Publications and communications of Silvia Groaz

Publications

Books

Written alone

Groaz, S. (2023). New Brutalism: The Invention of a Style. Lausanne, Unknown/unspecified: EPFLPress.

Articles and book chapters

Articles in journals with peer reviewing

Groaz, S. (January 2026). La Biennale come sismografo. La Biennale e la storia. Studi e Ricerche di Storia dell’Architettura, 2 (18), 251-55. doi:10.6093/2532-2699/13174

Groaz, S. (2026). Brutalismi in cerca di significato. Rassegna di Architettura.

Lampariello, B.* , & Groaz, S.*. (2026). Body Architecture. A Transatlantic Perspective on Hans Hollein. AA Files: Annals of the Architectural Association School of Architecture.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Groaz, S. (2024). Waterskiing over the Tides of History. OASE: Tijdschrift voor Architectuur, (118).

Groaz, S. (2022). Robin Hood Gardens. La barre non-héroïque du town building anglais. Matières, 17 (17), 20-25.

Groaz, S. (2022). Educazione, progetto e costruzione. Il collettivo femminista Matrix. Archi. Rivista di architettura, ingegneria e urbanistica, 2 (2022), 88-89.

Groaz, S. (October 2021). La semplicità democratica del calcestruzzo.  Archi. Rivista di architettura, ingegneria e urbanistica, vol. 5/2021. L’eredità di Robert Maillart, 13-17.

Groaz, S. (2021). The New Brutalism: Ethic vs. Marxism? Ideological Collisions in Post-War English Architectur. Histories of Postwar Architecture, 4 (7), 104-24. doi:10.6092/issn.2611-0075/11436

Groaz, S. (2020). Le béton apparent dans la culture suisse. Mythe de la perfection et de l'économie de matériau. Tracés : Revue des Sciences Humaines, (3503), 14-19.

Groaz, S. (2018). La genèse du livre The New Brutalism. Ethic or Aesthetic? A travers les échanges épistolaires de Banham et Joedicke. Matières, 1 (14), 90-101.

Groaz, S. (2016). ALPIA, A Contemporary Portrait of a Super-National Territory. Praznine Magazine.

Articles in journals without peer reviewing

Groaz, S., & Matteo Costanzo, G. B. (2013). Monumental Architecture. Domus.

Articles in proceedings

Groaz, S., & Beatrice Lampariello. (2025). Pollution 1972. In PENSIERO RADICALE ESIBITO. MOSTRE DELL’ARCHITETTURA IN ITALIA. Italy: Skira.

Groaz, S.* , & Lampariello, B.*. (2025). La mutazione della città in un 'campo' di contaminazione. 'Pollution', o del 'metodo Frankenstein'. In A. Rosellini & S. Setti, Pensiero Radicale Esibito. Happening, Scenografie, Installazioni. Milan, Italy: Skira.
* These authors have contributed equally to this work.

Lampariello, B., & Groaz, S. (2024). From Object to Subject: The Body Architecture of Hans Hollein. In In-Presence / The Body and the Space. The role of corporeity in the era of virtualization. Alghero, Italy: Publica Press.

Book chapters

Groaz, S. (2024). The Dissolution of the Object. Nanda Vigo’s Interiors. In Z. F. Dans Ana Tostões, Modernist women interior designers and artists (pp. 42-45). Portugal: Lisbon: Docomomo Portugal/Docomomo ISC.

Groaz, S., & Beatrice Lampariello. (2024). From Object to Subject : The Body Architecture of Hans Hollein. In A. M. D. V. Marco Bovati (Ed.), In-Presence / The Body and the Space. The role of corporeity in the era of virtualization (pp. 79-83). Alghero, Italy: Publica Press.

Groaz, S. (2021). The Swiss Principle of Béton Brut: ‘Betonkonstruktion’. A Debate Between Theory and Practice, 1940s -1960s. In L. S. Salvatore Aprea (Ed.), Concrete in Switzerland. Histories from the Recent Past. Lausanne, Switzerland: EPFL Press.

Groaz, S., & N. Donat-Cattin, B. H. E. M. K. (2021). For a Multitude of Collectives. In Roberto Gargiani (Ed.), Grand Dessein du Rationalisme (pp. 41-43). Brussels, Belgium: Accattone.

Groaz, S. (2018). Ducts and Moldings. The Ambiguous Inventions of Franco Albini and Franca Helg. In The Construction History Society, Studies in the History of Services and Construction (pp. 43-56). Cambridge, United Kingdom: The Construction History Society.

Scientific popularization and diffusion for general audience

Articles in magazines or newspapers

Groaz, S. (2012). Zobeide. The Book of Maze.

Others

Groaz, S. (2022). How To Be Both. Architecture and its Pluralities.

Unpublished conferences and communications

Communications to congresses and symposiums

Groaz, S. (April 2025). Fleeting Spaces, Eternal Thoughts: Nanda Vigo and the Paradoxes of Domestic Interiors [Paper presentation]. Lived Interiors: narratives and memories.

Groaz, S., Felicori, B., & Lampariello, B. (2025). We Have Looked for 4,000 Years; Now We Have Seen! [Paper presentation]. We Have Looked for 4,000 Years; Now We Have Seen!, United States.

Groaz, S., & Lampariello, B. (2024). The Everyday Ritual of Death. L’origine et le destin de l’architecture et de la ville selon Hans Hollein [Paper presentation]. Les espaces du sacré.

Conferences in universities or research centers

Groaz, S. (October 2025). La Biennale come sismografo / The Biennale as Sismograph [Paper presentation]. La Biennale e la storia, Turin, Italy. doi:10.6093/2532-2699/12550

Groaz, S. (April 2025). « ‘Nearly everything that encloses space on a scale sufficient for a human being to move in is a building’. Pevsner and the construction of the Modern Movement [Paper presentation]. Bad Books, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Groaz, S. (2025). Le type, le diagramme et une marche à suivre. Quelques outils de la pensée architecturale [Paper presentation]. Le type, le diagramme et une marche à suivre. Quelques outils de la pensée architecturale, Paris, France.

Groaz, S., & Beatrice Lampariello. (19 June 2024). From Object to Subject : The Body Architecture of Hans Hollein [Paper presentation]. In-Presence /the Body and the Space. The role of corporeity in the era of virtualization , Milan, Italy.

Groaz, S. (2024). The Dissolution of the Object. Nanda Vigo’s Interiors [Paper presentation]. Modernist Women Interior Designers and Artists: To Deepen the Reading of the Different Expressions of Female Creativity, Lisbon, Portugal.

Groaz, S. (2024). The Austrian Phenomenon [Paper presentation]. Facing Contemporary Challenges with Historical Understanding – Seminaire BEFORE/AFTER, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Groaz, S. (2024). On Technology [Paper presentation]. On Technology, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Groaz, S. (2024). Domestico Effimero. La fragilità del patrimonio degli interni [Paper presentation]. Domestico Effimero. La fragilità del patrimonio degli interni, Milan, Italy.

Groaz, S. (2024). A Label in Search of a Meaning. Affinities and Conflicts between Criticism, History and Architecture [Paper presentation]. Concrete Visions. From Concrete to Paper. From Paper to Concrete , Genova, Italy.

Groaz, S., & Beatrice Lampariello. (2024). The Everyday Rituals of Death. L’origine et le destin de l’architecture selon Hans Hollein [Paper presentation]. Les espaces du sacré, Lyon, France.

Groaz, S. (2023). The Galaxies of Nanda Vigo. Art and Interior Design [Paper presentation]. The Galaxies of Nanda Vigo. Art and Interior Design, Rome, Italy.

Groaz, S. (2023). New Brutalism. The Invention of a Style [Paper presentation]. New Brutalism. The Invention of a Style, Venezia, Italy.

Groaz, S. (2023). Architecture as Environment : Experiments in Postwar Austria [Paper presentation]. 6th Yale Postdoctoral Symposium, Yale, United States.

Groaz, S., & Beatrice Lampariello. (2023). Les “sakrale Gebäude” de Hollein, du mémorial à la mégastructure urbaine [Paper presentation]. Les espaces du sacré, Lyon, France.

Groaz, S. (2022). Whatever Happened to the Modern Movement? [Paper presentation]. Whatever Happened to the Modern Movement?, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Groaz, S. (2022). Robin Hood Gardens : Le ‘town building’ anglais [Paper presentation]. Robin Hood Gardens : Le ‘town building’ anglais, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Groaz, S. (2022). Do Not Carry Your Flag Too Low. Actions from Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative [Paper presentation]. Do Not Carry Your Flag Too Low. Actions from Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Groaz, S. (2021). Throw Yourself off the 5th Floor and See how Hard the Real World is. Performative Art in the Italian Public Space [Paper presentation]. Workshop Station to Station, Italy.

Groaz, S. (2021). Sometimes Doing Nothing Leads to Something [Paper presentation]. Sometimes Doing Nothing Leads to Something, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Groaz, S. (2021). New Brutalism. A Critical Affair for the Architecture to Come [Paper presentation]. Seminar of the Doctoral Program, Sevilla, Spain.

Groaz, S. (2021). Festive Mosaic. The Formative Journey of Point Supreme [Paper presentation]. Festive Mosaic. The Formative Journey of Point Supreme.

Groaz, S. (2021). Critical Tools for Postwar Architecture [Paper presentation]. Critical Tools for Postwar Architecture, London, United Kingdom.

Groaz, S. (2020). 20x20x20 [Paper presentation]. 20x20x20, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Groaz, S. (2019). New Brutalism. The Invention of a Style [Paper presentation]. Rencontres EDAR, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Groaz, S. (2019). Banham’s New Brutalism and the Swiss School [Paper presentation]. Symposium « Béton Fédérateur », gta, Zürich, Switzerland.

Groaz, S. (2018). This is Tomorrow: The Rough Poetry of the 1950s [Paper presentation]. This is Tomorrow: The Rough Poetry of the 1950s, United States.

Groaz, S. (2018). New Brutalism e Brutalismo: un’invenzione critica [Paper presentation]. New Brutalism e Brutalismo: un’invenzione critica, Bologna, Italy.

Groaz, S. (2018). Ducts and Moldings. The Ambiguous Inventions of Franco Albini and Franca Helg [Paper presentation]. «Studies in the History of Services and Construction», 6th Construction History Society Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Groaz, S. (2017). In Search for the ‘New-ism’. Some Notes on New Brutalism’s Crossroads [Paper presentation]. Theory’s History, 196X-199X. Challenges in the Historiography of Architectural Knowledge, Bruxelles, Belgium.

Groaz, S., & Michele Tenzon. (2015). The Neighbourhood Propaganda. The Communication of a Planning Idea in the British New Towns (1946-1960) [Paper presentation]. Mapping the Neighbourhood. The Multiple Ways of an Urban Vision in the 20th Century, Milan, Italy.

Conferences given outside the academic context

Groaz, S. (2024). Case mentali e architetture senza fondazioni [Paper presentation].  If you move something happens, Milan, Italy.