Stefano Romagnoli
Landscape Architect, Regional Planner and Holcim Foundation Research in Practice Grant (RPG) recipient 2018
Last updated: July 13, 2023
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6th LafargeHolcim Forum for Sustainable Construction – Cairo, April 2019.
Stefano Romagnoli, Research Associate at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and recipient of a LafargeHolcim Research in Practice Grant (RPG) at the 6th LafargeHolcim Forum held at AUC, Egypt.
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LafargeHolcim Research in Practice Grants
Announcement of LafargeHolcim Research in Practice Grant recipients by Marilyne Andersen and Harry Gugger, both members of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation and professors at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne). From left: Heidi Boulanger (van Eeden), Nada Nafeh, and Stefano Romagnoli and Juan Cruz.
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Recipients of a LafargeHolcim Research in Practice Grant (RPG) from Argentina (l-r): Juan Cruz Serafini, Stefano Romagnoli and Tomás Pont at a meeting of all RPG recipients held to coincide with the LafargeHolcim Forum held in Cairo, Egypt in April 2019.
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Research in Practice Grants
Announcement of LafargeHolcim Research in Practice Grant recipients by Marilyne Andersen and Harry Gugger, both members of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation and professors at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL Lausanne). From left: Heidi Boulanger (van Eeden), Nada Nafeh, and Stefano Romagnoli and Juan Cruz.
Stefano Romagnoli holds a degree in Architecture from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in Argentina and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. He is Co-founder and Director of Región Austral, a design firm that operates in the city and territory based on an interdisciplinary and multi-scale approach, together with processes of citizen participation and strategic understanding of local communities, infrastructures and ecosystems.
He has received several research grants and won numerous national and international competitions. He was a research associate at Harvard University and is currently a consultant for the Housing and Urban Development division of the IDB for the Southern Cone.
His work focuses on projects involving environmental, social, economic, and infrastructure issues at multiple scales, such as renewable energy development, regenerative agriculture, regional planning, informal settlements, disaster risks and adaptation to climate change.
He was a recipient of Holcim Awards Next Generation 1st prize for Latin America with Juan Cruz Serafini and Tomas Pont Apóstolo for Territorial Figure in Argentina: Tidal energy landscape, which was an extension of their final thesis work Ocean Energy Landscapes: Evolutionary Process of Infrastructures in new territories – The Patagonia Case. The project which studies the new role of architecture and its contribution to addressing climate change also received a Global Holcim Foundation Awards 2018 Ideas Prize and received a Holcim Foundation Research in Practice Grant in 2018.
The thesis work has been published and exhibited in various formats, and awarded the Aroztegui Prize, finalist (2017 Latin America); National Sustainable Architecture & Urban Design Prize of National Federation of Architects, finalist (2017 Argentina); Tamayouz International Excellence Award, 2nd prize (2017 International); Group Han Prize of the International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA), 1st prize (2017 International); CLA TIL 2018, finalist (2018 Latin America); Landscape & City, International Architecture Biennale of Argentina, finalist (2018 Argentina); Latin America Biennale of Landscape Architects, honorable mention (2018 Latin America).
Research in Practice Grants (RPG) Publication
Ocean Energy Landscapes: Energy infrastructures towards greater local sovereignty in Patagonia, Argentina
A report of the research of Stefano Romagnoli, Tomás Pont Apóstolo, and Juan Cruz Serafini “Ocean Energy Landscapes: Energy infrastructures towards greater local sovereignty in Patagonia, Argentina” is available via the Holcim Foundation website. The research examines the social, political, and spatial implications of the next mode of energy, and how design practices can help to shape a more just urbanization.