Giamila Quattrone is a PhD student in Architectural Technology at the Faculty of Architecture of Reggio Calabria (Italy) and a Visitor Research Associate at the School of Architecture and Built Environment of Newcastle (Australia), where she is carr
...MoreGiamila Quattrone is a PhD student in Architectural Technology at the Faculty of Architecture of Reggio Calabria (Italy) and a Visitor Research Associate at the School of Architecture and Built Environment of Newcastle (Australia), where she is carrying out a research titled "Housing patterns and technology for local contemporary architecture. For a contextual innovation in building environmental design: innovation and tradition in Australian design culture" - tutors Prof. Adriano Paolella, Prof. Consuelo Nava - with the sponsorship of the 2006 Endeavour Europe Awards from the Australian Government, supervisor Prof. Michael J. Ostwald.
Interested in the relations between housing patterns and technology underlying regional contemporary architecture, she focuses on the environmental, social and cultural appropriateness of Australian contemporary architecture based on use of local resources, morphological, material and visual integration of buildings into their setting, context-specific innovation, critical interpretation of regional settlement and housing patterns, lifestyles and material culture.
Case studies are Glenn Murcutt, Gregory Burgess, Peter Stutchbury, Richard Leplastrier, Troppo Architects, which she has been investigating since her participation in the 2004 Glenn Murcutt Master Class through research papers presented at international conferences and published in the journal “Design for Housing”, of which she is one of the managing editors.
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