Philip Ursprung is Professor of the History of Art and Architecture, Head of the Institute of the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich and since 2026 Part-Time Professor at the School of Architecture, SEU. 2017-2019 he served as Dean of the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich. He curatedHerzog & de Meuron: Archeology of the Mind(CCA Montreal, 2002) and co-represented Switzerland at the 18^thArchitecture Biennale Venice (2023). He is author ofAllan Kaprow, Robert Smithson and the Limits to Art(2013),Joseph Beuys(2021),Gordon Matta-Clark: An Archival Sourcebook(co-editor, 2022), andValues and Surfaces: Art, Economy Architecture(2025).