BSc3_Architectural Theory: From Vitruvius until Today_Guest Lecture: Laurent Stalder

MAN transFORMS
Documents of an Exhibition
at the Cooper Hewitt Museum of Design, 1976 

Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder (ETH Zürich)

Wednesday, May 10, 2017
11.00 a.m., Palazzo Canavée, C0.61

Laurent Stalder is professor for architectural theory at the ETH Zurich. He studied architecture at the ETH Zurich, qualifying in 1996. From 1996 to 1997 he undertook a scholarship with the Swiss Institute for Archaeology and Architectural Research in Cairo, and from 1997 to 2001 served as an assistant at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) of the Department of Architecture of the ETH, where he obtained his doctorate in 2002. In the same year he became an assistant professor for architectural history at the History Department of the Université Laval in Québec/Canada. In 2006 he took up a post as assistant professor for architectural theory at the gta Institute, where he has served as an associate professor since 2011. In 2009 he was a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The main focus of Laurent Stalder's research and publications is the history and theory of architecture from the 19th to the 21st centuries where it intersects with the history of technology. His most recent publications include Hermann Muthesius: Das Landhaus als kulturgeschichtlicher Entwurf (2008), Valerio Olgiati (2008), Der Schwellenatlas (2009), and God & Co. François Dallegret: Beyond the Bubble (2011). His articles have been published in various journals, including AA Files, Arch+, Grey Room, the Journal of Architecture, Werk, Bauen & Wohnen and the Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte.