PhD Programs
The department offers three PhD courses, responding to the multidisciplinary skills that distinguish it, dealing with issues related to architectural and urban planning, heritage conservation, urban planning and design, and urban policies.
2nd additional call to apply for the 41th cycle of the doctoral programs of Politecnico di Milano
The 2nd additional call to apply for the 41th cycle of the doctoral programs of Politecnico di Milano is now open at this link: www.dottorato.polimi.it/en/.
Deadline for admissions is September 30 2025, 2pm (Italian time).
All the information is available at www.dottorato.polimi.it/en/prospective-phd-candidates/calls-and-regulations
Architectural, Urban and Interior Design
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Fax: +39 02 2399 5435
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DAStU Thematic Areas
Architecture: Types, Forms, Spaces
Mission and Goals
The PhD in Architectural, Urban and Interior Design promotes studies and researches on architectural design at different scales. The lines of research investigate programs, contexts, theories and critiques of contemporary design, through disciplinary in-depth analysis and experimental comparisons with the perspectives and contents of the international debate.
The objective of the PhD is the development and the field test of theoretical and operational tools aimed at the revision, the critical discussion, and the theoretical and technical advancement of the culture of architectural design. The project is meant as a fundamental tool for imagining, designing and creating the new structures of the natural and built environment, facing the challenges that emerge from cultures, technologies, and ecologies of the immediate future.
Training Project
Built Heritage Conservation
Starting from the 40th cycle, the Doctoral Course in Conservazione dei Beni Architettonici (CBA) has changed its name to Conservazione del Patrimonio Costruito (CPC) / Built Heritage Conservation.
Ph: +39 02 2399 5165 / 5405
Fax: +39 02 2399 5435
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Related DAStU Research Fields
History and Cultural Heritage
Cities, Territories and Landscapes
Mission and goals
The PhD programme in Built Heritage Conservation focuses on defining high level skills and knowledge in the field of cultural heritage concerning both the safeguarding and intervention processes, while taking into account the complex facets of the built environment such as monumental architecture, minor and common architecture found at urban and territorial scale, dating from the most antique historical periods to the modern and contemporary ones. This will be possible to accomplish through a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary approach based on the historical methodological research, on the archaeological investigation of architecture, and on the applied sciences and their practical impact on the preservation practice. Moreover, throughout the programme will be tackled issues dealing with intervention choices, control of the various institutional aspects and maintenance issues of the architectural heritage. The PhD candidates will acquire the necessary knowledge and expertise in order to define preservation strategies, frameworks and programmes, tailored at different scales of analyse and approach, while evaluating in a critical key the interventions’ effects on the built environment throughout time.
Training Project
Manifesto of the PhD Program 2025
PhD Thesis
Urban Planning, Design and Policy
Ph: +39 02 2399 5165 / 5405
Fax: +39 02 2399 5435
Related DASTU Research Fields
Cities, Landscapes, Territories
Welfare: Housing and Public Services
Mission and Goals
The PhD programme in Urban Planning, Design and Policy aims at exploring the significance and impact of contemporary urban changes and understanding the way these processes can be governed through planning, design and policy making activities. The programme pays specific attention to the transition towards new, more sustainable and equitable modes of urban development as well as to pro-active advancements in planning practices and to potential innovations in traditional urban studies, urban design and policy approaches.
The objective of the UPDP programme is to provide PhD students with analytical and interpretative tools as well as research methods to advance research frontiers in the field of urban studies, spatial planning, urban design, urban policy and governance.
This PhD programme welcomes foreign and Italian candidates. English is the official language of the programme, which takes advantage of the rich research milieu of the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU).
The PhD programme focuses on territorial, social, economic and institutional transformations in contemporary cities, and aims at discussing them as a complex of intertwined phenomena, which calls for new governance, planning and design approaches.
Based on a multidisciplinary approach, the UPDP programme offers to PhD candidates a challenging environment with space for international debate, research, experimentation and innovation.