Roberto Gargiani
Professor Emeritus
roberto.gargiani@epfl.ch http://lth3.epfl.ch/
Citizenship: italienne
Birth date: 03.09.1956
Fields of expertise
History of construction from the antiquity until the contemporary period
History of concrete
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 PressRESEARCH INTEREST
History of construction from the antiquity until the contemporary period. History of concreteGRANTS 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, 1993-1994FORTHCOMING RESEARCH
American Architectural Concretes New Era, from Wright to SOM, EPFL Press, Treatise on Concrete, LausannePublications
Infoscience publications
A New Era of American Architectural Concrete: From Wright to Som
Lausanne, Suisse: PPUR.Le Monument Continu de Superstudio. Excès du rationalisme et stratégie du refus
Paris: B2.Il monumento continuo di superstudio. Eccesso del razionalismo e strategia del rifiuto
Genova: SAGEP.Entre deux
Lausanne: PPUR.Valori primordiali e ideologici della materia, da Uncini a LeWitt. Sculture in calcestruzzo dal Novecento a oggi
Rome: Aracne.Inside no-stop city : Parkings résidentiels et système climatique universel
Paris: B2.matières
Lausanne: PPUR.The rhetoric of Pier Luigi Nervi. Concrete and ferrocement forms
Lausanne: EPFL Press.Matières
Lausanne: PPUR.Matières
Lausanne: PPUR.Louis I. Kahn, Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones, 1949-1959
Lausanne: EPFL Press.Le Corbusier. Béton Brut und der unbeschreibliche Raum (1940 -1965): Oberflächenmaterialien und die Psychophysiologie des Sehens
Edition Detail.Concrete, from archeology to invention 1700-1769
Lausanne: EPFL Press.Pérennités, Textes offerts à Patrick Mestelan
Lausanne: PPUR.L'architrave, le plancher, la plate-forme Nouvelle histoire de la construction
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.Le Corbusier: Béton Brut and Ineffable Space, 1940-1965
Lausanne: EPFL Press, Routledge.Superstudio
Roma/Bari: Editori Laterza.Histoire de l’architecture moderne. Structure et revêtement
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.RemKoolhaas / OMA. The Construction of Merveilles
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.La colonne. Nouvelle histoire de la construction
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes.Archizoom Associati 1966-1974, dall'onda pop alla superifcie neutra
Milan: Electa.Archizoom Associati 1966-1974, de la vague pop à la surface neutre.
Milan: Electa.Rem Koolhaas/OMA
Roma-Bari: Laterza.Storia dell’Architettura contemporanea
Roma-Bari: Laterza.Principi e costruzione nell'architettura italiana del Quattrocento
Roma-Bari, Laterza.Auguste Perret
Roma/Bari: Editori Laterza.Idea e costruzione del Louvre
Firenze: Alinea.Il principio del rivestimento
Roma/Bari: Editori Laterza.Ornamento o nudità
Roma/Bari: Editori Laterza.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Architecture