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Alfredo Thiermann at Netherlands Institute for Cultural Analysis (NICA) Masterclass

Sound and the City: Power, Technology and Architecture at the University of Amsterdam, Apr 24, 2026

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Alfredo Thiermann at ASCA Cities Seminar (University of Amsterdam)

Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin, Apr 24, 2026

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Office Work: Architecture and Extraction Between Atacama and Hamburg

Alfredo Thiermann, Pedro Correa, Ella Neumaier, and Xavier Nueno publish in Future Anterior Vol. 22

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Ella Neumaier at SAH in Mexico City

‘The Key to Economics.’ A Circular Construction of Nitrate Fertilizer Wealth prior_next to_beyond the German Field,’ Paper at SAH 79th Annual International Conference, April 15-19, 2026

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Ella Neumaier at ‘Plantation Architectures’ Symposium Chapter II

‘Nitrogen Wonder. Cultural Film, Soil Fertility, and the Scaffolding of Optimal Growth,’ at Istituto Svizzero, Mar 25-27, 2026

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Making the World Discrete. Workshop on Methods

Doctoral Workshop with Prof. Alla Vronskaya, Prof. Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Prof. Cristobal Amunátegui, Nov 18–20, 2025

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Alfredo Thiermann announced as JSAH Editor 2025-27

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Alfredo Thiermann, Xavier Nueno & Pedro Correa publish in AA Files 80

Housing Teotihuacan: Linda Manzanilla in conversation with Alfredo Thiermann, Xavier Nueno and Pedro Correa

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Radio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin

Alfredo Thiermann launches book with MIT Press on June 25, 2024

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11.03.2026Gianfranco Bombaci (Royal College of Art)Form of Life: An Anthropological Gaze on ArchitectureNeighbours Lecture Series Volume. 7EPFL
10.03.2026Pier Vittorio AureliDwelling: The Long HouseHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
05.03.2026Pedro Correa FernándezTower / EmpireHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
04.03.2026Florian Hertweck (University of Luxembourg) and Elena Cogato Lanza (EPFL)Booklaunch: Hans Bernoulli. La Ville et son solNeighbours Lecture Series Volume. 7EPFL
03.03.2026Xavier NuenoExcavatingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
26.02.2026Alfredo ThiermannHousing / SocietyHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
25.02.2026Ana Miljacki (MIT)Collective RepairNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 7EPFL
24.02.2026Sarah Newman (University of Chicago) &
Felipe Rojas (Brown
University)		Domesticating: History of Architecture I/IIEPFL
19.02.2026Alfredo ThiermannIntroduction: On Type and HistoryHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
17.02.2026Alfredo ThiermannBeginningHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
11.12.2025Nadia Abu El-HajFacts on the GroundWorkshop organized by Clara Richard GostynskiEPFL
10.12.2025Alfredo ThiermannPre-Final Submission w Guest ProfessorsPDM Énoncé Théorétique de MasterEPFL
26.11.2025Michael Goebel (Free University Berlin)Losing Black Monserrat: Immigration, Real Estate, and Dispossession in Nineteenth Century Buenos AiresNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 6EPFL
19.11.2025Noha MokhtarVideo WorkshopPDM Énoncé Théorétique de MasterEPFL
19.11.2025Cristóbal Amunátegui (UCLA)Mind Beats Matter: Abstraction and Commensurabiliy at the Dawn of Democratic Politics in FranceNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 6EPFL
18.-20.11.2025HITAM with Alla Vronskaya, Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Cristóbal AmunáteguiMaking the World Discrete. Workshop on MethodsSNSF Data Centers ProjectEPFL
12.11.2025Alfredo ThiermannOutline and ArgumentPDM Énoncé Théorétique de MasterEPFL
12.11.2025Ioanna Piniara (Architectural Association School of Architecture)Book Launch: The Housing Project in Neoliberal EuropeNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 6EPFL
11.-12.11.2025HITAM hosts Media History Network All that is Solid – A Media History in n+1 Sources5th meeting of Media History NetworkEPFL
05.11.2025Noha MokhtarVideo WorkshopPDM Énoncé Théorétique de MasterEPFL
29.10.2025Noha MokhtarVideo WorkshopPDM Énoncé Théorétique de MasterEPFL
29.10.2025Jeffrey Huang and Dieter Dietz (EPFL)Book Launch: Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis. Architectural Research in Re/ActionNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 6EPFL
08.10.2025Alfredo ThiermannImage (Archival) PresentationPDM Énoncé Théorétique de MasterEPFL
02.10.2025Jiat-Hwee Chang (National University of Singapore)Thermal Governance and Citizenship: (Un)Making Air-conditioning Complexes in Urban AsiaNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 6EPFL
01.10.2025Sonal Mithal (CEPT University)Queer Methodologies and Architectural HistoriesNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 6EPFL
24.09.2025Alfredo ThiermannTouching Base: Bibliography SessionPDM Énoncé Théorétique de MasterEPFL
24.09.2025Stylianos Giamarelos (The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London)Book Launch: Critical Regionalism Abroad –
Aris Konstantinidis without Greece		Neighbours Lecture Series Vol. 6EPFL
12.09.2025Ella NeumaierSuspension Zone: Valorising European Soil from the WaterEAHN Thematic Conference: The Built OceanFAUP Porto
18.06.2025Xavier NuenoIn Media Lex: Reporters, Authority and a Factory of Cases27th Annual Conference of Law, Culture + the HumanitiesGeorgetown Law
11.06.2025Alfredo Thiermann
Xavier Nueno		Introduction to the Origins of Architecture: A PedagogyUNIL Summer School Anthropology and Art History after 1945. From Intersection to Indistinction?UNIL
15.05.2025Pedro Correa FernándezSkyscraper / ManagementHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
13.05.2025Sylvia Lavin (Princeton University)Ending: Trees Make a PlanHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
08.05.2025Xavier NuenoLaboratory / ResearchHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
07.05.2025Debjani Bhattacharyya (UZH)The Double Commodification of Monsoon: Risk and Cyclone ScienceNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 5EPFL
06.05.2025Jiajing Wang (Dartmouth College)Gardening: Domesticating Plants or Domesticating Ourselves?History of Architecture I/IIEPFL
17.04.2025Alfredo ThiermannBroadcasting House / EntertainmentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
16.04.2025Theodora Vardouli (McGill University)Graph VisionNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 5EPFL
15.04.2025Alfredo ThiermannStoring: Storage and Rule in the Inca EmpireHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
10.04.2025Seng Kuan (Harvard University)Museum / InternationalismHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
08.04.2025Alfredo Thiermann & Xavier NuenoFeeding: Angkor Wat: Architecture and the Politics of WaterHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
06.04.2025Ella NeumaierTaming the Sea: German Maritime Information Architecture and the Generative Power of TrafficPresentation at Doctoral Symposium ‘Traffic’Princeton University
04.04.2025Alfredo ThiermannHouse / DomesticityHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
02.04.2025David Wengrow (UCL)Urbanizing: Origin Stories: An Archaeological Perspective on Human FreedomsHistory of Architecture I/II / Neighbours Lecture Series Vol. 5EPFL
27.03.2025Xavier NuenoLibrary / InformationHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
25.03.2025Annabeth HeadrickCoexisting: A Question of Scale: From Home to Temple at TeotihuacanHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
20.03.2025Pedro Correa FernándezSchool / ExperimentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
18.03.2025Sylvian FachardProtecting: The Rediscovery of Greek Fortifications: Imaginaries, Realities, SpacesHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
14.03.2025Xavier NuenoIn Media Lex: Reporters, Authority, and a Factory of CasesCases and Scale in Historiography Conference at UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial LibraryUCLA
13.03.2025Alfredo ThiermannFactory / LabourHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
11.03.2025Xavier NuenoExcavating: Planetary Depths.
On the Origins of
Material Culture		History of Architecture I/IIEPFL
06.03.2025Pedro Correa FernándezTower / EmpireHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
04.03.2025Pier Vittorio AureliCultivating: The Temple and
the Storage		History of Architecture I/IIEPFL
27.02.2025Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture / Goldsmiths UniversityConditions of Life CalculatedNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 5EPFL
27.02.2025Alfredo ThiermannHousing / SocietyHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
25.02.2025Ian HodderDomesticating: Architecture as an Entangled Flow in ÇatalhöyükHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
20.02.2025Alfredo ThiermannOn Type and HistoryHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
18.02.2025Alfredo ThiermannBeginning: The Idea of OriginHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
15.01.2025Alfredo Thiermann, Ella NeumaierSimposio Chilehaus: Atacama/HamburgoSymposium to the exhibition closing of Chilehaus Atacama/HamburgoCentro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago de Chile
04.12.2024Moritz Gleich (ETH Zurich), Sarine Waltenspül (Luzern University)Inhabited Machines and Models in FilmNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 4EPFL
27.11.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at Domushaus EGBook Launch in Conversation with Charlotte Truwant, Christoph Gantenbein, and Chrissie MuhrDomushaus EG, Basel
21.11.2024Xavier NuenoThe Shape of TimePresentation at Symposium in Honor of Giuliana BrunoHarvard University, Graduate School of Design
21.11.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at symposium on the history of the studio “Für den guten Ton”Book PresentationTechnical University of Munich
20.11.2024Anooradha Siddiqi (Barnard College – Columbia University)Minnette De Silva: IntersectionsNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 4EPFL
14.11.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at RCA’s Sonic Architectures research programmeBook PresentationRoyal College of Art, London
06.11.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at Neighbours Vol. 4Book PresentationEPFL
22.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at e-flux Architecture LecturesBook Presentatione-flux, New York
18.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at the Daniels Faculty’s Public ProgramBook PresentationUniversity of Toronto
18.10.2024Xavier NuenoThe Power of Classification. A Taxonomical ExerciseTalk at Invertebrados IIIEscuela de Diseño de la Rioja, Spain
15.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities: on Architecture, Media, and the Production of Space at YaleIn conversation with Francesco Casetti and Gary TomlinsonYale University
11.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannUnder the Influence 007In conversation with Mark Lee for L.A. Forum 2024 UTIKelton Apartments, Los Angeles
10.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at UCLA AUDBook PresentationUniversity of California
09.10.2024Léa-Catherine Szacka (The University of Manchester)Paolo Portoghesi: Architecture between History, Politics and MediaNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 4EPFL
01.10.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at Princeton Graduate Program Media + ModernityBook PresentationPrinceton University
26.09.2024HITAMChilehaus Atacama / HamburgoExhibition OpeningCentro Cultural La Moneda, Santiago de Chile
25.09.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities at Católica de ChileBook PresentationPontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
25.09.2024Irina Davidovici (ETH Zurich)The Autonomy
of Theory:
Ticino Architecture and Its Critical Reception		Neighbours Lecture Series Vol. 4EPFL
30.08.2024Alfredo Thiermann
Architecture and RemembranceTalk and Discussion as part of the exhibition “Weißes Wüstengold”,MARKK, Hamburg
19.07-16.08.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities Exhibition at BDA Baden-Württemberg WechselraumExhibitionBDA Baden-Württemberg Wechselraum, Stuttgart
07-13.07.2024Alfredo ThiermannAula Bunker. Architecture, Justice and Media in 1980s PalermoSummer School in collaboration with the Istituto SvizzeroPalermo, Italy
12.06.2024Alfredo ThiermannRadio-Activities: Architecture and Broadcasting in Cold War BerlinBook LaunchCollegium Helveticum, Zurich
19.05.2024Alfredo Thiermann1990 (2024)Performative Listening Session at “Echoes of the Brother Country”Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
16.05.2024Xavier NuenoMarket / PlanningHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
08.05.2024Anna-Maria Meister (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz: Max Planck Institute, KIT and saai archive Karlsruhe)Fragile Objects, Coded KnowledgeNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
07.05.2024Maria StavrinakiEndingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
03.05.2024Alfredo ThiermannAt the Scale of the RadioBerlage Sessions “In and Out of Scale”The Berlage
02.05.2024Xavier NuenoLibrary / InformationHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
01.05.2024Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)Pre/ArchitectureNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
30.04.2024Spyros Papapetros (Princeton University)AdorningHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
25.04.2024Alfredo ThiermannBroadcasting House / EntertainmentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
24.04.2024Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago (Universidad Politéchnica de Madrid)Against the Commons: Elements for a Radical Planning TheoryNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
18.04.2024Enrique Walker (USI)Museum / InternationalismHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
18.04.2024Pedro Correa FernándezKnots and Wires. Contested Communications in Wallmapu, 1870-1883PS02 Transnational Mobility, Space, and Place-making in the Global SouthSAH 77th Annual International Conference, Albuquerque
16.04.2024Gary Tomlinson (Yale University)CommunicatingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
11.04.2024Claire Zimmerman (University of Toronto)Factory / LabourHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
10.04.2024Claire Zimmerman (University of Toronto)Industrial Architecture, Situated in the Twentieth CenturyNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
09.04.2024Bisserka Gaydarska (Durham University)/Forensic ArchitectureUrbanisingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
28.03.2024Xavier NuenoLaboratory / ResearchHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
27.03.2024Sarah Gainsforth (Journalist)Challenging the New Housing QuestionNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
26.03.2024Steven Mithen (University of Reading)FeedingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
21.03.2024Pedro Correa FernándezSchool / ExperimentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
20.03.2024Tatiana Efrussi (L’atelier des artistes en exil)Hannes Meyer’s Kinderheim Mümliswil: From Utopian “Home” to National MemorialNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3EPFL
19.03.2024Sabine HylandRulingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
13.03.2024Alfredo ThiermannHouse / DomesticityHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
13.03.2024Pier Vittorio Aureli (EPFL)Architecture and Abstraction: Book Launch with Sarah Nichols, Christophe van Gerrewey, Anna-Maria Meister, and Alfredo Thiermann
Neighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3		EPFL
12.03.2024Linda Manzanilla (Colegio Nacional de México)CoexistingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
07.03.2024Pedro Correa FernándezTower / EmpireHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
05.03.2024Pier Vittorio Aureli (EPFL)DwellingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
29.02.2024Alfredo ThiermannHousing / SocietyHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
27.02.2024Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)DomesticatingHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
24.02.2024Xavier NuenoAI: Artificial Intelligence. A Legal RevolutionIn conversation with Frank PasqualeCentre de Cultura Contemporánia de Barcelona
22.02.2024Alfredo ThiermannIntroduction: On Type and HistoryHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
20.02.2024Alfredo ThiermannBeginningHistory of Architecture I/IIEPFL
15.02.2024Pedro Correa FernándezDemarcating Land, Dividing Knowledge. Chile, 1830-1850Histories of Architecture, Land, and Labor. Technologies and Utopias of Building Work (Course by María González Pendás)Cornell University
11.01.2024Alfredo ThiermannThe Labor für akustisch-musikalische Grenzprobleme
A History of Sound, Space, and Border Problems		Contributor EssaySound & Science: Digital Histories
6–11.01.2024Alfredo ThiermannBienal de Arquitectura Rural – Rutas CaravanerasParticipation in the 1st Rural Biennial of ChileTarapacá, Chile
06.12.2023Davide Spina (ETH Zurich)The Politics of the ScreenNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
29.11.2023Olivia Neves Marra (Bartlett)Gardening is Building: Towards an Alternative Design Methodology with Allotment GardensNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
27.11.2023Alfredo ThiermannNotes on Los AngelesInvited lecture at international symposium Translational Histories of Architecture honoring Jean-Louis CohenUniversity College in London
24.11.2023Xavier NuenoEl Arte del Saber Ligero. Una breve historia del exceso de información (Ediciones Siruela, 2023)Book PresentationLa Central (c/Mallorca)
15.11.2023S.E. Eisterer (Princeton University)“My Cell Mate is Full of Compassion”: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky and the Architecture of Collective Dissidence Neighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
14.11.2023Mari Lending (OCCAS)Provenance Projected: Before the FactNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
21.10.2023Alfredo ThiermannBerlin – Chile. Infrastructures of Solidarity, Infrastructures of TotalitarianismInternational Conference Listening to the World – 100 Years of RadioHaus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
28.09.2023Pedro Correa FernándezRegimes of Making. Arts and Industries at the Margins, 1830-1860Fall Graduate Fellows Buell WorkshopColumbia University
27.09.2023
11.10.2023
08.11.2023
22.11.2023		Noha MokhtarVideo WorkshopEnoncé Théoretique de MasterEPFL
28.09.2023Pedro Correa FernándezResponse to Ultan Byrne. State in Formation: The Office of the Supervising Architect, 1852-1939Fall Graduate Fellows Buell WorkshopColumbia University
27.09.2023Daniel Barber (UT Sydney)Architecture and the Arts of SufficiencyNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 2EPFL
13.06.2023Alfredo ThiermannInhabiting Technical MediaInaugural LectureEPFL
24.05.2023Ioanna Piniara (Architectural Association)The Housing Question is a Feminist Question: Housing Commons for the “New Woman” of the German WerkbundNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
17.05.2023Fredie Floré (KU Leuven)Furniture, Architecture and Politics: The History of Knoll InternationalNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
11.05.2023Xavier NuenoMarket / MarketHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
04.05.2023Xavier NuenoLaboratory / ResearchHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
03.05.2023Fernanda Canales (Harvard GSD)Public DomesticitiesNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
27.04.2023Pedro Correa FernándezSkyscraper / ManagementHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
26.04.2023Kim Förster (University of Manchester)Commodity Cement: A Global HistoryNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
20.04.2023Alfredo ThiermannBroadcasting House / EntertainmentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
06.04.2023Lea Catherine SzackaMuseum / InternationalismHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
05.04.2023Alfredo ThiermannThe Broadcasting House: Architecture, Type, and the Culture Industry Symposium The Fifth Typology, organized by TPODEPFL
30.03.2023Michael Osman (UCLA)Factory / LabourHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
29.03.2023Michael Osman (UCLA)Contractor as Capitalist: Building the Erie CanalNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
27.03.2023Alfredo ThiermannType and HistorySymposium Tackle the Type: Filling Stations, organized by EASTEPFL
23.03.2023Alfredo ThiermannHouse / DomesticityHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
16.03.2023Alla Vronskaya (University of Kassel)School / ExperimentHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
15.03.2023Alla Vronskaya (University of Kassel)Architecture of Life: Soviet Modernism and the Human SciencesNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 1EPFL
09.03.2023Pedro Correa FernándezTower / EmpireHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
02.03.2023Alfredo ThiermannHousing / SocietyHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
23.02.2023Alfredo ThiermannIntroduction: On Type and HistoryHistory of Architecture V/VIEPFL
22.02.2023Florentina Holzinger and Beatrice CorduaFlorentina Holzinger and Beatrice Cordua in Conversation Nonprofessionals Vol. 1EPFL