About

MASTER OF ADVANCED STUDIES
IN URBAN AND
TERRITORIAL DESIGN

The joint Master of Advanced Studies at the ETH Zürich and EPFL builds an innovative urban and territorial design education addressing social and environmental challenges both within the city-territory and across wider landscapes. Design and research studios form the core of the programme. Design is explored as a tool for synthesis in an expanded field of inter- and transdisciplinary exchange. The curriculum extends the scope of urban design teaching, to include both emerging developments in urban theory and a deeper understanding of the cultural and ecological dimensions of territories. Scientific research on planetary urbanisation, postcolonial thought, and the Anthropocene will be engaged in relation to urban design, landscape architecture, urban and landscape ecology, sustainable construction, and low carbon mobility.

The MAS serves as a laboratory and a forum where we propose agendas, design strategies and governance models for concrete territories. Both Swiss and international case studies are investigated through intensive, ethnographic explorations and in situ workshops. The programme engages in dialogue with communities, local actors, NGOs and governance bodies.

ETH TEAM

EPFL TEAM

PREVIOUS TEAM MEMBERS

Valentin Bourdon, Vesna Jovanovic

CONTACT

Contact: info-masutd@ethz.ch

Architecture of Territory
Professorship of Architecture and Territorial Planning

Prof. Milica Topalović
ETH Zurich, ONA G41
Neunbrunnenstrasse 50
8093 Zurich
+41 (0)44 633 86 88

Instagram: AOT Instagram
YouTube: Youtube channel MAS Urban and Territory Design
Youtube channel Architecture of Territory

Habitat Research Center HRC
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne EPFL

Prof. Paola Viganò
EPFL ENAC HRC
BP 4129 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
CH-1015 Lausanne

Instagram: HRC Instagram
YouTube: Youtube channel Habitat Research Center