About

Anna Puigjaner (she/her) is a PhD architect and researcher, co-founder of MAIO, an architectural office based in Barcelona. Her work, linked to feminist studies, is focused on inclusive domestic architectures able to redefine former biased structures. She is currently Professor of Architecture and Care at ETH Zürich. Previously, she taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation GSAPP at Columbia University, at the Royal College of Arts, London, and at the Barcelona School of Architecture ETSAB/ETSAV - UPC. Anna has presented her work widely, including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Venice Biennale, and the New York Museum of Modern Art. Her research project Kitchenless City was awarded the Wheelwright Price (2016) by the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Dafni Retzepi (she/her) born in Greece in 1992, is an architect EPFL and a teaching assistant at the Chair of Architecture and Care in ETHZ since 2023. She is a PHD candidate at the University of Bologna, Italy. She is one of the founding members of the architectural office Sujets Objets / based in Geneva. In 2019 she co-founded the experimental practice Arimna. Interested in the latitudes of practice and the highways of theoretical formulations, her projects and research examine contemporary architectural discourses under the light of relations to the recent cultural, economic, and political past.

Ethel Baraona Pohl (they/them) is a critic, writer and curator, as well as a co-founder of the independent research studio and publishing house dpr-barcelona, which operates in the fields of architecture, political theory, and the social milieu. Ethel is Senior Researcher at the Chair of Architecture and Care at ETH Zurich. Their curatorial practice includes, among others, “Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales” (Matadero Madrid, 2020–21); and more recently, “Llibres Model” a curated book collection and open library (Model, Barcelona Architectures Festival 2022, 2023). Their writing has been widely published, both in academic and independent publications. Ethel believes that publishing is a political act, and reading, a form of resistance.

Lisa Maillard (she/her) is an architect and researcher currently teaching and researching at the chair of Architecture and Care at ETH Zürich, where she is also a doctoral candidate. She studied at ETH Zürich, Goldsmiths (London), and King’s College London, and has worked in participatory urban planning processes in Zürich. Her PhD focuses on spaces addressing ambivalent pregnancies in contemporary Switzerland. As an active member of the Parity Group (Prix Meret Oppenheim 2023), she co-curated the tenth edition of the Parity talks at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich. Lisa is a founding member of Kollektiv Erika, an informal, non-commercial gastronomy collective periodically realising projects since 2014.

Paule Perron (she/her) is an architect and researcher based in Geneva. She currently teaches at the Chair of Architecture and Care at ETH Zurich. Through her work, she explores how patterns of domination over bodies are perpetuated through space, with a focus on domestic territories and their governed intimacies. Since 2024, she has been a lecturer in the Department of Interior Architecture at HEAD – Genève (HES-SO), as well as a co-curator and founding member of Public Affairs, a residency program examining how the built environment (re)produces gender and sexual inequalities. In 2025, she and Robin Delerce founded the architectural firm ducks.

Pol Esteve Castelló (he/him, they/them) is a PhD architect teaching and researching at the Chair of Architecture and Care since 2023. Pol’s work focuses on the relationship between body, space, and technology with a special interest in non-conforming bodies, non-canonical histories, and collective and anonymous design. Their work has been presented in different formats, including writing, performative talks, and installations. They are the author of the book Arquitecturas Peligrosas (Puente Editores, 2025). They are a practising designer and a co-founder of studio GOIG. Pol is also affiliated to the Architectural Association, London.

He Shen 何珅 is an architect and researcher at the Chair of Architecture and Care, ETH Zürich. Their work explores the spatial histories of gender and sexual dissidence in China and across the Asian diaspora, with a focus on tofu, tea, and rice as infrastructures of transnational Asian resistance. Their PhD mobilises Sichuanese dialect to trace forms of gender and sexual dissent beyond globalised queerness, re-historicising the teahouse as a porous infrastructure of care. Recent curatorial projects include Impossible Architecture (Bibliotheca Hertziana) and More Time to Spend Together (Toxi Space). Shen is recipient of City of Zürich Art Grant 2025 and member of Asian Futures Collective.

Valentina Noce (she/her) is an architect and researcher based in Milan. She is currently teaching at the Chair of Architecture and Care at ETH Zurich. She is completing a PhD at Politecnico di Milano, investigating how architectural practice can engage with the unsettling conditions of contemporary space through integrated technologies and spatial dysfunctions. In 2024, she founded the studio Sabotage Practice, working on private projects, research and writing, and collaborative design. Its work was presented at solo exhibitions in London and Melbourne.

Luís Úrculo (he/him) lives and works between Madrid and Mexico City. His practice takes anthropology, archeology, and criminology as a main reference of phenomenology to create lines of investigation based on the idea of the reconstruction of timelines, interpretations, uncertain materiality, imprecise descriptions, or ambiguity to create a diverse body of works. He also works with the concept of ‘karaoke’ or absence of information, to create a line of complicity with the viewer, who builds interpretations, as tourists, archeologists, or simple karaoke singers in a bar.