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Carla Brisotto

School of Architecture
Assistant Professor in Urbanism at the School of Architecture
AH 2023
c.brisotto@ufl.edu

Ph.D. in Design, Construction, Planning, University of Florida, College of Design, Construction, and Planning
Degree in Architecture, Università IUAV di Venezia

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Biography

CARLA BRISOTTO, Ph.D. is a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Resilient Urbanism at the University of Florida’s School of Architecture, where she leads design-driven research at the intersection of urbanism, cultural landscape, and climate adaptation. Winner of the International Planning History Society’s First Prize for her co-edited book Re-Imagining Resilient Productive Landscapes: Perspectives from Planning History (Springer, 2022) and the 2026 Columbia University/ACSA Course Development Prize, Brisotto brings a distinctive transatlantic perspective to questions of how designing urban spaces that absorb, adapt to, and recover from hazards disruption.

Trained as an architect at the University IUAV of Venice and holding a Ph.D. in Design, Construction, and Planning from UF, Brisotto has built a research program that moves fluidly between historical analysis and on-the-ground community engagement. Her recent work investigates self-resilient practices and disaster coping mechanisms as generative design strategies, with ongoing fieldwork in coastal Florida and reclaimed agricultural landscapes in southern Italy. As Principal Investigator of a US Department of State–funded bilateral research program and Co-PI on the NASEM GatorCorps CREATE grant, her projects translate rigorous scholarship into actionable tools for local governments and communities. Through the Urban Futures Workshop, she advances interdisciplinary urban design practice directly with communities navigating climate transition.

Design Lead at the Florida Institute for Built Environment Resilience (FIBER) and affiliated faculty of both the UF Florida Sea Grant and the UF Water Institute, Brisotto is a featured researcher at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025 Italian Pavilion with the ReclaiMEDland project. Her scholarship spans Springer and Routledge volumes, peer-reviewed journals, and presentations at venues from the Natural Hazards Workshop to the AAG Annual Meeting and EDRA.

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