Paola Viganò

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Noélie Marion Charlotte Lecoanet, Shyam Sunder Sirimalla Past EPFL PhD Students Roberto Sega, Antoine Vialle, Tommaso Pietropolli, Sylvie Tram Nguyen, Anna Karla De Almeida Milani, Elena Calafati, Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot Courses Hidden rivers PENS-219 Hidden Rivers aims at fulfilling the need for an interdisciplinary understanding of the problematics surrounding urban streams, through ecological, hydrological, and spatial relationships found in riverscapes. Rhonescape PENS-225 RHONEscape aims at realizing the necessary interdisciplinary educational background of the problematics affecting highly-corrected large rivers, by examining riverine ecological, hydrological and morphological spatial features with new methods of conceiving the space in and around rivers. Studio BA5 (Viganò) AR-301(a) Is it conceivable to question the very presence of highways in urban environments? What potential for requalification does this space, with its unique characteristics, offer? Studio BA6 (Viganò) AR-302(a) Is it conceivable to question the very presence of highways in urban environments? What potential for requalification does this space, with its unique characteristics, offer? Studio MA1 (Vigano) AR-401(a) Is it conceivable to question the very presence of highways in urban environments? What potential for requalification does this space, with its unique characteristics, offer? Studio MA2 (Vigano) AR-402(a) Is it conceivable to question the very presence of highways in urban environments? What potential for requalification does this space, with its unique characteristics, offer? Awards Schelling Award for Architectural Theory 2022 Ultima Architectuur Prize 2017 Member of the Istituto Veneto di scienze, lettere ed arti 2024 Member of the Pontificia Insigne Accademia di belle arti e lettere dei Virtuosi al Pantheon 2024 Foreign member of the Class of Art of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts 2023 Fellow of the University of Hasselt, Belgium 2022 Fellow of the University of Hasselt, Belgium 2023 Fellow of the University of Hasselt, Belgium 2024 Medaglia d'oro all'Architettura Italiana - Premio alla Carriera 2018