Faculty Profile

• MAarch ETH Swiss Federal Polytechnic in Zürich 1992
• Postgraduate and research work at ETH 1992-94
• Currently completing PhD at Zürich University in architecture history and urban theory

• Architecture theoretician and critic for various publications
• Taught and lectured in various architecture schools and universities.
• Participation in numerous architectural competitions as a designer and as a juror.
• 1997-2002 editor of Swiss architecture periodical Werk,Bauen+Wohnen.
• 2000-2002 participation in transformation and extension project of the Swiss National Museum in Zürich.
•  2004 research fellow in cultural studies program of Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in Vienna.
• 2005-06 participation in cross-cultural urban research project linking Zürich and Bukarest.

"London Plan“ (in: Tec 21, guest editor of issue 10/2006);

 Akribische Recherche im alpinen Patt – „Die Schweiz. Ein städtebauliches Portrait“ / On the urban research of Studio Basel (Dérive 23 / February 2006); Nach der Blütenlese – in: Swiss Art Awards, Hrsg. Bundesamt für Kultur, Bern 2004; Umprogrammierung des Öffentlichen Raumes / OMA’s Mc Cormick Tribune Student Center at IIT Campus (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 3.11.03); Performativer Minimalismus / Jürgen Mayer H’s City Hall Stadthaus Scharnhauser Park (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 7.2.03); Architektur als Grundlagenforschung / A new look at Claude Parent (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 8.3.03); Den Raum ergründen / Claude Parent, Paul Virilio and Architecture Principe (Werk,Bauen&Wohnen 11/02); Ein Befreiungsschlag für Basel? Urban Planning by Herzog de Meuron in Basel (Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 6.12.02); Raumhaltiges Relief / FOA’s Osanbashi Pier (Werk,Bauen&Wohnen 11/02); True Stories / St.Antonius, gebautes Bild der Analogen Architektur, in: Altneu – Miroslav Sik, De Aedibus, Luzern 2000; Image implosion, in: Archis (December 2001); Makabre Automatik / Rem Koolhaas’ „Junk Space“, in: Der Architekt (December 2001); Space as a Condition, in: Raumkörper, Netze und andere Konstrukte (Catalogue Kunsthalle Basel, 2000).

• Zürich University , 2005
• Liechtenstein School of Architecture, 2003-05
• Hamburg University,2004
• Subjects generally in the field of postwar modernism, postmodernism and contemporary architecture, urbanism and cultural theory

• Relationship of architectural discourses and the experience of the contemporary and postmodern urban condition since 1968
• Figures of "late“ Modernism: Luigi Moretti
• Claude Parent, current research centered upon the work of O.M.Ungers in Frankfurt and Berlin 1975-85