Christophe van GerreweyChristophe Van Gerrewey (1982) is an architecture critic and theorist, writing about contemporary buildings, their recent histories and intellectual dimensions, and their connections to society, philosophy, art and literature. In particular, he is an expert on the work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas as well as on Belgian architecture. He is one of the editors of architecture journal OASE, and of art and culture journal De Witte Raaf. In his writings, architecture is considered as a source of comprehensive and integrated knowledge that pertains to diverse disciplines – a way of looking at, and of understanding, many aspects of the world we live in. This gives his activities an unusually broad and comprehensive aspect, transcending divisions of knowledge.
Since 2015, he is Assistant Professor Tenure Track of architecture theory at EPFL Lausanne. He was trained as an architect-engineer at Ghent University and as a literary theorist at KU Leuven. In Dutch, his mother tongue, he has published three novels and a collection of essays between 2013 and 2017.
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).
Irène Elizabeth Vogel ChevrouletFORMATION
Architecte diplômée EAUG 1991 Université de Genève Prof. Tita Carloni Master of Arts in Advanced Art Historical & Related Studies 1995 University of East Anglia, Norwich, Angleterre, Prof. Stefan Muthesius bourse de jeune chercheuse FNSRS - Naissance du premier enfant 1998 - Certificat piano: Mention Bien 1999 Conservatoire de Lausanne, Prof. Martine Jaques - Naissance du second enfant 2001 - Doctorat en théorie et histoire de l'architecture 2009 La création d'une japonité moderne (1870-1940) ou le regard des architectes européens sur le Japon: Josiah Conder, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Bruno Taut, Charlotte Perriand Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Prof. Jacques Lucan bourse Marie Heim Vögtlin FNSRS
EXPERIENCE PROFESSIONNELLE
COLLABORATRICE POUR LA RECHERCHE - LUMEN Lumière naturelle: Institut de technique du bâtiment EPFL, 1992-94 - Histoire de la Ville Européenne: Institut d'architecture uni. Genève, Prof. Ricardo Mariani, 1996-98 CREATION DE LA LIBRAIRIE DE PHOTOGRAPHIE au Musée de lElysée, LausanneDir. Bill Ewing, 1998 CONSEILLERE ARCHITECTE Service d'Aménagement du Territoire à Lausanne, 1999-2000 COLLABORATRICE SCIENTIFIQUE EPFL 2000 - 2014 1) Modélisation du territoire et matériologie de l'objet construit Laboratoire de projet urbain, territorial et architectural, Prof. Patrick Berger, 2000-2002 2) Cours théorie du territoire et unité d'enseignement aménagement urbain, mobilité et environnement Laboratoire des dynamiques territoriales, Prof. Martin Schuler, 2002-2004 3) Cahier sur la représentation de la présence humaine à l'ère digitale dans le projet d'architecture Laboratoire de construction et de conservation, Prof. Luca Ortelli, 2010 4) Recherche au sujet de Bernard Huet et le Japon 1964 en collaboration avec Valérie Ortlieb Chaire du Prof. invité Christian Gilot, 2011 - Publication PPUR 2016 5) Analyse de la Résidence de l'ambassadeur du Japon à Paris construite en 1970 par Junzô Sakakura, Jean Riedberger, Charlotte Perriand et Jean Prouvé ainsi que sa rénovation en 2000 par Reiko Hayama. Essai et conférence internationale Docomomo à Helsinki en août 2012 - Publication 6) Archivage: travaux d'enseignement et recherche 1992-2012 - Synthèse de l'oeuvre écrite Laboratoire de projet urbain, territorial et architectural, Prof. Patrick Berger, 2011-2014 Japan: irreducible Differences? Conference East West International Colloquium Polytechnicum Milan, déc. 2012 7) Appui à la direction du Center for Area and Cultural Studies Collège des Humanités EPFL 2012 - 2014 8) Collaboration à Animal? Exposition et livre Patrick Berger Archizoom 2014 Laboratoire de projet urbain, territorial et architectural, Prof. Patrick Berger CHERCHEUSE HÔTE Institut Architecture ENAC EPFL 2015 - 2021 Publication d'essaisReiko Hayama 2015 DearqImagine Japan 2015 Ed. AlphilJosiah Conder 2016 Gebr. Mann VerlagRédaction d'un livre pour les Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes: Bernard Huet au Japon Architectures et jardins Zen 2017Conférence SAH Pasadena 2016
Recherche sur Pikionis et le JaponConférence EAHN-SAHANZ Sydney 2019Publication Journal of Landscape Architecture 2020Recherches en cours: L'oeuvre construite de Reiko Hayama Pikionis et NoguchiVoir les autres publications et conférences internationales dans la liste Conférences en Suisse:Le jardin de Ryôan-ji Japan Impact - Cercle Suisse Japon - HES Fribourg 2018Une maison japonaise voisine de TotoroJapan Impact 2019Du Japon à l'Acropole: les réalisations paysagères de Dimitris Pikionis Japan Impact 2020CHARGEE DE COURS Collège des Humanités dès 2013Japon contemporain: culture et pensée au miroir de l'architecture - 70 étudiantsContemporary Japan as mirrored in cinema and anime - 60 étudiants
