A&T Doctoral Fellows
Meet our A&T Doctoral Fellowship Recipients
ITA Fellows Interviews 2023
In 2023, we met up with four of our ITA Fellows, who joined the institute in years 2020 to 2022. We asked them about what brought them here, what is their research about, and what their experience of doing a doctorate here at ITA has been so far.
Read their stories below.
ITA Fellows_Issue 04
An interview with Chaoyu Du, ITA Fellow 2021
Chaoyu Du is a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), ETH Zürich. She received the Architecture & Technology Doctoral Fellowship in 2021, and is currently a researcher within the Architecture and Structures, Block Research Group (BRG), led by Prof. Philippe Block. Prior to coming to Switzerland, Chaoyu collaborated with the architectural offices TJAD and ECADI specializing in computational design, and she also produced several publications in the field of architectural theory and history. Chaoyu holds a Master’s degree in Architecture from Tongji University, and a dual Master’s degree in Urban Design from the Technical University of Berlin.
Read the full article here.
ITA Fellows_Issue 03
An interview with Andrea Ling, ITA Fellow 2020
Andrea Ling is a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), ETH Zürich. She received the Architecture & Technology Doctoral Fellowship in 2020. Andrea works within the Digital Building Technologies research group, led by Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger. She is an architect and installation artist, founding partner of designGUILD, a Toronto-based art collective, former project lead for Philip Beesley Architect, and former research assistant and designer for Neri Oxman’s Mediated Matter Group at the MIT Media Lab. Andrea has a M.Sc from the MIT Media Lab, and M.Arch from the University of Waterloo, and has completed studies in Human Physiology at the University of Alberta.
Read the full article here.
ITA Fellows_Issue 02
An interview with Agostino Nickl, ITA Fellow 2021
Agostino is a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA), ETH Zürich. He received the Architecture & Technology Doctoral Fellowship in 2021. Currently, Agostino is a researcher within the Digital Architectonics research group, led by Prof. Ludger Hovestadt. Prior to joining ITA, he worked at Arup Digital Studio in London, an interdisciplinary design practice, and taught Architectural Design at the Oxford School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture and Videogame Urbanism Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Agostino holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Leibniz University in Germany, and a Master’s degree in Architecture from The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, in the UK.
Read the full article here.
ITA Fellows_Issue 01
An interview with Ayca Duran, ITA Fellow 2022
Ayca Duran is a Doctoral Fellow at the Institute of Technology in Architecture, ETH Zürich. She received the Architecture & Technology Doctoral Fellowship in 2022. She works within the Architecture & Building Systems research group, led by Prof. Arno Schlüter, and her research is part of the Powering the City module of Future Cities Lab Global and focuses on the application of Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPVs). She holds Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Architecture from METU.
Read the full article here.