Laila Seewang is an architect whose practice works on a range of small projects, renovations and competitions. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Institute for History and Theory within the Department of Architecture of the ETH, Zürich. Her current research centers on the role played by infrastructural projects in reflecting the political, social and economic forces during periods of urban change. She studied architecture at The Cooper Union and Princeton University and holds previous professional experience in New York City for the offices of Pei Cobb Freed & Partners and Diane Lewis Architect, and in Zürich for the Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction. She has previously taught at EPFL in Switzerland, Cornell University, The Cooper Union, GSAPP Columbia University, Princeton University, and Monash University in Melbourne, both in studios and in seminars on the history and theory of urban design. She has been published in Learning from Single Story Urbanism by Lars Muller, The New York Times and Landscape Urbanism, and the Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (JASIST).