Franz GrafA graduate in architecture of the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Franz Graf (°1958) has worked as a freelance architect in Geneva since 1989. A lecturer in architecture and construction at the University of Geneva (1989-2006), he became Full Professor of Technology at the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio in 2005 and Associate Professor of Architectural Theory and Design at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 2007, as head of Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture.
His research focuses on knowledge of modern and contemporary systems of construction and techniques of preservation of 20th-century heritage. He has published in major reference works on Perret (2002), Prouvé (2005 and 2018), Mangiarotti (2010 and 2015), Addor (2015), Le Corbusier (2017), etc. In 2014, he publish the reference book on restoration of modern architecture, “Histoire matérielle du bâti et projet de sauvegarde”, PPUR, Lausanne.
Since 2010 he has been President of Docomomo Switzerland and a member of the International Specialist Committee on Technology, and since 2012 member or the “Comité des experts pour la restauration de l’oeuvre” of the Le Corbusier Fondation. From 2008 to 2014, he is co-director of the research project Critical Encyclopaedia for Reuse and Restoration of 20th-century Architecture.
Giulia MarinoGiulia Marino est architecte diplômée de l’Université de Florence (Master II, 2003) et Docteur ès sciences de l’Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (PhD, 2014, Prix thèse EPFL 2016) ; elle est également titulaire du Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies mention Sauvegarde du patrimoine moderne et contemporain, obtenu à l’Institut d’Architecture de l’Université de Genève (DEA, 2006). Professeure à l'Université catholique de Louvain, LOCI-Bruxelles dès 2019, elle est également collaboratrice scientifique du laboratoire des Techniques et de la Sauvegarde de l’Architecture Moderne de l’ENAC-EPFL (TSAM) depuis sa fondation en 2007. Ses intérêts scientifiques se situent dans l’histoire des techniques de construction et des équipements du confort du XXe siècle, ainsi que dans les stratégies de sauvegarde et du patrimoine moderne et contemporain. Elle développe ces deux axes principaux dans ses recherches, tant en ce qui concerne le patrimoine monumental de l’entre-deux-guerres (ex. L’appartement-atelier de Le Corbusier au 24NC, mandat de la Fondation Le Corbusier, 2014, Grant Getty Foundation) que dans le corpus élargi de la production architecturale 1945-1975 (ex. Stratégies pour la cité du Lignon, 2009-2011 ; Europa Nostra Award 2013, Umisicht Award 2013). L’intérêt de ses thèmes de prédilection est témoigné par sa participation à des manifestations scientifiques internationales, tant en Europe (Paris, Lisbonne, Milan, Luxembourg, etc.), qu’à l’échelle internationale (Chandigarh, Mexico, Tokyo, Montréal, etc.) et ses nombreux articles et contributions (Werk, Arquitectura Viva, AMC, La Revue de l’art, etc.). Parmi se principales publications, citons la monographie consacrée à l’ensemble de la Caisse d’allocations familiales de Paris (Picard, 2009, 270 p.) et le livre sur la restauration de la cité du Lignon (Infolio, 2012, 160 p.) dont elle a assuré la conception et la coordination scientifique. Ses dernières publications d’envergure sont le volume Building Environment and Interiors Comfort in 20th-Century Architecture : Understanding Issues and Developing Conservation Strategies, co-dirigé avec Franz Graf (PPUR, 2016, 536 p.), le Cahier du TSAM n. 2, "Les multiples vies de l'appartement-atelier. Le Corbusier" (PPUR, 2017, 200 p.) et le livre "La buvette d'Évian. Novarina, Prouvé, Ketoff", (Infolio, 2018). Son dernier ouvrage "Avanchet-Parc: cité de conception nouvelle et originale" est paru en 2020 aux éditions Infolio. Elle prépare actuellement la publication de son travail de thèse à paraître aux Editions Métispresses. Elle est vice-président de DOCOMOMO Suisse depuis 2015.Elle est également membre de DOCOMOMO International, ICOMOS Switzerland, Schweizer Heimatschutz et de la Société suisse des ingénieurs et des architectes SIA, ainsi que de l’Association francophone d'histoire de la construction et de la Construction History Society.
Dimitrios LignosProf. Lignos joined the École Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2016 from McGill University in Canada where he was a tenured Associate Professor and a William Dawson Scholar for Infrastructure Resilience. He holds a diploma (National Technical University of Athens, NTUA, 2003), M.S. (Stanford University, 2004) and Ph.D. (Stanford University, 2008). In addition, he was a post-doctoral scientist at Stanford University (2009) and in Kyoto University (2010). Prof. Lignos teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in seismic design, nonlinear behaviour of steel and composite structures as well as supplemental damping systems, Structural Stability, Nonlinear Analysis and Performance-based Earthquake Engineering. His awards for teaching, research and service in Civil Engineering include the 2011 Outstanding Teaching Award (Faculty of Engineering, McGill University), as well as the Outstanding reviewer (2012, 2013) award from ASCE, the 2013 State-of-the-Art in Civil Engineering Award by ASCE and the 2014 Christophe Pierre Award for Research Excellence - Early Career. Just recently, he received the 2019 Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE for significant contributions in developing state of the art methods to simulate extreme limit states in steel structures.Prof. Lignos is a member of ASCE and the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute. He acts as an Associate Editor for Metal Structures and Seismic Effects of the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering. He joined the Editorial Board of Earthquake Spectra and Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics International journals. He serves as an acting member of the CEN/TC 250/SC 8/WG 2 and has been selected as a member of the Project Team (PT2) for the Eurocode 8-Part 1 Current Revisions for Steel and Composite Structures. He is also a member of the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) S16 technical committee for Steel Structures. Prof. Lignos is involved as a NEHRP consultant in numerous research-to-practice projects related to the behaviour and nonlinear modelling and analysis of structures applicable to the engineering practice through the Applied Technology Council (ATC). Detailed Curriculum Vitae (last update September 2018)
