FORTMED 2026 - BEST PAPER AWARDS

Modern Age Fortifications of the Mediterranean Coast

• Thematic Area 1. Historical and documentary research:

Marcello Schirru
Examples of military architecture in Piedmont in the first decades of the eighteenth century through the drawing collection of the engineer Augusto de la Vallée (1698-1742)

• Thematic Area 2. Theoretical concepts:

Ornella Zerlenga, Margherita Cicala, Riccardo Miele, Vincenzo Cirillo
Defensive Architecture and the Oval Shape in Military Treatises between the 16th and 18th Centuries

• Thematic Area 3. Research on built heritage:

Roque Modrego Fernández, José David Espinosa Fernández, Mercedes Navarro Pérez, Juan Carlos Castillo Armenteros, José María Martín Civantos
A new approach to the Castilian-Nasrid border: Belmez castle and the watchtowers of the Sol and the Lucero (Belmez de la Moraleda, Jaén, Spain)

Marina Perals Parra, Yolanda Spairani Berrio
The Manuali del Recupero: A systemic intervention strategy for the watchtowers of the western Mediterranean

Francesco Vinciguerra
The origins of Bracciano Castle: the fortress of the Prefects of Vico

• Thematic Area 5. Digital Heritage:

Mustafa Sayan, Zeynep Eres
New perspectives on the Theodosian Land Walls of Istanbul through digital photogrammetry

Alessio Fantoni
The medieval museum of Casentino valley: the case study of Romena castle as a design and research lab

• Thematic Area 6. Culture and management of Cultural Heritage:

Gorana Barišić Bačelić, Đurđa Vrljević Šarić
The Night of Fortresses: A transnational model for sustainable and inclusive cultural heritage management

• Thematic Area 7. Miscellaneous:

Jorge Galindo-Díaz, Joan Fontás-Serrat
The submerged wall of the Bocagrande canal in Cartagena de Indias, a defensive work by the military engineer Antonio de Arévalo (1769-1788)