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, he has taken part in the creation of the Marie Janson square in Brussels, and now coordinates the Peterbos and Esseghem projects and various competitions in Europe. He has been a jury member and external critic at UCL Architecture Tournai and Brussels, EPFL Architecture, UCL Advanced Master in Town and Country Planning, 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.



Tommaso Pietropolli (1989, Veneto, Italy) is an architect, postdoctoral researcher, and lecturer at EPFL (CH). He graduated at IUAV Venice in 2015, and completed his PhD at EPFL in 2023, under the supervision of prof. Paola Viganò. He collaborates since 2015 with StudioPaolaViganò between Milan and Geneva; he is senior designer and coordinator for various projects and exhibitions, at different scales – from territorial design to urban design and public spaces. Since 2014 he teaches urban design studios and international workshops at IUAV Venice and EPFL. He has been jury member and invited speaker in several European universities (UCLouvain, EPFL, IUAV, Roma Tre, PoliMi, PoliTo, Uliège).

Since 2023, he coordinates the Habitat Research Center at EPFL and the Post-Grad Master program in Urban and Territorial Design (ETHZ/EPFL). He has been participant, coordinator, or co-director in several academic research projects at EPFL Laboratory of Urbanism, focusing on socio-ecological transition and the future of contemporary urbanized territories.



Morvan Rabin (1988, Lorient, France) is a geographer and urban planner graduated from the University of Western Brittany in 2009 and in architectural and urban planning from the Paris Institute of Urban Planning and ENSA Paris-Malaquais in 2011.

He has worked in urban planning-architecture-landscape agencies since 2011, and mainly for SBSPV, now SPV. In addition, he was personally selected for the Europan 12 and 14 competitions and led the ensuing urban and landscape studies on his own behalf.

At the same time, he has experience of botanical gardens in France (Jardins de Kerdalo) and England (Gravetye Manor) and was involved in the maintenance and development of the arboretum "Les Arbres du Monde au Huelgoat" from 2017 to 2020, which gives him a particular sensitivity to the place of plants and trees in territories and cities.

Since 2016, he has been an active member of the Agrof'Ile association, which aims to develop agroforestry and living soils in the Ile-de-France region.

Past members:

SPV

Achille Pelletier, Adrien Lefevre, Alessia Calò, Alexander Wegener, Carmen Van Maercke, Giacomo Mantelli, Gianluca Masiero, Guillaume Vanneste, Jordi de Vlam, Kasumi Yoshida, Kathleen De Beukelaer, Klara Sladeckova, Kobe Pillen, Laura Dalla Pietà, Laura May Dessagne, Laure Thierrée, Maarten Wauters, Marie van Loon, Mathilde Meurice, Maurizio Mascia, Michael Stas, Paola Serventi, Pietro Manaresi, Sebastien Declercq, Stefano Gariglio, Stella Armel, Thomas Brun, Uberto Degli Uberti, Veerle Cox.

SBSPV

A. 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, G. 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, L. Piperno, Lora Rudko, Larisa Rudko, Laura-May Dessagne, Laure Thierrée, Lorenzo Fabian, M.Baretti, M.Manzoni, M.Secchi, Maarten Wauters, Maria Luisa Carloni, Marine Durand, Matteo D’Ambros, Michele Girelli, Michiel Dehaene, Mieke Tanghe, Myron Devolder, N. Privileggio, Nardo Goffi, Nicolas Fonty, P. Castignani, Pauline Varloteaux, Pieter Ochelen, Pieter Thibaut, Qinyi Zhang, Rita Miglietta, Roberto Sega, S. 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.