Lectures

2014

„Travel as a Form of Architectural Knowledge: Learning from Las Vegas and the Invention oft he Urban Research Studio“, College of Architecture, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

„The Visuality of Space and the Space of Vision: On Mies van der Rohe’s Photomontages“, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

„Kannibal und Karneval. Oscar Niemeyers Utopien für Brasília“, lecture on the occasion of the award of the Theodor-Fischer prize, tgarde“, Central Institute of Art History, Munich.

„Fotomontage und Großstadt. Montierte Stadtbilder zwischen Dadaismus und Architektur-Avantgarde“, Institute of Art History, University of Vienna.

"Architectures of Display", Research Colloquium of the Research Center in Social and Economic History, University of Zurich.

"Urban Photography as Architectural Research", Design Hub, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technolgy (RMIT), Melbourne.

"Sergei Eisenstein and Architectural Cinematism", College Art Association, 102nd annual conference, Chicago.

"Stadtbild als Reenactment. Themenarchitektur am Strip von Las Vegas", international conference "Gebaute Stadt / dargestellte Stadt: Die Aktualität einer Kultur- und Kunstgeschichte des Urbanen", Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

2013

"Kannibal und Karvenal. Oscar Niemeyer und die brasilianische Moderne", inaugural lecture, Philosophische Fakultät, Universität Zürich.

"Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror", Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Mass.

"Mies Dada: Mies van der Rohe y Encontros Dada Nos Arranha-Céus de Berlin – 1920", Passos Manuel, Porto.

"Ed Ruscha Loves Los Angeles", Kupferstichkabinett, Basel.

Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand, annual conference, keynote lecture, Gold Coast, Australia, Griffith University.

""Flatness" und andere Verfahren postmodernen Repräsentation. Zu Ed Ruschas visueller Kartierung des urbanen Raums", field of study Art History and Musicology, Universität Freiburg i. Ue.

“Metropolitan Montage: From Walter Benjamin to Paul Citroen”, spring term master lecture, Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Graz, Austria.

“Vision in Motion: The Peripatetic Perception of the City”, Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris.

“'Chalets und Gegenchalets': Strategien nationaler Repräsentation an den Weltausstellungen”, lecture series “Curated in Switzerland”, Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft, Zurich.

“The Rhetoric of Classicism in Modern Architectural Theory: Rudolf Wittkower and Colin Rowe”, annual conference, Research Centre for European Classicism, Weimar, Germany.

“Architecture Education Goes Outside Itself: Crossing Borders, Breaking Barriers”, international conference, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Philadelphia.

“Metaphors of the Metropolis in Postmodern Architectural Discourse”, Universität der Künste (UdK), Berlin.

2012

“The 1960s London Non-Plan Initiative and the Tacit Knowledge of Cities”, Centre of the History of Knowledge, Zurich.

“Las Vegas Studio: The City in the Age of Pop”, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany.

“From Rome to Las Vegas: Paths of Postmodern Architecture”, Swiss National Museum, Zurich.

"Architecture as Apparatus", The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.

"'Wholes': Rossi, Venturi, Postmodernism", University of Los Angeles, Department of Architecture and Urban Design.

"Baghdad and the Postmodern Imaginary", University of Houston.

"Mies Montage", University of Pennsylvania, School of Architecture.

2011

"Whose Postmodernism? Venturi/Scott Brown and Transatlantic Architectural Exchange", international conference "Reconsidering Postmodernism", Institute for Classical Architecture and Art, CUNY Graduate Center, New York.

"Las Vegas, Film, and the Mobilized Gaze", Archizoom, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne.

"Architecture's Place: Venturi/Scott Brown, Pluralism, and the Postmodern International", international conference "Architecture After Socialism: Is Postmodernism All Right?", Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw.

"Deadpan. Las Vegas and 1960s Conceptual Urban Photography", Forum Ludwig, Aachen.

"August Schmarsow, Mental Image, and the Physical Experience of Space," Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, New Orleans.

"Re-Enating Italy: Postmodern Reproductions of Renaissance Imagery in Las Vegas", international conference "Eurotrash: Modern Simulacra of Renaissance Art", Zurich.

"Interpositions/Bildgrenzen" international conference, moderation of the section "Cinema et au-delà: montage et intermédialité", Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris.

"Flaneurs in Automobiles", lecture series "Denkräume", Münster.

2010

„Las Vegas im Rückspiegel. Die Stadt in Theorie, Fotografie und Film”, Reihe “Zündstoffe”, Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT), Universität Karlsruhe.

„Las Vegas, Film, and the Mobilized Gaze”, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago.

„Exporting Architectural Knowledge”, internationale Tagung “What Ever Happened to Italian Architecture?” Depart Foundation und Istituto Svizzero, Rome.

„Archiv des Ortes”, panel discussion on strategies of photographic archives, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste (ZHdK).

„Learning from Las Vegas as Architectural Research”, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam.

„Mies Montage,” School of Architecture, Princeton University.

„„I AM A MOMUNENT. Zur Phänomenologie des Monumentalen bei Venturi und Scott Brown”, international conference “Mythos Monument, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

„Las Vegas and the Mobilized Gaze,” international conference “Architecture after Las Vegas”, School of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven.

2009

„Caesars Palace, Las Vegas etc. The Survival of Antiquity in Scenografical Architecture,” XII. Colloqium Rauricum, Castelen/Basel.

„Architecture between Autonomy and Communication,“ LunchTimeLecture, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart.

„The City as (Moving) Image: Learning from Las Vegas and the Archive,“ AA Architectural Association School of Architecture.

„In Sequence: Learning from Las Vegas, Film, and the Image of the City,” University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

„Land Art to Museum: Olafur Eliasson’s Lava Floor,” College Art Association 97th Annual Conference, Los Angeles.

„Der Architekt als Ghostwriter: On Rem Koolhaas’s Delirious New York,“ International Conference „Zwischen Architektur und Imagination“, Basel.

2008

„Imaging the City. Venturi and Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas and the Filmic Representation of the City,“ 9th International Conference on Urban History, Lyon, France.

„The American Academy in Rome: Condenser of Ideas?,” international conference „Transfer and Metamorphosis“, ETH Zurich.

„Formen der Gegensätzlichkeit. Das Phänomen eines ‚Sowohl-als-auch’ in der Architektur,“ Faculty of Architecture, TU Dortmund.

„Iconic Follies. Trace and Reference in the Private Realm of Philip Johnson,“ Antwerp Design Seminars and Lectures (ADSL), Higher Institute of Architectural Sciences Henry van de Velde, Antwerp.

„Hidden Congruences. Difference and Analogy in Aldo Rossi and Robert Venturi,” international conference „La lezione di Aldo Rossi“, Bologna.

„In Sequence. Las Vegas and the Cinematic Perception of the City,“ Media + Modernity Program, School of Architecture, Princeton University

2007

„Vincent Scully und die Kanonisierung des Shingle Style,“ symposium „Building America – canonization,“ Technische Universität Dresden.

„Die Er-Fahrung der Stadt. Las Vegas aus dem Auto,“ international conference „Das Auge der Architektur,“ Basel.

„Kuppeln und Türme. Luzern, das ‚Hochhaus’ und der Heimatschutz“, annual assembly Innerschweizer Heimatschutz, Suva-headquarters, Lucerne.

„Pop Urbanism: Learning from Las Vegas, Popular Media and the Everyday Architectural Landscape,“ 60th Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

„Standpunkte Nr. 2 im S AM, ‚Freizone’. Lernen von Las Vegas: Gestern und heute”, panel discussion, Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum, Basel.

2006

„Moderne Spolien. Architektur mit Ready-mades,“ Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich.

„Entfesslung der Imagination? ‘Architecture parlante’ von Ledoux bis Herzog and de Meuron,“ NCCR Iconic Criticism, Eikones Summer School, Basel.

„Imaging the City. Learning from Las Vegas and the Perception of the Urban Landscape,“ Department of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

„Learning from Las Vegas − Revisited“, lecture series „Standpunkte“, Atelier Kraut und Zucker, Basel.

2005

„The Meaningful City. Venturi/Scott Brown auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Bedeutung“, symposium „Sprachen der Architektur,“ Zurich.

„Rome in Mind. Robert Venturi, Rom und die Postmoderne,“ conference „Die Grand Tour in der Moderne und Nachmoderne,“ Villa Vigoni, Menaggio (I).