André Corboz

André Corboz (5 June 1928, Geneva – 4 June 2012, Collonge-Bellerive) was a Swiss historian of art, architecture, and urban planning. He studied law at the University of Geneva before earning a doctorate in letters at Grenoble in 1981. Corboz taught architectural history at the University of Montreal (1967–1980) and later urban planning history at ETH Zurich (1980–1993), and was also a researcher at the Getty Center in Los Angeles. He published widely on painting, architecture, and urbanism, and initiated the Historical Atlas of Swiss Cities (1997). His influential works include Invention of Carouge, 1772–1792, a study of city-making at the gates of Geneva in the late 18th century.

How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book Norrland, journalist Po Tidholm opens with a poem that captures a long-standing reality: northern Sweden has long been a site of resource extraction— iron […]

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