Dr Ombretta Romice
Reader
Architecture
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Prize And Awards
- ICE Reed and Mallick Medal
- Recipient
- 6/6/2023
- Michael Breheny Prize 2022
- Recipient
- 4/10/2022
- Teaching Excellence Awards
- Recipient
- 18/5/2016
- Awarded Associate Membership by experience and practice in teaching, outreach and research
- Recipient
- 1/1/2016
- Elected President of IAPS 2008-2012
- Recipient
- 2008
- International Association for People Environment Studies (IAPS)
- Recipient
- 2004
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Publications
- Assessing the multi-sensory qualities of urban space
- Lucas Raymond, Romice Ombretta
- Psyecology. Bilingual Journal of Environmental Psychology Vol 1, pp. 263-276 (2010)
- https://doi.org/10.1174/217119710791175678
- Preserving the cultural identity of Chinese cities in urban design through a typomorphological approach
- Chen Fei, Romice Ombretta
- Urban Design International Vol 14, pp. 36-54 (2009)
- https://doi.org/10.1057/udi.2009.6
- Representing sensory experience in urban design
- Lucas Raymond, Romice Ombretta
- Design Principles and Practices Vol 2, pp. 83-94 (2008)
- An empirically validated framework for investigating the perception of density
- Patil Madhavi Prashant, Romice Ombretta
- ArchNet-IJAR: International Journal of Architectural Research (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/ARCH-09-2023-0235
- Insights from Portugal's research evaluation exercise
- McVicar Mhairi, Platt Christopher, Romice Ombretta, Runting Helen, Walker Stephen
- ARQ - Architectural Research Quarterly Vol 27, pp. 176-180 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135523000234
- Sustaining a city's culture and character. Principles and best practices
- Romice Ombretta
- Journal of Urban Design (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13574809.2023.2278286
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Professional Activities
- National Research Assessment framework, Portugal (Event)
- Peer reviewer
- 1/4/2023
- Chair of IAPS Election Committee 2022.
- Recipient
- 12/2022
- Strath Methods series of seminars
- Invited speaker
- 1/9/2022
- A pattern language for urban commons: Case studies of cohousing residents’ involvement in shared residential landscapes
- Examiner
- 23/5/2022
- International Forum on Urbanism - 2021 Congress . From dichotomies to dialogues
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 25/11/2021
- European Association for Architectural Education EAAE, Annual Conference and General Assembly
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 25/8/2021
Projects
- KTP - ADAM Architecture Ltd
- Porta, Sergio (Principal Investigator) Romice, Ombretta (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2025
- Slum Prosperity Framework - PostDoc
- Romice, Ombretta (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2019 - 31-Jan-2020
- The Urban Form Resilience Project:
- Porta, Sergio (Principal Investigator) Romice, Ombretta (Co-investigator)
- Resilience and urban form: assessing the resilience of spatial systems in cities at the neighbourhood and district scale
- 01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2020
- A new dimension for data-driven urbanism: studying the form of preference
- Romice, Ombretta (Principal Investigator) Porta, Sergio (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2016 - 31-Jan-2017
- Place Identity Dwelling.
- Romice, Ombretta (Co-investigator) Murray, Gordon (Principal Investigator)
- Development of criteria of assessment for residential neighbourhoods, and analysis of a number of case study analysis. The focus of my team which I leaded was on urban form; other partners: ESALA (landscape assessment). Sponsored by Architecture and Design Scotland. Support: £1,5000.
- 30-Jan-2014 - 01-Jan-2016
- A study with GSA Dundee and ESALA on Research - Place Identity Dwelling.
- Murray, Gordon (Academic) Romice, Ombretta (Co-investigator) Hutton, Graeme (Academic)
- This research network proposal advocates knowledge exchange across European borders, defining areas of excellence and best practice in the procurement and design of volume house-building. Vanguard expertise from academia, industry, Government and regulatory bodies across design, planning & policy, finance and housing will explore positive relationships between design theory & practice; environmental & construction technologies, policy & procurement – and their application to volume house building in suburban contexts.
- 01-Jan-2014 - 01-Jan-2015