About
Urbanogram: Journal of the Built Environment brings together global designers and theorists through the regular publication of research on historic urban environments in contemporary contexts. The journal’s core objective lies in an international authorship and readership, exploring the tension between urbanism and an increasingly globalised world, where cities and urban landscapes epitomise cultural diversity in complex and evolving ways. Urbanogram publishes academic research and creative works by contributors rooted in their respective cultures, seeking comprehensive and critical perspectives on everyday urban environments.
Founded in 2019, Urbanogram was initiated by a cohort of seven alumni after graduating from the Bartlett School of Architecture in the fields of architectural history and historic urban environments. The journal focuses on publishing work by emerging scholars and collaborates with universities to provide academics and researchers with opportunities to share their work. It functions not only as a publication but also as a platform for international exchange and to further design discourse. As contributors often return to their home countries after completing their studies, maintains a global network, keeping together people who, despite or even because of their different cultural backgrounds, develop shared sensibilities toward the built environment.
Editorial
Fanny Ciufo is a practising Italian architect. She has worked in international offices in Rome, London and Rotterdam (MVRDV). Currently based in Paris, she co-founded SAFA, an architectural firm operating at the intersection of architecture, ecology, and culture. She continues her research between theory and practice with a special interest in the urban environment.
Architecture practice: co-founder SAFA
MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments, The Bartlett, UCL 2018
Italian architectural licence 2017
BArch and MArch Architecture, Sapienza University of Rome 2016
Lavenya Parthasarathy is an urban designer based in London, currently working at AECOM. With professional experience in masterplanning, landscape architecture, and adaptive reuse, she takes an interdisciplinary approach to design. Her work is inspired by the interplay between people, place, and nature, exploring ways to weave them together to create resilient urban environments.
Urban Designer at AECOM, London, UK
MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments, The Bartlett, UCL, 2018
BA (HONS), IDEAs, Ravensbourne University London, 2017
Lei Jiao is a landscape architect at Alexandra Steed URBAN, based in London. With a passion for designing with nature and advocating for landscape-led development, her work bridges scales within the UK and internationally, creating resilient and flourishing environments. She is also the co-founder of the Urbanogram Journal.
Associate Member of the Landscape Institute, UK
MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments, The Bartlett, UCL 2018
MArch, School of Architecture - Huaqiao University 2016
BArch, School of Architecture - Yantai University 2013
Neha Fatima, PCATP is an entrepreneur and academic, running her own practice in Pakistan under the name of Arcline, she struggles to keep a balance between academia and the practising world of architecture. She specialises in renovation, adaptive-reuse and restoration projects. She is also an active member of ACHS.
MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments, The Bartlett, UCL 2018
BArch, National College of Arts, Lahore 2014
Sophie Schrattenecker practises architecture in Austria where she is an active member of planning processes on site from start to finish. Research and travels continuously inspire her written work about contemporary informal architecture embedded in historical contexts.
Foundation of practice Gruber & Schrat ZT OG, 2025
Architectural licence and member of the Austrian Chamber of Architects, 2022
Lecturer in academic writing, University of Applied Arts, Linz, since 2021
MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments, The Bartlett, UCL 2018
BArch and MArch, University of Applied Arts, Linz 2017
Stefan Gruber is based in Austria where he practises and writes about architecture. His theoretical work deals with topics such as the role of memory in the built environment as well as social and cultural implications of architecture.
Foundation of practice Gruber & Schrat ZT OG, 2025
Architectural licence and member of the Austrian Chamber of Architects, 2022
Lecturer in academic writing, University of Applied Arts, Linz, since 2021
MA Architectural History, The Bartlett, UCL 2018
BArch and MArch, University of Applied Arts, Linz 2017
Kleovoulos Aristarchou is practising architecture in the UK and Europe and specialises in projects with historic context. Kleovoulos is a design studio tutor at Sheffield School of Architecture and a guest critic and a mentor at The Bartlett School of Architecture. He talked at the London Festival of Architecture and various UK Universities. His interest lies in the materiality and craft of the city, as well as juxtapositions between historic and contemporary architecture, art, and theories.
Architect at Haworth Tompkins, London, UK
Design Studio Tutor at Sheffield School of Architecture, UK
ARB UK Architectural licence 2024
MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, 2021
MArch Architecture, The Glasgow School of Art, 2020
We would like to thank Anita Schrattenecker for rendering assistance in copy editing Urbanogram.
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Urbanogram: Journal of the Built Environment
Editorial Team
Fanny Ciufo
Lavenya Parthasarathy
Lei Jiao
Neha Fatima
Sophie Schrattenecker
Stefan Gruber
Kleovoulos Aristarchou
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Place of Publication: Linz (Austria) & Paris (France)
ISSN
print: 3061-0117
web: 3061-0125
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version 10/2022
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