LEARNING FROM ROME Historical Cities and Contemporary Design
The Third ISUFITALY International Congress (ISUF Italy 2017) will be held in Rome from February 23rd
to February 24th and will host 75 participants, more than 40 coming from foreign countries and the
others from the Italian Schools of architecture.
ISUFITALY is launching its third international congress after hosting in 2015 the Twenty-Second International
Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF Rome 2015) attended by 350 participants (800 abstract submitted)
and publishing in 2016 the proceedings by U+D Editions, a monographic series launched beside
the ISUFITALY official Review (www.urbanform.it).
The ISUF Italy 2017 is organized in parallel sessions gathered together in three main themes: Theory –
New-Old Methodologies for Contemporary Design in Historical City (16 papers); Reading – Tools and
Analysis of Urban Fabric (37 papers); Design - Urban Space and Contemporary Design (23 papers).
The papers accepted present the evidence of a balance of interests in theories and methods applied
to historical and contemporary cities and a significative presence of case studies and design
issues from Italy, Europe, Asia.
ISUFITALY was established in Rome in 2014 with an Opening Conference hosting eminent members
of the Council of ISUF International, founders of ISUF local branches and a representative number of
Italian academics experienced and interested in the themes traditionally discussed in the International
Seminar of Urban Form.