Sila KaratasSıla Karataş (1987, Ankara) was graduated as architect and awarded Master’s degree with the thesis “Building Marshall Plan in Turkey: The Formation of Workers’ Housing Question, 1946-1962” at the Middle East Technical University. In her thesis, she analyzed the formation of postwar workers’ housing discourse concerning the policy, planning and architecture of workers’ housing cooperatives within the framework of the ideological and spatial programming of the Marshall Plan and Americanization in Turkey. This research received Honourable Mention in 'Young Social Scientists Awards' of the Turkish Social Sciences Association. She worked as assistant and lecturer in Turkey between 2012-2019; took part in architectural and urban design studios as tutor and reviewer, gave Case Studies in Social Housing and Community Planning among other courses. Since September 2019, she is a PhD student and doctoral assistant at EPFL. Her PhD research concerns postwar workers’ housing programs of the Mediterranean countries participated in the Marshall Plan (France, Italy, Greece, Turkey), and is a comparative analysis of local models in relation to the transnational activity by the United States and multilateral organizations on postwar development, labour affairs and housing. This research is awarded a Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship for PhD and being funded by the Swiss Federal Commission for Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists (FCS).
Stéphanie SavioStéphanie Savio est doctorante-asssistante au laboratoire d'architecture, critique, histoire et théorie depuis 2019. Elle rejoint ACHT comme collaboratrice scientifique en 2018. Son projet de recherche, dirigé par Prof. Christophe Van Gerrewey et co-dirigé par Prof. Ita Heinze-Greenberg, aborde la collaboration des architectes Hannes Meyer (1889-1954) et Arieh Sharon (1900-1984) avec les organisations co-opératives. Précédemment, elle a travaillé pour les bureaux d'architecture Jakob Steib Architekten à Zurich et Dogma à Bruxelles, ainsi qu'au sein du Musée Suisse d'Architecture à Bâle.
Michela BonomoMichela Bonomo is a doctoral candidate in the laboratory of Architecture, Criticism, History and Theory under the supervision of Christophe Van Gerrewey.Her doctoral research centres on the building typology and the ideology of the villa in Italy with particular focus on the Postwar period investigating concepts of privilege, domesticity, ecology and subject production.
Prior to joining EPFL Michela has been a practicing Architect since 2016, working mainly on high end and luxury residential projects at Foster and Partners and Herzog De Meuron (London) and as a freelance architect on interior refurbishments.
