Including diverse German, French, Swiss, British, Scandinavian and Latin-American backgrounds, the cue team is currently focusing on the climate-oriented transition challenges of European urban ecosystems, such as carbon sequestration in post-glacial soils of the densely urbanised Swiss Plateau, and countering desertification trends in sandy meadows of Berlins Urstromtal’s terrain vagues, while advancing doctoral research to polar and tropical regions of the Earth.
If you are interested in research collaborations, thesis work etc., please reach out via chair@cue.tu-berlin.de
Prof. Dr. Antoine VialleHead of Chair
vialle@tu-berlin.de
Antoine (b. 1983, France) is licensed architect (2007), urbanist and doctor in science (2021). Following his training at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville (ENSAPB), Antoine Vialle has worked in several architecture firms. Since 2011, he has been teaching (Scientific Assistant and Lecturer) in various schools and conducted a PhD on Swiss urban soils at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)—Laboratory of Urbanism. In 2010-2011, he was fellow of the French Academy in Rome—Villa Medici. In 2019, he was Doctoral Visiting Student at the MIT Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism in Cambridge (MA). In 2021, Antoine Vialle was postdoctoral researcher and project manager at the EPFL Habitat Research center (HRC). In 2022-2023, he has been leading a research project on the topic of urban soils and carbon sequestration in urban requalification projects at the University of Lausanne (UNIL) —Competence Centre in Sustainability. Funded by the Soil Section of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) and by the Canton of Vaud (DGTL), this interdisciplinary project was developed in collaboration with the UNIL Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics, the ETHZ Department of Environmental Systems Science. Within transdisciplinary teams, Antoine Vialle has developed awarded design projects such as Lausanne Jardin 2019 and Europan 16 (Carouge). He was also assistant curator for the Lausanne Jardins festival 2024. Since October 2023, Antoine Vialle is Tenure Track Professor for climate-oriented urban design at the Technische Universität Berlin, Fakultät VI - Planen Bauen Umwelt, Institut für Architektur, where he leads cue, the new Chair for Transitioning Urban Ecosystems.
Alexander PappeOffice manager
alexander.pappe@tu-berlin.de
Aniella Sophie GoldingerResearch and teaching associate, PhD candidate
goldinger@tu-berlin.de
Aniella (b. 1994, Denmark) is a landscape architect and spatial researcher, based in Berlin. Her research is centered around oceanic hinterlands and the extended urban fabric of the polar territories and works to render visible the interplay between structures of power, ecologies, and more-than-human stakeholders across critical urban theory, mapping and science and technology studies. She is a doctoral research and teaching associate at cue, Institute of Architecture, Technische Universität Berlin and a member of the Architectural Association's Terrain Lab.
She holds a Master’s degree in landscape architecture, specializing in Arctic and sub-Arctic territories, from the Oslo School of Architecture and the Arctic University of Norway, where her thesis delved into the material agency and spatio-legality of sea ice in Arctic marine spatial planning, and a BA in architecture from the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture.
Michel Zisman Zalis Research and teaching associate, PhD candidate
zalis@tu-berlin.de
Michel (b. 1994, Brazil) is an architect and urban and territorial researcher based in Berlin. Since 2024, he has been part of cue where he teaches design studios on climate-oriented urban design and develops a doctoral research at the intersection of territorial design, extensive urbanization and critical conservation studies, examining the hypothesis of conservation as designfrom brazilian protected areas. He holds a MAS in Urban and Territorial Design from ETH Zurich/EPF Lausanne, and a (5-year) Bachelor of Architecture and Urbanism from DAU PUC-Rio, with an academic exchange at FAU Lisboa.
In recent years, he has collaborated with research projects such as Planetability Working Group, Atlas do Chão, and ENTRE, as well as architecture practices including AIA Estudio and Zebulun Arquitetura.
Anne Sophie WilhelmTutor
wilhelm@tu-berlin.de
Anne (b. 1997, Germany) is working as a student assistant for cue since June 2024. She completed her Bachelor studies at Hochschule München and is currently enrolled in the M.Sc. Architecture program at TU Berlin.
Anne is now working on her thesis about operational landscape in Berlin-Brandenburg and is interested in small scale to territorial scale architecture and urbanism as well as in policy writing.
Marina Resende SantosTutor Projektwerkstatt
m.resende.santos@campus.tu-berlin.de
Franka Matthes, Tutor
Nick Roberts-Robbins, Projektwerkstatt
Sarah Möller, Tutor
Aline Schulz, Office Manager
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