Lecturer
Fields of Expertise
Biography
Andreas Kalpakci is an architectural historian and lecturer at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich. His research focuses on twentieth-century architecture, media, and international organizations, including the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and the Union Internationale des Architectes (UIA). His publications include articles in Grey Room, ARCH+ and Tracés. His research has been supported by numerous grants, including the Swiss National Science Foundation and Fulbright. He received the ETH Medal in 2017 for his dissertation, "Making CIAM: The Organizational Techniques of the Moderns, 1928-1959." His postdoctoral research on the history of architectural documentation at the United Nations received the 2022 Seal of Excellence from the European Commission.
Bibliography
- Lausch, Frederike, and Andreas Kalpakci, eds. “Exploring UNESCO and UIA – Histories of Architecture and Bureaucracy in Development Contexts.” ETH Zurich, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000717016.
- Kalpakci, Andreas. “Interrelations: The CIAM Grid in 1949.” Grey Room, no. 92 (Summer 2023): 34–63. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000631350.
- Kalpakci, Andreas. “Professional Education and Its Discontents.” In Radical Pedagogies, edited by Beatriz Colomina, Ignacio G. Galán, Evangelos Kotsioris, and Anna-Maria Meister, 370–73. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000588430.
- Kalpakci, Andreas. “Making CIAM: The Organizational Techniques of the Moderns, 1928-1959.” Dissertation no. 24230, ETH Zurich, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000183653.
- Kalpakci, Andreas. “UIA, R. Buckminster Fuller, and the Architectural Consequences of ‘Total Environment.’” In Re-Scaling the Environment: New Landscapes of Design, 1960-1980, edited by Ákos Moravánszky and Karl Kegler, 271–89. East West Central: Re-Building Europe, 1950-1990 2. Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000127862.