Cities across the world have been resorting to star architects to brand their projects, spark urban regeneration and market the city image… [read more]

Lukas Gilliard, Fabian Wenner, Alain Thierstein and Nadia Alaily-Mattar, team members and PhD students at the Chair of Urban Development, have… [read more]

For the past three years this seminar series gathered experts in architecture, urban planning, urban and economic geography annually at the Villa… [read more]

Can star architecture projects contribute to repositioning their respective cities? What is the role of media exposure in this process? [read more]

"Flight shame" is on everyone's lips in 2019, and the scientific community is also increasingly discussing the effects of its activities on the global… [read more]

The workshop was held from 19th through 20th June, 2018 at the Villa Vigoni in Menaggio, Italy. It was organized by Alain Thierstein, Nadia… [read more]

Special Issue "Urban transformations through exeptional architecture" Alain Thierstein and Nadia Alaily-Mattar have edited a special issue of the… [read more]

The first workshop of the seminar series “Flagship Architecture, Multinational Design Firms and the Urban Transformation of European Cities” was held… [read more]