Milan
Corso di Porta Ticinese 65
20123 Milano Italia
+39 02 89409358
studio@studiopaolavigano.eu
Bruxelles
2a, Rue Des Petits Carmes
1000 Brussels Belgium
+32 23508226
studiobrussels@studiopaolavigano.eu
Studio
Since 2015, StudioPaolaViganò works on the ecological and social transition of cities, landscapes and territories designing urban and territorial projects and realizing public spaces in Europe. SPV has recently concluded: new public parks and squares (Dessel Nuclear Research center, Marie Janson Plein, with vvv, rewarded by the Brussels Architecture Prize 2025, Tournai station square and park), visions and strategic projects for Brest (France), Lugano (PdCom), Geneva (as consultant of the City). It has coordinated the Strategic Scheme for the recovery of the Vesdre Valley (Belgium, with ULiège) after the flooding catastrophe of 2021. Two of the Ring Parks in Antwerp, part of the big “Capping the ring” project are under study, while the requalification of the public spaces in two social housing neighborhoods in Brussels are under construction, as well as the realization of the new bus station in Tournai and Parc Ouest in Brussels. br> StudioPaolaViganò stems out of Studio Bernardo Secchi and Paola Viganò (1990-2014). Fine descriptions and explorations of the future feed its design research, contributing to the redefinition of the role of design in contemporary society. br> The main works of Studio includes the Le Grand Paris, métropole de l’après Kyoto; Vision for Brussels 2040, masterplan and public space realization of Courrouze district of 4500 new dwellings in Rennes (Prix “Nature en ville” du palmarés Ecoquartier in France 2011), today almost concluded, the masterplan for the youth camp of Hoge Rielen, Belgium and the realization of its Hostel wadi (shortlisted for Mies Van der Rohe Prize in 2015). Studio is currently working on two large scale “Ringparks”, on the capping of the future highway in the dense city of Antwerp, Belgium, completing the public space of the waterfront of Lecco, Italy. Paola Viganò with SPV will curate the Swiss Pavilion at the 2027 Architecture Biennale. br>
Paola Viganò
Paola Viganò architect and urbanist, is Full Professor in Urban Theory and Urban Design at the EPFL (CH) (where she directs the Habitat Research Center and the Lab-U) and at IUAV Venice (IT). She received the Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme in 2013, the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCLouvain in 2016 in the frame of “Utopia for our Time”, the Flemish Culture Award for Architecture in 2017, and the Golden medal to the career of Milano Triennale in 2018. Together with Bernardo Secchi, she founded Studio (1990-2014) working on numerous projects and visions in Europe. Since 2015, StudioPaolaViganò works on the ecological and social transition of cities, landscapes and territories designing urban and territorial projects and realizing public spaces in Europe as the new public park in Dessel Nuclear Research center (Belgium), or Marie Janson Plein in Brussels, together with VVV. Studio has also won the competition for the realization of the municipal plan (PdCom) of Lugano (Switzerland), just completed and is consultant of the City of Geneva for its municipal plan (PdCom). Studio is finally coordinating the Strategic Scheme for the recovery of the Vesdre Valley (Belgium) after the flooding catastrophe of 2021 summer.
In 2019, her work has been exhibited at the Shenzen Biennale and in 2021 at the Venice Biennale.
In 2022, she receives the Schelling Prize for Architectural Theory.
Among her recent publications:
Viganò Paola (2022), «Life as a Common: Space for a New Biopolitical Project» in New Geographies 12, Commons, Mojdeh Mahdavi and Liang Wang, eds., Harvard University Press.
Cavalieri Chiara & Viganò Paola (2019), eds., The Horizontal Metropolis. A Radical Project, Zürich: Park Books.
Viganò Paola (2016), Territories of Urbanism. The Project as knowledge Producer, Routledge-EPFL Press.
Viganò Paola, Secchi Bernardo and Fabian Lorenzo, (2016), eds., Water and Asphalt. The Project of Isotropy, Zürich.
Team Members
Senior:
Alessio Tamiazzo (1990, Padua, Italy) Architect Iuav (2015), graduated with a thesis on different environmental scenarios for the Po Valley.
Since 2018, he has been a teaching assistant at Iuav University for the Landscape and the Urban Design studios and is part of the research group “Brownfields and landscape redevelopment” with which he participated in the PRIN 2017 “SYLVA. rethinking the selva”and PRIN 2009 “From the urbanised countryside to the city in extension”.
He lectured in multiple occasions (UrbanPromo, Uni-Hannover, Order of Architects in Rome, etc.). In 2017 he is selected by Fondazione Benetton for the landscape recovery of the historical garden of Villa Farsetti in Santa Maria di Sala (with P. Burgi, L. Latini, G. Rallo).
He has been working with Studio since 2014, he is project leader for the Flaminio project in Rome and leads the studio in several competitions across Europe.
Etienne Schillers,(1990, Reims, France) State architect (2015) then HMONP (2021) from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture et de Paysage de Lille, he has been collaborating with StudioPaolaViganò since 2016. He was an assistant at EPFLausanne in 2018 and is an assistant at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Liège, where he teaches urban and territorial design.
As a project manager, he has taken part in the design and thinking behind numerous projects and researches, such as the OVK province's transition scenarios (Rotterdam Biennale), the Eurometropole's blue space project and the strategic scheme for the Vesdre watershed. Since 2017, he has been monitoring the redevelopment project for the Tournai train station plateau.
Qinyi Zhang (1985, Hangzhou, China) is a senior designer and project manager responsible for important urban and landscape projects and exhibitions at Studio Paola Viganò / Studio Secchi-Viganò since 2009.
He was a post-doc researcher (2018-2020) at the Lab-U and Habitat Research Center in EPFL, Lausanne, teaching at the design studio, working on research projects including the Greater Geneva Consultation, and in charge of the EPFL part of the “TOD-IS-RUR Transit Oriented Development for Inclusive and Sustainable Rural-Urban Regions”—a Marie Skłodowska-Curie project. He received his Ph.D. in Urbanism at IUAV Venezia in 2018. He obtained the degree in urbanism in TU Delft (European Postgraduate Master in Urbanism) and the degree in architecture in Zhejiang University, China.
He was a jury member and external critic in ULB, IUAV Venezia, and GSD at Harvard University. He lectured in TU Delft (NL), CityU (Hong Kong CN), Sint-Lucas Ghent (BE), KU Leuven (BE), and Zhejiang University (CN) among other universities.
Bertrand Plewinski (1989, Liège, Belgium) holds a degree in architecture from UCL Brussels and an advanced master's degree in town and country planning from UCL Louvain. He gained professional experience at Studio Paola Viganò, where he has worked since 2016.
He has worked on several territorial studies and master plans in Belgium and France, such as the Guide Plan for Brest Metropolis and Val-de-Sambre, the Citroën-Bassin Vergote-Parc Maximilien CRU and the redevelopment of the ACEC site in Herstal. He was also involved in coordinating the “Horizontal Metropolis” exhibition at BOZAR and “The Biopolitical Garden” at Venice Biennial of Architecture. As project manager in Brussels, he was involved in the creation of Place Marie Janson, and is currently coordinating the Peterbos project and Parc Ouest.
He has been jury member and invited speaker in several universities and institutions such as UCL Tournai, Brussels and Louvain-la-Neuve, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech - ULiège, EPFL - Lausanne, ESA Saint-Luc Brussels, BMA Brussels.
Simona Bodria (1976, Milan, Italie) graduated in architecture at Milan Politecnico in 2001, with one year Erasmus experience at ETSAM in Madrid. Before the collaboration with Paola Viganò, she experienced in multiple Architecture and Urban firms in Milan, working on projects at different scales, from interior design until public space and urban scale. She was also teaching assistant at many urban design studios in Politecnico di Milano from 2002 to 2009.
Since 2005 she is part of Studio Paola Viganò: she currently works on general management competitions and in many projects for urban public spaces in France and Italy, leading the internal team and coordinating external consultant from design conception stage, trough the development of final and executive project designs until the realization, supervising the construction site phase.
Collaborators :
Morvan Rabin, geographer - urban planner / collaboration since 2011
Silvia Urbano, ir.architect / collaboration since 2012
Rodin Desplechin, architect / collaboration since 2020
Nathan Fredrick, ir.architect - urban planner / collaboration since 2021
Mattia del Fabbro, architect / collaboration since 2022
Maria Medushevskaya, architect / collaboration since 2022
Loan Laurent, architect / collaboration since 2023
Carlotta Bertuccioli, architect / collaboration since 2024
Francesca Rocco, architect / collaboration since 2024
Apolline Jansen, architect / collaboration since 2025
Isabel Verhaeghe, architect / collaboration since 2025
Italia Galluccio, secretary / collaboration since 1994
Past members:
SPV
Achille Pelletier,
Adrien Lefevre,
Alessia Calò,
Alexander Wegener,
Carmen Van Maercke,
Christophe Monfort,
Giacomo Mantelli,
Gianluca Masiero,
Guillaume Vanneste,
Jordi de Vlam,
Kasumi Yoshida,
Kathleen De Beukelaer,
Klara Sladeckova,
Kobe Pillen,
Laura Dalla Pietà,
Laura May Dessagne,
Maarten Wauters,
Manu Vanderveken,
Marie van Loon,
Mathilde Meurice,
Matthias Lamberts,
Maurizio Mascia,
Michael Stas,
Paola Serventi,
Pietro Manaresi,
Sebastien Declercq,
Stefano Gariglio,
Stella Armeli,
Thomas Brun,
Uberto Degli Uberti,
Veerle Cox.
SBSPV
Antonio Longo,
Adrien Lefèvre,
Alessia Calò,
Alvise Pagnacco,
Ana Rafful,
Andrea Carlesso,
Andrea Morpurgo,
Ani Taflica,
Anna Moro,
Anna Nesterova,
Annacarla Secchi,
Barbara Martino,
Carla Greco,
Carlo Neidhart,
Carlo Pisano,
Chiara Cavalieri,
Christian Nitti,
Christophe Mathieu,
Chunxiao Liang,
D. Formentini,
Dao Ming Chang,
Ece Emanetoğlu,
Elena Longhin,
Elisa Alfier,
Emmanuel Giannotti,
Fabio D'Agnano,
Giulia Trentuno,
Giambattista Zaccariotto,
Giorgio Manzoni,
Giovanna Comana,
Giovanni De Roia,
Greta Giunta,
Griet Lambrechts,
Guillaume Vanneste,
Günter Pusch,
Ilaria Mancini,
Irene Cogliano,
Jan Leenknegt,
Kaat Boon,
Kasumi Yoshida,
Kobe Pillen,
Livia Piperno,
Lora Rudko,
Larisa Rudko,
Laura-May Dessagne,
Laure Thierrée,
Lorenzo Fabian,
Marta Baretti,
M.Manzoni,
Maria Alessandra Secchi,
Maarten Wauters,
Maria Luisa Carloni,
Marine Durand,
Matteo D’Ambros,
Michele Girelli,
Michiel Dehaene,
Mieke Tanghe,
Myron Devolder,
Niccolò Privileggio,
Nardo Goffi,
Nicolas Fonty,
P. Castignani,
Pauline Varloteaux,
Pieter Ochelen,
Pieter Thibaut,
Qinyi Zhang,
Rita Miglietta,
Roberto Sega,
Stefania Rizzotti,
Stefania Dussin,
Stefano Peluso,
Stella Armeli Iapichino,
Steven Geeraert,
T. Kadvrov,
Teresa Cos,
Tom van Mighiem,
Tommaso Fait,
Tullia Lombardo,
Uberto degli Uberti,
Umberta Dufour,
Veronica Saddi,
Wim Wambecq.
Application
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