Vers une architecture en la enseñanza

Daniela Ortiz dos Santos

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4865-0486

Germany

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Daniela Ortiz dos Santos is assistant professor at the Art History Department of the Goethe University specialized in transatlantic studies of the built and imagined environments, exploring how their historiography have intersected with displacement. Daniela is a fellowship awardee from the 2005 Fondation Le Corbusier research grant program. In her PhD at ETH Zurich (SNF Funding Award), Daniela examined Le Corbusier’s relations with the Brazilian Antropofagia (OA publication). Among her writings on modern architecture includes “Anthropophagic Affairs” (LC Revue, 2021), “Invisible Files in Visible Institutions: Notes on Max Cetto’s Papers” (CRITIQUE D’ART, 2020), and “Blaise Cendrars et Le Corbusier: villes et voyages utiles” (KOMODO21, 2018), and the co-edition of the volume Bauhaus Clouds. Challenges to the Nebula of Architectural Histories and Archives (2025). Her current book project intersects transatlantic diaspora, architectural historiography and UNESCO in the Cold War.

Marta Sequeira

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8625-3049

Portugal

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Marta Sequeira (Lisbon, 1977) is an architect, researcher, and curator whose work explores the reception and transformation of modern ideas in architectural culture, with a particular focus on Le Corbusier. She holds a PhD from the Escola Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona and is Associate Professor at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon, and at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, where she founded and directs the PhD Programme in Contemporary Architecture. She is also a researcher at DINÂMIA’CET–Iscte. Her book Towards a Public Space (Routledge) was awarded the Prix de la Recherche Patiente (Fondation Le Corbusier, 2016). As a curator, she has organised exhibitions including Carrilho da Graça: Lisboa, Flashback / Carrilho da Graça, and Habitar Lisboa. Her work bridges research, teaching, and curatorship to interrogate the critical legacies of modern architecture.

Veronique Boone

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0693-224X

Belgium

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Veronique Boone is an associate professor, lecturing on architectural history and heritage of twentieth century architecture. She studied architecture and history of architecture at Ghent University, ENSA Paris-La Villette and La Sorbonne in Paris. She completed her PhD on Le Corbusier and the mediation of architecture by film and television, for which she received the Prix de la Recherche Patiente (Fondation Le Corbusier, 2017). Her research focuses on the modalities of representation and the mediation of modern architecture, the intellectual histories on architecture and new angle histories of architecture. She publishes regularly on these topics and is an author for Belgian and international architectural magazines on contemporary architecture. She worked on several exhibitions as curator. Recent publications include Le Corbusier on Camera. The unknown films of Ernest Weissmann (Birkhauser, 2023) and Parcours d’architecte: Josse Franssen (Mercatorfonds, 2025).

Frederike Lausch

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6686-3111

France

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Frederike Lausch is an Associate Professor of Architectural History and Cultures at ENSA Grenoble-UGA, Research Unit AE&CC. Her research focuses on architecture as discourse and discipline by investigating media strategies of architects, their political positionings and professional conflicts over expertise and authority in international settings. Currently, she is researching architecture in development contexts through the Communication Centre of Scientific Knowledge for Self-Reliance (ABE 21/2023), the Darmstadt Institute for Tropical Building and Planning (digital exhibition 2024) and the UNESCO Division for Human Settlements and the Socio-Cultural Environment. She has worked at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Technical University of Darmstadt, RWTH Aachen University and ETH Zurich, and received grants and fellowships from the Wüstenrot Foundation, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the Max Weber Foundation and the Swiss National Science Foundation. She is co-founder of the Center for Critical Studies in Architecture (CCSA).



Ciro Miguel

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-1353-1241

Switzerland

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Architect, photographer, and historian based in Zurich, Switzerland. He holds a professional diploma from the University of São Paulo (FAU USP), a Master’s degree from Columbia University (GSAPP), and a Doctorate from the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. His research explores alternative narratives of the built environment using photography and visual archives. Ciro was co-curator of Todo dia/Everyday, the 12th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo (2019), and his work has been exhibited at the Architekturmuseum der TU München, S AM Basel, the Center for Architecture New York, and Casa da Arquitectura. Recent publications include: “Un orden icónico: las columnas de Oscar Niemeyer,” (ARQ, no.119, 2025) and “Pinacoteca do Estado,” in Constructed Geographies: Paulo Mendes da Rocha (Casa da arquitectura/Yale Press, 2024). Co-editor of Everyday Matters: Contemporary Approaches to Architecture (Ruby Press, 2022), and gta Papers Amazônía (gta Verlag, 2025).

Enviado: 13-11-2025

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Aceptado: 28-11-2025

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Publicado: 28-11-2025

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4995/lc.2025.25008

Derechos de autor 2025 Daniela Ortiz dos Santos, Marta Sequeira, Veronique Boone, Frederike Lausch, Ciro Miguel

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Pedagogía arquitectónica, Le Corbusier, arquitectura moderna, ETH de Zúrich, historiografía de la enseñanza de la arquitectura

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Vers une architecture in Teaching investiga cómo el libro fundamental de Le Corbusier ha sido interpretado, apropiado y cuestionado en el contexto pedagógico del ETH Zürich. A partir de materiales de archivo, documentos docentes y testimonios de profesores desde finales de los años 1950, esta investigación traza la presencia oscilante de Vers une architecture en la enseñanza de la arquitectura—desde su condición canónica hasta su revisión crítica. El estudio muestra cómo distintas generaciones de docentes han utilizado el texto de Le Corbusier como herramienta de reflexión estética, debate ideológico o distanciamiento histórico, revelando transformaciones más amplias en la cultura arquitectónica. Al yuxtaponer estas prácticas pedagógicas, el artículo sitúa al ETH Zürich como un microcosmos de los cambios en las herencias del moderno y reconsidera cómo la enseñanza de la arquitectura construye sus propias historias mediante actos de lectura, crítica y reinterpretación.

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