Since 2010 Contributor to the research project "CIAM 4. The Functional City", cooperation project of Archive gta, ETH Zurich, and Van Lohuizen Foundation, Rotterdam, co-author of "Die deutsche CIAM-Gruppe".
Since 2009 Coordinator of the research project "The Preservation of the City of the Twentieth Century. Urban Design and Building Conservation Strategies" as part of the Swiss cooperation project "Enciclopedia del Restauro del XX Secolo", ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, Università della Svizzera italiana, funded by the Swiss University Conference (CUS).
Since 2009 Coordinator of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)-financed research project "Encyclopedia of Designed Space", ETH Zurich.
2009–1012 Partner of the BMBF-financed cooperation project "Denkmal–Werte–Dialog" within the section "Erhalten und Gestalten – Stadtbild zwischen städtebaulicher Denkmalpflege und Stadtentwicklung", Prof. Wolfgang Sonne, Technical University Dortmund.
Since 2008 Research on the development of the discipline of urban planning in the United States, Great Britain and Germany.
2005–2007 Research Visits to New York, Washington, Montreal, London.
Since 2004 Research on the CIAM discourses on urbanism, the European perception of the American Neighborhood Unit Concept and the transatlantic exchange of ideas for the design of the city center in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. (Thesis 2008: "Die CIAM-Debatten zum Stadtzentrum und die amerikanische Nachbarschaftstheorie: Ein transatlantischer Ideenaustausch, 1937-1951").
2002 Research visit in England with a scholarship of the Erich-Degen-Foundation Switzerland; Field of research: Urban planning and building conservation in the British New Towns.
Organization of Conferences and Workshops
2013 International Symposium "Transnational and transdisciplinary networks among planners between the two World Wars", Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich [in preparation for autumn 2013].
2012 Conference "Die Erhaltung der Stadt des 20. Jahrhunderts. Baugeschichte – Denkmalschutz – Stadtentwicklung/The Preservation of the City of the 20th Century", Zurich, Semper-Sternwarte, November 13, 2012.
2011–2012 Workshops "Mechanismen der Gestaltung des menschlichen Lebensraums von der Landschaft bis zur Stadt I+II", ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture, October 10, 2011 and January 24, 2012.
2011 International Symposium "Encyclopedia of Designed Space", ETH Zurich, Brown University (Providence, USA), Leibniz University Hannover and German Historical Museum Munich, Winterthur, June 23–24, 2011.
2007 Chair of the round table-discussion of the representatives of Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Iraq und Bosnia-Herzegovina at the 9th World Congress of the Organisation of World Heritage Cities (OWHC), Kazan/Tartarstan, June 19–23, 2007.
Seminars at the Chair for the History of Urban Design:
spring term 2011:
"Der Kontext des Gebauten. Eine Untersuchung von Elementen des gestalteten Raumes" (with Rainer Schützeichel)
spring term 2004:
"Den Staat in der Stadt bauen. Strategien politischer Repräsentation 1900-1960" (with Mascha Bisping)
winter term 2003/2004:
"Die Mitte der Stadt II. Diskussionen und Projekte zum Zentrum der Stadt 1955-1960" (with Mascha Bisping)
spring term 2003:
"Die Mitte der Stadt I. Diskussionen und Projekte zum Zentrum der Stadt 1940-1955" (with Mascha Bisping)
spring term 2002:
"Das architektonische Ensemble und die Stadt. Vom Einzelnen zum städtischen Ganzen" (with Thomas Kai Keller)
winter term 2001/2002: "Die ideale Stadt. Idealstadtkonzepte und ihre Rezeption" (with Wolfgang Sonne and Thomas Kai Keller)
spring term 2001:
"Die Konstruktion des Ortes. Regionalismen im Städtebau des 20. Jahrhunderts" (with Wolfgang Sonne)
winter term 2000/2001:
"Urbane Infrastrukturen. Die Strasse." (with Ruth Hanisch)
Since 2009 Coordinator of the research project "The Preservation of the City of the Twentieth Century. Urban Design and Building Conservation Strategies" as part of the Swiss cooperation project "Enciclopedia del Restauro del XX Secolo", ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, Università della Svizzera italiana, funded by the Swiss University Conference (CUS).
Since 2009 Coordinator of the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)-financed research project "Encyclopedia of Designed Space", ETH Zurich.
2009–1012 Partner of the BMBF-financed cooperation project "Denkmal–Werte–Dialog" within the section "Erhalten und Gestalten – Stadtbild zwischen städtebaulicher Denkmalpflege und Stadtentwicklung", Prof. Wolfgang Sonne, Technical University Dortmund.
Since 2008 Research on the development of the discipline of urban planning in the United States, Great Britain and Germany.
2005–2007 Research Visits to New York, Washington, Montreal, London.
Since 2004 Research on the CIAM discourses on urbanism, the European perception of the American Neighborhood Unit Concept and the transatlantic exchange of ideas for the design of the city center in the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. (Thesis 2008: "Die CIAM-Debatten zum Stadtzentrum und die amerikanische Nachbarschaftstheorie: Ein transatlantischer Ideenaustausch, 1937-1951").
2002 Research visit in England with a scholarship of the Erich-Degen-Foundation Switzerland; Field of research: Urban planning and building conservation in the British New Towns.
Organization of Conferences and Workshops
2013 International Symposium "Transnational and transdisciplinary networks among planners between the two World Wars", Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) of the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich [in preparation for autumn 2013].
2012 Conference "Die Erhaltung der Stadt des 20. Jahrhunderts. Baugeschichte – Denkmalschutz – Stadtentwicklung/The Preservation of the City of the 20th Century", Zurich, Semper-Sternwarte, November 13, 2012.
2011–2012 Workshops "Mechanismen der Gestaltung des menschlichen Lebensraums von der Landschaft bis zur Stadt I+II", ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture, October 10, 2011 and January 24, 2012.
2011 International Symposium "Encyclopedia of Designed Space", ETH Zurich, Brown University (Providence, USA), Leibniz University Hannover and German Historical Museum Munich, Winterthur, June 23–24, 2011.
2007 Chair of the round table-discussion of the representatives of Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Iraq und Bosnia-Herzegovina at the 9th World Congress of the Organisation of World Heritage Cities (OWHC), Kazan/Tartarstan, June 19–23, 2007.
Seminars at the Chair for the History of Urban Design:
spring term 2011:
"Der Kontext des Gebauten. Eine Untersuchung von Elementen des gestalteten Raumes" (with Rainer Schützeichel)
spring term 2004:
"Den Staat in der Stadt bauen. Strategien politischer Repräsentation 1900-1960" (with Mascha Bisping)
winter term 2003/2004:
"Die Mitte der Stadt II. Diskussionen und Projekte zum Zentrum der Stadt 1955-1960" (with Mascha Bisping)
spring term 2003:
"Die Mitte der Stadt I. Diskussionen und Projekte zum Zentrum der Stadt 1940-1955" (with Mascha Bisping)
spring term 2002:
"Das architektonische Ensemble und die Stadt. Vom Einzelnen zum städtischen Ganzen" (with Thomas Kai Keller)
winter term 2001/2002: "Die ideale Stadt. Idealstadtkonzepte und ihre Rezeption" (with Wolfgang Sonne and Thomas Kai Keller)
spring term 2001:
"Die Konstruktion des Ortes. Regionalismen im Städtebau des 20. Jahrhunderts" (with Wolfgang Sonne)
winter term 2000/2001:
"Urbane Infrastrukturen. Die Strasse." (with Ruth Hanisch)