Institute for the History and Theory of the Architecture
Research
- Doctoral Project
“Zauberland des Sichtbaren”: Architecture in the Transformation of Vision around 1900
- Doctoral Project
Die Bühne als Raumlaboratorium: Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld und das dialogische Verhältnis zwischen Theater und Architektur
- Doctoral Project
"Es waren schöne glänzende Zeiten" Medievalism as common ground between the German-speaking and Russian/Soviet avant-garde (1910-1930s)
Alex Protopappas
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke - Doctoral Project
Radio - Activities: The Architecture of Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin
Alfredo Thiermann
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
2016-2020 - Doctoral Project
Academicized Architecture: Politics and Practices of “Design Research”
Bernhard Boehm
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung - SNSF-Research Project and Doctoral Thesis
Pastoral Chiaroscuro: Electric Light, Dark Landscapes, and Swiss Infrastructure Development after 1950
Chase Galis
since 2022 - Doctoral Project
Salon alla Franca: Spatial performativities of “womanhood” in late Ottoman domestic interiors (ca. 1890–1920)
Damla Göre - Doctoral Project
"Auszug" and "Projection": Late Medieval and Early Modern Architectural Drawing Techniques and Their Historical Entanglements
Daniel Tischler
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke - Doctoral Project
Mapping Power - Landscape Transformation in the Jordan Valley
Dr.Ben Gitai
2022 - Doctoral Project
Industrielles Bauen für die postindustrielle Gesellschaft:
Fabian Furter
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
2015- - Doctoral Project
The Playful Cabinet - Role-Play and Self-Representation in Carlo Mollino’s Interiors.
Gerlinde Verhaeghe
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke - Doctoral Project
A Matter of Style. Architecture and Modernization: The Work of Giuseppe Vaccaro, 1916–1970
Giorgio Azzariti
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
since October 2020 - Doctoral Project
Teaching the Tacit: Negotiating between communities of tacit knowledge in recent architectural education
Hamish Lonergan - Doctoral Project
The Anthropocene and Visual Culture: Material Strategies in Art and Architecture
Helene Romakin
2017- - Doctoral Project
Methods of Aesthetic Education in Swiss Modernism
Henryetta Duerschlag
Prof.Dr. Philip Ursprung
2018 - - Doctoral Project
Catholicism and Historicism. The Catacomb Copies of A. Bonelli and the Christian Rationales of Historical Culture in Architecture
Jasper Van Parys
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke - SNSF-Research Project and Doctoral Thesis
Design studios as research cultures
Kim Nørgaard Helmersen - Doctoral Project
Stadtzentrum Leipzig 1949 - 2005. Kontinuitäten und Brüche in Architektur und Städtebau
Kreil-Kremberg, Susanne - Doctoral Project
The Veredelung of a magazine: Joseph Gantner at Das Werk (1923–1927)
Linda Stagni
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke - Doctoral Project
How the Swiss National Bank Disappeared into the Alps, 1934–1971
Ludo Groen
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
since 2021 - Doctoral Project
Take Care: Mineralization, Hydrochemistry and the Environments of Greek Thermalism
Lydia Xynogala
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung - Doctoral Project
Real Estate Fiction. Branding Industries and the Construction of Global Urban Imaginaries
Marija Marić
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung - Doctoral Project
Values of Representation: Exhibiting Architecture as Commodity
Martin Hartung - Doctoral Project
A Question of Method: Anthony Blunt and the Formation of Architectural History in Britain
Matthew Critchley
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke - Doctoral Project
Exploring Urban Scale Models: The Projets Urbains and the Performance of the “Maquette”, 1960s – 1990s
Maxime Zaugg - Doctoral Project
Irrigation Systems of Canton Valais: Transformations in Material Culture and the Resilience of Landscape Commons
Nicole de Lalouvière - Doctoral Project
Forlorn Folklore: Discovering and debating the vernacular architecture of Greece, from the Ottoman era to the Greek nation-state (ca. 1750-1920)
Nikolaos Magouliotis
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke; advisors: Prof. Dr. Mari Lending (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design), Prof. Dr. Panayotis Tournikiotis (National Technical University of Athens) - Doctoral Project
Transgressing the Forbidden: Gender Boundaries and Their Counter-Narratives in Iran (1848-1936)
Niloofar Rasooli
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke - Doctoral Project
The Territories of La Grande-Dixence (1950 – 1965): Infrastructure, Architecture and Labor
Rune Frandsen
Prof. Dr. Günther Vog - Doctoral Project
Tamed Waters. Ordering the City and Hinterland of Meknes, 1912-1956.
Sara Frikech - Doctoral Project
Hydraulic Infrastructure: Ordering the City and Region of Meknes 1884-1956
Sara Frikech
2022 - Doctoral Project
The Formation of the Federal Inventory of Heritage Sites (ISOS): On Switzerland’s Approach to Its Space
Silvan Blumenthal
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Since 2016 - Doctoral Project
Regressive Architecture - Right-wing Populism and Architecture in Switzerland 1960-2020
Susanne Hefti
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
since 2019 - Doctoral Project
Regressive Architecture
Susanne Hefti
Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
2019- - SNSF-Research Project and Doctoral Thesis
Historiographies of Climate for a Pastoral Rhône Valley: Engineers, Scientists, and Travelers’ Reports on Nineteenth Century Environmental Knowledge
Tatiana Carbonell
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
since 2022 - Doctoral Project
“Zauberland des Sichtbaren” - Architecture in the Transformation of Vision around 1900
Yue Zhao
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
