Global Agrarian Histories; Urban Design Theory and Criticism; Land and Space; China Rural-Urban Studies.

Ettore's work traces an intellectual history of environmental design as a tool for driving social change since the 20th Century. With a focus on agrarian transformations in modern China, his dissertation project “Designing a Land Revolution: The Corporate Reinvention of China’s Rural Environment” maps the ongoing construction of new high-tech farms, soil science laboratories, rural ecotourism parks, and modern rural homes across China's Hunan Province. This design enterprise, the study argues, serves for governing the transition from a collective and household farming system to a large-scale corporate production system, while turning villages into machinic environments for food and resources extraction.

Before joining UC Berkeley, Ettore has worked as an architectural and urban designer in Italy, China, and the US. His Master’s dissertation "Apparatus China. The Mechanism of Contemporary Chinese Architecture," an ethnographic study of architectural design practices in Shanghai, received the Academic Excellence Award at Tongji University. Ettore has taught architectural and urban theory classes and urban design studios at Hunan University of Changsha and UC Berkeley.

ARCH 130 - Introduction to Design Theory and Criticism (Fall 2017) - Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

ARCH 170B - A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism (Spring 2018) - Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

ARCH 170A - A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism (Fall 2018) - Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

ARCH 170B - A Historical Survey of Architecture and Urbanism (Spring 2019) - Graduate Student Instructor, UC Berkeley

2017020 - Undergraduate Design Studio "The Rural Market" (Summer 2018) - Instructor of Records, Hunan University

2018034 - Graduate Seminar "The Environmental Humanities" (Fall 2019) - Instructor of Records, Hunan University