Dr Daria Belova is a practising architect and researcher in urban form. She holds a PhD in Architecture and Construction from the University of Rome (La Sapienza), MA from the University of Sheffield, BA and Msc from Siberian Federal University. Since 2007, she has been working in the field of historical urban architecture as an architect, a researcher, a lecturer, and as a project leader in practical, voluntary and scientific projects. Currently she is an architect at h4a-architekten (h4a-architekten.de), an associate researcher at the University of Cologne (Daria Belova), and a co-founder of the research group pheno-morphology.com.