BIOGRAPHY

Laurent Stalder studied architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich, qualifying in 1996. From 1996 to 1997 he undertook a scholarship with the Swiss Institute for Archaeology and Architectural Research in Cairo, and from 1997 to 2001 served as an assistant at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) of the Department of Architecture of the ETH Zurich, where he obtained his doctorate in 2002. In the same year he became an assistant professor for architectural history in the History Department of the Université Laval in Québec, Canada. In 2006 he took up a post as assistant professor for architectural theory at the gta Institute. Since 2018 he is full professor at the gta and was its head until June 2021.2019 he was guest professor for «Architectural Behaviorology» at the Departement of Architecture and Building Engineering, School of Environment and Society at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.