Neighbours Vol. 7: Book Launch. Hans Bernoulli, La ville et son sol. by Florian Hertweck and Elena Cogato Lanza / TPOD, THEMA, HITAM

Reading La ville et son sol, now translated into French in its entirety for the first time, gives a full picture of the trajectory of progressive urban planning, bringing together the contrasting urban visions of the great architects of the last century. From a 21st-century perspective, Bernoulli's thinking appears to be a particularly fruitful contribution to rethinking soil as a renewable resource and reclaiming its nature as a common good.

Introduction by Florian Hertweck
Postface by Elena Cogato Lanza and Mireille Senn


Florian Hertweck is an architect and head of the master’s programme in Architecture at the University of Luxembourg. From 2009 to 2016, he was Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, and from 2013 to 2015, he was a visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. He studied architecture and art history in Paris and Newcastle. He has been a partner at Less Yellow Architecture Urbanism since 2024.

Elena Cogato Lanza is an architect graduated from the University of Venice, is Professeure Titulaire at the Laboratory of Urbanism, and Director of the Doctoral programme in Architecture and Sciences of the City at EPFL. Alongside her academic endeavors, she is associate publisher of the Swiss publishing house MētisPresses.