Michele MONTEMURRO

Curriculum Vitae
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Michele Montemurro
Michele MONTEMURRO
Corso Cavour 133- 70121 Bari, Italy
+39 347 4363770
[email protected]; [email protected]
www.urbanformgrammars.com
Sex Male | Date of birth 19/05/1962 | Nationality Italian
Michele Montemurro is graduated in Architecture in 1989 at IUAV of Venice. He won a
CNR scholarship in 1993 and become PhD in architectural and urban design in 2000.
From 2004 is assistant professor in the Department DICAR of the Polytechnic of Bari and
teaches architectural and urban design. From 2015 he is representative in the Senate of
Politecnico di Bari and delegate of The Rector for orienting. Now he teaches in Politecnico
di Bari and in University of Basilicata.
His research focuses on new models of urban settlements and their relationship with
consolidated city.
He carries out a systematic publishing activity about the stone construction and its
learning, the form of the Mediterranean architecture and the form of the
contemporary city (consisting of more than 50 publications), the morphological
analysis of forma urbis, and the historical configuration of landscape layouts. He won
several research founding like FRA in 1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2013 and PRIN in
1999, 2004, 2007.
He was together with Claudio D’Amato Guerrieri and Francesco Defilippis, author
and designer of the Exhibition “La città di pietra” alla X Biennale di Architettura di
Venezia, (2006)
From 2014 he has signed, together with Annabruna Menghini for the ICAR
Department, a MoU between ATKP of Albania and Politecnico di Bari for a work of
research focused on landscape, urban and architectural heritage of Albania. Now he
is working on the relation between city and water as a specific condition of the more
general question of the relationship between city and nature. In particular he is
facing three study cases of lake-cities in Albania as Kukes, Skhoder and Pogradec.
The last research that is starting now is focused on the city of Saranda and the
archeological site of Butrint.
Experienced in international competitions, he cultivated the professional career in
France and Italy, taking part in design team for French Pavillon in Seville World
Expo (1992), realizing private houses (1996-2013), auditorium (Matera 2001),
parcelling plan (val Basento 2003), private and public facilities (1994 - 2012). He
wins best architect mention in In/Arch-Ance Puglia 2014. Lecturing and tutoring in
international workshop (Rebuild the Urban Form, Monopoli 2013; Architettura per lo
sport, Gallipoli 2012).
He took part in many international congress with his papers as S.ARCH in Budva
MONTENEGRO (2015), in 2-ICAUD Conference, Tirana (2014), in Rural Areas: Exploring
Challenges and Opportunities for their Conservation and Development, Birzeit, Palestine
(2014), in 1st ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE AND
CIVIL ENGEENERING, Singapore (2013), in Changing Cities, Skiatos, Greece (2013).
In 2015 he founded together with C. Moccia, AB. Menghini, F.Defilippis, L. Ficarelli the
research group UrbanFormGrammars.
General
1980, Scientific High School in Bari, Liceo Di Cagno Abbrescia;
1982-1989, Degree in Architecture, Venice, I.U.A.V. (University Institute of
Architecture);
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Since 1990 Member of Matera Architectural Association, registered number n° 140;
1995 scholarship in CNR-IRIS, Bari;
1996 Member of Bari O.A.P.P.C. Association, registered number n° 1104;
2000, he achieve the PhD in Architectural Planning in Faculty of Architecture in
Palermo, discussing the thesis with title: "The construction in cut stone in France
and in Italy, secc. XVIII-XX", tutor prof.Claudio D'Amato Guerrieri;
2001-2002, post PhD scholarship in Politecnico in Bari
From 2004, he is researcher of the Faculty of Architecture in Bari, S.S.D. ICAR 14 "Architectural and Urban Composition”.
From 2015, he is delegate by the Rector of Politecnico di Bari to Orientation and he
is representative in Academic Senate
Didactic Activity
aa.aa. 2004-2016
Analysis of Urban Morphology and building typologies, 4th year
Architectural Design I, 3rd year
Composition and Urban Design, 4th year
Architectural Design 2, 2nd year
Landscape Retraining, 4th year.
Characters of Architecture, 2nd, 4th and 5th years
Architectural composition 1, 1st year
Scientific Research
FRA (Athenaeum Research Funds of the Polytechnic in Bari), on settlements models
and building types in Mediterranean area;
PRIN 2004 (2005 -2007);
research extra-university, "City of Stone", section of the 10.Mostra Internationale di
Architettura of the Biennale in Venice (2006).
Main last publications
MONTEMURRO M (2012). Architettura in pietra da taglio: sapere e saper fare. La
tradizione operante del Compagnonnage du devoir. vol. 43, Gangemi Editore, Roma.
MONTEMURRO M (2012). La città del Salento meridionale: i "casali" e le "terre"
come unità costitutive
della forma urbis. In: MESSAPIA. vol. 50, p.16-45, PolibaPress / Arti Grafiche Favia,
Bari.
MONTEMURRO M (2012). Le unità insediative della città salentina: la corte
plurifamiliare. In: MESSAPIA. vol. 50, p.184-195, PolibaPress / Arti Grafiche Favia,
Bari.
MONTEMURRO M, DEFILIPPIS F (curators) (2007). La mostra "Città di Pietra".
Architetture per "Progetto Sud" at 10th International exhibition of Biennale di
Architettura di Venezia, AION edizioni, Firenze.
MONTEMURRO M (2002). Il montaggio nell'architettura in pietra a secco. D'A.
D'ARCHITETTURA, vol. 17, p. 182-187.
Main conferences
MONTEMURRO M (2015). City-nature. Conspicuous places in the mediterranean
landscape. In: ENVIRONMENT AND ARCHITECTURE The 2nd International
Conference with Exhibition S.ARCH 19-20 May 2015, Budva MONTENEGRO
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Conference Proceedings. p. 601.1-601.10, 91052 Erlangen:Get It Published Verlag
e.K., ISBN: 978-3-9816624-5-0, BUDVA - MONTENEGRO, 19-20 MAY 2015
Montemurro M (2015). The construction of contemporary city spaces. In:
ENVIRONMENT & ARCHITECTURE The 2nd International Conference with Exhibition
S.ARCH “Environment and Architecture” 19–20 May 2015, Maestral Resort, Budva
MONTENEGRO. p. 110.1-110.10, 91052 Erlangen:Get It Published Verlag e.K.,
ISBN: 978-3-9816624-5-0, BUDVA - MONTENEGRO, 19/20 MAY 2015
MONTEMURRO M (2014). Between City and Nature. Grammars for the Urban
Form. In: AA.VV.. 2-ICAUD Proceedings Book. p. 251-1-251-8, Tirana:Epoka
University Press, , ISBN: 978-9928-135-12-4, Tirana, 7-10 maggio 2014
MONTEMURRO M (2014). La costruzione della città-territorio. Unità insediative e
forma della terra. In: (a cura di): D'AMATO GUERRIERI C., SCORE@POLIBA - Track
C1- CONTRIBUTI DI RICERCA 1° Workshop sullo stato dell'arte delle ricerche nel
Politecnico di Bari. vol. C1, p. 425-429, Roma : Gangemi Editore , ISBN: 978-88492-2966-0, Bari , 5 - 6 Dicembre 2014
MONTEMURRO M (2014). Settlement/ Dwelling Models for the Mediterranean rural
areas” Terre Salentine” in Apulia ( Italy ) as a case study planned rural villages. In:
Yazeed Elrifai. Rural Areas: Exploring Cjellenges and Opportunities for their
Conservation and Development. vol. unico, p. 63-80, Birzeit :birzeit university faculty of engeenering, ISBN: 978-9950-334-25-0, Birzeit, Palestine, 27-29 aprile
2014
MONTEMURRO M (2013). Settlement unit as constitutive form of the contemporary
city. "Terre" In Southern Salento, Italy. In: (a cura di): Assoc. Prof. Mark S.
Anderson University of California, Berkeley,Assoc. Prof. Peter Anderson California
College of the Arts , conference proceedings of the 1st ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGEENERING (ACE 2013)- E
PEIODICAL ISSN: 2301-3958. p. 485-491, SINGAPORE, 18-19 MARCH 2013, doi:
10.5176/2301-394X_ACE13.117
MONTEMURRO M (2013). Settlement Unit as constitutive part of the contemporary
city. "Terre" in Southern Salento (Italy). In: (a cura di): Aspa Gospodini,
Proceedings of the International Conference on "Changing Cities". Spatial,
morphological, formal & socio-economic dimensions. vol. unico, p. 932-941,
THESSALONIKI:Grafima Publ., ISBN: 978-960-6865-65-7, Skiatos, Greece, June
18-21, 2013
MONTEMURRO M (2011). Nuovi modelli insediativi/abitativi: le "Terre" salentine.
In: Il progetto di architettura tra didattica e ricerca. Bari-Politecnico di Bari, Facoltà
di Architettura, 2-6 / 05/2011, vol. 2a, p. 1247-1256, BARI:PolibaPress / Arti
Grafiche Favia, ISBN: 978-88-95612-77-5
MONTEMURRO M (2008). Restoration Theory and Practice of the Compagnonnage
du Devoir. The fabric integrations in the Tour St.Jacques in Paris. In: The Venice
Charter Revisited: Modernism, Conservation and Tradition in the 21st Century.
Venezia, Italia, Venice, 2-5 novembre 2006, vol. vol.1, p. 342-355, NEWCASTLE
UPON TYNE:Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ISBN: 1847186882
MONTEMURRO M (2006). The operating tradition of the Compagnonnage du Devoir
du Tour de France. In: Proceedings of The Second International Congress on
Costruction History, Cambridge 2006. vol. vol.2, p. 2277-2291, ISBN: 0-70170203-6, Cambridge (U.K.), 29 marzo - 02 aprile 2006
Main exhibitions
Città di pietra, sezione della 10.mostra internazionale di Architettura della biennale di
Venezia, Venezia, Arsenale, September 10 – November 18, 2006. With C.D'AMATO
GUERRIERI, F. DEFILIPPIS, G. FALLACARA.
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Progetto di ristrutturazione di una casa nel centro storico di Polignano a Mare in
Transmitting architecture. Torino, June 29 – July 3, 2008.
Projects and models of workshop internazionale sul recupero architettonico dei sassi
di Matera. Insula francescana di S. Lorenzo Maggiore, Napoli, May 27 - June 2, 2002.
Main competitions
2015. International Design Competition on the Osumi Island in Berat. Shortlisted.
2015. International Design Competition Tirana master plan “campus”: constructing
new student residences and rehabilitating the existing ones. Shortlisted.
2010-2012. Underground parking and urban park preliminary design, Pescocostanzo
(CH).
2007. Redevelopment of Borgo Murattiano, Bari 2007. 1st phase winner.
2006. Urban renovation of four parvises in the historical centre of Sulmona (team)
Sulmona,First prize.
2001. EUROPAN 6 international competition, area di Quarrata, italia (group leader)
2001. Honourable mention.
2000. Layout design of council chamber, Manfredonia, 2000. First prize and
realization.
1997. Home for the elderly V. Emanuele II expansion (group leader), two phases,
Trani. Honourable mention.
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The undersigned Michele Montemurro, under articles 46, 47 and 76 of the Presidential Decree 445/2000, being aware of the
responsibility and the civil and penal consequences provided in case of false declarations or formation or use of false documents,
declare that all data and information contained in this Curriculum Vitae are true and correct.
Bari, 10.11.2015
In witness where of
Michele Montemurro
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