Designers DABC - Politecnico di Milano

The Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC) generates (research) and transfers (training) knowledge and value in the architecture and construction sector.

The transdisciplinary approach allows the ABC Department to adress the challenges of sustainability, efficiency and resilience of the built environment, within the context of a cohesive and innovative polytechnic culture. 

DABC shares with the Athenaeum the fundamental values of honesty, integrity, respect, professionalism, transparency and stands as a place of experimentation at the service of Society.

The development policies outlined in the Strategic Plan of the ABC Department take into account the need for adaptation of the complex system of buildings and the built environment to tackle economic, social, demographic and climate changes. The main goal is to generate new ways and uses of space, new technologies, new products and new processes.

DABC pursues the Sustainable Development Goals by generating innovative ideas (with a disruptive approach), imagining new solutions for a more sustainable, healthy, safe, inclusive and connected built environment and new methods and tools to design, construct, manage and transform buildings in their life cycle.

By offering high-level training, DABC meets the need for new, highly specialised professionals to manage the ecological and digital transition, and pursues a model of advanced research and experimentation based on multidisciplinarity.