Chiara Monterumisi
Job Title: Researcher
Institutional affiliation: EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland)
Phd in “Architecture and Design Cultures” (201) at the Università di Bologna (Italy) in co-tuition with the KTH–Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan in Stockholm (Sweden). Visiting Researcher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (Switzerland) where she now conducts studies on Kay Fisker’s teaching activity and housing interventions in Copenhagen.
In March 2016, she joined the EPFL as Post Doc Research Fellow for carrying out the 2-year research project entitled Stockholm: Housing in the Interwar Period, fully granted by the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2019, she was guest editor (with Luca Ortelli and Alessandro Porotto) of the issue Housing Builds Cities for the journal “Urban Planning” (https://www.cogitatiopress.com/urbanplanning/issue/view/134).
Her research interests focus on 19th-20th century Nordic architecture and the mutual references and connections abroad, with a particular regard in the urban transformations as town halls design and in the planning interventions for housing purposes. Alongside research, she is architect practitioner.
Publications
Monterumisi, C. “Rödabergsområdet: a verdant small town idyll within the city.” Planning Perspectives, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2021.1871774
Monterumisi, C. “Swedish Grace: a mere interlude or a facet of modernity? Early housing experiments in Stockholm.” In Die Multiple Moderne / The Multiple Modernity, edited by K. Tragbar, 160-177. Berlin, Boston: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2021. https://www.degruyter.com/document/isbn/9783422986091/html
Monterumisi, C., and A. Porotto. “Why can’t we live together? Stockholm and Vienna’s large courtyard blocks.” In Global Dimensions in Housing: Approaches in Design and Theory from Europe to the Pacific Rim, edited by G. Cairns and K. Day, 13-25. Faringdon, Oxfordshire: Green Frigate Books, 2018. https://www.libripublishing.co.uk/Products/ProdID=205
Monterumisi, C. “The city and the urban space as a “forum” of collective living. The urban complex Stockholm Town Hall- Committee building of Ragnar Östberg (1909-1940).” EdA. Esempi d’architettura 3, no. 1 (2016): 11-30. http://www.aracneeditrice.it/pdf/9788854899179.pdf