Pier Vittorio Aureli

Expertise Architecture, political theory, urban history Pier Vittorio Aureli (Rome, 1973) is an architect and educator. He studied at the Istituto di Architettura di Venezia (IUAV) and later at the Berlage Institute and TU Delft where he earned his PhD. Aureli currently teaches at the école Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne where he direct the Laboratory Theory and Project of Domestic space and teaches courses on History and Theories of Architecture. He has taught at the Architectural Association in London, Yale School of Architecture, Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, Columbia University in New York. Aureli is the author of several books including The Project of Autonomy: Politics and Architecture Within and Against Capitalism (2008), The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (2011), Less is Enough. On asceticism and architecture (2013), The City as a Project (2014), Ritual and Walls: The Architecture of Sacred Space (2016, with Maria Shéhérazade Giudici), The Room of One's Own. The Architecture of the Private Room (2017, with Dogma), Loveless. Minimum Dwelling and its Discontents (2019, with Dogma), Platform. Architecture and the Use of the Ground (2021, with Dogma), Living and Working (2022, with Dogma) and Architecture and Abstraction (forthcoming in Spring 2023). Together with Martino Tattara, he is the co-founder of Dogma, an office for architecture based in Brussels. Dogma has developed a specific interest in large-scale interventions, urban research, and especially domestic space and its potential for transformation. Aureli is also a painter; the first solo exhibition of his paintings has taken place at Betts Project gallery in London in 2017. Teaching & PhD PhD Students Farzaneh Eskandari, Jolanda Devalle, Michela Bonomo, Constantinos Marcou, Theodora Giovanazzi Past EPFL PhD Students Sila Karatas Courses Architecture and monasticism AR-418 This course aims to give a general overview of the history of monasticism in relation to architecture. History of architecture III/IV AR-225 This course is concentrated on the history of Western architecture during the so-called 'long Renaissance,' a period that spans between the 15th and the 19th centuries. Stone masonry: Past, present, and future PENS-232 This course introduces students to the historical, structural, and environmental aspects of stone masonry. Emphasis is on understanding the role of stone masonry in architecture, basic structural behavior, and approaches to predict and assess the performance of stone masonry buildings. Superstudio A AR-597(a) Le Superstudio étudie l'histoire de la villa en se concentrant sur 30 cas d'étude de l'Antiquité jusqu'au 20ème siècle. L'objectif de ce studio est de comprendre, à travers l'étude architecturale des villas, les éléments les plus essentiels de l'architecture : forme, politique et représentation. The origins of domestic space AR-502 The course is part of a three-year trajectory dedicated to a comprehensive history of domestic space. This year the course will be devoted to the origins of domestic space, from hunter-gatherer forms of life to the rise of private property. Awards Charles Jencks Prize Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) 2023