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Elena Cogato Lanza in 2020
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
ThesisL'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 (* 1964 in Vicenza) is an Italian Architect, specialised in the theory of contemporary landscape and urban design. 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 head of the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U) and since 2020 director of the Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR) doctoral program at EPFL.[1][2]

Career

After gaining her diploma in Architecture at the University of Venice (IUAV), she completed her doctorate at the EPFL on the topic of urbanism in Geneva in the 1930s, under the supervision of Martin Steinmann. Amongst other research activities, Elena Cogato Lanza was from 2001 to 2009 an associate foreign scientist at LOUEST (Laboratoire Organisations Urbaines: Espaces Sociétés Temporalités, UMR CNRS 2410, France) and from 2000 on a research associate and lecturer at the EPFL, where she became in 2007 a Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche and the leader of the Lab-U.[3]

Next to her research and teaching activities, Elena Cogato Lanza is an associate publisher at Metispresses and since 2005 director of the architecture and urbanism collection “vuesDensemble. Also she is since 2010 the Présidente du Conseil de Fondation Braillard Architects.[4]

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).

Furthermore she was a Swiss confederation Fellowship at the University of Geneva from 1991 to 1992 and was awarded the Grant of the Swiss Confederation – Conseil de l'Europe.

Selected works

  • . doi:10.5075/epfl-thesis-1938. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • . doi:10.17645/up.v5i2.3385. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help); Missing or empty |title= (help)CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
  • . ISBN 978-3-86859-383-9. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • . ISBN 978-2-94-0406-5-00. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  • Ola Söderström; Elena Cogato Lanza (2000). L' Usage Du Projet : Pratiques Sociales Et Conception Du Projet Urbain Et Architectural. Lausanne: Edition Payot. 2000

https://www.metrolab.brussels/medias/1600079662-designing-brussels-ecosystems-metrolab-brussels-masterclassii-106-109.pdf

References

  1. ^ "LAB-U". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  2. ^ "EDAR Architecture and Sciences of the City". www.epfl.ch. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  3. ^ "Elena Cogato Lanza". 11.02.2021. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ^ "Elena Cogato-Lanza – Fondation Braillard Architectes". braillard.ch. Retrieved 2021-02-11.


Category:1964 births Category:Living people Category:École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne faculty Category:women scientists Category:architecture

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