Dr. Irene CurulliIrene Curulli is an Assistant Professor at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands, where she teaches several seminars, graduation studios and supervises Ph.D. students.
Her primary focus in research and teaching is the revitalization of post-industrial landscapes, particularly water-related ones. She is currently researching on industrial heritage reuse with relation to water and the climate change. |
Irene’s emphasis on synergetic and integrative exchange across disciplines is rooted in her educational background, comprising a degree in architecture from the Università degli Studi Mediterranea (Italy), and in Landscape Architecture from the University of Wageningen (The Netherlands), a post-graduate Master at the Berlage Institute Amsterdam and a Ph.D. on the ‘Landscape Attitude’ in contemporary Architectural Design’ from the University of Naples (Italy). Her work seeks to bridge her manifold interests.
Irene was awarded the Lawrence Halprin fellowship from Cornell University (Ithaca, USA) where she was a visiting assistant professor in 2001. There she began her many years’ worth of research on wastelands-industrial heritage. Thanks to her earned expertise on this topic, she was invited as a jury member at GSD-Harvard University and University of Pennsylvania (USA), KU Leuven and Hasselt University (Belgium) and the Berlage Institute (The Netherlands). Moreover, she was a visiting Professor at University of Oregon (Eugene, USA) and Gdansk University of Technology (Gdansk, Poland), respectively in 2014 and 2019. |
She has lectured on her research topic throughout Europe and the USA, such as at the ‘Future Metropolitan Landscapes’ conference at University of Berkeley (USA), and in 2007 she organized the international conference ‘Urban Wastelands’ at TU/e. As an ICOMOS expert, Irene has reviewed dossier proposals for the inscription of sites to the UNESCO World Heritage List and the World Monuments Watch. In 2019, she was scientific committee member and co-lead of the session on waterways at the ‘Water as heritage’ international conference in Chiayi (Taiwan).
She is the coordinator of several multi-disciplinary ERASMUS+ projects and international workshops, where she continuously experiments with the relationship between research and design, profession and education, as in E.L.I.R. (European Laboratory of Industrial Reuse). Irene was awarded the prize ‘Best Master Teacher’ of TU/e in 2010. Finally, her design proposal for the Museum of Macedonian Fight in the international competition promoted by the Macedonian Ministry of Culture was honoured with the 3rd prize. |
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