Through field expeditions, keynote lecture, discussion, workshops, and exchanges with experts, participants will contribute to the production of a synthetic ‘transect’ across a continuous water landscape. The transect operates as a record of relations along a set path, from the Aletsch glacier to the Rhone valley floor, revealing larger territorial logics.

This seminar explores women's contribution to post-war urban theory and design, focusing on 1) the concept of agency 2) the notion of “professional woman” and 3) critical writing as a methodology. Students will read and critically engage in class discussions. They will also each analyze a female protagonist's contribution to urban design and theory and, collectively, build an online exhibition.

This elective seminar focusses on contemporary issues of urban theory. During the spring of 2021 the seminar will focus on (1) the ideal of public space and (2) the processes of gentrification. Students that participate in the course will read and critically engage in seminal readings that discuss these topics, which continue to influence and characterize the contemporary urban territory.

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This course examines architecture through a set of lenses developed in Black studies, feminist technoscience theory, Black queer/trans studies. In asking questions around exclusion and belonging in the contemporary study of spaces, the course explores how constructs around race & gender have created interlocking forms of oppression that permeate the culture practice and discipline of architecture.

Worlds’ major deserts—both hot and cold—have often served to search, extract, and transport the deserts’ various natural resources, such as oil and gas, as well as to design and build new cities, infrastructures, residential architecture, tourist complexes, farming systems, solar power plants, climate and aerospace research centers, chemical weapons testing complexes, nuclear weapon research cente

Worlds’ major deserts—both hot and cold—have often served to search, extract, and transport the deserts’ various natural resources, such as oil and gas, as well as to design and build new cities, infrastructures, residential architecture, tourist complexes, farming systems, solar power plants, climate and aerospace research centers, chemical weapons testing complexes, nuclear weapon research cente

This seminar explores resistance to the post-1945 (1957-1980) globalisation of architectural techniques, which can be found in media used to communicate alternatives. Inspired by practices documented in the dispersed grey literature from the “global South” from 1957-1980, we will experiment with the alternative, independent productions of our own manuals about autonomous ways of building.

Following the seminar focusing on the urban history of Zurich a hypothesis and question should be posed. With the small academic writing this question should be answered.

Following the seminar focusing on the urban history of Zurich a hypothesis and question should be posed. With the small academic writing this question should be answered.

This course poses the question of how projects of land, terrain, and territory enfold laboring bodies and gather around, legislate, and flow through settlement. Linking the architectures of colonization to modernization's damaged ecologies, we will trace the ways in which those spatial orders have been disrupted and re-imagined, proposing new methodologies for the design of planetary futures.

This course poses the question of how projects of land, terrain, and territory enfold laboring bodies and gather around, legislate, and flow through settlement. Linking the architectures of colonization to modernization's damaged ecologies, we will trace the ways in which those spatial orders have been disrupted and re-imagined, proposing new methodologies for the design of planetary futures.

What do we mean by the terms colonialism, imperialism, postcolonialism, decoloniality, and coloniality, and how do they intersect with and unsettle studies of the built and spatially imagined environment? Using postcolonial thought as our lens, this course introduces students to the core ideas and key methodological strategies that inform inquiries into the colonial past and its enduring present.