Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021ARC003.
In 1996, the newly founded Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio invited Peter Zumthor to be the professor in charge of one of the school’s first three design studios. What took form from that was a singular educational experience, conducted by Zumthor as a didactic project spanning a three-year period - the academic years of 1996-97, 1997-98 and 1998-99 - and comprehending a sequence of 19...
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Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2020 ; 2021ARC002.
This study is located at the intersection of architecture and the social sciences. Its core is an ethnographic investigation of how Cairo experiences and tackles urban heatwaves, which was carried out primarily by looking at people’s building practices. The research is structured along three axes. The first consists of a historical overview of the Egyptian architectural field, based on a...
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In: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2015, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 1073-1095
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In: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2015, vol. 13, no. 6, p. 1587-1612
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In: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2015, vol. 13, no. 12, p. 3553-3596
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In: Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering, 2015, vol. 13, no. 10, p. 3015-3064
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In: Social anthropology/Anthropologie sociale, 2019, vol. 27, no. 4, p. 17 p
The materiality of and daily life in urban high‐rise buildings has barely been researched, especially when compared to the rich anthropological and architectural studies that exist on rural architecture. This article engages with indoor climate control in an urbanising environment. It considers urban architecture as a social field characterised by the interaction of diverse actors such as...
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In: Eurasian geography and economics, 2020, vol. 61, no. 1, p. 77-99
Architectural research often considers buildings and settlement practices as local material adaptations to climate, particularly when it comes to the analysis of architecture in rural and small-scale settlements. Based on ethnographic data from the rapidly urbanizing oasis metropolis Ürümchi in China’s northwestern borderlands, this paper goes beyond such a localized view of climate ...
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In: Arts, 2018, vol. 7, no. 4, p. 75
Many architects of the modern movement who, in theory, refused luxury nonetheless responded to the demand for it. Richard J. Neutra was one of them: Although he mostly rejected luxury in his writings, he gained fame for his skills in constructing luxurious residences. This paper explores how he handled such discrepancies. For this purpose, it relates his understanding of luxury to the German...
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In: The urban microclimate as artifact : towards an architectural theory of thermal diversity, 2018, p. 12-24
The term “microclimate” was coined by German and British meteorologists and geographers in the first half of the 20th century. Rudolf Geiger and Albert Kratzer realized that the climate in the air layer “two meters above the ground” differs considerably between rural and urban sites. W.G.V. Balchin and Norman Pye proved that the urban climate within one city, Bath, was not homogenous,...
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