Sasha Cisar studied at the ETH Zürich, Tokyo University of Arts, and the University of Liechtenstein. He is the founder of THEORIST, a platform for critical discourse on architecture and urbanism. He served as editor of the journal published by the architecture department at the ETH Zürich for six years. Currently, he researches and teaches sustainability, economics, and the crisis in architecture with Arno Schlüter at the ETH Zürich.