Roberto Gargiani

Expertise History of construction from the antiquity until the contemporary periodHistory of concrete BIOGRAPHY Born in Poggio a Caiano (Italy) on 3.09.1956PhD, Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, 1988-1992Arch., Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence, 1983Full professor of History of Architecture Head of Laboratory of Theory and History of Architecture 3 (LTH3)Editorial director of "Treatise on Concrete", EPFL PressFORTHCOMING RESEARCH American Architectural Concrete's New Era, from Wright to SOM, EPFL Press, Treatise on Concrete, LausanneGRANTS and ACADEMY MEMBERSHIPS ERC Advanced Grant "The surfaces of cement and reinforced concrete. A history of formwork and processing of the surface, 1870-2008", 2009-2015Swiss National Science Foundation, project "Aldo Rossi: les Âœoeuvres du rationalisme exalté", 2012-2013Swiss National Science Foundation, project "Aldo Rossi: les Âœoeuvres du rationalisme exalté", 2009-2012Swiss National Science Foundation, project Sinergia "Lombardy 14th-16th Century", 2012-2013Swiss National Science Foundation, project "Science en chantier au XIIIe siècle: la resistentia solidorum et les coupoles de Florence, Rome et Paris", 2008-2009Member of the Board of Directors of the Fondation Le CorbusierMember 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, LausanneMember of the scientific committee of the Archivio del Moderno of the Academy of Architecture, MendrisioMember of Association Francophone d'Histoire de la ConstructionReviewer of research projects for the Ministry of Education, ItalyMember of Comité des experts pour l'Âœ'oeuvre architecturale of the Fondation Le CorbusierMember of the scientific committee for the Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale, Ministry of Education, ItalyDirector ENAC, EPFL, 2011-2015Member of EDAR Committee, EPFL, 2005-2011Member of the Board of Master Europeo in Storia dell'Architettura, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 2001-2014Member of scientific committee of Dottorato di Ricerca in Storia dell'Architettura, Università degli Studi di FirenzeEDITORIAL ACTIVITIESMember 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 theLaboratory of Theory and History of Architecture 3 (LTH3), since 2005Full Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, 1998-2005Visiting Professor, Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, 1999-2004Professor, Ecole d'Architecture, Ville et Territoires in Marne-la-Vallée, Paris, 1998-2000Visiting Professor, University IUAV of Venice, 1996-1998 Visiting Professor, Ecole d'Architecture Paris-La-Seine, 1995-1997Professor, Ecole d'Architecture de Normandie, Darnetal, Rouen, 1994-1997Visiting Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Ascoli Piceno, 1993-1994RESEARCH INTEREST History of construction from the antiquity until the contemporary period. History of concrete 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