On May 18, at 12:30 pm, a new session of the IST CiTUA ARCH TALKS Spring 2026 cycle will take place at the VA1 Auditorium, featuring Professor Giulia Marino (UCLouvain, Brussels / EPFL, Lausanne), who will present the lecture “The buildings of International Organisations in Geneva: discovering an exceptional heritage”.

Giulia Marino holds a Master’s degree in Architecture, with a specialization in the History and Theory of Monument Restoration, 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 also obtained a postgraduate degree in the Preservation of Modern and Contemporary Built Heritage from the University of Geneva (DEA, 2006).

She is a professor at the Université Catholique de Louvain, LOCI Faculty (UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium), and was a researcher at the Laboratory of Techniques and Preservation of Modern Architecture at EPFL (Switzerland). She is also active as a consulting architect in the field of heritage preservation.

Her research focuses on the history of conservation strategies for modern and contemporary heritage, as well as on construction techniques and building services in the twentieth century. These two main lines of research are complemented by studies on interwar monumental heritage — such as Le Corbusier’s studio-apartment at 24NC, commissioned by the Foundation Le Corbusier in 2014 with support from the Getty Foundation — and by research on the extensive corpus of architectural production between 1945 and 1975 (e.g. Stratégies pour la cité du Lignon, 2009–2012; Europa Nostra Award 2013; SIA-Umsicht Award 2013).

She has delivered lectures across Europe (Paris, Lisbon, Brussels, Milan, Luxembourg, etc.) and internationally (Chandigarh, Mexico City, Tokyo, Montreal, etc.), and has presented at numerous international conferences. She has published articles and essays (Werk, Arquitectura Viva, AMC, among others), as well as a monograph on the CAF building in Paris (Picard, 2009, 270 pp.) and a book on the restoration of the Cité du Lignon housing complex, for which she was responsible for the scientific conception and coordination (Infolio, 2012, 160 pp.). She co-edited the volumes 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). Following her monograph on the Buvette d’Évian by Jean Prouvé (Infolio, 2018) and the volume Avanchet-Parc, «cité de conception nouvelle et originale» (Infolio, 2020), she is currently preparing the publication of her PhD thesis with éditions Métispresses, as well as the proceedings of the International Study Day“Restoring Jean Prouvé” (PPUR, 2021).

She has been Vice-President of Docomomo Switzerland since 2015 and a member of the board of Docomomo Belgium since 2020. She is also a member of ICOMOS Schweiz, the Swiss Heritage Society, the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA), the Associazione italiana per la storia dell’ingegneria, the Association francophone d’histoire de la construction, and the Construction History Society.