Biography

Professor at the Université catholique de Louvain, LOCI-LAB (UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium) and at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), Giulia Marino is also consultant architect in heritage preservation.

Giulia Marino has a Master’s degree in Architecture in History and theories of restoration of monuments from the University of Florence (MA, 2003) and a PhD in architecture from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (PhD, 2014; EPFL Doctorate Award 2016). She obtained also a Postgraduate Master in Preservation of modern and contemporary built heritage from the University of Geneva (DEA, 2006).

Her scientific interests are centred on history of strategies for the conservation of the modern and contemporary heritage, and on the history of construction techniques and twentieth-century building services. She has developed these two main strands of research in her work, as well as the monumental heritage of the interwar period (e.g. Le Corbusier’s studio-apartment at 24NC, commissioned by the Foundation Le Corbusier, 2014, with a grant from the Getty Foundation) and in the extensive corpus of architectural production 1945-75 (e.g. Stratégies pour la cité du Lignon, 2009-2012; Europa Nostra Award 2013, SIA-Umsicht Award 2013, Docomomo Rehabilitation Award 2021).

She has given lectures in Europe (Paris, Lisbon, Brussels, Milan, Luxembourg, etc.) and internationally (Chandigarh, Mexico City, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Montreal, Taipei, Rio de Janeiro, etc.). She has also presented at numerous international conferences and published papers and articles (Werk, Arquitectura Viva, AMC, Casabella, etc.) as well as a monograph on the CAF building in Paris (Picard, 2009), and a book on the restoration of the Cité du Lignon housing complex (Infolio, 2012). She recently coedited the volume Building Environment and Interiors Comfort in 20th-Century Architecture: Understanding Issues and Developing Conservation Strategies (PPUR, 2016) and Les multiples vies de l’appartement-atelier. Le Corbusier (PPUR, 2017). After the monograph on the Buvette d’Evian by Jean Prouvé (Infolio, 2018) and the volumes Avanchet-Parc, “cité de conception nouvelle et originale (Infolio, 2020), and Le Cèdre. Jean Tschumi (Infolio, 2022), she is working on the publication of her PhD at the Éditions Métispresses and the proceedings of International Study Day “Restoring Jean Prouvé” (PPUR, 2021).

She is Vice President of Docomomo Switzerland since 2015, member of the board of Docomomo Belgium and member of the International Specialist Committee on Technology of Docomomo International. She is also a member of ICOMOS Schweiz and Wallonie-Bruxelles, the Swiss Heritage Society, the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects-SIA, Associazione italiana per la storia dell’ingegneria, Association francophone d’histoire de la construction and the Construction History Society. Since 2024, she is member of the Féderal Commission of Monuments (Switzerland).