Born in Sorengo, Ticino the 8th of February 1956.

 

Full Professor at the EPFL, ENAC (School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering), Architecture Section.

Director of LCC (Construction and Conservation Laboratory).

 

 

1. Education

Architecture Diploma, Faculty of Architecture – Polytechnic University of Milan, 1983

 

2. Academic Positions

Assistant, Swiss Federal Polytechnic University, Zurich, 1983 – 1986

Professor of Design and Architectural Theory, Scuola Tecnica Superiore, Lugano, 1985 - 1989

Visiting critic, University of Miami, 1987

Substitute Lecturer, University of Geneva School of Architecture (EAUG), 1989 - 1991

Professor, University of Geneva School of Architecture (EAUG), 1992 - 1997

Visiting Professor, South California Institute of Architecture, Vico Morcote, 1994 - 1996

Professor of Design and Architectural Theory, Architecture Department, EPFL, 1997 to present

 

3. Administrative Positions

President of the Architecture Department Teaching Commission, EPFL, 1999-2001

Director of the Architecture Section of the ENAC (School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering), EPFL, 2002-2008

Director of the Institute of Architecture, ENAC, EPFL since July 2011

Member of the Direction of ENAC (School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering), EPFL, since 2006

 

4. Architectural Practice

Participant in numerous national and international architecture competitions

Independent works in Switzerland, 1990 to present

 

5. Editorial position

Editor of the architecture review Lotus international, 1980 - 1990

Co-director of the architecture guide series Stella polare, Edizioni Città Studi, Milano, 1988

Co-director of the Architecture Collection, Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes (PPUR)

 

 

 

6. Publications

 

6.1. Journal articles and Peer-review articles

"Die Architektur einer idealen Landschaft” in Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, 1989, n. 4

"Tre progetti di Erik Gunnar Asplund” in Lotus International, 1989, n. 61

"Progetto in forma di città” in Lotus International, 1989, n. 61

"Architetture inquiete” in Phalaris, 1990, n. 10

"Erik Gunnar Asplund. Spazio e carattere” in Phalaris, 1991, n. 15

"Verso il sud - Impressioni asplundiane" in Lotus International, 1991, n. 68

"Classicisme domestique" in Faces, 1993, n. 28

"Les autres architectes modernes", in Faces 1994, n. 32

"Erik Gunnar Asplund - Biblioteca municipale di Stoccolma" in Domus, 1994, n. 765

"Moderne und Eklektizismus" in Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, 1994, n. 12

"L'orizzonte libero" in Architettura intersezioni, 1996, n.2

"Il cantiere della memoria", in Rivista Tecnica, 1996, n. 7

"Giuseppe Terragni: une figure paradoxale, une œuvre polysémique", in Faces, 1996, n. 39

"Alle origini dell'architettura industriale", in Rivista Tecnica, 1997, n. 1/2

"Il rispetto e la salvaguardia dell'ambiente in cui viviamo", in Rivista Tecnica, 1997, n. 4

"Le réel merveilleux", in Faces, 1998, n. 44

"À propos de quelques projets de Josef Hoffmann et Erik Gunnar Asplund", in Faces, 2000, n. 47

"L'atelier dello scultore Carl Eldh a Stoccolma, 1918" in Casabella, 2000, n. 680

"Sur la toile de l'ordinaire", in Matières, n. 4, 2001

"Proportions profanes. Eléments du classicisme moderne en Suède", in Matières, n.5, 2002

"Ort ohne Zeit - Giorgio Grassi oder die Pflicht der modernen Architektur, sich mit der Architektur der Vergangenheit zu messen", in Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, n. 7/8, 2002

 

6.2. Monographs

Luca Ortelli, Ragnar Östberg. Il municipio di Stoccolma, Milano, 1990

 

6.3. Book contributions

"La passione evocatrice" in B. Reichlin & F. Reinhart. Architetture 1972-1989, Mantova, 1989

"Asplund e il Mediterraneo" in AA. VV., Pietre mediterranee, Milano, 1999

"L'illimitata contaminatio delle cose" in Aldo Rossi. Autobiographies partagées, ITHA, Lausanne, 2000

"Luogo senza tempo" in Giorgio Grassi. Progetti recenti, Milano, 2003

"Le souterrain au quotidien" in Vingt mille lieux sous les terres, PPUR, Lausanne, 2004

"Chesa fatta nu drouva pü cussagls" in La residenza e le politiche urbanistiche in area alpina, Aosta, 2005

"La montagna come rifugio" in Architecture moderne alpine: les refuges, Aosta, 2006

“Hans Schmidt. L’ordre et la révolution” in L’architecture du Cinéma, Genève, 2008

"A proposito di Collage City" in L’architettura come testo e la figura di Colin Rowe, Venezia, 2010

"Dissolution de l’espace architectural: le ciel dans une pièce" in R. Gargiani (edited by) L’architrave, le

 plancher, la plate-forme, Lausanne, 2012

"Considérations sur la pérennité en architecture" in B. Marchand (edited by) Pérennités, Lausanne, 2012

"Lo sviluppo del senso critico" in R. Pugliese, F. Serrazanetti, C. Bergo, Sperimentazione o della

 architettura politecnica, Santarcangelo di Romagna, 2013