Professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, most recently Assistant Professor at Harvard University, USA, is appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Urban and Architectural Design in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes’ works on urgent aspects of contemporary urbanization, conducting research on how design and planning can engage with questions of fair access to resources, the mainstream economy, better governance, and ecological/social justice. She investigates interrelated topics such as climate emergency, materials, food systems, migration, self-initiated urbanism, and real estate, with the help of various technologies, from satellite images to fieldwork. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes spent six years as director of the Master’s degree in Urban Design at ETH Zurich, and is a co-founder of the Parity Group and of the Parity Front, associations dedicated to improving equity in architecture. She is also a member of several committees and co-director of her own urban design practice. She is co-principal of OMNIBUS.