The Academic Master gives a new perspective on the role of urban designers, and allows the students to enhance their experience in reading into, interpreting and designing cities to face the new complexity of urban contexts, and complement it with practical actions also establishing relationships with local and international partners. Through the research of new ways to understand the city, this course develops the specific necessary skills to carry out new urban design projects, with specific attention to service design.
Over the AM, students will have the opportunity to:
During the Academic Master's, students will learn the most effective methodology to assess, regenerate and develop city spaces. They will improve all the necessary skills to work on urban design and services.
The programme provides the theoretical foundation and the practical know-how to conceive a project that takes into account historical and environmental heritage, economic and technological constraints, and ethical and aesthetic values. Students learn to consider all the features, issues and resources of metropolises as well as changes in their social fabric. The same happens with digital culture and its anthropological and scientific implications.
Urban and landscape design are two of the subjects of this curriculum. Furthermore, the Master's provides an intensive path of studies, including Urban design, Ecodesign, Landscape design, Digital cultures, History of architecture and urban planning, and Anthropology of complex societies. During the internship, students can directly apply the learned skills. At the end of the Master's course, they have to present a final project suggesting a flexible, evolving and solid vision of new urban realities.
Department: Design and Applied Arts
Area: Design
Title Awarded: First Level Academic Master Degree
Credits: 60 CFA
Starting: October 2025
Duration: 1 year
Languages: English
Campus: Milan
Nuestro profesorado
Design and Applied Arts Department Head
Luca Poncellini is an architect and a designer with a PhD in the History of Architecture and City Planning. As a partner in the architecture office Cliostraat until 2009, he has curated projects and has lectured in Italy and in several countries throughout the world. His works have been exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at the Van Alen Institute in New York, at ETH in Zürich, at MAGA in Gallarate and at Triennale Milano. In 2008 he co-curated the retrospective exhibition Laszlo Hudec, in collaboration with the Hungarian Consulate in Shanghai. Since 2013 he has been the Course Leader of the MA in Interior Design. Between 2015 and 2019 directed the research lab and the project C-Park. Since 2019 he has been Design and Applied Arts Department Head.
Born in Milan, he graduated in Architecture at Politecnico di Milano. After a research period in Spain, in Madrid and Barcelona, in 2002 he founded his own studio, Modoloco Design Workshop, a space for experimentation and research, where diverse cultures and experiences are implemented as architectural and design forms. He has taught at the Faculty of Design and Arts of the Free University of Bozen, at Politecnico di Milano, and lectured in Italian and international institutions. He curated and participated in several exhibitions in Italy, Japan, Spain, France, United Kingdom, Sweden. Ambassador of Italian Design for Switzerland, Albany and Uruguay in 2017, 2018, 2019, he is the author of the books Globetrotting designers (Compositori), Design, scuola e solidarietà (Fausto Lupetti), Design from the Alps (Scheidegger Und Spiess), and Disegnare un cucchiaio per cambiare la città (Quodlibet).
Arquitecto y diseñador, después de un Master en Diseño en la Domus Academy trabajó con Marco Zanuso y Andrea Branzi y en la Identidad Corporativa de Olivetti. En 1993, fundó el estudio D&L con Giovanni Lauda, trabajando en varios campos del diseño. Ha diseñado productos de hogar y oficina para Isuzu, Memphis, Stildomus, Luceplan, Edra, Kelebek, Rotaliana, Radice, Viceversa. Sus proyectos más célebres incluyen: Lisca (Rotaliana, premio IF Product Design 2005); Multipot (Rotaliana, mención en el XXI Compasso d’Oro 2008); la chaise longue Passepartout, (Edra), en la colección permanente del MoMA de San Francisco y de Triennale Milano; Agronica, con Andrea Branzi, en la colección del Centro Pompidou de París. Su obra se ha expuesto en la Bienal de Barcelona, el Centro Pompidou, la Triennale Milano y la Biennale di Venezia. Dirigió el Máster en Diseño de la Domus Academy y forma parte del Profesorado de NABA desde 2013.
Cuatro años como arquitecto en Wurmfeld Associates en Manhattan, Nueva York. El último año como asociado en el departamento de diseño. Breve periodo como profesor en el International Fine Arts College en Miami y luego de regreso a Milán para unirse durante 6 años a Ettore Sottsass & Associates. Actualmente, en StudioScalzi, trabaja en proyectos de regeneración urbana, diseño arquitectónico e interiorismo.
Durante muchos años ha sido profesor en los cursos de maestría de SPD (Scuola Politecnica di Design) y ocasionalmente profesor visitante en la Maestría en Diseño Estratégico del Politécnico de Milán y en la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Árabe de Beirut.
Desde 2007 es profesor de diseño en NABA para programas internacionales. Junto a Brovelli/Suteu ha publicado "La integración armónica de la cultura y las habilidades en el diseño: una experiencia interdisciplinaria en educación superior". Con el patrocinio del Municipio de Milán, ha publicado "Nos gusta Milán", distribuido en 51 países.
La Oficina de Relaciones con Empresas y de Servicios para la Carrera de NABA te puede asesorar y guiar en tu transición de la vida académica al mundo laboral. Nuestro equipo te ayudará a desarrollar herramientas de autopromoción y te orientará en tus primeros pasos en el mundo profesional.
La Oficina establece relaciones con las empresas para organizar prácticas, promover oportunidades de trabajo y realizar proyectos interactivos entre los estudiantes y las organizaciones.
Con el tiempo, NABA ha desarrollado sólidas relaciones con empresas líderes del sector, que acogen a los estudiantes de NABA para un período de prácticas. Entre ellas: Armani Hotel, Giulio Iacchetti, Studio Bestenheider, Vittorio Martini 1866, Giochi Preziosi, Intégral Ruedi Baur et Associés, The Swatch Group, Giorgio Armani, Pininfarina Extra, Tagua, Azimut-Benetti, Bonetto Design International, Alta Design & Engineering, AAAHHHAAA, Forchets, Studio di architettura Amedeo Guidobono Cavalchini, Aldo Cibic – Cibicworkshop, Progetto CMR Engineering, Integrated Services S.r.l., Abad Architetti S.r.l., Festina Italia, Zanotta, Luxottica, Studio Italo Rota & Partners, Giugiaro Architettura, Rintala Eggertsson Architects, Luceplan, Ikea Italia Retail, 3M ITALIA, Yellow Office, Studio Lissoni Associati, Studio Barreca & Lavarra, Uragano Studio, Veneta Cucine y Dado Arredamenti.
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