Middle Eastern Cultural Landscapes: Sustainable Recovery and Development
Focusing on how to build and create continuity and consistency with the remaining historic fabric of a place, landscape architect and designer Annalinda Neglia will speak about the deterioration of middle eastern cities, in particular. This lecture will help listeners understand the cultural expressions of places and how authenticity, continuity and connecting both tangible and intangible heritages were created and how they can be built today.
Attendees may earn AIA credit from any of these lectures. Architects must maintain a certain amount of continuing education credits each year to keep their license.
Meet the Speaker: Annalinda Neglia
Giulia Annalinda Neglia is Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture at the Department of Civil Engineering Sciences and Architecture of the Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy). She received her Ph.D. in Architectural Design for Mediterranean Countries from Polytechnic University of Bari in 2003 with a thesis on Aleppo (Syria).
For her research on Mediterranean – Islamic cities and landscapes she has received scholarships from international and national research centers such as the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT, DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst), Max van Berchem Foundation (Geneve), the Italian Ministry of Education, East-West Nexus / PROTA Institute, and Polytechnic University of Bari.
An author of three monographs on Islamic cities and landscapes and more than 90 articles and essays in books, proceedings of international conferences and peer-reviewed journals, her interest cover basic research, applied research, theory and methodology, spanning from sustainable (urban and landscape) design, to analytical work on typo-morphology of Middle Eastern, Balkans and North African landscapes, cities and urban fabric, history of Islamic architecture, and cultural heritage preservation.
Her recent research has been focused on new regional models for sustainable urban and landscape regeneration of non-core areas, grounded on the relationship between urban fabric, open spaces and gardens.
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Presented by The School of Architecture
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 5:15 pm
Focusing on how to build and create continuity and consistency with the remaining historic fabric of a place, landscape architect and designer Annalinda Neglia will speak about the deterioration of middle eastern cities, in particular. This lecture will help listeners understand the cultural expressions of places and how authenticity, continuity and connecting both tangible and intangible heritages were created and how they can be built today.
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Attendees may earn AIA credit from any of these lectures. Architects must maintain a certain amount of continuing education credits each year to keep their license.
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