28/05/2026
In the module Keynote Lectures in the Master’s program, labor was explored as a designed condition of architectural production. Architectural work is never neutral: workflows, contractual frameworks, tools, standards, and professional norms are socially and politically constructed and directly shape the built environment.
Students investigated working processes and labor relations at Seiler Linhart Architekten in Lucerne and on the construction site of the new Cantonal Library in Sarnen — the restoration and adaptive reuse of a protected 1909 bank building. Through site visits and interviews with architects, collaborators, and construction workers, they examined topics such as organization and management, craftsmanship and tools, and materiality and culture. The collected insights were translated into six 20-minute podcasts.