Team

The programme is currently taught across ETH Zürich and EPFL by Professor Paola Viganò and Associate Professor Milica Topalović.

ETH TEAM

Milica Topalović

is an architect and Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich and programme director of the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Nitin Bathla

is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at UZH and a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich where he coordinated the Agrarian Question and now contributes to electives on Urban Theory Seminars in the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Alice Clarke

is an architect and research and teaching assistant for the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Nancy Couling

is an architect and senior researcher and Coordinator of the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Karolina Kostka

is a landscape architect, senior researcher and FCL project coordinator, and regularly contributes her expertise in mapping and landscape architecture to the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design studio. More

Christoph Küffer

is Professor for Urban Ecology at the Landscape School in HSR Rapperswil and a lecturer at ETH D-USYS and D-ARCH where he teaches the Urban Ecology elective for the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Freek Persyn

is the co-founder of the office 51N4E, a spatial design practice focused on urban and social transformation, and Newrope the chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation, he is a coordinator of the Landscape Imagination elective in the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Philippe Vandenbroeck

teaches and coordinates the Landscape Imagination elective for the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design and a doctoral researcher at Newrope, Chair for Architecture and Urban Transformation, within the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies at D-ARCH, ETH Zürich. More

Christian Schmid

is a geographer, sociologist and urban researcher and has been a lecturer in sociology since 2001 and a professor at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich since 2009, he is a regular contributor to the MAS studio and Urban Theory Seminars. More

Jan Westerheide

is an architect and research and teaching assistant in the undergraduate design studios and teaching assistant of the MAS in Urban and Territory Design studio. More

Bidi Beck

is office manager at the Architecture of Territory, together with Sibylle Novello. More

EPFL TEAM

Paola Viganò

is an italian architect and urbanist, currently professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the University of Venice (IUAV). More

Elena Cogato Lanza

is Professor at the Laboratory of Urbanism, Faculty ENAC, EPFL, after being member of the Construction and Conservation Laboratory. More

Flore Guichot

is a Phd Candidate in the Laboratory of Urbanism at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland and Early-Stage Researcher of the European TOD-IS-RUR innovative training network. More

Maxime Felder

is a sociologist working at the intersection of urban sociology, the sociology of migration and the sociology of social networks. More

Beate Jessel

is a landscape ecologist and landscape planner and Head of the Laboratory for Landscape Development at EPFL. More

Yves Kazemi

holds a Msc in Forest Sience (EPF Zurich) and a Msc in Public Administration (IDEHAP Lausanne). More

Loan Laurent

is an architect, research and teaching assistant for the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Maria Medushevskaya

is an architect and teaching assistant with experience in urban planning and landscape design. More

Anna Pagani

is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering at King’s College London. More

Luca Pattaroni

is lecturer and researcher at the Laboratory of Urban Sociology (Lasur) in the Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne and the National Centre of Competence in Research North South. More

Gabriele Manoli

is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor, Laboratory of Urban and Environmental Systems teaching Environmental Sciences and Engineering at EPFL, main focus on soil science and climate and water sensitive design. More

PREVIOUS TEAM MEMBERS

Valentin Bourdon, Vesna Jovanovic, Michael Fingleton, Stefan Breit, Bonnie-Kate Walker, Teresa Gali-Izard, Teresa Galí-Izard, Seppe De Blust, Tommaso Pietropolli, Barbara Lambec, Luca Rossi