ARCHITECTURE OF TERRITORY (ETH Zurich) investigates urgent phenomena and processes of urban transformation of contemporary territories and their social and environmental implications. This approach comprises a shift of interest from cities to broader territorial frames, and to what was once considered the non-urban realm or the city’s constitutive outside: the city’s hinterlands, rural countrysides and nature, including alpine zones, jungles, deserts and oceans.
ARCHITECTURE OF TERRITORY sees its role in decentering and ecologising architectural pedagogies, fostering new forms of design practice and public engagement, and reframing the disciplines of architecture and urbanism toward researching and designing contemporary territories, comprising both built and unbuilt environments and landscapes.