is an architect and research and teaching assistant in the design studios and co-curates the Sessions on Territory. Jakob studied architecture in Leipzig, Weimar and Zurich. For his 2020 thesis project Cohabitation Podcast with station+ he referred to wildlife protection laws to protect residential buildings from demolition by making brown long-eared bats settle in the buildings. He has been editor at ARCH+ for two years. In early 2023 he joined the chair of Architecture of Territory and in autumn 2024 he was part of the ZAS* experimental studio teaching team at ETH Zurich.

jakob.walter@arch.ethz.ch