Marco Trisciuoglio

Marco Trisciuoglio (1966), is an architect and an urban designer, who studies the idea of city as a collective architecture and as a collective construction (of buildings, spaces and symbols) within the context of the Italian cultural background. He is Full Professor in Architectural and Urban design at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture and Design. He was the Head of the PhD Program Architecture. History and Project at Politecnico di Torino in the years 2017-2023. He is currently Associated Vice Rector for Education at his University.

He was Visiting Professor in some Chinese universities and from 2015 Guest Professor at the School of Architecture in Southeast University in Nanjing, where he is now Professor at the Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School.

He spent last 10 years in studying the morphology of human settlements in urban and rural China. He is actually leading, as Co-Director with Bao Li, the Joint Research Unit TRANSITIONAL MORPHOLOGIES, established in June 2018 between Politecnico di Torino and Southeast University Nanjing.

In 2025 he was the Chair of the seminal International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF) held in Torino (URBAN MORPHOLOGY IN THE AGE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE).

His publications can be organized in five different fields: past and future of urban forms, theories and techniques of architectural and urban design, the idea of landscape and its relationship with human culture and settlement, built environment, heritage and design of existing artefacts.