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AAD Arguments with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

Wed, Jun 3    11:15am

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect, urban designer, and writer. She is Assistant Professor of Architectural and Urban Design at EPFL, where she is the founding director of RIOT — a research laboratory dedicated to systemic change in architecture and the construction industry — and co-director of the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design with ETH Zürich. Her work centers on the political economy of construction, material extraction, and the climate emergency, and engages research, writing, and advocacy in equal measure. While Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, she launched ‘A Global Moratorium on New Construction’ (2021), arguing for a profound reform of planning disciplines and development protocols — now published as A Moratorium on New Construction (Sternberg Press/MIT Press, 2025).

She is the author or co-author of several books, including Eileen Gray: A House under the Sun (Nobrow, 2019) and Migrant Marseille (Ruby Press, 2020), and edits The Political Economy of Space—On Architecture series (Hatje Cantz, 2024–ongoing). A founding member of the Parity Group and the Parity Front (Meret Oppenheim Prize 2023) and ambassador for HouseEurope! — the European Citizens’ Initiative for renovation over demolition — she holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich. She co-curated the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo (2019) and has exhibited at MoMA, the Venice Biennales, the Storefront for Art and Architecture, and the Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale, among others.

Introduction by Lucia Galaretto & Response by Lucia Galaretto, Amaia Sanchez-Velasco & Jorge Valiente-Oriol, & AAD Students