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Academic Teaching and Researching / In the academic year 2024-25 Luca M.F. Fabris conducts a Construction + Sustainable Design Studio course (held in English at the Master in Architecture AUD program), the Metabolism of City and Landscape elective course (held in English at the Master in Landscape Architecture – LLH programme at the ‘Architecture Urban Planning Constructions Engineering’ School (where he is associate professor, www.auic.polimi.it) of the Politecnico di Milano (www.polimi.it), and where he has been teaching since 1997-98. Fabris is a member of the Panel of Experts for the PhD in ‘Architectural Urban Interior Design’ at Department DASTU of Politecnico di Milano (2022-ongoing). He is also the Mobility Promoter with the Schools of Architecture of the University of Thessaly in Volos (Greece), the Universidade Lusófona in Lisbon (Portugal), the Università Ta’ Malta (Malta), the Universitatea de Arhitectura si Urbanism “Ion Mincu” in Bucharest (Romania), the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles (France), the Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet in Uppsala (Sweden), the University of Cyprus in Nicosia (Cyprus), the University of Zagreb (Croatia), the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands), the South East Technology University (Eire), the Politechnika Krakowska (Poland), the University College of Cork (Eire), MATE – Hungarian University of Agriculture and Life Sciences (Hungary), the Universitat Ramon Llull de Barcelona (Spain), the Arkitektur – Og Design Høgskolen I Oslo (Norway), the Norges Arktiske Universitet (Norway), the University of Limerick (Eire), and the Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies (Latvia) for exchange activities in the EU ERASMUS+ programs of Teaching Staff and Student Mobility; and he is also referent for the International Scientific and Students Exchange Agreements between the Politecnico di Milano and the Daido University in Nagoya (Japan, since 2007), the North China University of Technology in Beijing (China, since 2015), the CAUP (Architecture and Landscape Architecture) at Tongji University in Shanghai (China, since 2016), the Department of Architecture at the University of Waterloo (Canada, since 2017), the College of Architecture at Tsinghua University in Beijing (China, since 2017), the School of Architecture and Urbanism of the Beijing University of Construction Engineering and Architecture (China, since 2018), where he was also co-director of the International Joint Lab ‘Resilient and Intelligent City’ of DASTU-Polimi+BUCEA “Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design”, the School of Architecture of the Harbin Institute of Technology (China, since 2019), the British Columbia Institute of Technology (Canada, since 2019), the University of Montreal (Canada, since 2022), and the University of Edinburg (UK, since 2023). From 2014 to 2023, he has been a referent for Polimi at the European Council of Landscape Architecture Schools (ECLAS). Since 2016, he has joined the Research Unit ‘Future City Lab’ at DASTU-Polimi and CAUP-Tongji University in Shanghai, directed by Prof. Stefano Boeri. Since 1990, he has been a volunteer assistant on the subjects of ‘Environmental Design’ and ‘Architectural Design’ at the Politecnico di Milano. He has attended several courses, seminars, and study visits. He has held lectures and workshops in Italy and abroad, opening and keeping up scientific relations with several individuals and cultural organisations operating in various fields of environmental rehabilitation. Former founder member of the Research Unit 'Laboratorio Abita - Technologies and Design for Human Sustainable Settlements' - at the Department BEST. Since 2013, he has joined the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DASTU) of the Politecnico di Milano.
Fabris is supervising a PhD research study entitled “Architecture, Landscape, Territories in the Work of Pier Paolo Pasolini” (PhD student arch. Riccardo Maria Balzarotti). Fabris also recently supervised a fellow research study entitled “The Future of the Catholic Community Halls and Cinemas” (researcher arch. Riccardo M. Balzarotti), a fellow-research study entitled “Architectural strategies for the reactivation of rural settlements in China. Case studies in the Fujian Province” (researcher arch. PhD Gerardo Semprebon), a fellow-research study entitled “On the Unfinished. Unfinished as an Identifying Element of Landscape Possibilities” (researcher land. arch. Valentina Labriola); the PhD-research entitled “Conservation and Renewal Model of Vernacular Buildings in Fragile Contexts” (visiting PhD student arch. Long Lingege, Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture and Politecnico di Milano); the PhD-research “Design Challenges in Zhangyang Village, Fujian Province. Rural Revitalisation in the Chinese New Era” by PhD student Gerardo Semprebon (Double PhD Polimi-SJTU 2016-2020).
Academic Titles / Qualified as Full Professor in Technology of Architecture (ASN 2021), Fabris is an Associate Professor in Technology of Architecture at Politecnico di Milano and delegate for the Internationalization of the Landscape Architecture – Land Landscape Heritage Master in Science at AUIC School; for the term 2023-2025 he’s appointed Beijing University of Civil Engineering and Architecture (BUCEA) Visiting Professor, in 2020 he has conferred the title BUCEA Distinguished Expert (北京建筑大学特聘专家); in 2018 he has been appointed Visiting Guest Professor [客座教授] at BUCEA Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Future Urban Design – International Joint-Lab in Beijing; in 2015 he was appointed Visiting Guest Professor [客座教授] by the North China University of Technology (NCUT) in Beijing. Fabris held a Building Technology Studio 2 at the Bachelor in Architecture of the Xi’an Jiao Tong University - Politecnico di Milano (XJTU-Polimi) Joint School (2024), and has been lecturing and visiting at Xi’An University of Architecture and Technology (Xi’an, China, 2024); China Academy of Art (Hangzhou, 2023); BIT-Beijing Institute of Technology (Beijing, 2023, 2020); McEwan School of Architecture – Laurentian University (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, 2019); Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology (2023, 2018); Shanghai Jiguang Polytechnic College (2018); Harbin Institute of Technology-HIT (Harbin, 2023, 2018); BUCEA (Beijing, 2023, 2020, 2019, 2018); University of Waterloo (Canada, 2018), CAUP College of Tongji University (2018, 2017), British Columbia Institute of Technology (2017), Architecture Department of NCUT (2019, 2018, 2016, 2015), George Brown College in Toronto (2024, 2023, 2022, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2011), and Architecture Department of Daido University in Nagoya (2018, 2016, 2012, 2009), he attended the Visiting Professor Programme at London’s Architectural Association (2001, invited on curriculum), and was Visiting Scholar at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China (2017, 2016), Faculdad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo of the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina (2000), and Landscape Architecture Program of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (1999). In 1999, he obtained the professional qualification of ‘specialista’ (Italian Post-degree Master) through the two-year post-graduate School of Specialization in ‘Territorial and Environmental Planning’ at the Politecnico di Milano. In 1997, he obtained the academic qualification of ‘Dottore di Ricerca’ (PhD) in Architectural and Environmental Technology at the University La Sapienza of Rome, disserting his thesis «The landscape approach in the rehabilitation of derelict areas». In 1995, he audited courses at the Universität Gesamthochschule of Essen (Germany). In 1990, after a classical education (‘Liceo Classico’), he graduated in Architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, disserting his thesis on the opera omnia of Walter Segal and the timber-frame construction method for self-building the English architect invented.
Research Grants / Fabris is Prime Investigator of the National Research ‘FUTURSpaCE - FUTURe Spaces for Cinema and Entertainment’ granted by MUR under the program PRIN22s (2025-2027) with partners Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and Università di Udine, and partnering with the Erasmus+ KA220-HED (Cooperation partnerships in higher education, 2024-2027) “AInterior - The use of AI tools in interior design to create aesthetic, inclusive and sustainable built environment” project led by Politechnika Krakowska (Poland) with Valencia’s CEU UCH University (Spain) and Technologiju Augstskola Riseba (Latvia), and partnered the Erasmus+ KA203 (Strategic Partnership, 2020-2023) “Activation of Contemporary Public Spaces (ACPS)” project led by Politechnika Krakowska (Poland) with Valencia’s CEU UCH University (Spain). In 2019, he was awarded the ‘Overseas Talents’ Grant [海聚工程] by the Beijing City Government (to be spent at BUCEA, Beijing, from 2020-to 2023); from October 2003 to December 2004, he was awarded a research grant for «Use and reuse of water in the ecocompatible public housing design» by the Politecnico di Milano Department BEST. In 2002, he was awarded a research grant for «Application of rainwater recycling in architecture». He was co-ordinator of the Environmental Requalification Area Studies and administrator of the Master in Environmental Design (MPA) at the Politecnico di Milano. From 1999-2001, he was awarded a post-doctorate research grant for «Third Millennium Landscape: Environmental Recovery and Restoration in the Future».
Publishing / Past Editorial Director of the Italian architectural B2B magazine YouBuild (2017-2023), LMF Fabris is writing on the scientific international architectural reviews ThePlan (www.theplan.it – with Italian, English and Chinese printed editions, rated: ANVUR Scientific Journal) and ABITARE (www.abitare.it – rated: ANVUR A-core Journal), since 2025 has been member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal ‘Landscape Architecture and Sustainability’ (Beijing Forestry University); since 2024 has been member of the Editorial Board of the scientific journal ‘Landscape Architecture + Art’ (Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies, Scopus indexed), since 2012 Fabris has been a member of the Scientific Committee of the ‘Środowisko Mieszkaniowe - Housing Environment’ Journal (Cracow, Poland), and of the ‘Politecnica’ book series by the Italian publisher Maggioli Editore. Since 2011, he has been a member of the ‘AE Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação’ (Lisbon, Portugal) Scientific Committee. Since 2008, he has been the scientific director of the ‘Environscapes’ series by Maggioli Editore (www.maggioli.it). During the period November 2003 - October 2011, Fabris was the coordinator of the “Progetto” (“Project”) section of the Italian monthly architectural magazine COSTRUIRE, part of the Abitare Segesta Publisher - RCS-MediaGroup. Editor of various university publications, he has written several essays and contributed to some specialised reviews such as Techne (SCOPUS), ThePlanJournal (SCOPUS), Landscape Architecture China (CSSCI), Azero, Costruire, Il Giornale dell’Architettura, Il Progetto Sostenibile, CittArchitettura, Landscapes-Paysages. Editor of ‘Restarting from Bacchus and Dionysus, with the help of Oyamatsumi. Sustainable proposals for the renewal of the former Trieste Barracks in Casarsa’ (2017. ISBN 9791220019248), ‘Re-starting from Quarto Oggiaro, Milan. Toward a new kind of smart city’ (2014. ISBN 9788838762819); ‘Ecohotel’ (2012. ISBN 9788838769230), ‘Architecture sur mesure – ECDM architects’ (2009. ISBN 9788838753075), ‘Environscape a manifesto, 2nd blu+verde International Congress proceedings' (2008. ISBN 9788838743207), 'ELASTICO SPA Stefano Pujatti Architetti - Al Sangue/Rare Architecture' (2008. ISBN 9788838746230) and ‘blu+verde, acqua e vegetazione risorse per l’ambiente costruito’ (blue+green, water and vegetation resources for the built environment; 2006. ISBN 8870908615, he is author of the essays: ‘La sala del futuro - Linee guida per la rigenerazione delle Sale della Comunità’ (The Future Cinema – Guidelines for the Communities Halls’ Regeneration; with Balzarotti, R.M., 2018. ISBN 9788891628589), ‘Volume 1 – AZA’ (2017. ISBN 9788885980815), ‘La natura come amante/Nature as a Lover – Richard Haag Assoc.’ (2010. ISBN 9788838753415) and its Chinese edition 自然之子—美国当代风景园林大师理查德·哈格作品集 (The Son of Nature - Contemporary American Landscape Architect Richard Haag Works; 2013. ISBN 9787112149120), ‘Tecnonatura: progetti per la rivoluzione ambientale’ (Technonature: projects for the environmental revolution; 2009. ISBN 978883874615X), ‘LuisaFONTANAtelier - Architettura/Globale Global Architecture’ (2008. ISBN 9788838746222), ‘IBA Emscher Park 1989-1999’ (2004. ISBN 8883821203); ‘Tecnologie e politiche di progettazione ambientale’ (Environmental design technologies and politics; 2002. ISBN 8870905063); ‘Metodo Segal storia, progetti, realizzazioni’ (Segal Method, history, projects, and buildings; 2001. ISBN 8870904539) and ‘Il verde postindustriale’ (The postindustrial green; 1999. ISBN 8820728672).
Recent chapters in international peer-reviewed books: Fabris, L.M.F., Camerin, F., ‘Abandoned Army Barracks in Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) as New Time-Shaped Community Landscape Potential’, in Matteini, T. et al. (Eds), Cultivating Continuity of the European Landscape, Environmental History, Vol. 15, SpringerNature, 2023. ISBN 978-3-031-25712-4 - DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-25713-1_34; Fabris, L.M.F., ‘Did you say large parks?’ – forward –, in Li M., Large-Scale Urban Parks on Post-Industrial Sites in Contemporary Urban Landscape Conceptions, MDPI, 2023. ISBN: 978-3-0365-5559-1 - doi.org/10.3390/books978-3-0365-5559-1; Fabris, L.M.F., Camerin, F., Semprebon, G., Balzarotti, R.M., ‘How 15-min City, Tactical Urbanism, and Superblock Concepts Are Affecting Major Cities in the Post-Covid-19 Era?’, in Zaheer Allam (Eds), Sustainable Urban Transitions, SpringerNature, 2023 - ISBN 978-981-99-2695-4 - DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2695-4_10; Fabris, L.M.F., Li, M. (2023). Greenways as Structures for Urban Change. Milan and Beijing Facing Post-industrial Regeneration. In: Gomes Sant'Anna, C., Mell, I., Schenk, L.B.M. (eds) Planning with Landscape: Green Infrastructure to Build Climate-Adapted Cities. Landscape Series, Vol 35. Springer, Cham. ISBN 9783031183317. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-18332-4_8.