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Memory and Landscape

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This lecture explores the relationship between memory, landscape, and urban development, focusing on the evolution of rural landscapes and the challenges of preserving heritage in the face of urban expansion. It delves into the historical context of Geneva's urban growth, the impact of seasonal workers on city construction, and the tension between rural beauty and inevitable urban development. The presentation emphasizes the importance of understanding and conserving landscapes as repositories of collective memory, highlighting the need for sustainable planning practices to balance heritage preservation with contemporary urban needs.

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Paolo Tombesi

Teaching & PhD PhD Students Martin Peikert, Chloé Lucie Joly-Pottuz Courses Political economy of design AR-485 Political Economy of Design (PED) seeks to position and discuss architecture in relation to the world of production, economic interests and community benefits or decisions, at a local and global scale. Studio BA5 (FAR) AR-301(j) The design studio deals with a Women's Centre located in Wau, South Sudan. It is part of a two-semester program focused on the theme of ar

Sébastien Jacques Marie Marot

Martin Fröhlich

Expertise Trained Architect and Co-Founder of AFF Architekten Berlin / Lausanne Teaching & PhD Courses Saxa Loquuntur: Culture of construction PENS-240 The course explores how material extraction, territorial change, trade, local traditions, and industrial production interconnect. By examining scales from territory to building detail, students learn how various professions interact to shape the built environment. Studio BA6 (Fröhlich M. & A.) AR-302(ag) Greenhouse Studies exp

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Historic preservation

Historic preservation (US), built heritage preservation or built heritage conservation (UK), is an endeavor that seeks to preserve, conserve and protect buildings, objects, landscapes or other artifacts of historical significance. It is a philosophical concept that became popular in the twentieth century, which maintains that cities as products of centuries' development should be obligated to protect their patrimonial legacy. The term refers specifically to the preservation of the built environment, and not to preservation of, for example, primeval forests or wilderness.

Urban sociology

Urban sociology is the sociological study of cities and urban life. One of the field’s oldest sub-disciplines, urban sociology studies and examines the social, historical, political, cultural, economic, and environmental forces that have shaped urban environments. Like most areas of sociology, urban sociologists use statistical analysis, observation, archival research, U.S.

Urban history

Urban history is a field of history that examines the historical nature of cities and towns, and the process of urbanization. The approach is often multidisciplinary, crossing boundaries into fields like social history, architectural history, urban sociology, urban geography, business history, and archaeology. Urbanization and industrialization were popular themes for 20th-century historians, often tied to an implicit model of modernization, or the transformation of rural traditional societies.

Urban economics

Urban economics is broadly the economic study of urban areas; as such, it involves using the tools of economics to analyze urban issues such as crime, education, public transit, housing, and local government finance. More specifically, it is a branch of microeconomics that studies the urban spatial structure and the location of households and firms . Historically, much like economics generally, urban economics was influenced by multiple schools of thought, including original institutional economics and Marxist economics.

Landscape archaeology

Landscape archaeology, a sub-discipline of archaeology and archaeological theory, is the study of the ways in which people in the past constructed and used the environment around them. It is also known as archaeogeography (from the Greek ἀρχαίος "ancient", and γεωγραφία "earth study"). Landscape archaeology is inherently multidisciplinary in its approach to the study of culture, and is used by pre-historical, classic, and historic archaeologists.

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