BIOGRAPHY
Born in Poggio a Caiano (Italy) on 3.09.1956
PhD, Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, 1988-1992
Arch., Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, 1983
Full professor of History of Architecture
Head of Laboratory of Theory and History of Architecture 3 (LTH3)
Editorial director of "Treatise on Concrete", EPFL Press
RESEARCH INTEREST
History of construction from the antiquity until the contemporary period. History of concrete
GRANTS and ACADEMY MEMBERSHIPS
ERC Advanced Grant "The surfaces of cement and reinforced concrete. A history of formwork and processing of the surface, 1870-2008", 2009-2015
Swiss National Science Foundation, project "Aldo Rossi: les oeuvres du rationalisme exalté", 2012-2013
Swiss National Science Foundation, project "Aldo Rossi: les oeuvres du rationalisme exalté", 2009-2012
Swiss National Science Foundation, project Sinergia "Lombardy 14th-16th Century", 2012-2013
Swiss National Science Foundation, project "Science en chantier au XIIIe siècle: la resistentia solidorum et les coupoles de Florence, Rome et Paris", 2008-2009
Member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation Le Corbusier
Member of Comité scientifique pour la restauration des bâtiments du site de la Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haut de Ronchamp (Haute Saône)
Director of Archives de la Construction Moderne, Lausanne
Member of the scientific committee of the Archivio del Moderno of the Academy of Architecture, Mendrisio
Member of Association Francophone d'Histoire de la Construction
Reviewer of research projects for the Ministry of Education, Italy
Member of Comité des experts pour l'oeuvre architecturale of the Fondation Le Corbusier
Member of the scientific committee for the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, Ministry of Education, Italy
Director ENAC, EPFL, 2011-2015
Member of EDAR Committee, EPFL, 2005-2011
Member of the Board of Master Europeo in Storia dell'Architettura, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 2001-2014
Member of scientific committee of Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia dell'Architettura, Università degli Studi di Firenze
EDITORIAL ACTIVITIES
Member of the Editorial Advisory Panel of "Construction History"
Member of the scientific committee of "Annuaire Massilia"
Member of the scientific committee of "Matières"
Member of the Editorial Board of "Opus incertum"
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Full Professor at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and director of the
Laboratory of Theory and History of Architecture 3 (LTH3), since 2005
Full Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 1998-2005
Visiting Professor, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, 1999-2004
Professor, Ecole d'Architecture, Ville et Territoires in Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, 1998-2000
Visiting Professor, University IUAV of Venice, 1996-1998
Visiting Professor, Ecole d'Architecture Paris-La-Seine, 1995-1997
Professor, Ecole d'Architecture de Normandie, Darnetal, Rouen, 1994-1997
Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Ascoli Piceno, 1993-1994
FORTHCOMING RESEARCH
American Architectural Concretes New Era, from Wright to SOM, EPFL Press, Treatise on Concrete, Lausanne
