Master Thesis Application

Studio Tom Emerson is supporting free master thesis proposals. If you would like to apply for a free master thesis for the Spring Semester 2026, please send a brief description of your topic and your portfolio until Monday, 7th of December 2026 to donati@arch.ethz.ch

At the moment the following master thesis proposals are being developed with our team:

A Wilderness of Mirrors

Franziska Gödicke

(in collaboration with Prof. Milica Topalovic)

After Stone

Thiago Peterhans

Space. The imaginary spaces of non-architects in not-architecture.

Liv Lindgren-Ornass

Past free master thesis:

With whose hands and bodies will we build our utopias?

by Elisa Nadas & Ella Bacchetta

(in collaboration with Chair of Care.)

Roofs Infrastructures

by Sofia Weidner

(in collaboration with Prof. Laurent Stalder, Prof. Marcelo Faiden, UTDT)

L'Acqua a Milano - ll Nuovo Naviglio

by Chiara Marchegiani & Nina Tschuppert

(in collaboration with Loreta Castro Reguera, GSD Harvard)

La Maison

Memories of a vanished monument

by Julien Rey

(in collaboration with Chair Philip Ursprung)

Debris Movers

Reassembling Warsaw after the Second World War

by Zofia Krupa

(in collaboration with Chair of Prof. Jan De Vylder)

Nobody Home

by Héloise Dussault-Cloutier & Daniel Epprecht

(in collaboration with Chair Philip Ursprung)

Construction ruins

by Lida Freudenreich & Kaspar Zilian

(in collaboration with Chair Charlotte Malterre-Barthes)

Desire of Land – Dwelling on the Periphery

by Jeremy Waterfield

(in collaboration with Chair of Care.)