PhD in architecture and planning history at the Politecnico di Torino (2007), Gaia Caramellino (b.1977), is assistant professor of history of architecture at the DAStU, Politecnico di Milano. She is member of the supervisory board of the PhD program in “Architecture. History and Design” at the Politecnico di Torino, and is part of the supervisory board of the International Phd Program “TACK-Communities of Tacit Knowledge” (MSCA-ITN, 2019).
Her researches focus on the circulation of models and discourses, addressed also through the lens of architectural periodicals; the history of collective housing, of its forms, practices, cultures, policies and theories; the investigation of the ordinary residential landscape; methodology in the historical research on housing. She has been the National coordinator and PI of the research project “Architecture for the middle-classes in Italy, 1950s-1970s”, funded through the FIRB Futuro in ricerca program (2008) and she is currently coordinating the research project “Re-theorizing the Architecture of Housing” (2019-2020), the COST-EU Action “European Middle-Class Mass Housing” (vice-chair) and the “Interest Group on Housing”, promoted by the EAHN-European Architectural History Network.
She has held several visiting professorships and fellowships, at the Kyoto University (2015), the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (2019-20) and the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montréal (2011). She has received numerous research and publication grants (amongst others, from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, in 2011).