Hans Hortig
is a landscape architect and postdoctoral researcher with a PhD from ETH Zurich’s Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS). He studied landscape architecture and open space planning at the Technical University Berlin, the ETH Zurich and the School of Design, Mysore. His research examines processes of extended urbanisation in agrarian territories, resource extractivism, and the operationalisation of territory through agro-industrial production, with a current focus on palm oil territories in Malaysia.
Since 2013, he has taught research and design studios, elective courses, and supervised final thesis projects at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore, ETH Zurich, and TU Berlin, integrating his research themes into design and planning education.
He co-curated the lecture series Sessions on Territory and has contributed to exhibitions including the Shenzhen Biennale for Architecture/Urbanism (2015), SAM Basel (2019), and ARCH+ The Great Repair (2023) in Berlin. His work has appeared in edited volumes and journals such as Archithese, GAM, and ARCH+, and he is co-editing the forthcoming book Singapore Beyond the Border with Milica Topalović and Karoline Kostka.
His awards and funding include the DAAD New Passage to India, ETH Future Cities Laboratory grants, and the Leading House Asia Early-Career Grant.
Involved in
Palm Oil Territories
A Case Study of Oil Palm Plantations in Johor State, Malaysia
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In the Shadow of the Palms
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
The Great Repair
ARCH+ #253. Florian Hertweck, Christian Hiller, Markus Krieger, Alex Nehmer, Anh-Linh Ngo, Milica Topalović (eds.)
The Great Repair
Akademie der Künste, Berlin
On Palms, Weevils, and Owls
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Von Palmölplantagen Zu Dörfern
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Operationalisation of Agriculture
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Built on Foreign Sand
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Sea Region