WATER DESIGNS: L’EAU DESSINE LA VILLE
Vernissage Friday 14 June, 18:30 pm
Address by Natacha Litzistorf, Mayor in charge of Housing, the Environment and Architecture.
Introduction to the exhibition by Professor Paola Viganò.
In the presence of the exhibition curators and the Lausanne Jardins 2024 teams.
You are invited to join us in the Archizoom gallery for the opening of the exhibition Water Designs: l’eau dessine la ville, which takes place from the 15th of June to the 28th of October 2024.
BIOGRAPHY
Paola Viganò, architect and urbanist, is Full Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (where she directs the Habitat Research Center and the Lab-U) and at IUAV Venice. She received the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in 2013, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCLouvain in 2016 in the frame of “Utopia for our Time”, the Flemish Culture Award for Architecture in 2017, and the Golden medal to the career of Milano Triennale in 2018. Together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded Studio (1990-2014) working on numerous projects and visions in Europe. Since 2015, StudioPaolaViganò works on the ecological and social transition of cities, landscapes and territories designing urban and territorial projects and realizing public spaces in Europe.
In 2019, her work has been exhibited at the Shenzen Biennale and in 2021 at the Venice Biennale.
In 2022, she receives the Schelling Prize for Architectural Theory.