Silvia Groaz

Silvia Groaz is an architect and architectural historian.

After obtaining a Bachelor's degree from the Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, she went on to obtain a Master's degree from the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, before specialising in the history of architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture - University College London (2015).

In 2021, she will complete a doctorate in architectural history and theory at EPFL, focusing on post-war architectural culture and the historiographical construction of Brutalism, published in New Brutalism. The Invention of a Style (EPFL Press, 2023). During her doctorate, she was a visiting scholar at Columbia University, New York (2018). She then pursued a post-doctorate at the Université catholique de Louvain (Belgium, 2022) and Yale University (New Haven, 2023) on the research project Sensorial Environments for a New Perception of Space. Hans Hollein between Art, Architecture and Primordial Science. In 2023, she was a resident researcher at the Swiss Institute in Milan, where she conducted research on the interior architecture of the Italian architect, artist and designer Nanda Vigo, currently being published (The Metaphysics of Everyday Life. Nanda Vigo's Interiors, Birkhäuser 2026).

She has worked in international offices such as Kühn Malvezzi (Berlin), 2A+P (Rome), Anne Holtrop (Amsterdam) and David Kohn Architects (London). Between 2020 and 2022, she curated the Archizoom gallery (EPFL), where she co-organised interdisciplinary exhibitions such as Sometimes Doing Nothing Leads to Something (2021) and Do not Carry your Flag too Low: Actions from Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative (2022).

Her work has been supported by the Getty Research Institute, the Swiss National Science Foundation, the Swiss Institute, the Catholic University of Leuven, the Construction History Society, the Italian Council and the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Since 2024 she has been a senior lecturer in Architectural History and Culture (HCA) at ENSA Paris-Est and a lecturer at the University of Liège (Belgium).