Baukultur

Paola Viganò is an architect and urbanist, and full professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at Iuav University of Venice and EPFL Lausanne, where she directs the Habitat Research Center. Together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded Studio, today StudioPaolaViganò. Valentin Bourdon is an architect, researcher, and lecturer. He graduated from the École d'Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires Paris-Est in Marne-la-Vallée with Jacques Lucan. He coordinated the new ETH EPFL Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design, as well as the activities of the Habitat Research Centre at EPFL with Paola Viganò. By joining the General Management of the Office de l'Urbanisme of the Canton of Geneva, he continues to foster links between academia and applied research. Anna Livia Friel is an architect and researcher. She studied at the École Nationale Superieure d’Architecture Paris La Villette and Iuav University of Venice where she graduated in 2014. She has been visiting PhD at the American University of Beirut and she is currently visiting at the TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology).

• Introduction, by Paola Viganò, Valentin Bourdon, Anna Livia Friel // Time, space and the production system, by Pierre Caye // The Future of the Project, by Ludovic Pépion // What architecture won't be, by Valentin Bourdon // Reading the existing: what discarded material bring to the project, by Célia Küpfer, Maxence Grangeot, Corentin Fivet // The contribution of ‘sauvegarde’to the culture of socio-ecological transition, by Franz Graf, Giulia Marino // To engineer existing structures: a pressing pedagogical project, by Eugène Brühwiler // Rather than, by Anja Frölich, Martin Frölich, Tiago Borges // Use, space and material, by Jo Tailleu // "Are we ready for the transition?", by Paola Viganò // Principles for continuation