Kategorie: teaching
lecture: thermal placemaking
Architectural strategies of thermal adaptation, 24. April 2023, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio. Input lecture on the topic of thermal governance for the SS2023 course „City, Climate, and Architecture“ hosted by the professorship for theory of urbanisation and urban environments at the architecture faculty in Mendrisio, organized by Prof. Sascha Roesler and Julian Raffetseder. Topics address…
teaching: BFH master thesis
External expert and reviewer for the master thesis „The planning related urban climatology“ by Lamya Zaykah. The advice of the ongoing Master’s thesis relates to the exploration of urban climate as a means of urban design and architecture. As an external consultant, the focus is on reviewing the author’s preliminary working thesis and theoretical argumentation.…
seminar: the city as energy landscape
Seminar and public lecture series at Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, SS2021. This lecture series promotes the notion of ‘energy landscape’ as a conceptual framework to challenge our current understanding of energy as a cheap and abundant resource for architecture. It presents concepts and methods for designing the energy landscapes of the future.
seminar: architecture and urban climate
Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio, SS 2020 The seminar highlights the notion of “urban climate“ and its manyfold implications for architecture and urban design since the beginning of the 20th century. Due to its man-made character, the city climate differs fundamentally from the natural climate. By looking at the historical emergence of this concept and the complex…
seminar: the city as energy landscape
Seminar in the series „to modernize or to ecologize?“ at Accademia di architettura Mendrisio, SS 2019. In cities nature and technology are increasingly intertwined; historian Thomas Hughes speaks of the “overlapping natural and human-built systems found in cities”. In this seminar, we investigated strategies of integrating natural forces in the city by conceiving of the…
teaching: studio „at work“
ETH research and design studio in fall 2015 (Idyll and Ideology II) The „At Work“ studio offered in the autumn semester of 2015 emanated from an invitation to collaborate with Manifesta 11, which took place in the summer of 2016. The project examined the spaces and places of work in the city – how they…
teaching: studio „the back“
ETH research & design studio of spring 2015 (Idyll and Ideology I). The backside is not only one property of the object, but rather a critical site of our built environment. It is on the backside that both the internal and external spatial organization and composition of the object come together. As a topos, it…
