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

      AUTHOR: Sascha Roesler

      CONTEXT: Lecture in the frame of the international seminar, September 29, 2020

      Link to the Online Presentations

    • Architektur-Anthropologie: eine Annäherung
    • Architecture as a Social Science? Doing Fieldwork in Cairo
    • Architectural Ethnography (FS 2020)
    • Architectural Ethnography (FS 2019)
    • Architectural Construction(s) as part of Material Culture Research
    • Architectural Anthropology: a Knowledge-based Approach
    • Architectural Anthropology: a Knowledge-based Approach
    • Architectural Anthropology as an Omission in Architectural Theory
    • Architectural Anthropology as an Omission in Architectural Theory
    • Architectural Anthropology and Climate
    • A Place in the Sun. Thermal Knowledge(s) in Cairo’s Domestic Architecture
    • A History of Ethnographic Research Conducted by Modern Architects
    • A Global History of Architectural Ethnography
    • A Breath of Fresh Air. Enlarging the Scope of Thermal Knowledge in Cairo’s Residential Architecture
    • “Microclimates and Ethnography“, in the frame of the seminar “Transferts. La mobilité des personnes, des idées et des architectures"
    • "Urban Climate in Everyday Life" on Heating Practices in Southern China

Università della Svizzera italiana
Accademia di architettura
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6850 Mendrisio
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sascha.roesler@usi.ch