(she/her/hers) is an architect, urban designer, and Assistant Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and programme director of the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. During her time as Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she taught studios and seminars, she launched in 2021 the initiative ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction’ interrogating current protocols of development and urging for a profound reform of planning disciplines to face the climate and social emergency (A Moratorium on New Construction, 2025, Sternberg Press/MIT Press). She directed, managed, and taught the post-graduate Master of Advanced Studies in Urban Design at ETH Zurich from 2014-2019, focusing on migration and urbanism in Mediterranean cities (Marseille, Tangier, Beirut). Malterre-Barthes received a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich on the political economy of commodities in the built environment. She is the editor of the Political Economy of Space series: On Architecture and Work, On Architecture and the Greenfield, On Architecture and Greenwashing (Hatje Cantz, 2024-2025), and the co-author of publications and prize-winning books among which Migrant Marseille: Architectures of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity (Parenthèses 2022, Ruby Press, 2020), Eileen Gray: A House under the Sun (Dargaud, 2020, Nobrow, 2019), Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore (Editions Patrick Frey, 2018), Cairo Desert Cities and Housing Cairo: The Informal Response (Ruby Press, 2017, 2016). As a guest professor at TU Berlin (2018-2019), she investigated and challenged the predatorily modus operandi of real estate in the German capital. During her time at ETH Zürich, she co-founded the Parity Group, a militant grassroots collective laboring toward equity in architecture, which received the Meret Oppenheim Prize 2023. Charlotte is an ambassador and member of the Advisory Board of HouseEurope, and a reviewer for the SNSF in the Evaluation panel – Postdoc.Mobility Social sciences. She is the co-founder of OMNIBUS, an urban design and research practice, with Noboru Kawagishi, active since 2009.