Paolo Tombesi is Professor of Construction and Architecture at the School of Architecture and Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), where he directs the Institut d'architecture et de la ville.
He studied architecture in Italy and graduated from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1990. A former Fulbright Fellow, he received his PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997. That same year he joined the University of Melbourne, where he was awarded the Chair of Construction in 2009.
Paolo Tombesi has long cultivated a specific interest in the relationship between the intellectual dimension of building and the social and technical aspects of its execution. He is an international authority on the industrial organisation of architectural practices and the analysis of the construction process, applying industrial economics, labour theory and regional development models to examine the relationship between design, technological innovation, knowledge production and the construction market.
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This episode was recorded on the 8th of august 2022, in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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