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Publications associées (27)
Echoing Swiss Coloniality. Land, Archive and Visuality between Brazil and Switzerland.
Informed by longstanding artistic practice, this doctoral thesis approaches entanglements of Swiss coloniality in Brazil and Switzerland under the lens of land, archive, and visuality. The enduring legacies of imperial capitalism in the former Colonia Leop ...
EPFL2024Base and Superstructure: A Vulgar Survey of Western Architecture
Marson Korbi, Pier Vittorio Aureli
The lecture attempted to trace the history of architecture as built ideology. The article follows the steps of Manfredo Tafuri’s famous essay ‘Per un critica dell’ideologia architettonica’, published’ in 1969, in the journal Contropiano, the article unders ...
2023Base and Superstructure: A Vulgar Survey of Western Architecture
Marson Korbi, Pier Vittorio Aureli
The essay attempt to trace the history of architecture as built ideology. The article follows the steps of Manfredo Tafuri’s famous essay ‘Per un critica dell’ideologia architettonica’, published’ in 1969, in the journal Contropiano, the article understand ...
2023Poverty and Architecture: The Fuggerei as an Early Example of Affordable Housing
As Rafael Moneo asserted in his seminal article “On Typology,” the emergence of a new type can be considered a tangible signifier of changed architectural and historical circumstances, new modes of production, or social attitudes towards specific subjectiv ...
2023Patents, War and Peace. The resilience of the international patent order through the First World War
By the end of the 19th century, an international order had emerged for patents, allowing business actors to use patents in many countries concurrently, and thus supporting a new phase in the development of industrial capitalism. Centered on Europe in spite ...
2023Demand-based Asset Pricing: Theory, Estimation and Applications
This thesis investigates the relationship between investors' demand shocks and asset pricesthrough the use of data on portfolio holdings. In three chapters, I study the theory, estimation,and application of demand-based asset pricing models, which incorpor ...
EPFL2023Privacy-preserving federated neural network training and inference
Training accurate and robust machine learning models requires a large amount of data that is usually scattered across data silos. Sharing, transferring, and centralizing the data from silos, however, is difficult due to current privacy regulations (e.g., H ...
EPFL2023Manor Lessons: Commons Revisited
Harry Gugger, Amy Faith Perkins
Our contemporary condition, governed by the abstract apparatus of the capitalist market, demands a critical reading of the distribution, ownership, and use of common resources, especially on an island that has experienced a long history of privatization st ...
Park Books2021Architecture, environnement et artefact total : la ville selon Reyner Banham et Oswald Mathias Ungers
When looking at the city and the land, current architectural practices face a double limitation. On the one hand, the discipline is asked to react to its own specter: the body of authoritarian spatial devices based on a questionable tradition of which the ...
EPFL2021The right to housing? The antinomies of social housing between public and private
What is social housing, is it a right or a property? Is it guaranteed for all by welfare state or non-governmental organizations or a commodity in capitalist production and market relations? According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948, h ...
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