Welcome to the website of the International Society for Mediterranean Fortifications, FORTMED. You will find here a comprehensive source of information about the Society’s many activities, including our publications, our annual conference, and other activities.
The defense of the Mediterranean coast is a subject area approached by many researchers and scholars, resulting in a significant amount of progress reflected in the substantial quantity of existing historiography. History from this area is truly extraordinary: humanism, technological advances, new roles for engineers and architects, progress in maritime cartography and naval engineering and all of this added to new land discoveries, flourishing empires and, of course, piracy and wars. All these factors are present in an undiluted way in the Mediterranean, which also played a vital role as an extensive myriad of borders for kingdoms and religions.
The main aims of FORTMED are exchange and advancement of knowledge, dissemination of research, valorisation, management and preservation of Culture and Heritage that developed on the Mediterranean coast, taking also into account the phenomena that took place overseas.
Society has an interdisciplinary aim where architects, engineers, archaeologists, historians, geographers, cartographers, heritage managers, tourism experts, experts in restoration-conservation and promotion of heritage will participate. The idea is to provide more inclusive, more solid and more up to date views, leading us to the highest point of the investigations on this subject in the twenty-first century.
Do you want the support of FORTMED in any cultural or research activity? Do not hesitate to tell us. Please, present new research, exchange ideas, propose collaborations. All academics, scholars and researchers are welcome.
Executive Committee
President. Pablo Rodríguez-Navarro. Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
Vice-President. Giorgio Verdiani. Università degli Studi di Firenze (Italy)
Secretary. Teresa Gil-Piqueras. Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain)
Scientific Committee
Alessandro Camiz. Girne American University. Cyprus
Alicia Cámara Muñoz. UNED. Spain
Andrea Pirinu. Università di Cagliari. Italy
Andreas Georgopoulos. Nat. Tec. University of Athens. Greece
Andrés Martínez Medina. Universidad de Alicante. Spain
Angel Benigno González. Universidad de Alicante. Spain
Anna Guarducci. Università di Siena. Italy
Anna Marotta. Politecnico di Torino. Italy
Annalisa Dameri. Politecnico di Torino. Italy
Antonio Almagro Gorbea. CSIC. Spain
Arturo Zaragozá Catalán. Generalitat Valenciana. Castellón. Spain
Boutheina Bouzid. Ecole Nationale d’Architecture. Tunisia
Concepción López González. UPV. Spain
Faissal Cherradi. Ministerio de Cultura del Reino de Marruecos. Morocco
Fernando Cobos Guerra. Arquitecto. Spain
Francisco Juan Vidal. Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Gabriele Guidi. Politecnico di Milano. Italy
Giorgio Verdiani. Università degli Studi di Firenze. Italy
Gjergji Islami. Universiteti Politeknik i Tiranës. Albania
João Campos, Centro de Estudios de Arquitectura Militar de Almeida. Portugal
John Harris. Fortress Study Group. United Kingdom
Juan Antonio Mira Rico, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Spain
Marco Bevilacqua. Università di Pisa. Italy
Marco Vitali. Politecnico di Torino. Italy
Nicolas Faucherre. Aix-Marseille Université – CNRS. France
Ornella Zerlenga. Università degli Studi della Campania ‘Luigi Vanvitelli’. Italy
Pablo Rodríguez-Navarro. Universitat Politècnica de València. Spain
Per Cornell. University of Gothenburg. Sweden
Philippe Bragard. Université catholique de Louvain. Belgium
Rand Eppich. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Spain
Roberta Spallone. Politecnico di Torino. Italy
Sandro Parrinello. Università di Pavia. Italy
Stefano Bertocci. Università degli Studi di Firenze. Italy
Stefano Columbu, Università di Cagliari. Italy
Teresa Gil Piqueras. Universitat Politècnica de València. Spain
Víctor Echarri Iribarren. Universitat d’Alacant. Spain
Activities of the Society
The main activity is our annual International Conference on Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast and its proceedings, edited in a series called Defensive Architecture of the Mediterranean.
Others activities of the society:
– Facilitate exchanges and stays of professors, PhDs and students in other universities.
– Facilitate synergies between different research groups to jointly promote research projects or investigations.
– Organize workshops, summer schools, learning events, etc… with inter-university participation.
– Direct European Ph.D.