Dr. Nicole la Hausse de Lalouviere

Nicole de Lalouvière holds a liberal arts degree with concentrations in architectural history and geology from Colgate University (Hamilton, New York). In 2014, she graduated with a Master of Architecture from the University of British Columbia (Vancouver), where she received the thesis prize for her research and design work on possible futures for Diego Garcia (British Indian Ocean Territory). She has spent time studying art history in London and architecture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. She has practiced as an architect and landscape architect at MAD Architects (Beijing), PUBLIC (Vancouver), Hapa Collaborative (Vancouver), Vogt Landschaftsarchitekten (Zurich), and Baumschlager Eberle Architekten (Zurich). She is now doctoral fellow at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS), ETH Zurich. Her doctoral research is an investigation into the landscape and material history of the irrigation commons of Canton Valais, Switzerland.

Research

• Irrigation Systems of Canton Valais: Transformations in Material Culture and the Resilience of Landscape Commons
• Viral Balcony

Selected Publications

• “Urban Landscape Transformations and the Malaria Control Scheme in Mauritius, 1948– 51.” Epidemic Urbanism: Contagious Diseases in Global Cities, edited by Mohammad Gharipour and Caitlin DeClercq, 2021, pp. 312–20.
  external page https://www.intellectbooks.com/epidemic-urbanism
• “Conceptualising ‘Cultural Landscape Commons’: Retracing Ecological Thinking from the Swiss Alpine Landscape to Social-Ecological Systems.” Journal of Alpine Research | Revue de géographie alpine, no. 109–1 (April 3, 2021).
  external page https://doi.org/10.4000/rga.8414
• The Irrigation Systems of Valais: A Landscape Shaped by Care Work (Exhibition Display). Zurich: Zurich Architektur Zentrum, 2021.
• “The Five Wounds of Christ: Possible Futures for Diego Garcia.” The Site Magazine 37, no. Future Legacies (online edition) (December 5, 2017).
  external page http://www.thesitemagazine.com/read/the-five-wounds-of-christ
• Fiction and Futures: Radical Alternatives for Diego Garcia. Master’s thesis in Architecture, The University of British Columbia, 2014.

Co-authored publications:

• Avermaete, Tom, Nicole de Lalouvière, Hamish Lonergan, Janina Gosseye, and Korinna Zinovia Weber. “The Viral Balcony: Or the Vicissitudes of an Urban Element in Times of Pandemic.” Gta Papers 5, no. Social Distance (2021).
• Vogt, Günther and Nicole la Hausse de Lalouvière. “Search and Research: The Mols Landscape in Denmark”. In Your Glacial Expectations, edited by Studio Ólafur Elíasson, 147-170. London : Thames & Hudson, 2017.
• Vogt, Günther, Nicola Eiffler, Nicole la Hausse de Lalouvière, Gijs Rijnbeek, and M.K. Smaby. Wunderlust, Wanderkammer. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2016. la Hausse de Lalouvière, Nicole.
• Lalouvière, Nicole de, and Michael Taylor. “Urban Friends in Rural Places”. On Site Review vol. 27: Peripheral Urbanism (2012): 53-55.