Author: Andri Gerber

Andri Gerber (Ph D), born in 1974, is Professor for the History of Urban Design at the ZHAW in Winterthur. He is an expert of metaphors in the context of architecture and urban design. His research interests turn around the concept of space, from a phenomenological, a political and more recently from a cognitive perspective. Brent Patterson, architect, is working on a Ph D in philosophy at Paris 8. He teaches history and theory courses at architecture schools in Paris including the Ecole Spéciale d`Architecture (ESA), where he is an associate professor.