Galaad Van Daele
Visiting Scholar, 4A_Lab
Galaad Van Daele is an architect, editor and researcher, teaching design at ETH Zurich (Chair of Affective Architectures), and co-editing architecture and art magazine Accattone. He has studied architecture in Paris (ENSAPLV) and Berlin (TU Berlin), and is currently an Associate Fellow of the Doctoral Programme in History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zürich, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, the co-supervision of Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke, and with the support of Prof. An Fonteyne.
His research interests gravitate towards spatial objects explicitly crossing the nature-culture boundary, which he approaches by means of writing and photography, and by tapping into the humanities and Earth sciences. His past research projects have explored artificial topographies around the Mediterranean or questions of extractivism and nature politics, while his current doctoral project focuses on outlining a geological perspective on architectural history and design, starting from the study of the Grotta Grande in Florence.
Parallel to his scholarly research, he has also been investigating visual and plastic modes of mediation of his geo-centric reflections, recently as a fellow of the ‘Architecture and Landscape’ residency program of the Académie des Beaux-Arts (Paris) in 2022-23, or by teaching courses such as “Geoarchitectural Histories – A Research Practice” at Design Academy Eindhoven in 2023.