Assoc. Prof. Dr. Valerio Perna

Email vperna@epoka.edu.al
Office Phone 1563
Other Phones Work - 1563

Primary Appointment

Professor - Architecture

Education

Assoc. Prof. Dr., Architectural and Urban Composition, Politechnical University of Tirana, Albania, Tirana, 2026

Dr., Architecture - "Theories and Design", Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy , Rome, 2019

M.A., Architecture and Urban Design, Sapienza - University of Rome, Italy , Rome, 2015

Honors and Awards

Creative Europe project - SPORES (Grant Number: 101098584)

Innovation Challenge (organized by the German international cooperation agency GIZ and the Swedish agency SIDA)

Winner - 1st Eu4Innovation Hackaton

Sapienza - University of Rome / Call for funding joint research projects for the international mobility of doctoral students from the XXXI and XXXII cycles Project: TRAS_URB Studies, procedures, and practices of urban transformation between morpho-typological processual approach and bottom-up playful strategies

Sapienza - University of Rome / Projects for Introduction to Research 2017 Project: Ludic activity as a design strategy - City game design for complex urban challenges

Finalist - RomArchitettura 6 prize Project: RECIPROCAL 2.0. An interactive environment to play the world Team: nITrosaggio

Selected Project - TAW 2016 Architecture Competition – Transformation that matters Project: Upside down square Team: Valerio Perna + Matteo Baldissara + Gabriele Stancato - nITrosaggio

Projects

Hellas Gioiosa Installazione interattiva nella città greco-sicula nei pressi di Gioiosa Guardia, nITroGroup - Gioiosa Marea (IT), https://onnoffmagazine.com/2024/06/19/gioiosa-hellas/, 08/2024 - 2024-09-01

Competition for 3 new stadiums in Albania (Durrës-Korçë-Vlorë), HQ Architects, Studio Metro_POLIS, The Competition for the new stadiums in Durrës-Korçë-Vlorë addresses the theme of urban mixed-use in the specific typo- logy of football stadiums and fits into the architectural and urban debate on the im- portance of a building that not only ser- ves a predefined function but is capable of being active throughout the entire 24-hour day and offering different expe- riences to citizens., 10/2023 - 2023-12-01

Gioiosa Guardia UnLost City, nITroGroup - Gioiosa Marea (IT), http://www.nitrosaggio.net/Unlostgioiosa/, 08/2023 - 2023-09-01

Akademia 100+ Fshatrat, Albanian Government + AKPT, The Akademia 100+ Fshatrat (Academy 100+ Villages) project is an initiative of spatial planning by the Albanian government. LOT 2 (Lëpushë, Razëm/Vrith, Theth, Drisht, Zogaj), 10/2018 - 2019-02-01

Reciprocal 1.0 and 2.0, Gioiosa Marea - Ronciglione/CUBO Festival (IT), Interactive Sound Installation - https://onnoffmagazine.com/2016/09/09/reciprocal-locale-globale-ecologico-installazione-sicilylab-gioiosa-marea/, 08/2016 - 2016-09-01

Courses Taught

ARCH 301 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN III

ARCH 302 - ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IV

ARCH 312 - URBAN DESIGN II

ARCH 418 - CASE STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURAL CRITICISM

ARCH 495 - PLANNING THEORIES

ARCH 500 - MASTER THESIS

ARCH 502 - COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS

ARCH 514 - RESEARCH ON FABRICATION

ARCH 515 - THESIS RESEARCH

Research Interests

Architectural Design Urban Design, Theories of Architecture, AI in Architectural Design, Complexity, Game Design and Playful Strategies.

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