The team

Professors

Gaia Caramellino

Gaia Caramellino is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU). She is member of the Board of the Ph.D. Program “Architecture. History and Project” at the Politecnico di Torino, where she received a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism in 2007. Her research interests focus on the processes of knowledge transfer in 20^th-century architecture and urbanism; the history of housing cultures, policies, forms, theories, and practices during the 20^th century; and the study of architectural periodicals. She has been awarded grants from the Graham Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and was Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2011) and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (2019). She was also Visiting Professor at Kyoto University. She is the author of Europe meets America (2016), and co-editor of The Housing Project (2020), Post-War Middle-Class Housing (2015) and Storie di Case. Abitare l’Italia del boom (2013). She coordinated the research project “Architectures for the middle classes in Italy, 1950s-1970s” (funded by the Italian Ministry of Research) and is the co-chair of the European research program “European Middle class Mass Housing”. 

Christian Gänshirt

Christian Gänshirt studied architecture at the University of Karlsruhe and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. He received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) from the Brandenburg University of Technology (BTU Cottbus) with a thesis on design tools. He taught architectural and urban theory and design at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool, Virginia Tech, the Berlin University of the Arts, Hanover University, and the Brandenburg University of Technology. He is a Visiting Professor and was a Visiting Researcher at the Politecnico di Milano, was a Visiting Professor at the University of Hong Kong and Kassel University. He was a project architect in the office of Álvaro Siza and worked with architect José Paulo dos Santos, before setting up his own practice in Berlin. He serves on the advisory board of flusserstudies.net, co-edited the internet architectural theory magazine cloud-cuckoo.net, and has written for Archithese, Bauwelt, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui, among others. Tools for Ideas, the main book on his research on architectural design theory, has been published in German, English and Chinese. Currently, he is interested in the relations between architectural theory and the discourses of sustainability.

Paolo Scrivano

Paolo Scrivano is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU). He received a Ph.D. in History of Architecture and Urbanism from the Politecnico di Torino in 1997 and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in 1995 and 2002 respectively. He has taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto (2002-2007) and at Boston University (2007-2015), and as an Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (2016-2019). Among his major publications are Storia di un’idea di architettura moderna. Henry-Russell Hitchcock e l’International Style (2001), Olivetti Builds: Modern Architecture in Ivrea (2001, with Patrizia Bonifazio), and Building Transatlantic Italy: Architectural Dialogues with Postwar America (2013). His research has been supported, among others, by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Australian Research Council, and the French National Research Agency.