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Elena Cogato Lanza (born 1964 in Vicenza) is an Italian architect, specialised in the theory of contemporary landscape and urban design. She is a Maître d'Enseignement et de Recherche at EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering's Institute of Architecture. She is head of the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U) and since 2020 director of the Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR) doctoral program at EPFL.

Career
After gaining her diploma in Architecture at the University of Venice (IUAV), she completed her doctorate at the EPFL on the topic of urbanism in Geneva in the 1930s, under the supervision of Martin Steinmann. Amongst other research activities, Elena Cogato Lanza was from 2001 to 2009 an associate foreign scientist at LOUEST (Laboratoire Organisations Urbaines: Espaces Sociétés Temporalités, UMR CNRS 2410, France) and from 2000 on a research associate and lecturer at the EPFL, where she became in 2007 a Maître d’Enseignement et de Recherche and the leader of the Lab-U.

Next to her research and teaching activities, Elena Cogato Lanza is an associate publisher at Metispresses and since 2005 director of the architecture and urbanism collection vuesDensemble. Since 2010 she is the Présidente du Conseil de Fondation Braillard Architects.

Research
Her most important research experience relates to the SNF Sinergia "Post-car world. A trans-disciplinary multi-dimensional Simulation, where she was partner leader, and as main leader of the Sub-Project C: "Urbanity. Configuring a Post-Car world" from 2013 to 2017. Others projects to be mentioned are "Urban gardening and human wellbeing in the greater Lausanne area" as partner leader, funded by the ENAC Exploratory Grant 2016-17; as Partner leader "Territory in the Crisis" with the Compagnia di San Paolo from 2013 to 2015 ; "1 km Well-being. The Urban Landscape Observatory" as partner leader from 2009 to 2011 and "Résistance et projet. Du destin des Grottes (1930-2030)" as partner leader in partnership EPFL and Fondation Braillard Architectes.

Currently, she is co-leading the Joint Project "City and Production in the frame of crisis" with the Compagnia di San Paolo and the Politecnico di Torino and leading the research project "Designing an interdisciplinary research and education concept in Ecological Habitat" (ENAC Exploratory Grant).

Furthermore she was a Swiss confederation Fellowship at the University of Geneva from 1991 to 1992 and was awarded the Grant of the Swiss Confederation – Conseil de l'Europe.

Selected works

 * Ola Söderström; Elena Cogato Lanza (2000). L' Usage Du Projet : Pratiques Sociales Et Conception Du Projet Urbain Et Architectural. Lausanne: Edition Payot. 2000
 * Ola Söderström; Elena Cogato Lanza (2000). L' Usage Du Projet : Pratiques Sociales Et Conception Du Projet Urbain Et Architectural. Lausanne: Edition Payot. 2000
 * Ola Söderström; Elena Cogato Lanza (2000). L' Usage Du Projet : Pratiques Sociales Et Conception Du Projet Urbain Et Architectural. Lausanne: Edition Payot. 2000
 * Ola Söderström; Elena Cogato Lanza (2000). L' Usage Du Projet : Pratiques Sociales Et Conception Du Projet Urbain Et Architectural. Lausanne: Edition Payot. 2000
 * Ola Söderström; Elena Cogato Lanza (2000). L' Usage Du Projet : Pratiques Sociales Et Conception Du Projet Urbain Et Architectural. Lausanne: Edition Payot. 2000