Roberto Gargiani has published several works on Perret, Le Corbusier, Labrouste, Semper, and Brunelleschi. Gargiani taught the history of architecture in Florence, Rouen, and Paris then, beginning in 1999, at the Faculty of Archi- tecture at Roma Tre where he was appointed to the post of professor in 2001. In 1999, he became visiting professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL), teaching the history of architecture. In March 2005, he was appointed to the post of professor of the history of architecture and construction at the EPFL’s School of Architecture.