Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (born 1977) is a French architect and urban designer. She is an assistant professor at

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Early life and education

Malterre-Barthes attended École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy and ETHZ, where she received her Ph.D. on the political economy of commodities, nominated for the silver medal. She worked for architecture firms Coop Himmelblau,

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Career

After graduating, Malterre worked in several offices before opening her own urban design agency in Zurich with Noboru Kawagishi called OMNIBUS. In 2011, she joined the ETHZ as a research assistant and became the director of the MAS program in Urban Design. She was a research fellow at the Future Cities Laboratory at

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in 2012. As a faculty member at ETHZ, Malterre was a founding member of the Parity Group, an activist association dedicated to equity in architecture. In 2019, Malterre was appointed co-curator of the

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. In 2020, Malterre joined the faculty at

as an assistant professor. During this time and together with office B+, she initiated the call for "A Global Moratorium on New Construction". This was also published as an online graphic novel with Zosia Dzierżawska in the Architectural Review.

Books

* ''Eileen Gray: A House Under the Sun''. London: Nobrow, 2019. . With Zosia Dzierżawska. * ''Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore''. Zurich: Editions Patrick Frey, 2018. with M. Jaeggi. * ''Cairo Desert Cities''. Berlin: Ruby Press, 2017 with M. Angelil * ''Housing Cairo – The Informal Response''. Berlin: Ruby Press, 2016 with M. Angelil * ''Migrant Marseille: Architecture of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity''. Berlin: Ruby Press, 2020, with M. Angelil

References

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