Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (FR) is an architect, urban designer, and Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-EPFL, where she leads the laboratory RIOT.

Malterre-Barthes’ interests relate to urgent aspects of contemporary urbanization, material extraction, climate emergency, and social justice. While Assistant Professor of Urban Design at Harvard University, she started the initiative A Moratorium on New Construction, interrogating current development protocols (2025, Sternberg Press / MIT Press). Malterre-Barthes holds a Ph.D. (ETH Zurich) on the political economy of commodities and the built environment and is a founding member of the Parity Group (Meret Oppenheim Prize 2023) and the Parity Front, activist networks dedicated to equality in architecture. She serves on the scientific board and is an ambassador for the initiative House Europe!