Stephen Cairns

Director

Future Cities Laboratory (FCL), Urban-Rural Systems

Stephen Cairns is Director of Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) in Singapore, and Urban-Rural Systems design-research practice, and is Professor in Architecture at ETH Zurich. He co-authored Buildings Must Die: A Perverse View of Architecture (with Jane M. Jacobs) (MIT Press 2014), and co-edits the Future Cities Laboratory: Indicia series (with Devisari Tunas) (Lars Müller Press with NUS Press 2017, 2019 and 2021). Urban-Rural Systems’ work has been widely exhibited, including at the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) (2010, 2012, 2016) and the Inde Awards (2020).