Locations

The Interdepartmental Library of Engineering and Architecture is the reference library of the School of Engineering and Architecture, at the Bologna Campus and the Cesena Campus, and consists of the "Gian Paolo Dore" Engineering Library together with the libraries of the DA, DEI, DICAM and DIN departments, the "Aldo Rossi" Architecture Library, the Computer Science Library and the Library of Biomedical Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications. 

Research laboratories 

Across the various sites of the multicampus structure of the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna, PhD students have at their disposal a range of spaces and IT equipment to support their research activities 
 
Software relevant to the reference fields of research: 
In the Labs, PhD students have the following suites at their disposal, with personal licences: MSOffice (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, OneNote, OneDrive, SharePoint); AutoDesk Suite (Alias Studio, VRed, Maya, 3DS MaxDesign, AutoCAD, Revit Architecture, Showcase, Mudbox, ReCap, Inventor, Navisworks, Robot Structural Analysis); Adobe Creative Cloud Suite (PhotoShop, Illustrator, InDesign, AfterEffect, Premiere); McNeel Rhinoceros 8.0 and Grasshopper; ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise Advanced Suite, GeoPlanner, City Engine. 
 
Spaces and resources for PhD students and for electronic computing: 
Spread across the three DA sites are a number of dedicated Research Laboratories which bring together the expertise of the various disciplinary fields within the PhD in Architecture and Design Cultures (see https://da.unibo.it/it/ricerca/laboratori-di-ricerca). 
 
As part of the Departments of Excellence project, work is under way to create the following Laboratories, dedicated to integrated third-level research and training activities: 
- Lab. ICP based on shareable advanced computational systems and for carrying out integrated third-level research and training activities (2 classrooms with 25 workstations; equipment for projection/recording, web conferences, virtual rooms; graphics servers; archiving systems); 
- Lab. Communication and Image (Bologna); 
- Lab. Digital Humanities (Cesena and Bologna).