TU Delft Architecture Departement, Chair History of Architecture and Urban Planning - Julianalaan 134 2628 BL Delft | University of Venice IUAV, Cotonificio veneziano - Dorsoduro, 2196, 30123 Venezia VE
Paolo De Martino graduated in Architecture with top marks in July 2008 at the Department of Architecture of University of Naples Federico II (DiARC). After graduation he collaborated with an architectural firm in Naples, focusing mainly on reuse of existing architectural heritage and urban regeneration. He moved to the Netherlands in 2015 where he completed a PhD in a dual research program between TU Delft and University of Naples Federico II. His research, entitled “Land in Limbo”, investigates port cities from a spatial and governance perspective, analysing the impact in shaping spatial development. The city of Naples is an emblematic case to question how to rethink the areas of land-sea interaction, at different scales, as opportunities for territorial regeneration. Since 2017 he has been teaching at the Department of Architecture of TU Delft where he is tutoring students in Design Studios such as “Architecture and Urbanism beyond oil”, “Adaptive Strategies” and “Designing Public Spaces for Maritime Mindsets”, coordinated by Carola Hein. Since 2021, in collaboration with TU Delft, he has been involved in teaching two MOOCs entitled: (Re)Imagining Port Cities: Understanding Space, Society and Culture and Water Works: Activating Heritage for Sustainable Development. Paolo De Martino is a member of the PortCityFutures research group and he is in the coordination group. Since 2022 he is a Research Fellow at the IUAV University of Venice, under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Musco, on the theme of Maritime Spatial Planning for the Italian coast.
Last publications
De Martino P (2022). Towards Circular Port–City Territories. In: Amenta L; Russo M; van Timmeren A . (a cura di): Amenta L; Russo M; van Timmeren A , Regenerative Territories. vol. 128, p. 161-171, SPRINGER, ISBN: 978-3-030-78535-2, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78536-9_10
De Martino, P. (2021). Land in Limbo: Understanding path dependencies at the intersection of theport and city of Naples. vol. 9, p. 1-288, Delft:A+BE | Architecture and the Built Environment, ISBN: 978-94-6366-413-4, doi: https://doi.org/10.7480/abe.2021.09
De Martino, P. (2020) Defending the past by challenging the future: spatial and institutional path dependencies in the Naples port-city region, Regional Studies, Regional Science, 7:1, 108-117, DOI: 10.1080/21681376.2020.1746193 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2020.1746193
De Martino, P., Hein, C., & Russo, M. (2019). NAPLES BEYOND OIL
New design approaches in the era of retiring landscapes. Portus plus, the online magazine of Rete(Special focus 37).
Hein, C., & De Martino, P. (2018). Designing post-carbon Dunkirk with the students from TU Delft. The Beam, 5. Retrieved from https://medium.com/thebeammagazine/designing-post-carbon-dunkirk-with-the-students-from-tu-delft-28f44c40d761
Amenta, L. and De Martino, P. (2019). «WASTESCAPES IN PORT CITIES. NAPLES AND ROTTERDAM: A SPATIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL COMPARISON ON THE ROLE OF PORTS AS PROMOTERS OF CIRCULAR ECONOMY». BDC. Bollettino Del Centro Calza Bini 18, no. 2 (dicembre 31, 2018): 159-180.
Sennema, H., & De Martino, P. (2017). Interpreting reinterpretation: the 13th conference of the European Association for Urban History, Helsinki, 24–28 August 2016. Planning Perspective, 32, 285-291. doi:https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2016.1277954
De Martino, P. (2016). Land in Limbo: Understanding Planning Agencies and Spatial Development at the Interface of the Port and City of Naples. Paper presented at the International Planning History Society Proceedings, 17th IPHS Conference, History-Urbanism-Resilience,, TU Delft
