Focus Works

Depending on our capacities, we also accept proposals for Vertiefungsarbeiten / Focus Works. If you are interested and would like to work on a topic of your own choosing, please send an e-mail to Dr. Sebastiaan Loosen with a summary of your proposal (max. 1 page).

Our past Focus Works include the following projects:


2026

HOUSING POLICY IN POST-APARTHEID CAPE TOWN
Comparative Case Studies of Two Townships. How Do Informal Self-Build Practices and Urban Centrality Shape Housing Development in Langa and Delft?
by Felix Affolter

MAIDAN NEZALEZHNOSTI, KYIV.
A Study of Transformation.
by German Kiyyan

C’EST LA ZONE!
On the Territory of the Boulevard Périphérique.
by Pierre Eichmeyer

TRACING THE MILLION
A Semiological Reading of Malmö’s Million Program Housing.
by Gian Dimitri Bleichenbacher

ARCHITECTURE AND VULNERABILITY
Minnette de Silva and the Recent Demolition of Modern Sri Lanka
by Vithursan Manoharan

ARCHITECTURES OF MOBILE COMMERCE
Along the Carrera Séptima in Bogotá
by Sofía Uribe Gómez

FROM THE CONSTRUCTION OF BRASÍLIA TO A SELF-BUILT HOUSE IN GAMA
Building Knowledge through Experience
by Camilla Alves Nunes Köppel


2025

PARALLEL REALITIES
by Enrico Berta & Sandro Fritschi

WENN FRAUEN BAUEN
Eine Archivaliensammlung zur genossenschaftlichen Frauenbewegung in der Schweiz 1925-1952
by Nora Hochuli

ANY 16
Understanding the Term Whiteness in Architecture
by Claudio Hollenstein

I BAGNI MUNICIPALI A MILANO 1885–1920
Water Shaping the Modern City
by Chiara Marchegiani

GENDERED SPACES OF FEAR.
Everyday Realities of Women in 1990s Grünau
by Anouk Fischer

FROM THE VOID
Urban Free Spaces and the Identity of Post-Wall Berlin
by Shirley Rellstab & Roman Winteler

“BRAZIL” WITH S
An Analysis of a Hierarchical but Interdependent Brasil
by Eduardo Cavalcanti Schifferle

EIGENTUM UND RAUM, JENSEITS VON ÖFFENTLICH UND PRIVAT
Die Suche nach kreativen Herangehensweisen von Eigentumsformen anhand von Theorien und dem Fallbeispiel Bülach Sud
by Florin Meier


2024

RETHINKING SPACES
Architectural Adaptations for Managing Overtourism in Amsterdam
by Alanis Diem

UNCOVERING THE HIDDEN PROJECT OF ZURICH
by Paul Barth, Joakin Gebert, Moritz Hahn, Johannes Pfeiffle & Sofia Tibiletti

EARTH/CONCRETE, TRADITION/MODERNITY
Shifting Material Perceptions
by Lena Grossenbacher

MOKGUWHOI
A Hidden Starring Role at the Anywise Seoul 1995
by Jaehee Shin

DIE ARCHITEKTUR SYMBIOSE VON FORM UND KONTEXT
Aldo van Eycks Erbe auf dem Spielplatz in Bern
by Fabian Müller

HEROIN IN ZÜRICH 1970-1995
by Rico Muth

ALDO ROSSI’S UNDERSTANDING OF ARCHITECTURAL MEMORY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CEMETRY OF SAN CATALDO
by Iya Shopova

LETZIGRUND
From Empty Stadium to Public Space
by Jerome Strebel

ESCAPING MODERNITY
The Complex Interplay of Romantic Ideals and Contemporary Escapism
by Luna Van Arendonk

ANY MAGAZINE, ISSUE 4. ARCHITECTURE AND THE FEMININE
Mop-Up Work – A Transition through the Time
by Anastasia Zharova


2023

GLOBAL CITIES & THE ANY CONFERENCES
Saskia Sassen’s Contribution to the Field of Architecture
by Julie Theytaz

WHO IS GUILLAUME SERNEELS?
A Comparative Analysis of Two “Indigenous” Neighborhoods in Belgian Congo
by Yoann Miéville

RADIANT SEOUL
by Andreas Galliker


2022

THE URBAN MURALS OF THE ZÜRICH HOUSING COMMONS
Sites of Collective Identity, Memory and Political Activism
by Luca Can

ITALIAN FORGOTTEN PERIPHERIES
Cases of Segregation and Ghettoisation within Italian Social Housing Settlements
by Mariavittoria Muschiato

VADEMECUM
Selbstständiges Wohnen im Alter
by Sacha Stettler


2021

37 CHIOSCHI A MILANO
A Catalogue
by Chiara De Libero & Maria Margherita Innocenti

LUCERNE: A TOURISTIC CITY
How Can Tourism Influence the Development of a City?
by Hanna Sophie Elatifi

UNLOCKING THE ZURICH COMMONS
Production Alsong the Wehrenbach
by Lena Stamm

UNLOCKING THE ZURICH COMMONS
Who Owns the Water Commons?
by Joel Brandner

COLLECTIVE GROUNDS
Amsterdam
by Nathalie Clausen

COLLECTIVE GROUNDS
London
by Christa Held

COLLECTIVE GROUNDS
Paris
by Anabell Fritsches

COLLECTIVE GROUNDS
Vienna
by Magdalena Hermann

LIFE AND DEATH OF GENEVA’S CULTURAL SQUATS
Dismantling of a Public Domain 
by Annamaria Bonzanigo

SHINKENCHIKU RESIDENTIAL DESIGN COMPETITION
by Ling Xu


2020

ATHENS AND THE GREEK STATE 
by Maria Lamott

NEUES KREUZBERGER ZENTRUM
Theater, Infrastructure, Fragment, Protest, Accident 
by Raphael Ridder

SHINKENCHIKU RESIDENTIAL DESIGN COMPETITION 
by Luca Can

SHINKENCHIKU RESIDENTIAL DESIGN COMPETITION 
by Grégoire Bridel

SHINKENCHIKU RESIDENTIAL DESIGN COMPETITION 
by Mathis Pante


2019

POLYKATOIKIA
by Maria Lamott