Giulio Galasso

Giulio Galasso is an architect and researcher based in Zurich. He graduated from Politecnico di Milano, IUAV and TU Munich, and he is currently a researcher at the Chair of Christ and Gantenbein at ETH Zurich. His field of research is XX century Italian middle-class housing, and he has lectured at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, TU Delft, FAUP Porto, Biennale svizzera del territorio, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine, Politecnico di Torino, Politecnico di Milano and University of Antwerp.

He has collaborated with several Swiss architecture firms and from 2023 he runs continentale, an architecture practice based in Zurich focused on architecture for daily life. With continentale he works on the climate adaptation of post-war housing neighbourhoods across Europe, as well as on the reuse of vacant buildings in Italy.