i partner transnazionali del progetto, attività
tecniche di supporto per l’attuazione del progetto FATE – From Army to Entrepreneurship,
Programma di Cooperazione Territoriale Europea South East Europe (SEE)
june 2010 with Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Urban planner _ project leader
Scenarios and design proposals for the renovation of a 8,5 hectare disused barracks site at
the fringe of a medium size town in Italy.
june 2008 – march 2009
with Studio Associato Secchi – Viganò, Milano for the Ministère de la Culture et de la
Communication
Urban designer, coordinator of design equipe in Venice
Le grand pari de l’agglomération parisienne, marché de recherche et développement pour
l'avenir du Paris métropolitain.
may 2007 – 2010
Urban designer _ project leader
Master plan for a 6 hectare mixed use development (residential, commercial, office park) at
the fringe of Udine city.
october 2004 – april 2007
for Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
Urban planner _ project leader
General and comprehensive plan of Udine territory; surveys regarding urban and suburban
built environment; schematic structure plan and land use hypothesis.
november 2005
with Bernardo Secchi, Paola Vigano, Adalberto Retto jr at Universidade de Bauru, SP, Brazil
Urban planner
design workshop for the Plano estrutural de Agudos, Brazil
october 2004 – july 2005
for Studio Associato Secchi – Viganò, Milano
Urban planner
“Strategisch Ruimtelijk Structuurplan Antwerpen”; review and structure of the contents and
the layout of final document.
august – december 2004
for arch. Andrea Muston and the local municipality (Torreano, Udine)
Urban planner
General and comprehensive plan of the village of Torreano.
june – october 2004
for arch. Emilio Savonitto and the city municipality (Trieste)
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Urban designer
New design strategy for the public housing areas to be developed (zone di espansione per
edilizia economica popolare, variante al PRGC di Trieste).
february 2003 – april 2004
for arch. Emilio Savonitto, Associazione Italia Nostra and the city municipality (Udine)
Urban planner _ team coordinator
Analysis of the most important XIX century buildings in Udine and of the rural buildings now
in the urban tissue; definition of a planning law with regulations for their protection.
december 2003 – january 2004
for Sistema Sosta e Mobilità Spa, Udine
Consultant architect
Research on the history and current situation of 5 sites in the city center of Udine in order to
evaluate their development opportunities as parking areas.
december 2001 – january 2002
with ing. Italo Coccolo, Udine
Urban designer
Schematic design and program for the widening of the Shopping Mall “Città Fiera” (Udine,
160.000mq gross surface).
june 2001 – january 2002
for Cigalotto e Santoro Architetti Associati, Udine
Assistant urban planner
General and comprehensive plan of the village Preone, Udine, in the mountain; master plan
for the historical center of the village Trebiciano, Trieste.
october 1999 - may 2001
for Studio Savonitto, Udine
Assistant architect
Comprehensive plan of the urban park “Cormor” in Udine;
allocation strategy of the gipsy “Rom” settlements in the Udine territory;
master plan for a new industrial area in the “chair District” (Corno di Rosazzo, Gorizia);
master plan for the development and conservation of some villages after 25 years since the
earthquake in the Friuli region;
General and comprehensive plan of the village Ragogna, Udine.
july 1998 - august 1999
with Studio Pesaro PRGC of the Studio Associato Secchi – Viganò, Milano
Junior urban planner
General and comprehensive plan of Pesaro city with revision of some master plans in
response to the requests of the city government, new building regulation of the city.
FOREIGN LANGUAGES ABILITY
Excellent English written and spoken
Good German
Basic knowledge of French and Spanish.
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COMPUTER SKILLS
Proficient in Office and OpenOffice (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Adobe software for graphic
design (InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator), GIS Geomedia and ESRI Arcview, Autocad and
VectorWorks, Internet and email.
november 2011
Paola Pellegrini
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