Roberto Gargiani has taught the history of architecture in Florence, Rouen, Paris, Venice and Rome. Currently he is the professor in History of Architecture and Construction at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), where he also directs the Architecture section. He is the author of Rem Koolhaas/OMA: The Construction of Merveilles; Le Corbusier, Béton brut and Ineffable Space, 1940-1965: Surface Materials and Psychophysiology of Vision; and Concrete: from Archaeology to Invention, 1700-1769.