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Faculté ENAC – EPFL
Département ou laboratoire: LCC
elena.cogatolanza@epfl.ch
Tél. +41 21 693 62 14
Langues d’enseignement
Français
Thèmes de prédilection
Ses intérêts scientifiques se situent dans les champs de l’histoire de l’urbanisme et de la théorie du projet urbain et territorial contemporain.
Compétences élargies
Elena Cogato Lanza est architecte diplômé de l’Université de Venise (1990) et Docteurs ès sciences à l’EPFL (1999).
Elle est experte scientifique pour le Ministère français de la Culture et de la Communication, Bureau de la recherche Architecturale Urbaine et Paysagère (DAPA-BRAUP) (rédaction et jury d’appels d’offres interdisciplinaires de recherche ; évaluation, habilitation et suivi des laboratoires de recherche), membre de la Commission Technique ainsi que du Conseil scientifique de la Consultation internationale de recherche sur « Le grand pari de l’agglomération parisienne » (2008-2009). Membre également de Commissions d’évaluation de l’Ecole doctorale de l’Université de Venise, Institut d’Architecture.
Elle est membre du Conseil de Fondation de la Fondation Braillard Architectes; membre du Comité scientifique d’Europan-Suisse.
Elle fait partie du comité éditorial de la maison d’édition Metispresses (Genève), où elle dirige la collection vuesDensemble. Elle est membre du Comité scientifique international de la revue CARNETS DU PAYSAGE et a été membre du comité de rédaction de la revue d’architecture FACES (2001-2005)
Thèmes de recherche spécifique
ECL’s research field is characterised by an ongoing intersection between the history of urban planning, viewed as a discipline derived from architecture (1), and the theory of contemporary urban and land planning (2). (1). A collection of essays over a period of several years has raised historical awareness regarding key aspects and players of Romandy urbanism, which had been disregarded up until the 1980s, drawing attention to their unique contribution to major aspects of European design culture. The subjects of these research projects include: Genevan urban plans of the 1930s as a variation on modernist urban planning; the relationship between archaeology, geography and urbanism; landscape photography; and the dissemination of design models and professional practice in local government networks. Drawing on primary sources, ECL’s investigations have consistently addressed fundamental questions concerning the methods and conditions of urban design, as in her recent work on the special nature of the European urban « reconstruction » process (2009).
(2). Her theoretical research has focused on the conceptualisation of emerging fields (e.g. renaturation processes); on representations of urban-rural relationships and the viability of classical design strategies in present-day green spaces; on the neighbourhood scale within the framework of sustainable urban planning, etc. Viewed together, these questions express the challenges the contemporary landscape presents to urban design culture. In her essays, ECl has demonstrated a particular sensitivity to the impact on design disciplines of emerging and as yet not fully articulated trends.
In her ongoing commitment to a radical reformulation of urban design as a discipline, pursued through historical and theoretical studies, ECL has also engaged in a far-reaching analysis of interdisciplinary issues, which she has developed in her teaching and administrative responsibilities (as a member of the Research Commission) in the ENAC faculty.