It focuses on design conceived as a step of building process.  Construction is therefore taken as the ultimate goal as well as a mean to assess the design itself.  Building and its various outcomes are taken in an all-encompassing way: it includes preservation and museification techniques.

Coordinator: Giovanni Fatta.
Location: Viale delle Scienze, Building 8, F4 - floor 2 - 90128 Palermo.

Section members:

Full Professors
ICAR 10 Architectural Technology: Antonio De Vecchi, Giovanni Fatta;
ICAR 12 Architectural Technology: Giuseppe De Giovanni;
ICAR 21 Urban design: Giuseppe Trombino;

Associate Professors
ICAR 10 Architectural Technology: Tiziana Campisi, Simona Colajanni, Rossella Corrao;
ICAR 11 Building production: Giuseppe Alaimo, Silvia Pennisi;
ICAR 12 Architectural Technology: Ernesto Di Natale, Maria Luisa Germanà, Antonella Mamì, Cesare Sposito, Rosa Maria Vitrano.

Assistant Professors
ICAR 10 Architectural Technology: Calogero Vinci;
ICAR 12 Architectural Technology: Emanuele Walter Angelico, Santina Di Salvo, Tiziana Firrone.