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Dr Giamila Quattrone MArch, PhD, FHEA

Lecturer in Architecture Architecture

Research

Sustainable heritage management and adaptive reuse

Cultural heritage documentation (analogue and digital).
Cultural heritage management and development.
Built heritage adaptive reuse.

Arabian and North African vernacular architecture

Transformation processes in settlement, dwelling and constructional patterns of traditional oasis towns (Arabian Peninsula, Morocco and Tunisia).

Re-cycling of waste lands, buildings and materials

Creative urban and architectural recycling.
Post-industrial regeneration and changing urban identities.
Building remodelling.

Research Grants

Indian Ocean Islamic Trade and its Impact on Architecture

AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE (SWITZERLAND)

October 2022 - September 2023

Architecture and Urban Development of the Deccan Sultanate

AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE (SWITZERLAND)

November 2018 - January 2020

The Gulf Architecture Project (GAP)

QATAR FOUNDATION (QATAR)

December 2018 - June 2020

Development of teaching material based on AKHCP material with additional material from ArCHIAM

AGA KHAN TRUST FOR CULTURE (SWITZERLAND)

September 2017 - February 2018

Restoring, Recording and Inventorying the Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage of the M'Hamid Oasis, Morocco

BARAKAT TRUST (UK)

January 2019 - December 2019

Rehabilitation and restoration proposal for Bayt as-Sail (Al Ghassanni family house)

PRIVATE BENEFACTOR (OTHER OVERSEAS)

March 2016 - July 2018

Research Collaborations

Marta Colmenares Fernández, Alejandro García Hermida, Rebeca Gómez-Gordo, Carmen Moreno Adán, Raquel Peña López

External: Terrachidia

Collaborative training, public dissemination and engagement as part of "Restoration, Recording and Documentation of Earthen Architectural Heritage" Workshops in the M'Hamid Oasis, Morocco (2017-to date)