The PhD program in “Engineering-based Architecture and Urban Planning” is aimed to train researchers through a high educational level, so to enable them to operate in the field of architecture and/or town planning by using a multidisciplinary and crossdisciplinary approach and appropriate methodologies and technologies. Indeed, today, in the national scenario, a strong demand is felt for specialized but not sectorial researchers, capable of interacting with the various components of the productive, administrative and cultural world in order to contribute, through their multidisciplinary training, to govern the complexity of both a single architectural building or a urban design as a whole. In conclusion, the PhD program has a dual purpose: • through the Engineering-based Architecture curriculum: to endow PhD students, at the end of the training process, with research capacity that can be employed by Institutions and public or private organizations in the fields of architectural design, construction and management (until the end of the life cycle and ultimate recycling and/or disposal) of the building, components and materials, both in the construction of new buildings or in the rehabilitation and restructuring of existing ones, in order to acquire skills of analysis and interpretation of the complexity of the phenomena, methodological mastery of how to integrate that skills with the disciplinary specificities involved in the construction process, technical knowledge for solving problems associated with changes in the built environment. • through the Urban Planning curriculum: to introduce PhD students to the issues related to urban design, to organizing and planning cities and territories and to the impact of human pressure on natural environment, investigating new social tools and practices for a sustainable development of cities and landscapes. As regards specific goals, the PhD-program will set up a training synergism with the scientific sectors involved in technical physics, materials technology, history of architecture, social and economics sciences.