Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

She was a workshop respondent at the 6th Holcim Forum 2019 and contributed the article “Biopolitics on the Nile: The Toshka Project” in Infrastructure Space, a collection of essays from the 5th Holcim Forum 2016.

Her teaching and research interests are related to how struggling communities can gain greater access to resources, the mainstream economy, better governance, and ecological/social justice.

She was previously Assistant Professor of Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design where she taught studios and seminars. Charlotte holds a PhD in Architecture from ETH Zurich, and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Architecture from the National School of Architecture of Marseille (ENSAM). She also studied at TU Vienna and graduated with a MAS in Urban Design from ETH Zurich. She is also co-founder of OMNIBUS with Noboru Kawagishi, an urban design laboratory focused on interdisciplinary exploration of community-building factors in various metropolitan contexts.

In addition to over two dozen papers, essays, and articles published in a variety of media, she has produced five book-length publications; Eileen Gray- A house under the Sun, with Z Dzierzawaska, (N B Nobrow, 2019); Some Haunted Spaces in Singapore, with M Jaeggi, (Edition Patrick Frey, 2018); Cairo Desert Cities, (Ruby Press, 2017); Housing Cairo – The Informal Response, (Ruby Press, 2016); and Migrant Marseille: Architecture of Social Segregation and Urban Inclusivity, (Ruby Press, 2020), with Marc Angélil.