Urban Form and Architecture in Turin. The Chessboard as a Matrix of a Transitional Morphology

Marco Trisciuoglio, an architect, is Co-Director of the Joint Research Unit Transitional Morphologies (TransMo), established in 2018 between Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and Southeast University in Nanjing, China. He is a Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design, where he served as Director of the PhD Program in Architecture, History, and Projects for the last 6 years. He teaches Urban Morphology in design studios and theoretical courses. He is also a Professor at the Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School at Southeast University, Nanjing, China, where he has worked for over 10 years on the design studio for Urban Morphology, architectural typology, and contemporary settlement patterns, applying the typo-morphological approach to urban regeneration projects in Nanjing.

With a background in cultural anthropology, through his Master in Architecture and PhD in Methodology of Architectural Design, his research explores the idea of the city as a collective architecture and as a collective construction, of buildings, spaces, and symbols, within the context of Italian cultural legacy. He has spent the last decade studying the morphology of human settlements in urban and rural China. His main research interests focus on the links between tectonics, typology, and topography, themes of his key publications: Scatola di Montaggio (2008, Chinese edition 2015), Typological Permanencies and Urban Permutations (with Bao Li et al., 2017), and L'architetto nel paesaggio. Per un'archeologia dell'idea di paesaggio (2018, 2025, English edition in preparation).