symbolic systems. The city operates for composing a common world, it becomes for its citizens a way of knowing, but sharing the construction of such knowledge. He is pursuing some cooperative design processes that deal with city plans aimed to activate a learning community. He thinks that only communities of citizens can pursue resilient, sustainable cities. The Academic Career • Sergio Los is professor of Architectural Composition at the University Iuav of Venice, now retired. • Between 1965 and 1971 he taught Interior Architecture at the University Iuav of Venice in Italy. • Between 1972 and 1978 he taught Town Design in the Department of Giancarlo De Carlo at the University Iuav of Venice, later between 1979 and 2000 he taught Architectural Composition, showing his main interest in Multi-Scale Architecture. • From 1970 up to 2000 he is responsible of many research activities for MURST (:it:Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca), CNR/ENEA (Italy) PFE, EU, International Energy Agency, on the design of a sustainable multi-scale architecture, published in various books and magazines. Awards • In 1996 at Louvain la Neuve, he received the 13° PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) INTERNATIONAL AWARD with Natasha F. Pulitzer, having pursued in research, teaching, and professional activity the integration of the art and the science of architecture. • In 1998 at Florence, he received the WREN PIONEER AWARD, for his contribution in the design of a renewable energy architecture. • In 2003 at Berlin he received the European EUROSOLAS PRIZE, for his career in Solar Architecture. Works Sergio Los (1967). Carlo Scarpa Architetto Poeta. CLUVA, Venice Sergio Los (2009). SCARPA. Taschen, Koln. Sergio Los (1993). Carlo Scarpa. Benedict Taschen, Cologne, Sergio Los (1995). Carlo Scarpa, guida all’architettura. Arsenale Editrice, Venice. Sergio Los, (edited by) (1985). VERUM IPSUM FACTUM, Il progetto di Carlo Scarpa per l’ingresso dell’Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia. CLUVA, Venice Sergio Los, (edited by) (1990). Regionalismo dell’Architettura. Franco Muzzio editore, Padova. Jeffrey Cook and Sergio Los (1981), Un approccio bioclimatico al regionalismo architettonico Italian translations of essay of Christopher Alexander Note sulla Sintesi della Forma, Milan, (1967) Italian translations of the book of L. March and P. Steadman La Geometria dell’Ambiente, Milan, (1974) Venice, Regionalism and Architecture, (1985) Trento, Caratteri Ambientali dell’Architettura, (1998) Sergio Los Geografia dell'architettura (Il Poligrafo, Padova. ) Vicenza, A Knowledge Civic Architecture, (2007) References 1934 births Living people People from Marostica Architects from Veneto Academic staff of