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𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐠𝐢 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐠𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐢
Prof. Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi is an architectural writer, critic, curator of numerous exhibitions and events, and the president of Associazione Italiana di Architettura e Critica.
He writes for: IoArch, The Plan, L’Arca, Edilizia e Territorio, Architectural Design, A10, Domus, Monument, Platform, Abitare. He was the chief editor of the international magazine Compasses (www.compasses.ae).
He is an editor for Le Carré Bleu. His many books include: HyperArchitecture, Testo&Immagine & Birkhäuser, 1998, and monographs on the work of Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid, Antonio Citterio.
He was the editor of ItaliaArchitettura, a series of books on the more interesting Italian Architects.
He has published for Wiley: New Directions in Contemporary Architecture. Evolutions and Revolutions in Building Design Since 1988. His writings can be found online at http://www.prestinenza.it.
His History of Contemporary Architecture got more than 30.000 downloads and was published in 3 languages.
His thoughts on architecture can be found on his Facebook page, that counts 24.000 followers, and on Instagram (21.500).
He was a juror in many prizes and competitions, including the Venice Biennale directed by Aaron Betsky.
He is quoted in Wikipedia: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Prestinenza_Puglisi
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐅𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐱 𝐖𝐚𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐫
Prof. Arch. Felix Waechter, born in Darmstadt in 1971, studied architecture and urban planning at the University of Stuttgart, the école d'Architecture de Lyon, and at Harvard University, Graduate School of Design. In 1998, he founded the office of Waechter+Waechter Architekten BDA with Sibylle Waechter, based in Darmstadt.
Since 2016, Felix Waechter has been Professor of Design and Building Construction in the Department of Architecture at Darmstadt Technical University, where he served as Dean of Studies from 2018 to 2024 and has been Dean since 2024.
His teaching and research focus on building with wood.
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐒̦𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐧 𝐓̦𝐢𝐠𝐚̆𝐧𝐚𝐬̦
Prof. Arch. Șerban Țigănaș began his career by winning several competitions and working in Alba Iulia, Brașov, and Cluj, Romania, later undertaking projects across the country.
His career has three dimensions: profession, through projects completed with the Dico and Țigănaș office, with engineer Florin Dico; education, as a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at TU Cluj-Napoca; and activism for the profession, serving as president of the Order of Architects in Romania (2010-2018), member of the board of the ACE (2008-2010), and on the Council of the UIA (2014-2017), holding the position of Secretary General of the UIA (2017-2021).
He is currently the Dean of FAU in Cluj-Napoca.
He initiated the first studies on the architectural profession in Romania.
He has written books dedicated to the practice of architecture, focusing on the new role of the architect in a changing world.
The projects completed with his team have won multiple awards.
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐄𝐧𝐢𝐬 𝐉𝐚𝐤𝐮𝐩𝐢
Prof. Enis Jakupi - Architect, structural engineer, and university professor. Dean of the Faculty of Applied Sciences, lecturer in the Architecture and Civil Engineering programs. He has experience in more than 200 construction projects in design, supervision, and implementation, as well as in urban and technical documentation.
Author of over 50 scientific papers and 9 books, reviewer and editor of numerous publications.
Winner of the “Goce Delchev” Award (2017) for the university textbook Architectural Constructions 1, in recognition of outstanding scientific achievements of national interest to the
Republic of North Macedonia.
Editor of the journal Journal of Applied Sciences – SUT JAS-SUT
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐋𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐳𝐨 𝐏𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐢
Prof. Arch. Lorenzo Pignatti (1954) has been a full professor of architectural and urban design at the Department of Architecture - Università G. d'Annunzio – Pescara (Italy) until 2024, where he acted as Director of the Department of Architecture from 2020 to 2023 and Course Coordinator from 2015 to 2020.
He conducts research on the Adriatic and Balkan regions.
He has promoted numerous international exchange initiatives, organized conferences and workshops in various countries, and published multiple publications and essays on these themes.
He is also Professor Emeritus of the University of Waterloo (Canada), where he remains a scientific consultant of its Rome Programme.
He has always been an investigator of various phenomena related to the development of modernity and has reinterpreted them both in theoretical research and in design.
He has been the founding partner of Ottone Pignatti Architetti (Rome), which concentrated its work on urban regeneration and the design of public spaces.
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐚𝐮𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐡
From 1995 to 2001, Matthias Sauerbruch was a professor at the Technical University of Berlin. He then taught at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart from 2001 to 2007.
In 2005, Matthias Sauerbruch was a visiting professor at the University of Virginia .
From 2007 to 2010, he was a visiting professor at Harvard University ( Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD)) in Cambridge, together with Louisa Hutton.
In 2013, Sauerbruch curated the exhibition kultur:stadt for the Academy of Arts in Berlin and the Kunsthaus Graz. From 2012 to 2014, Sauerbruch was a visiting professor at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Sauerbruch is a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, whose architecture section he headed from 2018 until the regular election in autumn 2021, when he was succeeded by Fritz Frenkler.
He is also an Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) (since 2013) and of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland (RIAI) (since 2019).
He is one of the founding members of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB) , founded in 2007.
He was a member of the Zurich Building Council from 2010 to 2014 and of the Munich Commission for Urban Design (2016–2021) , as well as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, a jury member of the Villa Massimo of the German Academy in Rome, and a Fellow at the Institute for Urban Design in New York City.
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐈𝐥𝐢𝐫 𝐆𝐣𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢
Ilir Gjinolli (1962) Graduated at the Department of Architecture at Pristhina University. Between 1988-1991 followed graduate studies at Zagreb University.
From 1988 started academic carrier as a teaching assistant, and from 1991 lecturer of Urban Design at Prishtina University, Department of Architecture.
He has completed his PhD studies at the Faculty of Architecture, Graz University of Technology, with the thesis ‘Public Space in Kosovo-Transformation through History’.
In 2001 established a multidisciplinary studio of architecture and urban design URBAN PLUS in Prishtina, where he is the director from 2006.
He is one of the founders of the Institute of Spatial Planning within the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning of Kosovo, and was director until 2006. He was the team leader of the Spatial Plan for Kosovo. In 2010, together with Alfredo Navarro, a Spanish architect, established EUROPAN Kosovo, a local organization of the ‘EUROPAN’ Architecture Competition.
In 2015, together with Lulzim Kabashi, have prepared the exhibition and the book ’Kosovo Modern-An Architecture Primer.
He lives and works in Prishtina.
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐅𝐥𝐚𝐤𝐚 𝐗𝐞̈𝐫𝐱𝐚 𝐁𝐞𝐪𝐢𝐫𝐢
Dr. Sc. Flaka Xërxa Beqiri holds the title of Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Pristina, where she currently serves as Vice Dean for Quality and International Cooperation. She is actively engaged in both academia and architectural practice.
She completed her master’s studies at the University of Maribor, her doctoral studies at the University of Ljubljana, and specialized training modules at San Jose State University, USA. She is the co-founder of Oxide Creative Lab, an architecture studio that integrates research and practice. Additionally, she is dedicated to promoting and protecting modern architecture in Kosovo through the MODERNe Initiative.
Recently, she co-founded the Festival of Modern Architecture, further contributing to the discourse on Kosovo’s modern architectural heritage. She is also the author of several documentary films on architecture and has been recognized for her work, winning second place at the Kosovo Biennale of Architecture for her project on the renewal of Gjakova Bazaar.
Her research and architectural contributions have been internationally published, solidifying her role as a key figure in the study, preservation, and evolution of Kosovo’s architecture scene and discourse.
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: 𝐑𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐕𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐞
Prof. Arch. Riccardo Viale is Professor of Behavioral Sciences and Cognitive Economics at the Department of Economics of the University of Milan Bicocca and of Behavioral Economics at LUISS, Rome.
President of Behavioral Insights Bicocca and Co-Scientific Director of the Master's “Behavioral Design of Public Utilities and Services”. Early in his career, he was a CNR-NATO Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford University, Research Scholar at the Italian Academy of Columbia University, at Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin and at the Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing.
He was a European Research Council reviewer and panel member of Mind and its Complexity Consolidator Grants.
He is currently Head of the Italy Behavioral Insights Team (Team di Analisi Comportamentale) at the Prime Minister's Department of Civil Service.
Founder and Secretary General of Herbert Simon Society. Editor in Chief of Mind & Society (Nature-Springer).
Author of many books and publications including the Economics, Bounded Rationality, and the Cognitive Revolution (with Herbert Simon, Robin Marris, and Massimo Egidi; Elgar, 1995), Handbook on Bounded Rationality (Routledge, 2021), Nudging (The MIT Press, 2022), Cognitive Economics (Elgar, forthcoming), and co-editor with Gerd Gigerenzer and Shabnam Mousavi of the Companion to Herbert Simon (Elgar, 2024).
From 2010 to 2014, he was the Director of the Italian Culture Institute of New York. Currently, he isa columnist of Corriere della Sera.
His previous empirical research was in category-based induction, conjunction fallacy, vague predicates, and deductive reasoning. Recent empirical research is on social norm nudging and behavioral design in public policy and public administration.
His theoretical research focuses on the cognitive foundation of the methodology of social sciences, by the proposal of the theory of “Methodological Cognitivism”; on the introduction of the concept of “Cognitive Economics” to overcome the failures of behavioral economics; and on the wide embodied dimension of bounded rationality.
In particular, his critique is to the influence ofthe SEU model to the development of the cognitive psychology of decision making, and his proposal is to focus on the wide embodied dimension of problem solving and action by the introduction of the concept of enactive problem-solving.
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: Ornella Zerlenga
She graduated in 1988 at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Naples "Federico" with a vote of 110/110 honors and dignity of publication. She obtained the title of PhD in "Survey and
Representation of the Built" in 1994 (VI cycle) and was a PostDoctoral Scholar at the University of Palermo (II cycle, 1995-97).
She was a contract professor in the disciplines of 'Drawing' at the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria and at the University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", where in January 2000 she entered the role of University Researcher in the S.S.D. ICAR/17 - Drawing (S.C. 08/E1), then becoming always in the same S.S.D. in November 2001, Associate Professor and, in December 2011, Full Professor.
She has been President of the degree courses in "Design and Communication" and "Design for
Fashion", and of the single-cycle master's degree course in "Architecture" at the Vanvitelli
Department of Architecture and Industrial Design. Also, at the Vanvitelli University she was the
Rector's delegate for distance learning (e-learning) as well as Referent for Docimology.
Since December 2020 she has elected Dean of the Department of Architecture and Industrial
Design of the University of Campania 'Luigi Vanvitelli' (aa.aa. 2020-2023, D.R. n. 974/2020). For
the same University she is currently a member of the Commission for the Coordination of the 24
CFU Course. She is re-elected for the same position for the three-year period 2023-2026 (D.R. n.
759/2023).
Since 2021 she has been elected member of the Academic Senate (D.R. n. 1233/2021)
𝐈𝐅𝐀𝐔 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓
Invited Speaker: Nadia Bakhtafrouz
Nadia Bakhtafrouz is an architect and researcher. She recently obtained a PhD in Architecture, Theory, and Design from La Sapienza University in Rome. Her research explores the evolution of contemporary mosque design in the Euro-Mediterranean context, investigating the relationship between identity, sacred space, and urban transformation.
She has gained professional experience in several countries—Romania, Cyprus, Japan, Spain, and Iran—developing an intercultural approach to design and a broad vision of the global dynamics of architecture. She has collaborated on the development of international projects on various scales, from design to urban planning.
Alongside her professional practice, she is active in academia: since 2017, she has been teaching at the University of Alghero and the University of Rome, contributing to courses in design and architectural theory. She also combines her research with regular publishing, writing for magazines such as IoArch, Industria delle Costruzioni, and IQD Magazine.