2024

For next semester’s diploma studio, we are happy to be collaborating with the team of Prof. Mariam Issoufou’s Chair of Architecture Heritage and Sustainability on museums and their colonial entanglements.

We are happy to announce the arrival of our new colleague María Novas Ferradás, who will be working as a Senior Lecturer and Scientific Researcher at the Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

Since 2023, our Research Studio delves into the topic of Swiss Coloniality, focusing on the entanglements of the architectural and urban histories of Switzerland and the history of global colonialism. We will offer a new edition of the course next semester, Spring 2025.

The online exhibition ‘Swiss Coloniality and Its Industrial Architectures’ is now online on our repository website. It shows a selection of the student projects from the Fachsemester of Autumn Semester 2023.

We are excited to announce that the 2025 edition of the Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT) will be held at the University at Buffalo, New York! The Call for Papers is open now.