{"id":443,"date":"2025-10-22T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arch.polimi.it\/addresses\/architettura-e-citta\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T09:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T09:30:54","slug":"architecture-and-urban-design","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.arch.polimi.it\/en\/tracks\/architecture-and-urban-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Architecture and Urban Design"},"content":{"rendered":"    <div class=\"polimi-page-layout-3slots\">\n        \n        <section class=\"slot-main\" aria-label=\"Main slot\">\n            \n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This track focuses on the relationship between architecture and the city, addressing architectural and urban design through a trans-scalar and multidisciplinary lens. It fosters critical dialogue between the tools of Italian and Milanese theoretical and design traditions and the most innovative international approaches. The design process engages the complex interplay between buildings, open spaces, and infrastructure, considering functional, formal, expressive, and constructive perspectives grounded in architectural thinking, sustainable development principles, and civil responsibility. Key topics include new patterns of urban settlement and development, emerging housing needs, provision of services and infrastructure, heritage conservation, and urban regeneration in diverse contexts &#8211; from Western Europe to emerging and Global South countries.<\/p>\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Know more<\/h2>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-polimi-button-external-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/onlineservices.polimi.it\/manifesti\/manifesti\/controller\/ManifestoPublic.do?evn_default=EVENTO&amp;aa=2025&amp;k_cf=222&amp;k_corso_la=1030&amp;ac_ins=0&amp;k_indir=IE1&amp;lang=EN&amp;tipoCorso=ALL_TIPO_CORSO&amp;semestre=ALL_SEMESTRI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Programme<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-polimi-button-external-outline\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/onlineservices.polimi.it\/manifesti\/manifesti\/controller\/extra\/RegolamentoPublic.do?jaf_currentWFID=main&amp;EVN_DEFAULT=evento&amp;aa=2025&amp;k_corso_la=1017&amp;lang=IT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the Regulation<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n        <\/section>\n\n                    <section class=\"slot-bottom\" aria-label=\"Bottom slot (below grid)\">\n                            <section class=\"full-width-banner\">\n                <div class=\"full-width-banner--container\">\n                    <p class=\"full-width-banner--description\">\n                        Shape your future                    <\/p>\n                    <h2 class=\"full-width-banner--title\">\n                        Find out how to become part of Italy&#039;s leading university.                    <\/h2>\n                    \n                    <a class=\"full-width-banner--cta\" href=\"https:\/\/www.auic.polimi.it\/en\/students\/test-admission-changing-programme-and-transfer\/admission-to-laurea-magistrale-degree-equivalent-to-master-of-science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n                        Admission criteria                                                    <svg width=\"18\" height=\"18\" viewBox=\"0 0 18 18\" fill=\"currentColor\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n                                <path d=\"M11.9369 5.65776C11.8466 5.61791 11.7493 5.59628 11.6506 5.59413L6.3473 5.59412C6.24841 5.59412 6.15048 5.6136 6.05912 5.65145C5.96775 5.68929 5.88473 5.74476 5.8148 5.81469C5.67358 5.95592 5.59424 6.14747 5.59424 6.34719C5.59424 6.44609 5.61371 6.54401 5.65156 6.63538C5.6894 6.72675 5.74488 6.80976 5.8148 6.87969C5.95603 7.02092 6.14758 7.10026 6.3473 7.10026L9.84218 7.09496L5.81697 11.1202C5.67632 11.2608 5.5973 11.4516 5.5973 11.6505C5.5973 11.8494 5.67632 12.0402 5.81697 12.1808C5.95763 12.3215 6.14839 12.4005 6.3473 12.4005C6.54622 12.4005 6.73698 12.3215 6.87763 12.1808L10.9028 8.15562L10.8975 11.6505C10.8971 11.7495 10.9163 11.8476 10.954 11.9392C10.9917 12.0307 11.0471 12.1139 11.1171 12.1839C11.1872 12.2539 11.2703 12.3094 11.3619 12.3471C11.4534 12.3848 11.5515 12.404 11.6506 12.4036C11.7496 12.404 11.8477 12.3848 11.9392 12.3471C12.0308 12.3094 12.114 12.2539 12.184 12.1839C12.254 12.1139 12.3094 12.0307 12.3471 11.9392C12.3848 11.8476 12.404 11.7495 12.4036 11.6505V6.34719C12.4015 6.24848 12.3798 6.15115 12.34 6.06082C12.2639 5.87866 12.1191 5.73384 11.9369 5.65776Z\"\/>\n                            <\/svg>\n\n                                            <\/a>\n                <\/div>\n            <\/section>\n        \n                    <\/section>\n            <\/div>\n    ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":444,"parent":429,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"polimi_quick_links":[],"pageTitleSection_supertitle":"Address","pageTitleSection_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-443","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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