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Dr Patrizio Martinelli

Assistant Professor

Department: Architecture and Built Environment

Patrizio M. Martinelli is Assistant Professor of Interior Architecture and Architecture at Northumbria University (Newcastle upon Tyne, UK), Department of Architecture and the Built Environment.

Before joining Northumbria, from 2017 to 2022 Patrizio was Assistant Professor at Miami University, Department of Architecture+Interior Design, in Oxford (Ohio, USA). From 2000 to 2016 he worked at IUAV University of Venice, Department of Architecture, Construction, Conservation, with teaching (at undergraduate and graduate level) and research roles, with grants from the European Union and the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research. He has also been studio tutor at University of Bologna/Cesena and University of Parma. He is guest lecturer and tutor at Münster School of Architecture (Germany) and taught workshops at BTU Cottbus (Germany) and the Escuela de Arquitectura, Toledo (Spain).

Patrizio studied at IUAV University of Venice, where he earned a Master’s degree in Architecture (five year program) and a PhD in Architectural Composition. In 2018 he was awarded with the Italian National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor by ANVUR (National Agency for the Evaluation of University and Research).

His teaching and research focus on modernism, domestic/urban interiors, adaptive reuse, and the concept of theatricality in architecture. These investigations and his creative work on collage/montage techniques has been presented in international conferences, published in monographs and journals, and showcased in galleries throughout Europe, UK and the United States.

Patrizio Martinelli

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Abitare fra casa e città. La facciata come spazio liminale del progetto domestico, Martinelli, P. 1 Jun 2024, Un luogo chiamato casa, Naples, Italy, Thymos Books
  • Architecture, poetic substance of memories, Martinelli, P. 2024
  • Brutalist Interior Urbanism: Visions, Paradigms, Design Strategies, Martinelli, P. 12 Mar 2024, The Interior Urbanism Theory Reader, London, Routledge
  • Jesolo tra la terra e il mare. Progetti di valorizzazione, Martinelli, P. 6 May 2024
  • La vita fra/dentro gli edifici: Appropriazioni informali e città di interni, Martinelli, P. 6 May 2024, Jesolo tra la terra e il mare. Progetti di valorizzazione, Rome, Italy, Gangemi Editore S.p.A.
  • Montage, Martinelli, P. Oct 2024, Adaptive Reuse, Florence, STH Press
  • Palladian Facades: Inhabited Thresholds and Theatrical Urban Micro-Cosms, Martinelli, P. 27 Mar 2024, The Palladio Method, Berlin, Germany, Transcript Verlag
  • Dwelling in the city, between tradition and invention: Mart Stam’s Hellerhof Siedlung in Frankfurt and Le Corbusier’s Immeuble Villas, Martinelli, P. 17 Nov 2023, Defining the architectural space. Architecture and the city, Wrocław, Ofcyna Wydawnicza ATUT
  • Inside/outside: the interior façade as the stage of the architectural and urban in-between, Martinelli, P. 22 Mar 2023, In: Interiors: Design, Architecture, Culture
  • Monumental Concretions: Scarpa Reinvented 2 and Scarpa Reinvented 5, Martinelli, P. 13 Jun 2023

Architecture PhD February 25 2010

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