Auteur: Gaia Caramellino

Architect and historian Gaia Caramellino received her PhD in History of Architecture and Town Planning from the Politecnico di Torino. Her research focuses on the history of housing forms, cultures, policies and practices, and on the circulation of architectural and urban discourses between Europe and the Americas during the 20th century. She teaches architecture history and theory at the Politecnico di Milano, and was the coordinator of the national research project “Architectures for the Middle-Class in Italy, 1950s–1970s”, funded by the Italian government. She has lectured in Europe, the United States, Canada and Japan, and was visiting scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal in 2011 and visiting professor at Kyoto University in 2015. She has received several grants and fellowships for her research, including from the Graham Foundation, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, and the Rockefeller Foundation. She is the author of William Lescaze: Un architetto europeo nel New Deal (2010) and Housing the 40, 000: Explorations in the Middle-Class City: Turin, 1945–1980 (with F. De Pieri and C. Renzoni, 2015). She has served as guest editor of several journal issues, and co-edited Post-War Middle-Class Housing: Models, Construction and Change (2015) and Storie di case: Abitare l”Italia del boom (2013).