is Professor at the Laboratory of Urbanism, Faculty ENAC, EPFL, and Director of the Doctoral Program in Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR), EPFL. She graduated as an architect at the IUAV University of Venice, and she received a PhD ès sciences at EPFL. Her research interests lie at the crossroads between the history and the theory of urbanism. Urbanism in the twentieth-century; the decline of the modern city and the need to revalue its spatial and material heritage; the investigation of concepts and methods of analysis with strong interdisciplinary and systemic implications: these themes form the core of her scientific activities.
Among her publications: Post-Car World. Futurs de la ville-territoire (with F. Bahrami, S. Berger, L. Pattaroni, 2021), Territory in Crisis (with C. Bianchetti et alii, 2015), Experimenting Proximity. The Urban Landscape Observatory (with Ch. Girot, 2014), De la différence urbaine (with L. Pattaroni et alii, 2013). She has contributed to journals such as AAFiles, OASE, Matière, and has edited monographic issues of Urban Planning, Contour, or FACES Journal d’Architecture.
Alongside her academic endeavors, she is Associate Publisher of the publishing house MétisPresses, and acts as a member of various international scientific editorial committees. She is the President of the Architectural and Urban Commission of the Canton of Fribourg, and an associate member of the Fédération des Architectes Suisses (FAS). From 2015 to 2024, she was the President of the Board of the Fondation Braillard Architects in Geneva.