Main Research Accomplishments

Books & Book Chapters:

Ed. Book - Raffaele PERNICE and Bing Chen (2024), Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization, Routledge, London & New York (Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design Series); [ISBN: 978-1032538945]; “Introduction” (with B. Chen, L. Cardellicchio); ‘The Urbanization of Australia and China: Visions, Strategies and Urban Paradigms in the Context of Asia Pacific Region” (with Dan Gui). [https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003414186]

Book Chapter - Raffaele PERNICE (2024), “Education, Memory and Community”; in Paola Favaro and Robert Freestone (ed.), Tzannes. Adaptive Urban Architecture and Design, Thames & Hudson Australia (THA), Melbourne, Victoria Australia, pp.314-323 [ISBN: 978-1760762926]

Ed. Book - Raffaele PERNICE (2022), The Urbanism of Metabolism. Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Mutant City of Tomorrow, Routledge, London & New York [ISBN: 978-1-032-03073-9]; Link: The Urbanism of Metabolism: Visions, Scenarios and Models for the Muta (routledge.com)

Book Chapter - Raffaele PERNICE & T. Yaguchi, K. Kobayashi (2022), “Blended and Transnational Higher Education in Architecture Schools. Examples and Considerations from Two International Joint-Design Studios between Australia and Japan”; in Gareth Morris and Li Li (ed.), Handbook of Research on Developments and Future Trends in Transnational Higher Education, IGI - Global Publisher, Hershey, pp.17-43. [ISBN: 9781668452264; doi: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5226-4.ch010]

Book Chapter - Raffaele PERNICE (2022), “Chinese Cities from the Ground to the Sky: Building Suzhou as a Global City beyond the Tradition”; in Pablo Baisotti (ed.), “Global Cities in Latin America and Asia. Welcome to the XXIst Century”, The University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor – USA, pp.17-43 [ISBN: 978-0-472-07523-2]; https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.12105185

Book - Raffaele PERNICE (2014), “From Tokyo Bay Planning to Urban Utopias. The Metabolist Movement in the Years of Japan’s Rapid Economic Growth (1958-1964)”, Scholars’ Press, Saarbrucken - Germany. [ISBN: 978-3-639-71065-6; 512 pp.]

Academic Journal Articles:

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE, with Covatta, A., & Zuccaro Marchi, L. (2024): “Building Tokyo by the Sea: Visions, strategies and projects on the edge of the water 1950-2020”. International Planning History Society (IPHS) Proceedings, 20(1), pp. 161-172.[ https://doi.org/10.7480/iphs.2024.1.7620]

Raffaele PERNICE, (2024): Review Essay: “Streets, People, and Urban Scenes Through Time: The Perpetual Allure of Tokyo”; reviewing “Tokyo Roji”, by Heide Imai (2018); “Tokyo as a Global City: New Geographical Perspectives”, by Toshio Kikuchi and Toshihiko Sugai (2018); “Street Performers and Society in Urban Japan, 1600-1900: The Beggar's Gift (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia), by Gerald Groemer (2018), in: Journal of Urban History, SAGE Publications [ISSN: 0096-1442; Online ISSN: 1552-6771; doi.org/10.1177/009614422412275]

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE & Deepthie Perera (2022), “Modernism in Sri Lanka: a comparative study of outdoor transitional spaces in selected traditional and modernist houses in the early post-independence period (1948–1970)”; JAABE - Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (英文論文集), Architectural Institute of Japan - Tokyo, in association with the Architectural Institute of Korea and the Architectural Society of China, September 2022, [Citation Index: AHCI/SCIE; ISSN: 1347-2852, 1347-2852, 1346-7581]; DOI: 10.1080/13467581.2022.2116938

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2021), "Verticality and Conflicting Identities in the Contemporary Chinese City: The Urban Development of Suzhou Industrial Park"; Journal of Chinese Architecture and Urbanism, Vol. 3, Issue 1, pp. 1-16: [ISSN: 2717-5626]; Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.36922/jcau.v3i1.1026

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE, with Ann Brantingham, Chengcheng Li, Gareth Morris (2017), “Teaching and Learning in a Multi-Disciplinary World: Examples from a Sino-British University in China”; Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal (LICEJ), Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2017, pp. 2683-2690. [ISSN: 2040-2589]; Link: Volume 8 (2017) (infonomics-society.org)

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2014), “Images of the Future from the Past: The Metabolists and the Utopian Planning of 1960s”; JCEA - Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture, David Publishing, New York - USA, Vol.8, No. 6, June 2014, pp.761-771. [ISSN: 1934 -7359; DOI: 10.17265/1934-7359/2014.06.011]

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2014), “Changing Architectures and Evolving Urbanism in Modern Japanese Urban Environment”; IJET - International Journal of Engineering and Technology, IACSIT Press - Singapore, Vol.6, No. 5, October 2014, pp. 351-357. [ISSN: 1793-8236]; Link: Changing Architectures and Evolving Urbanism in Modern Japanese Urban Environment - Volume 6 Number 5 (Oct. 2014) - IJET (ijetch.org)

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2009), “Japanese Urban Artificial Islands: An Overview of Projects and Schemes for Marine Cities during 1960s-1990s”; Journal of Architecture and Planning (日本建築学会計画系論文集 第 - NIHON KENCHIKU GAKKAI KEIKAKU-KEI ROMBUNSHŪ), Transactions of AIJ - Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo, No. 642, August 2009, pp. 1847-1855. [ISSN: 1340-4210]; Link: JAPANESE URBAN ARTIFICIAL ISLANDS: AN OVERVIEW OF PROJECTS AND SCHEMES FOR MARINE CITIES DURING 1960S-1990S (jst.go.jp)

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2007), “Urban Sprawl in Postwar Japan and the Vision of the City in the Urban Theories of Metabolists’ Projects”; JAABE - Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (英文論文集), Architectural Institute of Japan - Tokyo, in association with the Architectural Institute of Korea and the Architectural Society of China, Vol. 6, No. 2, November 2007, pp. 237-244. [Citation Index: AHCI/SCIE; ISSN: 1347-2852, 1347-2852, 1346-7581; IF: 0.53]; Link: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.3130/jaabe.6.237

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2007), “The Issue of Tokyo Bay’s Reclaimed Lands as the Origin of Urban Utopias in Modern Japanese Architecture”; Journal of Architecture and Planning (日本建築学会計画系論文集 第 - NIHON KENCHIKU GAKKAI KEIKAKU-KEI ROMBUNSHŪ), Transactions of AIJ - Architectural Institute of Japan, Tokyo, No. 613, March 2007, pp. 259-266. [ISSN: 1340-4210]; Link: THE ISSUE OF TOKYO BAY'S RECLAIMED LANDS AS THE ORIGIN OF URBAN UTOPIAS IN MODERN JAPANESE ARCHITECTURE (jst.go.jp)

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2006), “The Transformation of Tokyo during the 1950s and the Early 1960s. Projects Between City Planning and Urban Utopia”; JAABE - Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (英文論文集), Architectural Institute of Japan - Tokyo, in association with the Architectural Institute of Korea and the Architectural Society of China, Vol. 5, No. 2, November 2006, pp. 253-260. [Citation Index: AHCI/SCIE; ISSN: 1347-2852, 1347-2852, 1346-7581; IF: 0.53]; Link: The Transformation of Tokyo During the 1950s and Early 1960s (jst.go.jp)

Peer Reviewed Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2004), “Metabolism Reconsidered. Its Role in the Architectural Context of the World”; JAABE - Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering (英文論文集), Architectural Institute of Japan - Tokyo, in association with the Architectural Institute of Korea and the Architectural Society of China, Vol. 3, No. 2, November 2004, pp. 357-363. [Citation Index: AHCI/SCIE; ISSN: 1347-2852, 1347-2852, 1346-7581; IF: 0.53]; Link: Metabolism Reconsidered Its Role in the Architectural Context of the World: Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering: Vol 3, No 2 (tandfonline.com)

Book Reviews:

Raffaele PERNICE, (2022): “The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction”, Author: William Gardner, Publisher: Minnesota University Press, Publication Year: 2020 (1^st edition), in Japan Review: Journal of the International Research Center for Japanese Studies - December 2022, The International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken), Kyoto, Vol. 37, pp. 209-211 [doi: 10.15055/00007926]

Raffaele PERNICE, (2020), “The City After the Chinese New Towns. Spaces and Imaginaries from Contemporary Urban China”, Authors: Michele Bonino, Francesca Governa, Maria Paolo Repellino, Angelo Sampieri, Publisher: Birkhauser Verlag, Publication Year: 2019, in Town Planning Review, (91-5), Liverpool University Press, UK. pp.559-560 [Print ISSN: 0041-0020; Online ISSN: 1478-341X]; Link: Liverpool University Press: JournalsTown Planning Review: Volume 91 (2020), Issue 5: Book Reviews

Raffaele PERNICE, (2019): “Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650-1950”, Author: Wybe Kuitert, Publisher: PENN - University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia (US), Publication Year: 2016 (1^st edition), reviewed for: Taylor and Francis Group - Japanese Studies, [https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2019.1612237]

Raffaele PERNICE (2016), “Arts, Culture and the Making of Global Cities. Creating New Urban Landscapes in Asia”, Authors: Lily Kong, Ching Chao-ho and Chou Tsu-Lung, Publisher: EE - Edward Elgar Publishing (UK), Publication Year: 2015 (1^st Edition); in Town Planning Review, (87.3), Liverpool University Press, UK. pp. 366-368. [Print ISSN: 0041-0020; Online ISSN: 1478-341X; https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2016.24]

Raffaele PERNICE, (2016): “Urban Design: The Composition of Complexity”, Author: Ron Kasprisin, Publisher: Routledge/ Taylor and Francis Group (US and the UK), Publication Year: 2011 (1^st edition)

Raffaele PERNICE (2016): Book Proposal - “Housing in Post-Growth Society”, Authors: Yosuke Hirayama, Misa Izuhara. Publisher: Routledge/ Taylor and Francis Group (US and the UK), Publication Year: 2018 (1^st edition)

Conference Papers, Presentations and Essays:

Peer Reviewed Conference Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE, Alice Covatta and Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi (2024), “Building Tokyo by the Sea. Visions, Strategies and Projects on the Edge of the Water 1950-2020”; 20^th Biennial Conference of the International Planning History Society - Hong Kong Conference, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 28 June (on-line)/2-5 July 2024

Journal article, Raffaele PERNICE & Dijana Alic (2022), “2022 SAHANZ PhD Colloquium Summary”, Fabrications - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), Taylor & Francis, London, Vol. 32, Issue 2; [Print ISSN: 1033-1867 Online ISSN: 2164-4756];[https://doi.org/10.1080/10331867.2022.2154428]

Journal Article - Raffaele PERNICE (2019), "City and place identity in SIP Suzhou: Re-learning forgotten lessons from modern western urban design theory", HKIUD Journal Urbanie and Urbanus, Hong Kong, pp. 11 - 19; Link: Urbanie and Urbanus Journal - City and place identity in SIP Suzhou: Re-learning forgotten lessons from modern western urban design theory | Place Identity (Issue 2019 Sep) (uandujournal.com); [DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.55412/02.02]

Conference Paper/Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE with Yuan SUN (2018), “A Model of Eco-city in China. Building Suzhou Industrial Park as a Bridge Between Modernity and Tradition in the Early 21st Century”; IUSAM 2018 - Inter-university Seminar on Asian Megacities: “Space Sharing in Virtual and Physical Worlds”, Zhejiang University, College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hangzhou - China, 5-6 May 2018

Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2017), “Shaping the City of Tomorrow in East Asia: Concepts, Schemes and Ideas for Urban Development from 1960s to 2010, and beyond”; Proceedings of AESOP 17 - Association of European Planning Schools Annual Congress 2017, Lisbon - Portugal, 11-14 July 2017. [ISBN: 978-989-99801-3-6; pp. 3262-3270] Link: : Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa: Spaces of dialog for places of dignity: fostering the European dimension of planning (ul.pt); URL:  http://hdl.handle.net/10451/49151; [DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.19426040]

Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE with Dr. Yunqing Xu (2017) - “The City Explorer: International Field Trip as a Teaching Tool for Active Learning in a Research-led University in China”, 2017 International Conference on Planning and Design Education in the Context of China’s New Type Urbanization, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Suzhou - China, 9-12 June 2017

Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE with Ann Brantingham, Gloria Molinero, Gareth Morris, Chengchen Li (2017) - “Innovatively Evolving an Inter-disciplinary Course to Enhance Student Learning”, 2017 International Conference on Planning and Design Education in the Context of China’s New Type Urbanization, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Suzhou - China, 9-12 June 2017

Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2016), “Urban Housing for the Masses in East Asia: Structuring the Contemporary Cities in Japan, China and South Korea”; Proceedings of ARCHTHEO ’16 - 10^th International Theory and History of Architecture Conference, Dakam - East Mediterranean Academic Research Center, Istanbul - Turkey, 27-28 October 2016. [ISBN: 978-605-9207-51-5; pp. 361-369]; [DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19426052]

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE with Ann Brantingham, Chengcheng Li, Gareth Morris (2016), “Multi-disciplinary Teaching and Learning - Planning Ahead for Collaborative Practice in an Innovative Era”, Proceedings of WCE 2016 - World Congress on Education, Dublin - Ireland, 10-13 October 2016. [ISBN: 978-1-908320-75-9; pp. 114-117; DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.19426055]

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper/Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE (2016), “Mass-housing Design for a Growing Middle Class in Expanding Cities: an Overview of Japan, China and South Korea”; RUEG 2016 - International Conference on Regional Urbanism in an Era of Globalization, University of Huddersfield, School of Art, Design and Architecture, Huddersfield - UK, 3-5 February 2016

Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2015), “Sprawling City and Mass Housing in Modern Europe and Japan: Innovative Design for High Density Residential Complexes by John Habraken and the Metabolists”; Proceedings of EAAC 2015 - International Conference on East Asian Architectural Culture, “History in Practice and Practice in History in the 21^st Century”, Gwangju - South Korea, 10-14 November 2015, pp. 619-622; [https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19425863]

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper/Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE (2014), “Evolving Landscapes and Changing Architectures in Modern Japanese Urban Environment”; The Mediated City Los Angeles Conference - Architecture_MPS, Woodbury University, School of Media, Culture and Design, Los Angeles - USA, 1-4 October 2014. [On-line: http://architecturemps.com/los-angeles/]; [DOI:10.6084/m9.figshare.19501292]

Conference Paper/Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE with Yiping DONG (2014), “The Making of a Contemporary Neighbourhood Center in SSIP-Suzhou, China. Case Studies on an Architectural and Urban Type in Contextual Transformation”; IUSAM 2014 - Inter-university Seminar on Asian Megacities: “Smart Urbanism for Asian Megacities”, Hanyang University, Department of Engineering and Planning, Seoul - South Korea, 27-30 August 2014. (Panellist and moderator of session); [DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.1.3186.2241]

Conference Paper/Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE (2014), “Modern Urban Living in Japan. Technology and Housing in the 1960s”; ACAH 2014 - The Fifth Asian Conference on the Arts and Humanities, “Individual, Community and Society: Conflict, Resolution and Synergy”, IAFOR - The International Academic Forum, Osaka - Japan, 3-6 April 2014. (Panellist and chair of session)

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper/Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE (2014), “Changing Architectures and Evolving Urbanism in Modern Japanese Urban Environment”; ICCUE 2014 - The 2014 International Conference on Civil and Urban Engineering, Asia-Pacific CBEES, Shanghai - China, 29-30 March 2014. (Panellist and chair of session); DOI: 10.7763/ijet.2014.v6.725

Conference Paper/Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE (2013), “Post-war Japanese Architecture and Urbanism: the growth of the Megalopolis of Tokaido”; IUSAM 2013 - Inter-university Seminar on Asian Megacities: “Asian Urbanism and Beyond”, CUHK - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Urban Studies Programme, Department of Geography and Resource Management & Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong - China, 15-17 August 2013; [https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19425860]

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2012), “From “Hanoak” to “A-pa-tu”. Korean Urbanism in the XXth Century”; EAAC 2012 - East Asian Architectural Culture International Conference, “Convergence in Divergence - Contemporary Challenges in East Asian Architectural Studies”, CUHK - The Chinese University of Hong Kong, School of Architecture, Hong Kong - China, 10-12 December 2012. [DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.1721.8080]

Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2012), “Visions of the Future from the Past. The Metabolist Movement and the Urban Utopias of the 1960s”, ISAT-Special, The 11^th International Symposium on Advanced Technology: “Toward 2050 and Beyond - Innovative Technology for Sustainable Societies” - Kogakuin University, Tokyo - Japan, 30 October 2012

Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2011), “Learning from Europe. Reuse and Valorization of Structures from the Past: 2 Case Studies in Venice, Italy”; Proceedings of “International Forum on Transforming Daegu’s Old Tobacco Factory KT&G to Cultural Area”, sponsored by Daegu City Council and Daegu Fine Arts Association (Daegu Branch of Korea Fine Arts Association), Daegu - South Korea, 21 December 2011, pp. 30-39; [https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19425935]

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2011), “Urbanism and Mass housing in XXI Century East Asia. The formation of Korean and Japanese Megacities”; Proceedings of EAAC 2011 - East Asian Architectural Culture International Conference, “South of East Asia: Re-addressing East Asian Architecture and Urbanism”, Session: “Tradition vs Modernity: Re-thinking Architectural and Urban History”, NUS - National University of Singapore, Department of Architecture, Singapore, 12-14 May 2011, pp. 1-31

Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2010), “Modern Japanese Waterfront Developments - Global vs. Local”; Proceedings of IV Ajman International Urban Planning Conference, “Waterfront: New Trends in Urbanism and Architecture”, AUST - Ajman University of Science and Technology, College of Engineering, Ajman - UAE, 29-31 March 2010, pp. 1-10

Peer Reviewed Conference Paper - Raffaele PERNICE (2009), “Considerations on the Theme of Marine Architectures in the Early Projects of Masato Otaka, Kiyonori Kikutake and Noriaki Kisho Kurokawa”; Proceedings of EAAC 2009 - East Asian Architectural Culture International Conference, “The East Asian Architecture and Urbanism under Occidentalism”, NCKU - National Cheng Kung University, Department of Architecture, Tainan - Taiwan, 10-13 April 2009, pp. 97-107; [DOI:10.13140/RG.2.1.3818.9602]

Poster Presentation - Raffaele PERNICE with Minjeong SHIM (2009), “Neo Kobe: Commerce, Culture and Links between the Tokaido Megalopolis and the New Conurbations along the Coasts of the Yellow Sea”; IV Congress of AISU - Italian Association of Urban Historians, “Cities and Networks”, Milan - Italy, 19-21 February 2009

Raffaele PERNICE (unpublished essay - 2004), “Metabolism 1960: Utopie Urbane nel Giappone del Dopoguerra” (Metabolism 1960: Urban Utopias in Postwar Japan); paper in Italian presented at meeting of ARIG (Association of Italian Researchers in Japan) - Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo - Japan, 24 July 2004

Academic Lectures/Presentations:

Curator, Presenter and Convener: 2023 Architecture Talk Series: Urban Living in Japan 1868-2025, Organized and hosted by The Japan Foundation Sydney; presentation titled: “Architectures of the Rapid Growth in Japan 1945-1979”, 9 February-2 March 2023 (https://jpf.org.au/events/architecture-talk/)

Invited Lecturer: “The Urbanism of Metabolism 1960-2020. Impermanence and Metamorphosis in the Architecture of Post-war Japan”, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, 24 February 2023

Curator, Presenter and Co-convener (with Tetsuya Yaguchi) of the international symposium/webinar Repairing Waterfronts in the Age of Global Warming: Learning from Australia and Japan, UNSW Sydney - School of Built Environment and Waseda University - Department of Architecture, UNSW Sydney, School of the Built Environment, 24 November 2022 (https://conference.unsw.edu.au/en/repairing-waterfronts-in-the-age-of-global-warming)

Curator, Presenter and Co-convener (with Bing Chen) of the 2022 International Symposium on Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture: Australia and China Perspectives on Urban Regeneration and Rural Revitalization, UNSW Sydney - School of Built Environment and Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU) - School of Design, 13-14 October 2022; paper presentation titled: “The Urbanization of Rural China and Regional Australia. Visions, Strategies and Urban Paradigms in the Context of the Asia Pacific Region”, 13 October 2022 (https://conference.unsw.edu.au/en/2022-international-symposium-on-sustainable-urbanism-and-architecture)

Organizer and Co-convener (hybrid on campus/webinar event) - International Symposium: Architectures for a Mutant City. 60 Years of Metabolism 1960-2020, and Beyond; supported by UNSW Sydney and the Japan Foundation; UNSW, School of Built Environment, Kensington Campus, 22-23 February 2021 (https://conference.unsw.edu.au/en/international-symposium)

Public Talk: Mutant Urbanism in Japanese Architecture: Lessons from the Metabolist Movement, The Japan Foundation Sydney, 16 February 2021

Guest Lecturer - “Elements of History and Theory of Urban Design”, UNSW Sydney - Faculty of the Built Environment (contribution to the M1 course: ARCH7101 - Design Studio), Sydney, 11 March 2020

Guest Lecturer - “Urbanization and the Built Environment in the Asia Pacific Region: Planning and Designing the Contemporary City in China, Japan and South Korea”, Soochow University, Department of Urban Planning, (contribution to the M1 course: Planning Theory), Suzhou - China, 29 November 2017

Guest Lecturer - “Technology and Urban Utopias: The Metabolist Movement in a Changing Japan”, XJTLU - Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Architecture (contribution to the Y3 course: ARC 203 - History of Asian Architecture), Suzhou - China, 21 November 2017

Co-presentation (with C. Ganshirt, B. Chen) - “SAIC Motor Corporation Research & Development Centre Shanghai - Conceptual Ideas for Urban and Architectural Development”; Anting Town - Shanghai, 27 April 2017

Co-Presentation (with Dr. Yunqing Xu) - “Research-oriented Teaching Via International Field Trip at UPD”; 2017 XJTLU Teaching and Learning Colloquium, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, AEC - Academic Enhancement Center, Suzhou - China, 6 April 2017

Co-presentation (with Ann Brantingham, Gloria Molinero, Gareth Morris - XJTLU/Language Center) - “Innovatively Evolving an Inter-disciplinary Course to Enhance Student Learning”; 2017 XJTLU Teaching and Learning Colloquium, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, AEC - Academic Enhancement Center, Suzhou - China, 7 April 2017

Seminar Presentation - “Suzhou-Singapore Industrial Park. Neighbourhoods and Housing in a Contextual Transformation”, Joint workshop XJTLU - Hosei University, “The Present Problems of Asian Cities”, Hosei University, School of Engineering and Design, Tokyo - Japan, 17 March 2017

Guest Lecturer - “Chasing the City of Tomorrow: Urban Architectures of the Japanese Metabolists”, XJTLU - Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Architecture (contribution to the Y3 course: ARC 203 - History of Asian Architecture), Suzhou - China, 2 December 2016

Open Talk - “Cities of East Asia: a Research Overview of Japan, South Korea and China”; “UPD Lunch Talk Research Series”, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Suzhou - China, 16 May 2016

Co-Presentation (with Ann Brantingham, Chengcheng Li, Gareth Morris - XJTLU/Language Center) - “Multi-disciplinary Teaching and Learning - Planning Ahead for Collaborative Practice in an Innovative Era”, 2016 XJTLU Teaching and Learning Colloquium, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, AEC - Academic Enhancement Center, Suzhou - China, 7-8 April 2016

Guest Lecturer - “The Mutant City: Architecture and City Planning in the Projects of the Metabolist Group”, XJTLU - Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Architecture (Y3 course: ARC 203 - History of Asian Architecture), Suzhou - China, 1 December 2015

Guest Lecturer - “The Metabolist Group: Shaping a New Urbanism and Architecture for Modern Japan”, XJTLU - Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Architecture (Y3 course: ARC 203 - History of Asian Architecture), Suzhou - China, 28 November 2014

Guest Lecturer - “The Metabolists Manifesto 1960: The Making of a Modern Japanese Architecture and Urbanism”, XJTLU - Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Architecture, Architecture (Y3 course: ARC 203 - History of Asian Architecture), Suzhou - China, 3 December 2013

Guest Lecturer - “Japanese Avant-garde Architecture and Urban Design in the XXth Century. The Projects of Metabolism 1960-1964”, Tianjin University, Department of Architecture, Tianjin - China, 16 October 2013

Open Talk - “Model Cities and Extreme ARCHI-Urbanism: New Towns and Visionary Planning from the West to the Far East and China”; “Sustainable Cities Lecture Series”, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Suzhou - China, 25 April 2013

Guest Lecturer - “Urbanism and Mass Housing in XXth Century’ South Korea”, XJTLU - Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Department of Architecture, Suzhou - China, 29 November 2012

Guest Critic - “Learning from Europe. Reuse and Valorisation of Structures from the Past: 2 Case Studies in Venice, Italy”, “International Forum on Transforming Daegu’s Old Tobacco Factory KT&G to Cultural Area”, sponsored by Daegu City Council - Daegu Fine Arts Association (Korea Fine Arts Association), Daegu City - South Korea, 21 December 2011

Organizer and Co-convener (with Prof. Hidenobu Jinnai) - International Workshop “From the Futurist City to the Future City - 100 Years of Visions of the Future City from Italian Futurism to Japan and East Asia”; supported by Hosei University, Department of Architecture - Tokyo; ISEAS - Italian School of East Asian Studies in Kyoto; the Italian Embassy in Japan, Tokyo; the Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo - Japan, 26-27 September 2009

Seminar Presentation - “Italian Futurism and Japanese Metabolism: Avant-gardes of XXth Century”, Hosei University, School of Engineering and Design, Department of Architecture, Tokyo, 19 September 2009

Invited Lecturer - “Megastructures in the Japanese Architectural Context during the 1960s. Analogies and Differences with Contemporary Western Trends” - Annual meeting of ARIG (Association of Italian Researchers in Japan) - Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo - Japan, 24 July 2004

Invited Lecturer - “Megastructures and Urban Development in Modern Japan: Metabolism 1960” - Annual meeting of ARIG (Association of Italian Researchers in Japan) - Italian Cultural Institute in Tokyo - Japan, 21 November 2003