Annalisa Viati is an architectural historian, Professor of Histoire et Cultures architecturales at Ensa Versailles, and a member of LéaV – the Ensa Versailles research laboratory – as well as the Ecole Doctorale “Sciences Sociales et Humanités” at Université Paris-Saclay. Since 2006 she has been a researcher at the Archivio del Moderno of the Università della Svizzera italiana, where she leads or co-leads international research projects on twentieth century architecture in Italy, Switzerland and France. Many of these projects focus on the interactions between architecture and the visual arts and on the spatial and perceptual qualities of interior environments. She is the author of Verso un’architettura concreta. Peppo Brivio Le prime opere (Bellinzona 2021) and “La Saracena” di Luigi Moretti tra suggestioni mediterranee, barocche e informali (Mendrisio-Cinisello Balsamo 2012). She is also the co-editor of several publications, including Les intérieurs aujourd’hui. Analyses, projets, usages (Lille 2024), Marco Zanuso Architettura e design (Milan 2020), and Giulio Minoletti (1910-1981). Lo spettacolo dell’architettura (Mendrisio-Cinisello Balsamo 2017). She is currently co-directing, with Christian Sumi, the publication of the complete works of Marco Zanuso (Volume I –  Architecture).

Nicola Navone, architect (ETH Zurich) and PhD (Université Paris-Saclay), is Deputy Director and, from 1 March 2025, Interim Director of the Archivio del Moderno. He teaches at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio at the Università della Svizzera italiana and is a member of the doctoral college “Architettura. Innovazione e Patrimonio” at Università Roma Tre. He has curated exhibitions and conferences in Switzerland and abroad (London, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Venice, Vicenza) and directed the Swiss National Science Foundation funded research project “L’architettura nel Cantone Ticino, 1945-1980”. Among his publications on twentieth century architecture in Ticino are Il Bagno di Bellinzona by Aurelio Galfetti, Flora Ruchat-Roncati and Ivo Trümpy (with Bruno Reichlin, Mendrisio 2010) and Un dialogo ininterrotto. Studi su Flora Ruchat-Roncati (with Flora Maffioletti and Carlo Toson, Padua 2018). He has also edited a selection of writings by Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Memoria e trasformazione. Scritti e conversazioni su architettura e territorio (Bellinzona 2022), as well as the first two volumes of the Guida storico-critica all’architettura del XX secolo nel Cantone Ticino, freely accessible at www.ticino4580.ch