ARCHITECTURE OF TERRITORY is chaired by Milica Topalović. Our team links the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and editorial and graphic design. We work across boundaries with scientists, artists and writers.
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.
joined the Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning in 2023. She studied Architecture at TU Dublin. Alice gained extensive practical experience at Grafton Architects in Dublin, Ireland where she worked on small- and large-scale public projects including the Parnell Square Cultural Quarter in Dublin, Ireland. She returned to university to complete the MAS Urban and Territory Design in ETH and EPFL which explored ecology and circular design at a territorial scale. In 2019 she co-founded the research and spatial design collective BothAnd Group. The primary motivation of their work is in understanding the behaviour of living systems and aim to embed the logic of biospherical systems into their work.
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.
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.
Santiago del Hierro is an Ecuadorian architect and urbanist based in Quito and Zurich. Since 2008, his research has focused on development initiatives in the Andean Amazon, exploring how design can alternatively engage issues related to resource extraction, the expansion of agricultural frontiers, the encroachment of indigenous territories and contemporary narratives on what a post-development landscape could hopefully look like. Santiago holds a Master in Architecture from Yale University, where he attended as a Fulbright scholar, and between 2009 and 2010 was a resident researcher at the Design Department of the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. Until 2017 he taught at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, where he developed and coordinated the Urban Design Masters program. He has also been a guest professor at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Valencia, TU Delft, Fontys University of Applied Sciences, and Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Santiago is now a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies with research on the expanded representation of Indigenous territory in the Northern Andean Amazon.
is a landscape architect and researcher. He studied landscape architecture and open space planning at the Technical University Berlin, the ETH Zurich and the School of Design, Mysore. Since 2013 he has taught research and design studios at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore and the ETH Zurich, and guided graduation thesis at ETH Zurich and TU Berlin. Hans is a co-curator of the lecture series Sessions on Territory and contributed to several exhibitions such as the Rotterdam Biennale 2014, the Shenzhen Biennale for Architecture/Urbanism 2015, or SAM Basel 2019. His scholarly work has been published by Archithese, GAM Magazine and ISEAS Publishers, and he is co-editing the forthcoming book Singapore Beyond the Border with Milica Topalovic. His current main research project focuses on Palm Oil Territories.
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 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 in Leipzig, Weimar and Zurich. For his 2020 thesis project Cohabitation Podcast with station+ he referred to wildlife protection laws to protect residential buildings from demolition by making brown long-eared bats settle in the buildings. For the past two years he has worked as a co-curator and coeditor for ARCH+. He is guest editor of the upcoming issue 251 on the financial realities of architectural production as part of station+. In January 2023, he joined Architecture of Territory as a teaching assistant.
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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Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
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Ferdinand Pappenheim
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