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Federico di Lallo graduated with honors from the University of Pescara “Gabriele D’Annunzio” in Pescara, Italy. Following research at the University of Toronto as an International Visiting Graduate Student (IVGS), he received his Ph.D. with International Title from the “Gabriele D’Annunzio” School of Advanced Studies. He has been a research fellow at the same university.

In his ten years of academic activity in Italy, di Lallo has supported students in the master’s degree program in “Urban and Architectural Design Studio”; with studies focused on the evolutionary dynamics and manifestations of disuse, his research, both national and international, addresses issues of regeneration of urban contexts and fragile territories. By reading urban landscapes and vacant architecture through the lens of underutilization, abandonment, decay and neglect, dormant potential can be reimagined, using methodologies of recycling and reuse. On these same themes, he is co-supervisor of several dissertations that serve as palimpsests in a multi-scalar perspective.

His professional activity is based on architectural design (public and private residential construction – social housing, design of places of worship, exhibition halls and public buildings), landscape design (landform, landscape art, gardens, environmental infrastructure) and finally urban design. In 2022, he graduated in Civil Engineering with the environmental curriculum to enrich his coursework on current topics in the area of sustainability.

Industry Experience

• Architecture and Urban Design

Selected Exhibition

• Venice Biennale 2012 – “Common Ground” directed by David Chipperfield

Awards

• 2019 Finalist in the International Design Competition YAC Common ruins – France on the theme of the functional and landscape reconversion of the Château Gotico de mothe Chandenier.
• 2019 Second Classified with Co-advisor role for the thesis “A Green Belt for Rome”, majoring: A. Bonora, M. Catamo, C. Carbotti, M. Cardone. Graduation Thesis Award, NIB – New Italian Blood.
• 2018 First prize of the winning project of the Open Procedure Design Competition in two stages for the construction of the new health and social services center in the municipality of Castiglione del Lago (PG). The conversion of a former disused public warehouse and attention to environmental design in relation to the landscape value context were addressed.
• 2018 Excellent mark in the dissertion of the thesis of Doctoral research “Thinking about disuse. Theories and methods against the disinterest” discussed at the University of Studies “G. D’Annunzio”.
• 2015 First prize of the “Advanced Training Course on Territorial Innovation – Bivona School. Innovation and Creativity in the Sicilian territory”, Director Prof. Arch. Maurizio Carta. They addressed the issues of the fragility of urban, cultural, and socio-economic contexts, and the regeneration of the Sicano Territory through the proposal of a new model of investigation and analogue restitution, digital and increased information about the categories of reading and evolution of the context being studied. The conversion of disused areas was the central concept of the model proposed and awarded.