• 2025

    • Future Energy Landscapes (of Switzerland)
    • Labor and Form – Revisiting "Stoffwechsel"
    • Water and Time in Education and Design
    • Loutropolis - Mineral Springs and Baths in Greece
    • Revisiting "Stoffwechsel"
  • 2024

    • On Simulation: A Cultural Technique for Uncertain Urban Futures
    • The Future as a Resource
  • 2023

    • Infrastructural Imaginaries at the Intersection of Planning, Science and Fiction
  • 2021

    • Research in Swiss Architecture: Standards, Politics, Funding
    • Thermal Governance
    • Urban Climate as Danger. Thermal, Spatial and Material Reordering in the Chinese City of the 21st Century
    • Entanglements in the more-than-human City. Ethnographic Challenges in the Anthropocene
    • Heat in Urban Asia Past, Present, and Future
  • 2020

    • The City as Energy Landscape Exhibition
    • Climate Adaption and Mitigation in Social Housing – Local and Bottom-up Perspectives
    • Klimaangepasste Stadtentwicklung versus städtebauliche Verdichtung
    • Resources: Urban Energy Landscapes and the Question of Density
    • Arquitectura y Etnografia
    • Codes and Conventions for a Future Zürich: A propositional Planning Approach
    • Climatic Scenery in Large Halls
    • History of Science on Call
  • 2019

    • Urban Climate in Everyday Life on Heating Practices in Southern China
    • Both High-Rise and Bunker: The Terrassenhaus in Switzerland
    • Gebäudekühlung im (sozialen) Wohnungsbau der Schweiz
    • Building a Living / Living a Building Crossing Scales and Modes of Knowledge in the Creation of the Urban Climate in Cairo
    • Zur Architekturtheorie des Stadtklimas
    • Thermal Knowledge in and Around Architecture in Cairo
    • Urban Planning on the African Continent
    • Theory of Practice Versus Architectural Theory
    • Terrassenhäuser: Gestapelte Gärten im Quartier Bühnenberg, Oftringen
    • Contours of an urban Architectural Anthropology: City Climate, Built Environment and Socio-Material Practices in Chongqing (Southwest China)
    • Heat and Dust. A Climate Ethnography of a House in Historic Cairo
    • Gebäudekühlung im europäischen Wohnungsbau
  • 2018

    • What a Home is Made of. Construction Matters in Khalifa, Cairo
    • Comparative Studies in Climate Control
    • Climate Architecture and Politics
    • The Garden as Exemplary Place of Microclimatic Experience
    • Cold Infrastructure. Economic, Ecological and Social Implications of a Fragile Materiality of Urban Architecture and Thermal Infrastructures in Chongqing (China)
    • Resettlement Archives
    • Zeitgenössische Formen der Urbanisierung in China
    • Thermal Knowledge in Cairo (Egypt)
    • DIY Microclimate. Thermal Cairene Expertise Updated
    • Die Stadt als materielle Kultur - Annäherungen an eine urbane Architekturethnologie
    • The City as Indoor. Architecture After Comfort
    • Urban Microclimates as Artefacts
    • Zwischen Labor und Sea-Ranch. Zur Aneignung des Mikroklimakonzeptes in der Architektur und Landschaftsarchitektur der 1960er und 70er Jahre
    • Microclimate Ethnography (A Monument for Hermann Burger)
  • 2017

    • Thermal regulations in Santiago de Chile - Between local and global governance
    • The Spatial Dimension of Architecture Climate-Responsive Practices and the Built Environment in Ürümqi, Xinjiang
    • Thermal Standards in Architecture
    • Winter in Subtropical Chongqing
    • The Energy Landscape of Geneva (Switzerland)
    • Sensing and Visualizing Microclimates. Workshop for Data-Driven Methods and Tools
    • Lecture on “Thermal Comfort versus Thermal Delight"
    • A Place in the Sun. Thermal Knowledge(s) in Cairo's Domestic Architecture
    • Constructing Cityscapes: Anthropological Perspectives on Architecture and Materiality in Urban China
    • A Breath of Fresh Air. Enlarging the Scope of Thermal Knowledge in Cairo's Residential Architecture
    • Climate Heritage Keeping Heritage Alive… and Liveable
    • Thermal Standards in Santiago (Chile)
    • Architecture as a social Science? Doing Fieldwork in Cairo
    • A Breath of Fresh Air. Enlarging the Scope of Thermal Knowledge in Cairo's Residential Architecture
    • Reflecting on the Globalization of Passive Climate Control - The Case of Santiago de Chile
    • Recognizing Thermal Knowledge: Climate Heritage in the residential Architecture in Cairo, Egypt
    • Space-Making, Materiality and Thermal Comfort in Chongqing, Southwest China
    • Welche Bedeutung hat Architektur für die Gesellschaft
    • Architectural Anthropology as an Omission in Architectural Theory
    • Microclimates, Materialities and Methods. Towards an Urban Anthropology of Architecture
    • Urban Climatology and Design: A History of Ideas
    • Thermal-Material Culture in Chongqing (China)
    • Heritage Perceptions and Gentrification in Bo-Kaap, Cape Town
    • Discourse of Loss and Story of Dispossession. Thermal Qualities of Housing in Islamic Cairo
    • Methods and Challenges of Urban Architectural Anthropology
    • Architektur im Austausch. Zur Aktualität von Gottfried Sempers Stoffwechsel-Theorie am Beispiel des Umsiedlerdorfes New Gourna von Hanna Fathy
    • Der erweiterte Konstruktionsbegriff (mit Marius Hug)
    • North = Active, South = Passive. Non-Heating Zones in China and the Global Standardization of Passive Climate Control
  • 2016

    • Im Zentrum, ein Zelt (Zusammen mit der Künstlerin Katja Jug)
    • Interview for the “Sustainable Design Blog"
    • On Fieldwork. Architecture and Ethnography
    • Habitat Marocain. André Studer in Conversation with Sascha Roesler, SAM Basel
    • Lecture on "Thermal Standards and Affordable Housing. Singapore‘s Social Housing System HDB"
    • André M. Studer in Marokko
    • urban architecture, climate control, thermal diversity, air-conditioning
      The Urban Microclimate as Artifact
    • Thermal Standards and Affordable Housing. Singapore‘s Social Housing System HDB
    • Habitat Marocain. André Studer in Conversation with Sascha Roesler, Hangar, Lisboa
    • Outline of a Microclimatic Portrait of Cairo – Methods of Ethnography
    • Schweizer Architektur? Das Habitat Marocain von Hentsch/Studer in Casablanca
    • Can the Universal be Specific?
  • 2015

    • Singapore’s Urban Mass Housing and the Problem of Ventilation
  • 2014

    • For Sumatra (Man-Made Weather)
    • Man-made Weather. Natural Ventilation as Cultural Heritage of Southeast Asia
    • Natural Ventilation, revisited
  • 2013

    • Adaptations. British Tropical Architecture in the Age of Modernity
    • Habitat Marocain als Modell
  • 2012

    • Thermal Knowledge in Cairo
    • Architectural Anthropology: A Knowledge-Based Approach
    • Theater der Umgesiedelten
  • 2011

    • Habitat Marocain
  • 2009

    • Informelles Bauen mit Beton
    • Selbstbau ohne und mit Architekten

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