Maryam Khatibi is an architect who holds a PhD degree (2022) with honors in Architectural, Urban and Interior Design (AUID) from the Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi). She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Université de Lyon (2022-2023) and holds a Master of Advanced Studies in Housing from ETH, Zürich (2017). Her area of work portrays the landscape of collaborative-motivated housing cultures as an efficient way for urban habitation in the European context through which environmentally conscious and participatory process designs are tackled.

• Collaborative housing

• Sustainable urbanism

• Citizen science  

• ETH Zürich Alumna

• Schweizerischer Ingenieur- und Architektenverein (SIA)

• European Network for Housing Research (ENHR)

• The International Sustainable Campus Network (ISCN)

Collaborative (re)making and sharing at the housing scale and neighborhood

Developing tools for transdisciplinary & participatory process design

Bridging the gap between academia and the city & a people-powered approach to housing

Khatibi, M. (2024). The Poetics of Adequate Urban Housing: Sustainability, Theory, Innovative Practices. AUID Book Series No. 06, LetteraVentidue Edizioni S.r.l., Siracusa. https://www.letteraventidue.com/it/prodotto/764/the-poetics-of-adequate-urban-housing

Khatibi, M. (2023). “A Socio-spatial Approach to the First Legal Hall Dwelling Setting in Switzerland: The Case Study of Hallenwohnen in Zurich”. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment. 38(2), 979–998. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10901-022-09980-y

Khatibi, M. (2022). “Socio-spatial interactions of a cluster-house concept apartment in mehr als wohnen project in Zurich, Switzerland”. Frontiers of Architectural Research. (11)2, 191-202. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2021.10.002

Khatibi, M. (2022). “Collective Occupation of Residential Space: From Counter-cultural Practices to Cluster Cohousing and Hall Cohousing in Zurich, Switzerland”, “Att bo tillsammans. Från protester och utopier till klusterlägenheter och hallboende i Zürich”. Bo tillsammans. nr. 61, 6-7. Bo tillsammans nr 61 15/2 2022 – Kollektivhus NU

Khatibi, M. (2019). “Contemporary Swiss Urban Garden Strategies”, in Ghibusi, M., Khatibi, M., Pradel C., (Eds.), Scales of Interiors: Parks, Gardens, Objects, Santarcangelo di Romagna, Maggioli, 166-181. https://www.maggiolieditore.it/scales-of-interiors.html

Khatibi, M. (2019). “Passive house-concept apartments: sustainability evaluation in a case study of Stockholm, Sweden”, IOP Conf. Ser.: Earth Environ. Sci. 323 012032. https://doi.org/10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012032

Khatibi, M. (2019). “Typology and Solar Gain Analysis: Vernacular Courtyard Houses of Tabriz, Iran”, International Journal of Environmental Science and Sustainable Development, Vol. (4)3, 56 – 76. https://doi.org/10.21625/essd.v4i3.677