About the Author

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect, urban designer, and contemporary scholar. As principal of the urban design practice OMNIBUS, she directs the MAS Urban Design at the Architecture Department at the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETHZ) , and holds a PhD from ETHZ on the effects of the political economy of food on the built environment, case study Egypt. Co-curator of the XII Architecture Biennale of São Paulo, she co-authored "Housing Cairo: The Informal Response" and "Cairo Desert Cities" (Berlin, Ruby Press) . She is a founding member of the Parity Group, a grassroots association committed to improving gender equality in architecture.

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