Chiara Monterumisi

Chiara Monterumisi (PhD) is architect and now visiting researcher at the EPFL-École Polytecnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland). She joined the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation (LCC) head by Luca Ortelli in March 2016 as Post-Doc Fellow, where she stayed for three years. There, she conducted two research projects about social housing interventions in the interwar-period, with a particular regard to Sweden and Denmark. The methodology applied here comprises of a historical examination based on archival items and dedicated literature with a typological and morphological analysis of the selected case-studies.
The first research project, Stockholm: Housing in the Interwar Period, was entirely granted from the SNSF-Swiss National Science Foundation. The goal was to examine the transformations in the urban policies of the Swedish capital city and, then, comparing the multiple experimentations in architectural models and dwelling layout for the design of the housing districts.
After completing the SNSF research grant, she aims to widen the perspective on the Nordic housing production. The focus goes to the nearby Denmark, specifically she investigates the work of Kay Fisker in Copenhagen.
Her pieces of writing have been published as papers and books’ chapters in international publications, mainly in Italian, English and French.
As a member of the LCC, she is one of the scientific curators of the exhibition “HOUSING” (18th September - 2nd November 2018) held at the EPFL aims to display the morphological and typological variety through a selection of remarkable examples of Frankfurt, Wien and Stockholm 1920s-1930s housing complexes.
Together with professor Luca Ortelli (head of the Lab LCC) and Dr. Alessandro Porotto, she is guest curator for the forthcoming issue (vol. 4, issue 3, September 2019) entitled «Housing Builds Cities» for the open access double blind reviewed journal “Urban Planning”.
She is also one of the session coordinators, namely “News from the Nordic countries or an epoch of action”, for the forthcoming 9th AISU International Conference which will take place at the Alma Mater Studiorium – Università di Bologna in September 2019.
She has recently published a book, entitled «Ragnar Östberg. Villa Geber: a house in the archipelago» (Vicenza: Edibus, July 2017), which was entirely supported by the C.M. Lerici Stiftelsen. The book recasts the twofold focus of the Ph. D. dissertation by addressing here, with much more details, the domestic project of villa Geber.
In 2011, she completed the B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Architecture at the Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna (Italy). There, she also obtained the Ph.D. degree in “Architecture and Design Cultures” in 2015 with the thesis «Ragnar Östberg. Genius loci and urban memories. Stockholms Stadshus-Nämndhus and villa Geber». During the doctoral school, she was also teaching assistant at the I B.Sc.’s design studio. Thanks to the 6-month research scholarship provided by the C.M. Lerici Stiftelsen, she was visiting researcher at the KTH-Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan i Stockholm (Sweden) for finalizing her Ph.D. study.
Address: Lausanne, Switzerland