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Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche
Elena Cogato Lanza
Doctor
Known forTheory of contemporary landscape and urban design, Mapping, Nature and City and Interdisciplinary issues in Urbanism.
Academic background
Alma materEPFL
Thesis<L'urbanisme en devenir : réseaux et matériaux de l'aménagement urbain à Genève dans les années trente> (<1999>)
Doctoral advisorMartin Steinmann
Academic work
DisciplineArchitecture
Sub-disciplineUrbanism
InstitutionsEPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne)


Elena Cogato Lanza is an Architect. She is a Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) at the department ENAC (School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering), in the Architecture Section. She is the head of the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U).

Career

After gaining her diploma in Architecture at the University of Venice, she completed her doctorate at the EPFL on the topic of urbanism in Geneva in the 1930s, under the supervision of Martin Steinmann.

Research

Her most important research experience relates to the SNF Sinergia "Post-car world. A trans-disciplinary multi-dimensional Simulation" as Partner Leader (Main Leader: Prof. Jacques Lévy), and as Main Leader of the Sub-Project C: "Urbanity. Configuring a Post-Car world" (2013-2017). Others projects to be mentioned: "Urban gardening and human wellbeing in the greater Lausanne area" (Partner leader; ENAC Exploratory Grant 2016-17) ; "Territory in the Crisis" (Partner leader; Compagnia di San Paolo 2013-15) ; "1 km Well-being. The Urban Landscape Observatory" (Partner leader; Swiss cooperation project in architecture, CEPF and CUS Funding 2009-2011); "Résistance et projet. Du destin des Grottes (1930-2030)" (Partner leader; partnership EPFL and Fondation Braillard Architectes). Currently, she is co-leading the Joint Project "City and Production in the frame of crisis" (Compagnia di San Paolo and Politecnico di Torino) and leading the research project "Designing an interdisciplinary research and education concept in Ecological Habitat" (ENAC Exploratory Grant).

Distinctions

1991–1992 Swiss confederation Fellowship at the University of Geneva. Grant of the Swiss Confederation – Conseil de l'Europe.

Selected works

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