Amphithéâtre Marguerite de Navarre, Site Marcelin Berthelot
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Abstract

To understand the specific work of the architect, it is essential to reflect on the epistemological status of the project, to engage in a kind of hand-to-hand combat with the operations, concepts and representations used in the various stages of the design process. The questions addressed, which are at the heart of a book currently in preparation, lie between the archive - in the sense Michel Foucault gave to this notion, captured in its formation, design research - and space, the real implicit material of the project on the city.

Paola Viganò

Architect and urban planner Paola Viganò is a professor at the University Institute of Architecture in Venice and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. With a doctorate in research, she coordinates the doctoral program on architecture, the city andurban design in Venice. She has been a visiting professor at several schools in Europe and the United States. In 1990, together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded the Studio agency, which developed Park Spoor Noord and Theaterplein in Antwerp, and designed public spaces in the center of Mechelen, as well as the Kortrijk cemetery. In 2009 and 2012, Studio worked on the Greater Paris and New Moscow projects, before proposing a vision for Brussels 2040. Paola Viganò is a member of the Scientific Council of the Atelier international du Grand Paris. She was laureate of the first session of the Ignis mutat res research program, and in 2013 received the Grand Prix de l'urbanisme.

Speaker(s)

Paola Viganò

Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne

Events

See also

Jean-Louis Cohen, chair Architecture and urban form
Architecture between practice and scientific knowledge