Roberto Gargiani
Nationality: italienne
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 Press
FORTHCOMING RESEARCH
American Architectural Concrete's New Era, from Wright to SOM, EPFL Press, Treatise on Concrete, Lausanne
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 Âœoeuvres du rationalisme exalté", 2012-2013
Swiss National Science Foundation, project "Aldo Rossi: les Âœoeuvres 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'Âœ'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
RESEARCH INTEREST
History of construction from the antiquity until the contemporary period. History of concrete
Selected publications
Principi e costruzione nell'architettura italiana del Quattrocento
Gargiani, Roberto
Published in Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003, 731 pages. in
Storia dell’architettura contemporanea (1998)
Gargiani, Roberto
Published in Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2005 (6e éd.), 532 p. in
Entre unité et assemblage : apologie du joint
Gargiani, Roberto
Published in matières, n° 8, 2006, pp. 83-101. in
Rem Koolhaas/OMA
Gargiani, Roberto
Published in Laterza, Roma-Bari, 2006, 231 p. in
Archizoom Associati 1966-1974, de la vague pop à la surface neutre
Gargiani, Roberto
Published in Electa, Milan, 2007, 336 p. in
Archizoom Associati 1966-1974, dall'onda pop alla superifcie neutra
Gargiani, Roberto
Published in Electa, Milan, 2007, 344 p in
La colonne. Nouvelle histoire de la construction
Gargiani, Roberto (dir.)
Published in Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne, 2008, 538 p in
RemKoolhaas / OMA. The Construction of Merveilles
Gargiani, Roberto
Published in Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne, 2008, 344 p. in
Histoire de l’architecture moderne. Structure et revêtement
Fanelli, Giovanni
Gargiani, Roberto
Published in Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, Lausanne, 2008, 464 p. in
Grand Dessein du Rationalisme
Brussels: Accatone, 2021.A New Era of American Architectural Concrete: From Wright to Som
Lausanne, Suisse: PPUR, 2020.Le Monument Continu de Superstudio. Excès du rationalisme et stratégie du refus
Paris: B2, 2019.Entre deux
Lausanne: PPUR, 2019.Il monumento continuo di superstudio. Eccesso del razionalismo e strategia del rifiuto
Genova: SAGEP, 2019.Valori primordiali e ideologici della materia, da Uncini a LeWitt. Sculture in calcestruzzo dal Novecento a oggi
Rome: Aracne, 2018.Inside no-stop city : Parkings résidentiels et système climatique universel
Paris: B2, 2017.matières
Lausanne: PPUR, 2016.The rhetoric of Pier Luigi Nervi. Concrete and ferrocement forms
Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2016.Matières
Lausanne: PPUR, 2015.Matières
Lausanne: PPUR, 2014.Le Corbusier. Béton Brut und der unbeschreibliche Raum (1940 -1965): Oberflächenmaterialien und die Psychophysiologie des Sehens
Edition Detail, 2014.Louis I. Kahn, Exposed Concrete and Hollow Stones, 1949-1959
Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2014.Concrete, from archeology to invention 1700-1769
Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2013.L'architrave, le plancher, la plate-forme Nouvelle histoire de la construction
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2012.Pérennités, Textes offerts à Patrick Mestelan
Lausanne: PPUR, 2012.Le Corbusier: Béton Brut and Ineffable Space, 1940-1965
Lausanne: EPFL Press, Routledge, 2011.Superstudio
Roma/Bari: Editori Laterza, 2010.RemKoolhaas / OMA. The Construction of Merveilles
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2008.La colonne. Nouvelle histoire de la construction
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2008.Histoire de l’architecture moderne. Structure et revêtement
Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2008.Archizoom Associati 1966-1974, de la vague pop à la surface neutre.
Milan: Electa, 2007.Archizoom Associati 1966-1974, dall'onda pop alla superifcie neutra
Milan: Electa, 2007.Rem Koolhaas/OMA
Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2006.Storia dell’Architettura contemporanea
Roma-Bari: Laterza, 2006.Principi e costruzione nell'architettura italiana del Quattrocento
Roma-Bari, Laterza, 2003.Auguste Perret
Roma/Bari: Editori Laterza, 2002.Idea e costruzione del Louvre
Firenze: Alinea, 1998.Il principio del rivestimento
Roma/Bari: Editori Laterza, 1994.Ornamento o nudità
Roma/Bari: Editori Laterza, 1993.Teaching & PhD
Past EPFL PhD Students
Maria Chiara Barone, Giampiero Sanguigni, Giulia Chemolli, Arianna Bosio, Beatrice Lampariello, Salvatore Aprea, Khue Do-Tran, Silvia Groaz, Boris Hamzeian