Laila Seewang
EPFL ENAC IA ALICE
BP 4321 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne
Web site: Site web: https://alice.epfl.ch
Biographie
Laila Seewang is an architect licensed in New York, and an historian whose research uses infrastructural networks as lenses through which to study how society translates cultural values onto material supply chains through design. She is Assitant Professor of Architecture at Portland State University where her research focuses on the contemporary issues arising from historical timber material cycles. This work is carried our in collaboration with various architectural firms and research institutions. She is the co-editor of a special double issue of Architectural Theory Review, Timber Constructed: Towards an Alternative Material History (2021) and has also written about German architectural historiography, public toilets in Berlin, infrastructure as design, brick manufacturing in Brandenburg, timber histories of the Pacific Northwest USA, and rapid sand filters in central Massachusetts. She has a Doctor of Science in architectural history and theory from the ETH Zürich and sits on the Board of Directors of Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative.Formation
Doctor of Science
ETH Zürich
2019
Master of Architecture
Princeton University
2008
Bachelor of Architecture
The Cooper Union
2005
Enseignement & Phd
Enseignement
Architecture
Visiting Professor, Design Studio on the Conception of Space
Cours
Théorie et critique du projet BA1
Le cours vise à l'acquisition des outils essentiels au projet et à une compréhension de l'architecture comme savoir-faire, pensée, et attitude qui interroge l'inscription des êtres vivants dans leur environnement par la conception de l'espace.