Elli Mosayebi

Elli Mosayebi’s career is characterised by a close link between practice, research and teaching. Together with Ron Edelaar and Christian Inderbitzin, she has led the Zurich-based architecture firm Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin since 2004.

Through numerous competition-winning projects, housing and urban design have taken on a special significance in her career. From 2004 to 2008 she was a research assistant at the Chair of Architectural Theory of Prof. Dr. Ákos Moravánszky, where she completed her doctoral thesis on the domestic work of the Milanese architect Luigi Caccia Dominioni. From 2012 to 2018 she was Professor of Design and Housing at the TU Darmstadt, where she conducted a comparative study of post-war European housing.

Since 2018 Elli Mosayebi has been Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich. Housing and the changes it is currently undergoing are integral aspects of her practice and research.