Lecturer

FABRIZIO AIMAR

Departament:
Architecture and Civil Engineering
Contact:
fabrizio_aimar@universitetipolis.edu.al

ACADEMIC PROFILE

Fabrizio Aimar, Architect, PhD in “Urban and Regional Development” at the Polytechnic of Turin. Since October 2021, he is a Lecturer and Head of the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of Polis University, Tirana, Albania.
Since 2009, his writings have appeared in various publications, both domestic and foreign, including: Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Teknoring, C3 and Wired. His study and research activities have been the subject of articles and interviews from Italian national newspapers, such as La Repubblica, Avvenire and La Stampa.
He was Visiting Researcher at ICCROM (IT), Invited Lecturer at the University of Auckland (New Zealand, 2015), of Portsmouth (UK, 2017) and Hertfordshire (UK, 2018), speaker at the academic seminar at DISAFA of the University of Turin (IT, 2016) and speaker at the School of Specialization in Architectural and Landscape Heritage of the Polytechnic of Turin (IT, 2016-2020).
In terms of research, he was a Researcher (2019/2020) and holder of a research grant (2021) at the Polytechnic of Turin. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Landscape Observatory for Monferrato and Asti, while since 2022 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the Center for Rural Development of the Hill at the University of Turin. He is an external member of the R3C Center (Responsible Risk Resilience Center) of the Polytechnic of Turin.
In 2020, he was a member of the jury of the IN / ARCH 2020 Award – Regions of Sicily and Calabria. In 2021, he was appointed a member of the Advisory Board of the Italian Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition in Venice (2021).
Furthermore, Fabrizio Aimar was guest speaker at the XXVIII International Book Fair in Turin (2015) and at the Chamber of Deputies of the Italian Parliament at Palazzo Montecitorio in Rome (2015). He is also an elected Councilor of the Order of Architects P.P.C. of the Province of Asti for the period 2017-2021, while before that, he was a member of the Culture Commission from 2010 to 2016.

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Voghera, A., & Aimar, F. (2022). Towards a definition of landscape resilience: the proactive role of communities in reinforcing the intrinsic resilience of landscapes. In M. Carta, M. Perbellini, & J. A. Lara-Hernandez (Eds.), Resilient Communities and the Peccioli Charter: Towards the possibility of an Italian Charter for Resilient Communities. Cham: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85847-6_13

Aimar, F., Gullino, P., & Devecchi, M. (2021). Towards reconstructing rural landscapes: A case study of Italian Mongardino. Journal of Rural Studies, 88, pp. 446-461. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.06.021

Repetto, D. & Aimar, F. (2021). The Fifth Landscape: Art in the Contemporary Landscape. In: F. Bianconi F., M. Filippucci (Eds.), Digital Draw Connections. Representing Complexity and Contradiction in Landscape. Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, pp. 683-706. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59743-6_32