Friday 10 June
08:45–09:00
Welcome and introductions
09:00–12:00
Panel 1: The European City – Chair: Maarten Delbeke (ETH Zurich)
- Edoardo Piccoli (Politecnico di Torino) – Sacred Real Estate in the Eighteenth-Century City: Issues of Legitimacy
- Desmond Fitz-Gibbon (Mount Holyoke College) – Cultural Economy and the Marketization of Real Estate in Modern Britain
- Alexia Yates (University of Manchester) – Bubbles, Scams, Busts: On Reading Financialized Real Estate
- Laurence Heindryckx (Ghent University) – Developing the European Metropolis of the 20th Century: Amelinckx and Etrimo in Post-war Belgium
12:00–14:00
Lunch break
14:00–17:00
Panel 2: Corporate Citadels – Chair: Laurent Stalder (ETH Zurich)
- Sarah M. Schlachetzki (University of Bern) – “Fourteen Hundred Meters of Most Modern Office Block Façades”: Heinrich Mendelssohn. Developer, Investor, Networker
- Amy Thomas (TU Delft) – “Too Feeble and Senile for the Job”: The Many Faces of the City of London Corporation
- Thomas Shay Hill (Harvard GSD) – Architecture, Building Innovation, and Real Estate Finance in the 1980s Office Development Boom
- Sara Stevens (University of British Columbia) – Mediating Capital: Developers of Speculative Office Towers
17:00–17:30
Coffee break
17:30–18:30
Roundtable 1: Switzerland today – Chair: André Bideau (ETH Zurich, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio)
- Adam Jasper (ETH Zurich) – The Hourglass, the Ballot Box, and the Facade: Cultural Participation as Strategy in the Development of Swisscom Tower Berne
- Susannah Cramer-Greenbaum (ETH Zurich) – Modifying to Commodify: How Financial Intent Shapes Urban Housing in Zurich
- Isabel Concheiro Guisan (HEIA Fribourg) – Negotiating with Capital: Architects and Developers in Contemporary French‐speaking Switzerland
18:30–20:00
Apéro (Restaurant Chiffon)
Saturday 11 June
09:00–12:00
Panel 3: Anglo-Suburbia – Chair: Emma Jones (University of Hong Kong)
- Maren Koehler (University of Sydney), Jasper Ludewig (University of Newcastle) – Banking on Housing: Credit Foncier Loans and the State Savings Bank of Victoria, 1890–1936
- Andrew Murray (University of Melbourne) – The Buckeridge Group of Companies and the Making of Perth
- Anna Andrzejewski (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Building the Dream: How South Florida (USA) Became a Retirement Destination After World War II
- Ellen Rowley (University College Dublin) – Planned Giving: The Role of Catholic Priest + Parishioner in the Building of Suburban Dublin, Ireland, 1965-80
12:00–13:30
Lunch break
13:30–17:00
Pane 4: The Business of Building – Chair: Sarah Nichols (EPFL)
- Conor Lucey (University College Dublin) – Real Estate and Print Culture in Georgian Britain and Ireland
- Chelsea Spencer (MIT) – Confidence Men: The Credibility of Contractors in the Nineteenth-Century United States
- Jesse Honsa (KU Leuven) – The Building Firm Builds Labour: John Laing & Son’s Creation of Skill, Technique and Productivity
- Kristin Barry (Ball State University) – Patterning Nostalgia: The US Kit House Movement, and the Construction Conundrum
- Ewan Harrison (Liverpool University) – Taylor Woodrow Will Emigrate: A Contractor-Developer Navigates the Ends of Empire in West Africa
17:00–17:30
Coffee break
17:30–18:30
Roundtable 2: Research methods and approaches – Chair: Gregorio Astengo (ETH Zurich), Davide Spina (ETH Zurich)
19:30
Conference dinner (zum Alten Löwen)