Team

The MAS in Urban and Territorial Design spans architecture, urban studies, landscape, and territorial research, aiming to shape socially and environmentally just, equitable, and diverse territories through student projects, studies, sessions and events. The programme is currently taught across ETH Zürich and EPFL by Professor Paola Viganò and Associate Professor Milica Topalović.

ETH TEAM

Milica Topalović

is an architect and Professor of Architecture and Territorial Planning at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich. More

Nitin Bathla

is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Geography at UZH and a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich. More

Alice Clarke

is an architect and research and teaching assistant for the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Nancy Couling

is an architect and senior researcher and Coordinator of the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. More

Karolina Kostka

is a landscape architect, senior researcher and FCL project coordinator. More

Christoph Küffer

is Professor for Urban Ecology at the Landscape School in HSR Rapperswil and a lecturer at ETH D-USYS and D-ARCH. More

Nazlı Tümerdem

is an architect and postdoctoral researcher and received her Bachelor’s degree (2008) from Istanbul Technical University and Master’s degree (2011) from Istanbul Bilgi University. More

Christian Schmid

is a geographer, sociologist and urban researcher and has been a lecturer in sociology since 2001 and a professor at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich since 2009. More

Seppe De Blust

is sociologist and urban designer. More

Philippe Vandenbroeck

is a doctoral researcher at Newrope, Chair for Architecture and Urban Transformation, within the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies at D-ARCH, ETH Zürich. More

Freek Persyn

is the co-founder of the office 51N4E, a spatial design practice focused on urban and social transformation, and Newrope the chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation. More

EPFL TEAM

Paola Viganò

is an italian architect and urbanist, currently professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and at the University of Venice (IUAV). More

Elena Cogato Lanza

is Professor at the Laboratory of Urbanism, Faculty ENAC, EPFL, after being member of the Construction and Conservation Laboratory. More

Maxime Felder

is a sociologist working at the intersection of urban sociology, the sociology of migration and the sociology of social networks. More

Beate Jessel

is a landscape ecologist and landscape planner and Head of the Laboratory for Landscape Development at EPFL. More

Yves Kazemi

holds a Msc in Forest Sience (EPF Zurich) and a Msc in Public Administration (IDEHAP Lausanne). More

Barbara Lambec

is a French HMONP architect, heritage expert, researcher and educator at EPFL and visiting scholar at CCL (Cornell, NY). More

Loan Laurent

is an architect and teaching assistant. More

Anna Pagani

is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute for Environmental Design and Engineering (IEDE), University College London (UCL). More

Luca Pattaroni

is lecturer and researcher at the Laboratory of Urban Sociology (Lasur) in the Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne and the National Centre of Competence in Research North South. More

Tommaso Pietropolli

is an architect, postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at EPFL. More

Luca Rossi

is an urban water specialist, covering all aspects of the problematic from pollutant source identification and hydrological problems to impact assessment and definition of original technical solutions. More

PREVIOUS TEAM MEMBERS

Valentin Bourdon, Flore Guichot, Vesna Jovanovic, Michael Fingleton, Stefan Breit, Bonnie-Kate Walker, Teresa Gali-Izard, Teresa Galí-Izard