MISSION

The Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre has been active since 1982 as the operative support to the Bibliotheca Orientalis. It promotes fieldwork and international scientific events.

Within the SECA Foundation the Bibliotheca Orientalis and the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre involve a large number of cooperating citizens, in person or remotely, and establish working connections with a large number of people in the wide field of cultural production.

In a time of profound changes in the political, cultural and economic spheres of the Mediterranean, resuming support to research activities in Puglia and attracting scholars, within a network of scientific institutions of Islamic countries, favours access to culture by means of new technologies and licenses, and creates a culturally and economically sustainable model for the horizontal widespread, and participatory production of Culture. As a cultural garrison in the heart of the historic city centre, the Library contributes to make Trani, and Puglia a bridge between the Western world and the Orient.

ARCHIVE

Geographical maps, cadastral maps, original architectural surveys (mostly on DVD) and the complete collection of the Tuebinger Atlas des Vorderen Orient.

DONATIONS

Per donazioni, sotto forma di libri di architettura alla Bibliotheca Orientalis, contattate il direttore.

HISTORY

Founded in 1982 after the second Biennale of Venice exhibition titled "Architecture in Islamic Countries 1960-1980"

1985 Between the Past and the Future: Designing the Islamic City, Genzano, Roma
1986 The Pattern of the Garden and Design of a City, Genzano, Roma
1987 Ritual Movement in Urban India, Genzano, Roma
1988 Mimar Sinan, the Urban Vision, Genzano, Roma
1989 History and Project: the Historical Centres of Maghreb, Roma, Accademia di cultura egiziana
1990 Presence of Italy in the Architecture and Urbanism of the Arab Mediterranean, Roma, Accademia di cultura egiziana
1991 The Islamic Town from Cadastral Plans, Roma, Accademia di cultura egiziana
1992 La deriva dei continenti. Architettura e urbanistica andalusa dopo il 1492, Roma, Accademia di cultura egiziana
1992 La deriva dei continenti. Architettura e urbanistica sefardite dopo il 1492, Ferrara
1993 Urban Walls in the Islamic World, Roma, Accademia di cultura egiziana
1994 L’abitazione europea nei paesi islamici, Roma, Facoltà di Architettura
1996 Il paesaggio mediterraneo (con Enrico Genovesi), Roma, Facoltà di Architettura
 
After 1998, sponsored by the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture of the Bari Institute of Technology
2000 6th Workshop & Symposium presso il Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA), Istanbul e la Città di Mostar. Mostar, luglio 14-28, 2000
2000 The VIIth International IASTE Conference in collaborazione con University of California at Berkeley, ” The End of Tradition?”. Trani,ottobre 12-15, 2000, 206 partecipanti
2002 ‘Paesaggi di sale’: modelli di integrazione fra città e territorio nelle saline di Margherita di Savoia, Sala Congressi- giugno 22, Margherita di Savoia, 2002
2002 International conference: Gianfranco Caniggia. From the Reading of Como to the Typological Interpretation of the City”, Cernobbio, Villa Erba, luglio 5-6, 74 partecipanti
2002 8th Workshop & Symposium presso il Research Centre for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA), Istanbul e la Città di Mostar. Mostar, luglio 9 – agosto 3, 2002
2002 International Conference on ” Landscapes of Water. History, Innovation and Sustainable Design”, at Monopoli, Castello Normanno,26-29,settembre, 102 partecipanti
2002 International Seminar su “ Multicultural Space and Fabric of the Islamic World”, Bari, Politecnico di Bari, 30 settembre
2003 ISUF International Conference: “ The Planned City?” Trani, Castello Svevo, luglio, 3-6 co-organizzato con M. Stella e G. Strappa, 223 partecipanti.
2003 International Seminar “ Multicultural Urban Fabric and Types in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean”, co-organizzato con M. Cerasi A. Sarro, Trani, Castello Svevo,luglio 7-8, 89 partecipanti.
THE DIRECTOR
The director of the Bibliotheca Orientalis and the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre, is Prof Attilio Petruccioli.
ICOMOS / UNESCO expert
He holds a degree in Architecture from the Università di Roma La Sapienza (1970) and a degree in Oriental Studies from the University of Venice Cà Foscari (1980).
Full Professor of Landscape Architecture (Alta qualifica), Doctoral School Architettura e Costruzione, Università di Roma, La Sapienza.
Aga Khan Professor of Architecture for Islamic Societies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Aga Khan Program at MIT and Harvard University 1994 – 1998.
In between 1998 to 2012 he was full professor of Landscape Architecture at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Bari Institute of Technology, Italy, he served both as dean and departmental director.
In between 2013 and 2017 he was full professor of Urban Design and Msheireb Property Chair at Qatar University. Chief editor of Environmental Design. Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre. Registered Architect since 1974, Italy and associate of the American Institute of Architects (AIA).
Direttore responsabile di Environmental Design. Journal of the Islamic Environmental Design Research Centre.
Architetto iscritto all’albo dal 1974, e associate A.I.A. American Institute of Architects.
He has consulted and provided professional advice in the field of Islamic heritage and Urban development in most of the Arab countries, among them: Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Palestina, Syria, Saudi Arabia.
As a result of his long lasting and passionate interest in both architectural design and history of Islamic architecture, he has written and edited 34 books and more than 210 articles on these topics.