I mobilize key concepts of intergenerational distributive justice in order to define and defend a new normative approach to architectural adequacy. This new approach stems from requalifying issues of justice in architecture (affordability, accessibility, shelter, privacy), with a focus on urban environments and housing, in light of the recent literature on intergenerationality. Architectural adequacy is evaluated in light of buildings’ cross-generational features and effects. Attention is given to the practical application of the normative approach in the field of policy development, city planning, and design.

Central to the project is the following interrogation. What architectural arrangements are most desirable for a just distribution of architecture, in present and future times? 

Supervision: Jesse Tomalty, University of Bergen
Co-supervision: Axel Gosseries, UCLouvain (Hoover Chair)

December 2025
'Constraining Future Sovereignty: Architectural Harms and Wrongs'
Intergenerationality, Infrastructure, Justice, Harvard University; Cambridge (USA)

November 2025
'When Are Architectural Constraints on Future Generations’ Sovereignty Unjust?'
Centre de recherche en éthique (CRE); Montreal (Canada)

September 2025
'Generational Sovereignty and City Building'
The City as a Normative Political Space: Institutions, Relations, and Republicanism, MANCEPT; Manchester (UK)

August 2025
'Homeowners as Idle Dwellers'
The return of land politics, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR); Thessaloniki (Greece)

August 2025
'Place-making; home-making'
Aging and the Crafts of Place, Royal Geographical Society; London (UK)

April 2025
'Measuring the justice of architectural policies'
Policy-oriented political philosophy workshop, Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford; Oxford (UK)

April 2025
'Priorité et patrimoine urbain : Ré-évaluer l’agenda de conservation montréalais en temps de crises multiples'
On the Edge of Collapse: Changing Heritage For a Climate in Crisis, Carleton Heritage Conservation Symposium; Ottawa (Canada)

March 2025
'Re-thinking architectural indeterminacy'
Bergen School of Architecture; Bergen (Norway)

February 2025
'Three Cabin Metaphors in Normative Theory'
The Cabin: Between Tradition and Modernity, National Museum of Norway; Oslo (Norway)

February 2025
‘On Irreversiblity, Intergenerationality, and Responsibility (and the Architectural Case)'
Building in time: Intergenerational infrastructural justice and equality, REAL Workshop, Department of Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin; Dublin (Ireland)

November 2024
'In Defence of Lock-ins: Intergenerationality, Optimality, and Transition’
Political theory Workshops, King's College London; London (UK)

October 2024
'The case against environmental performance metrics in assessing intergenerational distributive housing justice'
Oxford Work in Progress in Political Theory Seminars, Nuffield College, University of Oxford; Oxford (UK)

September 2024
'On the temporal non-rivalry of housing goods and why it matters’
Practical Philosophy Group Seminars, Department of Philosophy, UiB; Bergen (Norway)

May 2024
'Housing the future: intergenerational justice, infrastructure, and the issue of architectural lock-ins'
Housing and Social Justice Conference, Centre de recherche en éthique de l'Université de Montréal; Montreal (Canada)

April 2024
‘Rigidizing Tomorrow? On Precaution, Transition and the Badness of Lock-ins'
Norwegian Practical Philosophy Network Symposium; Oslo (Norway)

August 2023
'Motivating temporal justice: can the concept of future people’s dignity serve and substantiate the demands of intergenerational distributive justice?'
Contesting dignity in space: between shame, fame and pride, Annual International Conference, Royal Geographical Society; London (UK)

June 2023
'Intergenerational distributive justice and the adequacy of dwellings: re-qualifying housing resources'
Brave New World, Manchester Centre for Political Theory (MANCEPT); Manchester (UK)

June 2023
'The city as moral space'
Hosting Space: Politics of Gatherings, Hordaland Kunstsenter; Bergen (Norway)

Avril 2023
'Building intergenerational justice': housing adequacy for a futureproof future
Designing Environments: Layers, Scopes, and Closures, International Association for the Study of Environment, Space, and Place; Hochschule Pforzheim (Germany)

November 2022
Returning to Carrie Mae Weems’ kitchen: on framed privacy and the value-laden theatre of homes
Hitting Home: Representations of the Domestic Milieu in Feminist Art, University of Johannesburg; South African Art and Visual Culture Chair, Johannesburg (South Africa)

November 2022
Good rooms, capable roomer? A capabilities’ account of housing adequacy and the Harriet Backer case for non-conservative conservation of the self
STAY HOME: New perspectives on the home, University of Copenhagen, The Royal Danish Academy; Copenhagen (Denmark)

August 2022
A battle of bricks and stones: house architecture for the revolution
The Socialist City: Planning, Transformation and Aftermath, Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space; Berlin (Germany)

June 2022 
Drawn altars, lines of site: Sverre Fehn and the territorial eye
Nordic Nature: Art, Ecology, Landscape, University of Bergen; Bergen (Norway) 

Mars 2022
Material mastery of the Far North: re-imag(in)ing Norwegian architecture and the multiform histories of crafting Flydalsjuvet
Design History Society Dialogues; London (United Kingdom)

October 2021
On operationalized solidarities: insights of ecosophy and other reconnaissance tactics for the climate age
Capital, Climate, Crisis: Sixth Annual Conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies; Aalborg (Denmark) 

July 2021
Revisiting Waldron: on ownership, first-generation rights and the situated freedom to be
International Society for the Philosphy of Architecture Biennale - Public Space: the Real and the Ideal; Monte Verita (Switzerland)

April 2021
Rehearsing otherness: the elusive child, derangements and operative identities in Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations
Wittgenstein and Feminism: Ordinary Language Philosophy’s Contribution to Feminist Theory and Practice International Conference; Bergen (Norway), Paris (France)

March 2021
A theoretical definition of housing adequacy as human right: can it be done?
Open Lecture Series, Bergen Arkitekthøgskole; Bergen (Norway)

January 2021
From principles to practice: moral obligations of architects towards realizing the human right to housing
Philosophy across the Fjords; Bergen (Norway), Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

April 2020
Architectural othering and the promises of rurality: Rehabilitating the rural through dwelling, and other considerations on oikos architecture and the self
Symposium Art and Otherness, Bergensnettverket for kvinner i filosofi; Bergen (Norway)

2025-01 — 2025-06
Bergen Arkitekthøgskole, Instructor 
Subject: Diploma supervision (Birgitte Bruland, Tarjei Sortland, Anna Brovoll, Jostein Hjaltalin, Narathip Phuengpai, Erlend Ness)

2025-01 — 2025-06
Bergen Arkitekthøgskole, Instructor 
Subject: Builders' Hut Kjodehallen (master course)

2024-01 — 2024-06
Bergen Arkitekthøgskole, Instructor 
Subject: OSTOF Zukunftsarbeit für die Hallen Kalk (master course)

2021-01 — 2021-03
Bergen Arkitekthøgskole, Instructor 
Subject: Digital Culture - Modules, repetitions, matters (master and bachelor course)

2020-09 — 2021-01
McGill University School of Architecture, Critic-in-Residence
Subject: Supervision (master thesis), jury committee

2019-04 — 2019-05
McGill University School of Architecture, Instructor
Subject: Shaver Summer School - Architecture and landscapes of Norway (master course) with Annmarie Adams

2015-08 — 2018-12
McGill University School of Architecture, Instructor
Subject: ARCH303 Design and Construction (bachelor course)

2016-01 — 2016-08
École d’Architecture de l’Université de Montréal, Instructor
Subject: ARCH6813 Atelier avancé en production digitale (master course)

2015-06 — 2015-08
Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture, Instructor
Subject: ARCH441 Influence Confluence (master course) with Clothilde Caille-Levesque

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Brandl, Erika (2025). ‘Home owners; idle dwellers? Revisiting Engels and Proudhon’s debate on housing, property, and freedom’, Thresholds, MiT Press, 53:1, 166–181.

Brandl, Erika (2025). ‘Survival of the fittest, sheltering of the mightiest: competition and regulation in contemporary urban housing markets’, Comparisons, 36:2, 201–214.

Brandl, Erika (2025). 'Participatory Housing Models: Lessons from the Past, Present, and Future', in Collective Authorship, A+ Architecture, 314:1.

Brandl, Erika (Forthcoming). 'Universals?', in Universals I-X, Ed. Espen Vatn, Exemplo Books, Lisbon, 124-135.

Brandl, Erika (Forthcoming). 'A Room for the Future: Housing Design for Changing Temporal Contexts', in Territoriality and Temporality in Architecture, Ed. Carlos Eduardo Comas, Elias Constantopoulo, Park Books Zurich.

Brandl, Erika (Forthcoming). ‘Under the territorial eye: architecture and the landscape in Fehn’s Borre Information Centre and Begby-Borge’s Cultural Centre’, in Sverre Fehn Architecture, Ed. Neven Fuchs-Mikac, Walther König Verlag.

Brandl, Erika (2024). 'Options', in Adaptive Reuse, Ed. Andrea Crudeli, STH Press, 106-110.

Brandl, Erika (2024). 'Sverre Fehn, Arne Næss, and Joined Methods in Environmental Representations', Studies in History and Theory of Architecture, 12:1, 229-242.

Brandl, Erika (2024). Encounters by Design, Ed. Francois Giraldeau, Frame Publishers, 320 pages.

Brandl, Erika (2023). ‘Property, Necessity and Housing. Reconsidering the Situated Right to a Place to Be’. Architecture Philosophy, 6:1/2, 83-99.

Brandl, Erika (2023). ‘First Hard, Then Soft: House Architecture and the Future-Ready Value of Plan Flexibility’, idea journal, 20:1, 44-61.

Brandl, Erika (2023). ‘Even the Strongest Must Sleep: Freedom, Necessity and the Space-Bound Plea for the Sleeping Body', Etica-mente. L'annuario, 4:1, 182-199.

Brandl, Erika (2023). 'Earthly matters, earthy visions: national architecture narratives and the unexpected culture of Norwegian rammed earth houses', Change Over Time, International Journal of Convervation and the Built Environment, 12:1, 1-24.

Brandl, Erika (2023). 'Sverre Fehn and the territorial eye', Drawing Matter. 

Brandl, Erika (2021). 'Mauranger. Country Life: Recent strategies for tomorrow's rural living', HDA Haus Der Arkitektur, 62-67.

Brandl, Erika (2021). 'Digital Mapping Series: chance re-materializing through the photometric eye', Cartographies of the Imagination, 108-111.

Brandl, Erika (2020). 'A home of one’s own. Philosophical considerations on the issue of housing', Bergen Open Research Archive, 1-97.

Fall 2025 Harvard University, T.H. Chan School of Public Health
(Priority Health Conditions and the Built Environment), Cambridge, United States of America. Supervision: Ole F. Norheim

Fall 2024 University of Oxford, Department of Politics & International Relations, Nuffield College
(The environmental performance principle in intergenerational housing justice), Oxford, England. Supervision: Cecile Laborde

Fall 2023 Sorbonne Université, UFR de Philosophie, ‘Sciences Normes Démocratie’ (SND) CNRS
(On the Badness or Goodness of Lock-ins), Paris, France. Supervision: Stephane Chauvier

Spring 2023 King’s College London, Department of Political Economy
(Competition and Housing Commodification in Northern European Social Democracies); London, England. Supervision: Steven Klein

Fall 2022 Stockholm University, Department of Practical Philosophy
(The Moral Demands of Equality in Aging Societies); Stockholm, Sweden. Supervision: Greg Bognar

Fall 2022 University of Graz, Institute of Philosophy
(Basic Needs and Intergenerational Climate Justice); Graz, Austria. Supervision: Lukas Meyer