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Thermal Knowledge in Cairo (Egypt)
Urban Climate as Danger. Thermal, Spatial and Material Reordering in the Chinese City of the 21st Century
Heat in Urban Asia: Past, Present, and Future
Climate Control as a Cultural Praxis. Notes on the Climatic Legacy of the Concept of Habitat
Rundumwelt | Environnement et circularité
The City as Energy Landscape (SS 2021)
Urban Climate Indoors. Rethinking Heating Infrastructure in China's Non-Heating Zone
Resources: Urban Energy Landscapes and the Question of Density
Your Attention Please. Color in Context
On Microclimatic Walks
The City as Energy Landscape Exhibition
Climate Adaption and Mitigation in Social Housing – Local and Bottom-up Perspectives
Book Review “Urban Energy Landscapes” (Vanesa Castán Broto, 2019)
Climatic Scenery in Large Halls
Ode to the ‘little sun’. Everyday thermal practice and energy infrastructure in Chongqing (China)
Microclimate Ethnography (A Monument for Hermann Burger)
Wicked Problems in Architecture – Urban Climate as Case Study
Walks in Huangjueping (Chongqing, China). Encounters with Warming Objects and Ventilation Heritage
Architektur und Stadtklima
Architecture and Urban Climates (SS 2020)
Warm Bodies in the Chinese Borderlands: Architecture, Thermal Infrastructure, and Territorialization in the Arid Continental Climate of Ürümchi, Xinjiang
"Urban Climate in Everyday Life" on Heating Practices in Southern China
Gebäudekühlung im europäischen Wohnungsbau
Klimaangepasste Stadtentwicklung versus städtebauliche Verdichtung
Welt als Kontext
Die Welt als Kontext
On Microclimatic Islands. The Garden as a Place of Intensified Thermal Experience
Keeping Warm in Subtropical Winter. When Everyday Life Disrupts the Concept of Hyper-Conditioned Environments in Chongqing (Southwest China)
L’air et la manière. Pratiques et savoir-faire thermiques dans les espaces domestiques du Caire
Lucht, licht en de thermometer: een weergave van de klimaten van Cairo
Thermal Knowledge in and Around Architecture in Cairo
Wohnen in interdependenten Mikroklimata. Horw, ein stadtklimatisches Quartier entwerfen (SS 2019)
Mikroklima
Architecture and Urban Climates
Gebäudekühlung im (sozialen) Wohnungsbau der Schweiz
Zur Architekturtheorie des Stadtklimas
Large-scale Tobacco Barns in Sumatra
Energie und "kollektive Form"
Building a Living / Living a Building: Crossing Scales and Modes of Knowledge in the Creation of the Urban Climate in Cairo
To Modernize or to Ecologize? The City as Energy Landscape (SS 2019)
Architecture & Urban Climates II
Microclimate Ethnography
Heat and Dust. A Climate Ethnography of a House in Historic Cairo
Comfortable Climates as Class Privilege?
Urban Microclimates as Artefacts
Urban Microclimates as Artefacts
Climate Architecture and Politics
Modern Architecture and Urban Climates (FS 2018)
«Wärme und Strom sind architektonische Fragestellungen»
Quartiers chauds. Les climats du Caire revisités
The Urban Microclimate as Artifact. Towards an Architectural Theory of Thermal Diversity
The City as Indoor. Architecture After Comfort
On the Use of Slots and Shafts. Informal Cooling Strategies as Indicators for New Cooling Concepts – Microclimate Ethnography in the Ard el Lewa Informal Quarter of Cairo (Egypt)
Microclimate Ethnography. Exploring Thermal Environments
Thermal Standards and Affordable Housing. Singapore‘s Social Housing System HDB
North = Active, South = Passive. Non-heating zones in China and the global standardization of passive climate control
Thermal Standards – The Legacy of Passive Climate Control
Allegory of the Sustainable City. The Wind Catchers of Hyderabad (Pakistan) and Their Spread in the Modern Architectural Discourse
Lecture‚ Man-made Weather. Natural Ventilation as Cultural Heritage of Southeast Asia‘, at the Chair for Architecture and Design, Urban Mutations on the Edge Seminar, 2/24/2014, Prof. Marc Angélil, ETH Zurich
Lecture on „Natural Ventilation, revisited“, Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE) “Whose Tradition?”, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Dec. 17, 2014
Lecture, „Singapore’s Urban Mass Housing and the Problem of Ventilation“, within the framework of the exhibition „Future Cities: Research in Action“ at the Urban Redevelopment Authority Centre, Singapore, Feb. 27, 2015
Lecture “Against Comfort. Urbanising Passive Climatisation Theory!“, in the frame of the conference “Teaching Sustainability“, invited by Prof. Muck Petzet, Chair of sustainable design, Mendrisio, 12/10/2016
Lecture on “Thermal Comfort versus Thermal Delight“, in the frame of the diploma lectures “Salisburgo. Tra memoria e contemporaneity“, Nov. 16, 2017, Accademia di architettura, Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera italiana
Lecture “The Garden as Exemplary Place of Microclimatic Experience”, in the frame of the conference “Salus in horto. I benefici del giardino dalla Bibbia agli Healing Gardens”, Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana
Lecture “Zwischen Labor und Sea-Ranch. Zur Aneignung des Mikroklimakonzeptes in der Architektur und Landschaftsarchitektur der 1960er und 70er Jahre”, im Rahmen der Tagung “Greening Architecture“, Universität Bern
Lecture “Zwischen Labor und Sea-Ranch. Zur Aneignung des Mikroklimakonzeptes in der Architektur und Landschaftsarchitektur der 1960er und 70er Jahre”, im Rahmen der Tagung “Greening Architecture“, Universität Bern
Comparative Studies in Climate Control
"Only if there is wind, it is comfortable" - Ventilation Practices in Urban Architecture in Chongqing (China)
Creating & regulating thermal environment through standards - Histories and negotiations on climate control in Santiago de Chile
Cold Infrastructure. Economic, Ecological and Social Implications of a Fragile Materiality of Urban Architecture and Thermal Infrastructures in Chongqing (China)
Responses to a Fragile Architecture: Thermal-Material Culture in Urbanizing Chongqing (Southwest China)
Zwischen Labor und Sea-Ranch. Zur Aneignung des Mikroklimakonzeptes in der Architektur und Landschaftsarchitektur der 1960er und 70er Jahre
Allegory of the Sustainable City. The Wind Catchers of Hyderabad (Pakistan) and Their Spread in the Modern Architectural Discourse
The Garden as Exemplary Place of Microclimatic Experience
Jenseits von innen und aussen. Die Stadt als thermischer Innenraum der Gesellschaft
To Modernize or to Ecologize? Patterns of Urbanization in China Today (SS 2018)
How architecture changes indoor temperatures
Winter in Subtropical Chongqing
Reflecting on the Globalization of Passive Climate Control - The Case of Santiago de Chile
Welche Bedeutung hat Architektur für die Gesellschaft?
Thermal Standards – The Legacy of Passive Climate Control
Thermal regulations in Santiago de Chile - Between local and global governance
Thermal Standards in Architecture
The Spatial Dimension of Architecture: Climate-Responsive Practices and the Built Environment in Ürümqi, Xinjiang
Space-Making, Materiality and Thermal Comfort in Chongqing, Southwest China
Urban Climatology and Design: A History of Ideas
The Energy Landscape of Geneva (Switzerland)
Thermal Standards in Santiago (Chile)
Thermal-Material Culture in Chongqing (China)
North = Active, South = Passive. Non-heating zones in China and the global standardization of passive climate control
Climate Heritage: Keeping Heritage Alive… and Liveable
Sensing and Visualizing Microclimates. Workshop for Data-Driven Methods and Tools
Microclimate Ethnography
The Urban Microclimate as Artefact. Reassessing Climate and Culture Studies in Architecture and Anthropology
Die Wiederkehr des Klimas. Urbane Kulturen der Belüftung in Südostasien
Discourse of Loss and Story of Dispossession. Thermal Qualities of Housing in Islamic Cairo
Thermal Comfort versus Thermal Delight
The Urban Microclimate as Artifact
Against Comfort. Urbanising Passive Climatisation Theory!
Interview for the “Sustainable Design Blog" (FS 2016)
Microclimate Ethnography (FS 2016)
Thermal Standards and Affordable Housing. Singapore‘s Social Housing System HDB
Reassessing Climate Expertise in the Daily Practices of Residents in the Old Heritage Buildings of Islamic Cairo: PhD Project
Microclimate Ethnography. Exploring Thermal Environments
Seeking Comfort Around the House: Migration as a Passive Climatisation Strategy
Im Zentrum, ein Zelt (zusammen mit der Künstlerin Katja Jug)
Climatic Portrait. Cairo, Egypt
Climatic Portrait. Santiago de Chile
The Urban Passive House (SS 2016)
FCL magazine (special issue) “Natural Ventilation, Revisited. Pioneering a New Climatisation Culture"
Singapore’s Urban Mass Housing and the Problem of Ventilation
Natural Ventilation, revisited
For Sumatra (Man-made Weather)
Man-made Weather. Natural Ventilation as Cultural Heritage of Southeast Asia
Climate and Culture
On the Use of Slots and Shafts. Informal Cooling Strategies as Indicators for New Cooling Concepts – Microclimate Ethnography in the Ard el Lewa Informal Quarter of Cairo (Egypt)
Adaptations. British Tropical Architecture in the Age of Modernity
Lebensstil-Experimente nach 1970
Nach Sparta – Zwei Ausstellungen als Plädoyers für eine schwach technisierte Lebensweise
Architecture and Ethnography
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Entanglements in the More-than-human City. Ethnographic Challenges in the Anthropocene
Arquitectura y Etnografia
Architectural Ethnography (FS 2020)
Architectural Anthropology: a Knowledge-based Approach
Visualization, Embodiment, Translation. Remarks on Ethnographic Representations in Architecture
Warm Bodies in the Chinese Borderlands: Architecture, Thermal Infrastructure, and Territorialization in the Arid Continental Climate of Ürümchi, Xinjiang
Contours of an Urban Architectural Anthropology
Theory of Practice versus Architectural Theory
Architectural Ethnography (FS 2019)
"Urban Climate in Everyday Life" on Heating Practices in Southern China
Contours of an Urban Architectural Anthropology: City Climate, Built Environment and Socio-Material Practices in Chongqing (Southwest China)
Architecture as a Social Science? Doing Fieldwork in Cairo
Architectural Anthropology as an Omission in Architectural Theory
“Microclimates and Ethnography“, in the frame of the seminar “Transferts. La mobilité des personnes, des idées et des architectures"
Lecture “Case Studies of Microclimate Ethnography”, in the frame of the seminar “Sustainable Design: Methods and Tools,”invited by Prof. Muck Petzet, Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana, April 11, 2018
What a home is made of. Construction matters in Khalifa, Cairo
Die Stadt als materielle Kultur – Annäherungen an eine urbane Architekturethnologie
DIY Microclimate. Thermal Cairene expertise updated
Case Studies of Microclimate Ethnography
Methods and Challenges of Urban Architectural Anthropology
Architectural Anthropology and Climate
A Breath of Fresh Air. Enlarging the Scope of Thermal Knowledge in Cairo’s Residential Architecture
Microclimates and Ethnography
A Place in the Sun. Thermal Knowledge(s) in Cairo’s Domestic Architecture
Microclimates, Materialities and Methods. Towards an Urban Anthropology of Architecture
Heritage Perceptions and Gentrification in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
Constructing Cityscapes: Anthropological Perspectives on Architecture and Materiality in Urban China
Recognising Thermal Knowledge: Climate Heritage in the Residential Architecture in Cairo, Egypt
Architectural Anthropology as an Omission in Architectural Theory
Architectural Construction(s) as part of Material Culture Research
Outline of a Microclimatic Portrait of Cairo – Methods of Ethnography
On Fieldwork. Architecture and Ethnography
A Global History of Architectural Ethnography
A History of Ethnographic Research Conducted by Modern Architects
Architectural Anthropology: a Knowledge-based Approach
Architektur-Anthropologie: eine Annäherung
Die Dächer der Minangkabau, Toraja, Batak etc. (SS 2011)
Global Construction and Urbanisation
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Urban Bricolage. Mining, Designing and Constructing with Reused Building Materials
Research in Swiss Architecture. Standards, Politics, Funding
Roadsides #4: Architecture and/as Infrastructure
DAM Architectural Book Award 2016: Habitat Marocain Documents – Dynamics Between Formal and Informal Housing
Scappo dalla città. Se il virus spinge la gente in periferia
Leben in der Post-Corona-City: In der Stadt der Zukunft funktioniert alles zu Fuss
Codes and Conventions for a Future Zürich: A Propositional Planning Approach
Epidemiologie, urbane Proxemik und Städtebau
History of Science ON CALL
Covid-19 and Urban Planning
“Die Stunde der schnellen Architektur hat geschlagen”
Epidemiologie und Stadtplanung haben eine gemeinsame Geschichte und auch Zukunft
Architecture and/as Infrastructure
Am Scheideweg von high und low architecture
Schweizer Architektur? Das Habitat Marocain von Hentsch / Studer in Casablanca
Urban planning on the African continent
Microdistrict. An Urban Housing Model in North Korea
Terrassenhäuser. Gestapelte Gärten im Quartier Bühnenberg, Oftringen.
Large-scale Tobacco Barns in Sumatra
Both High-rise and Bunker: The Terrassenhaus in Switzerland
Resettlement Archives
Mobile Objects: Re-Using Building Materials from a Cross-Cultural Perspective (FS 2018)
“Architektur im Austausch. Zur Aktualität von Gottfried Sempers Stoffwechsel-Theorie, am Beispiel des Umsiedlerdorfes New Gourna von Hassan Fathy“, eingeladen von Prof. Dr. Winfried Nerdinger
22.02.2017 Lecture
Lecture on ‘Surreal Architecture. Habitat Marocain in the light of Open Building Theory’, at the Chair for Architecture and Design, Urban Mutations on the Edge Seminar, 10/26/2015, Prof. Marc Angélil, ETH Zurich
Film “Habitat Marocain. André Studer in conversation with Sascha Roesler“, in the frame of the conference “Hybrid Architecture. Case Studies on the African Contient“, Hangar, Lisboa (Portugal), 20/7/2016-23/7/2016
Lecture “Schweizer Architektur? Das Habitat Marocain von Hentsch / Studer in Casablanca“, im Rahmen der Ausstellung “ANDRÉ M. STUDER. VOM MASS DER DINGE“, Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Basel 21/5/2016-25/9/2016
Lecture “Architecture as Montage-Machine. Habitat Marocain in the Light of Open Building Theory”, in the frame of Bac2Talks, invited by Prof. Walter Agonese, Accademia di architettura, Università della Svizzera italiana
Zeitgenössische Formen der Urbanisierung in China
Architektur im Austausch. Zur Aktualität von Gottfried Sempers Stoffwechsel-Theorie am Beispiel des Umsiedlerdorfes New Gourna von Hassan Fathy
Architecture as Montage-Machine. Habitat Marocain in the Light of Open Building Theory
Architektur im Austausch. Zur Aktualität von Gottfried Sempers Stoffwechsel-Theorie am Beispiel des Umsiedlerdorfes New Gourna von Hassan Fathy
Schweizer Architektur? Das Habitat Marocain von Jean Hentsch und André Studer
Der erweiterte Konstruktionsbegriff (mit Marius Hug)
Kleinstadt am Steilhang. Hans Ulrich Scherer und das Terrassenhaus
André M. Studer in Marokko
Habitat Marocain. André Studer in conversation with Sascha Roesler
Can the Universal Be Specific?
Habitat Marocain. André Studer in conversation with Sascha Roesler
Anthropologische Theorie der Konstruktion
Surreal Architecture. Habitat Marocain in the Light of Open Building Theory
Habitat Marocain Documents
Resettlement Archives
Habitat Marocain als Modell
Festung der Wissenschaft. Das erste Gebäude des Frankfurter Instituts für Sozialforschung
Konstruktionswandel (als Wissensfigur) (FS 2012)
Glatt! Manifest für eine Stadt im Werden
Theater der Umgesiedelten
Bauen ohne Hand und Hirn. Anmerkungen zum Begriff der Tierarchitektur
New Gourna, heute (SS 2012)
Habitat Marocain
Pool Werkjournal 1998-2010
Move Furniture around? – Strukturinduzierte Wandlungspotentiale von Wohnbauten (bei Nicolaas Habraken)
Informelles Bauen mit Beton
Selbstbau ohne und mit Architekten