is Associate Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the ETH Department of Architecture. From 2011–15 she held a research professorship at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, studying the relationship between a city and its hinterland. In 2006 she joined the ETH as head of research at Studio Basel Contemporary City Institute and the professorial chairs held by Diener and Meili, where she taught research studios on cities and on territories such as Hong Kong and the Nile Valley. Milica graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade and received a Master’s degree from the Dutch Berlage Institute for her thesis on Belgrade’s post-socialist urban transformation. Since 2000, she worked on projects in different spatial scales and visual media. With Studio Basel she authored and edited Belgrade. Formal / Informal: A Research on Urban Transformation, and The Inevitable Specificity of Cities. She contributes essays on urbanism, architecture, and art to various magazines and publications.
is a researching architect and associate professor of projects and planning at the Bergen School of Architecture. Inspired by frequently intangible, invisible but critical large-scale urban phenomena, she collaborated on the FCL Territories of Extended Urbanisation project with research on the North Sea, and joined Architecture of Territory in 2021 for the FCL Global project. Following architectural studies in New Zealand, she was awarded a post-grad fellowship at IUAV, Venice and worked in international practices before co-founding her own interdisciplinary agency cet-0/01 in Berlin. In 2015 she gained her PhD at the EPFL, supervised by Harry Gugger, then a post-doc Marie Curie Fellowship at the TU Delft 2017-19 with Carola Hein. She frequently lectures, exhibits and publishes—The Urbanisation of the Sea: From Concepts and Analysis to Design, with Carola Hein (2020), is the latest book. In Bergen she runs the master design course “Explorations in Ocean Space,” investigating the North and Norwegian Seas through technical, artistic, ecological, and performative spatial perspectives.
holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from EPF Lausanne with a focus on urban and territorial planning. After graduating at Laboratory Basel in 2016, he joined Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and gained first experiences working on various international projects ultimately focusing on territorial, urban and infrastructural planning. As a project manager he was responsible for the winning competition for Ronquoz 21. His diploma thesis “Atlas of Overexploited Territories – Baltic Sea” investigated the urbanisation of sea territories and their extensive operational landscapes as part of the worldwide urban fabric. His research has been exhibited at the Baltic Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2016 and published in The Baltic Atlas (2016). As co-founder and former editor at Atlas of Places, he has lectured and taught workshops at USI Mendrisio (2017) and Transitional Territories, Delta Urbanism at TU Delft (2019). In 2020, he joined Architecture of Territory where he is part of the research and teaching team.
is in charge of all administrative tasks at the chair. She oversees the chair’s finances, human resources, and administration. Further, she is involved in the organisation of the doctoral programme at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS). Prior to joining the ETH in 2007, Evelyne worked in various positions in the field of marketing and communication in the business aviation and travel industry, both in Switzerland and Canada. She joined Architecture of Territory in 2018 after working with Professor emeritus Kees Christiaanse’s team at the ETH Institute for Urban Design.
is an architect, editor, and curator working between Zurich and Berlin. Since completing her studies in architecture at TU Berlin and ETH Zurich, she has focused on writing, editing, and exhibiting both as a fellow at ARCH+ and collaborating with the architectural firm Brandlhuber+. Dorothee is interested in understanding how architecture shapes the environment, how the practice itself is in turn conditioned by political and economic forces, and how these issues can be communicated to a broader public. She was co-curator of the exhibition 1989–2019: Politics of Space in the New Berlin at Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (2019) and was part of the team of the Biennale project 2038: The New Serenity for the German Pavilion (2020). As a writer, she has contributed to architecture magazines ARCH+, Hochparterre, and archithese. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition The Power of Mushrooms: Berta Rahm’s Pavilion for the Saffa 58 at gta exhibitions (2021). Dorothee joined AoT in 2020 as part of the research and teaching team.
studied landscape architecture at the Technical University Berlin, the ETH Zurich and the School of Design, Mysore. He graduated from the TU Berlin Chair of Landscape Architecture and Open Space Planning in 2012. His graduation thesis, which focused on the influence of the Cauvery River on the territory of South India, was supported by a DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) fellowship. After working as a freelance landscape architect he joined the team of Milica Topalović at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore in June 2013, and moved with the team to the ETH Zurich in August 2015. In 2021, Hans started his PhD on Palm Oil Territories.
is an independent architect and researcher based in Basel, Switzerland. She obtained her Master’s degree from the University of Belgrade, and a Postgraduate degree from the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam. In 2010 she worked as part of a larger team on a governmental capacity-building project between Holland and Turkey on restructuring the development of Diyarbakir, its governmental housing expansions and the preservation of its historical city core. Subsequently, she worked in Brussels for 51N4E on large-scale urban studies for Istanbul (IABR 2012: Making City) and on a restructuring project for the Brussels Metropolitan Region (Brussels 2040, BOZAR). She was involved in territorial research and teaching at ETH Studio Basel from 2011 to 2015 where she cowrote and coedited the book Territory – On the Development of Landscape and City (Park Books, 2016). In 2014 she held an urban geography course at the Université de Neuchâtel, Faculté des lettres et sciences humaines, on visualizing socioeconomic processes spatially in the territory. From 2015 to 2020 she was lead architect at Diener & Diener Architects in Basel, working most notably on the now built urban ensemble Îlot B2 in Lyon Confluence and planning the redevelopment of Basel’s historic seat of the chemical industry into a new living and working neighborhood (Klybeckplus). She has guest lectured at the Moscow School of Architecture, the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague, Universität der Künste, Berlin, and the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies, Rotterdam. In 2021 she joined the team of Milica Topalović and is coordinating the Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design.
studied landscape planning and open space design at the Technical University Berlin, the ETH Zurich and the School of Design, Mysore. She practised landscape architecture and regional planning in Germany and Switzerland. Before moving to the ETH Zurich in 2015, she worked as a Researcher at the Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning and the Chair of Territorial Organization at the ETH Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore from 2013–15. Currently, she works as the project coordinator for the FCL Global research project Territories of Extended Urbanisation.
is an architect and researcher working between Athens and Zurich. She studied architecture at NTU-Athens and ENSAPLV-Paris and specialized in urban and territorial studies at ETH Zurich. She has taught research and design at ETH Studio Basel and Harvard GSD with Professors Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and at ETH Architecture of Territory with Professor Milica Topalovic. Metaxia’s interest lies in the interstice between territorial research and architecture and it is carried out through design projects, teaching and writing. She is co-author of the book achtung: die Landschaft (2015). Since 2017, she is organising and teaching the thesis elective Projects on Territory, on critical representation through silkscreen drawing. The work has been exhibited in S AM, Basel (2018) and ZAZ, Zurich (2019). She is currently pursuing a PhD at the ETH LUS Doctoral School observing the particular idiosyncrasy of Greek countryside.
is an architect and researcher. She obtained, with distinction, Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in architecture from Istanbul Technical University (2007) and Politecnico di Milano (2009). She holds a PhD from Politecnico di Milano, where she also taught town planning design studios. While developing her PhD dissertation on the city-university relationship and its effects on large urban transformations, she developed research and workshops on the urban developments of Prishtina. She is the co-author of the book/research project, Concrete Mushrooms. Reusing Albania’s 750,000 Abandoned Bunkers, as well as the author of various articles. From 2016–17, she held the postdoctoral Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship, and from 2017–18 was a scientific assistant at the Chair of Prof. em. Kees Christiaanse. Her current research focuses on territorial transformations in post-conflict and post-socialist cities.
studied architecture at ETH Zurich, Hong Kong University, and at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore. He worked for Blue Architects in Zurich before leaving for Kyoto to work for the Japanese artist Kohei Nawa. Returning to Switzerland, he founded his own architecture firm SQUADRAT Architekten with former fellow students. Already having built first projects, he returned to ETH to complete his studies with a master thesis at the chair of Marc Angélil. Since graduating, he has taught architectural design at the chairs of Marc Angélil and Milica Topalović. In addition to his work at the ETH and at SQUADRAT Architekten, he is an elected member of the planning & building committee of Thalwil and is involved in various political projects related to public spaces at different scales.
is an architect and researcher. She received her Bachelor’s degree (2008) from Istanbul Technical University and Master’s degree (2011) from Istanbul Bilgi University. She worked as an architect in various architectural offices and as a lecturer at several universities. In 2016, she was part of the team of Turkish Pavilion for the 15th Architecture Biennial of Venice. She completed her PhD entitled “Istanbul Walkabouts: A Critical Walking Study of Northern Istanbul”(2018) at Istanbul Technical University and continues performing walks around northern Istanbul for her independent walking project Istanbul Walkabouts. In September 2019, she joined the Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning as a postdoctoral researcher holding the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship.
studied architecture at ETH Zurich and at CEPT University in Ahmedabad. During his studies he was part of the chair of Kees Christiaanse at ETH, assisting in studio preparation and urban planning studies. At the editor’s office of ARCH+ in Berlin he worked on topics of the property issue, universalism and helped preparing the exhibition Atlas of Commoning. He was in the final selection for designing the Swiss Pavillon for the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2020. In February 2019 he joined the Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning as part of the teaching team.
is an independent graphic designer who currently runs her practice between Amsterdam, Brussels and, occasionally, other cities. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie (Amsterdam) in 2008 and Werkplaats Typografie (Arnhem) in 2011. She works within contemporary art and other cultural fields. Her work ranges from editorial design to visual identities, digital applications and exhibition design. Her recent commissions include books and other printed material for Tate St.Ives, Cornwell; Witte de With Centre for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Wiels, Brussels; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Jeu de Paume and Louis Vuitton Foundation, Paris; identities for Lithuanian Pavilion in the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice; Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp; and Beirut Art Centre, Cairo.
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