Department / Institute: Department of Architecture (D-ARCH)
The Disappearance of Robin Hood
Athena Lecture Series: Stefania Koller
Modelos colaborativos de vivienda en Colombia: mitos, leyendas y sueños
ETH Forum Wohnungsbau 2026: Grün und bezahlbar? Wohnraum zwischen Klimazielen und sozialer Nachhaltigkeit
Postdoctoral Visiting Lectureships in the History of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
2 + 2 + 1 Eine Debatte über zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur
EPFL ETH Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design
Martina Voser gewinnt den goldenen Hasen
Hochparterre hat die besten Projekte in den Disziplinen Architektur, Design und Landschaftsarchitektur gekürt. Wir gratulieren Prof. Martina Voser zum goldenen Hasen für Landschaftsarchitektur. Das Projekt: Schutzbauten Bondo II, Bondo GR | Mavo, Zürich, und Müller Illien, Zürich | Bauherrschaft: Gemeinde Bergell.
Christian Schmid gewinnt die Goldene Eule
Wir gratulieren Prof. em. Dr. Christian Schmid herzlich zur goldenen Eule. Die Goldene Eule zeichnet besonders engagierte Lehrpersonen aus, die ihren Studierenden eine exzellente Lehre bieten. Verliehen wird der Preis vom Verband der Studierenden an der ETH Zürich (VSETH).
Temporalities of fire management: Gardening with extractivist droughts in Huertos Familiares, Chile
This article examines the intersection of wildfire, drought and extractivism through the case study of the Jardín del Siglo XXI (JSXXI, the Garden of the Twenty-first Century), a garden-based research project in Huertos Familiares, a community in Tiltil, Chile, increasingly affected by fire.
NSL Kolloquium: Dynamic Landscapes | Gestalten mit Unsicherheiten
10. & 11. September 2026 | Architekturforum, Zürich. Wie lässt sich Landschaft in einer Zukunft zunehmender Dynamik und Ungewissheit gestalten? Angesichts steigender hydrologischer Amplituden und klimatischer Herausforderungen geraten etablierte Methoden der planenden Disziplinen an ihre Grenzen.
The LUS Doctoral Programme – Call for applications
100%, Zurich, fixed-term. The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture invites applications for two doctoral fellowship positions. The fellowship will start on 1 October 2026, with a 100% workload, based in Zurich, and is fixed-term for three-and-a-half years. Job description
Zurich Atlas. An Archaeology of Urban Codes and Forms | Zurich Primer. A Propositional Planning Vision for the City.
Zürich. Dialoge zur Dichte / Dialogues on Densification
NSL Colloquium: Working on Transformation – An International Forum on Urban Planning as Learning
12 & 13 March 2026 | ETH Zürich, ONA, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, Zürich Oerlikon. The Spring 2026 NSL Colloquium Designing Moments of Learning: International Forum on Pedagogies for Urban Transformation will bring together specialists from various disciplines to reconceptualise urban planning as a process of collective learning.
I like Event Posters!
If you agree and would like to have a printed poster to hang on your wall – accompanying you for half a year with events in the fields of urban design, spatial planning, landscape architecture, infrastructure, and mobility – just let us know. We will be happy to More
1990s Feminist Theories that Inspired Architecture and Urban Design
What would a non-sexist city look like? That was the question urban historian Dolores Hayden posed in 1980, during the transitional period between the second and third waves of feminism in the United States— a question that, more than forty years later, feels increasingly urgent across different parts More
Someone Moved the Araucaria araucana
A single species can tell us much about taste, power, and the cultural choices behind how we shape landscapes. Connected to the doctoral project Making Ornamental Trees, this article reflects on the Araucaria araucana, a conifer, and the stories carried by its long journey from the Andes in More
Working on Transformation
During the last year, members of the Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation (also known as NEWROPE) have documented and systematised the chair’s teaching experiments – to set examples and to invite others to explore and perform “Working on Transformation” themselves. The examples revolve around pedagogical experiments, with More
Doctoral Fellowship in History and Theory of Architecture
100%, Zurich, fixed-term. The doctoral programme at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich, offers two fellowship positions to start on 1 October 2026. This programme focuses on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in a wider context of cultural history, including More
Green Gentrification in Zürich – ein Bericht aus der Werkstatt
Der Klimawandel erfordert tiefgreifende Massnahmen in allen Lebens- und Wirtschaftsbereichen. Ein Schwerpunkt liegt auf dem Wohnungswesen und dem Städtebau, die eine grosse Hebelwirkung für mehr Energieeffizienz und weniger CO2-Emissionen, aber auch für Anpassungsmassnahmen wie Hitzeminderung durch Begrünung oder Entsiegelung aufweisen. Doch welche Wechselwirkungen entstehen zwischen grünen Massnahmen und More
Working on Transformation
LUS Lecture Series
Revisiting density: The impact of CIAM on Zurich’s plans for sustainable urban growth
In recent years, the compact city model has gained prominence as a strategy for sustainable urban development, with urban densification at its core. While densification is recognized as a key planning tool, questions remain about how to use it effectively to achieve broader sustainability goals.
Freiheit oder Zwang? Mobilität und Alltag jenseits der Stadt
Master of Science in Landscape Architecture
Reframing the Winterslag Terril
Philippe Vandenbroeck’s research focuses on the intersection of imagination, urban transformation, and contested landscapes, centered on an exploratory case study of a historical mining site in Belgian Limburg. The case study examines the former Winterslag mine near Genk, a region profoundly reshaped by 20th-century coal mining and its More
To Open Up a Box and Find a Whole New World
The PhD thesis To open up a box and find a whole new world: action research on the relationship between production and place in Kuklen, Bulgaria explores the spatial dynamics of global manufacturing and the increasingly intricate relationship between production and place. It centres on the Trakia Economic More
Territories of Extended Urbanisation
The concept of planetary urbanisation is a widely debated topic today. The boundaries of the urban have been exploded to encompass vast territories far beyond the limits of even the largest megacity regions. Novel patterns of urbanisation are crystallising in varied environments, challenging inherited conceptions of the urban as More
FCL Global organises Future Cities Symposium & Exhibition Singapore 2025
Over 250 attendees – representing organisations from at least 11 countries – converged in Singapore on 4-5 September to participate in the “Future Cities: Science, Design, and Policy for Urban Transitions” Symposium & Exhibition Singapore 2025. Organised by the Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) Global, in partnership with the More
Digital Pedagogy for Data-driven Unsolicited Urban Design
As urban environments evolve with increasing complexity, urban planning must adapt by often responding to unsolicited demands rather than to commissioned, structured work. This paper explores the integration of digital tools – including Digital Twins – into the architectural curriculum at ETH Zurich, aiming to bridge the gap More
Asunción Futura. Aportes y proyectos conceptuales en la franja costera norte de aunción del Paraguay
El proyecto apunta a trabajar en la reconversión y puesta en valor de cuatro sectores específicos: el Centro Histórico de Asunción, el Parque Caballero, la Reserva Ecológica del Banco San Miguel y la Bahía de Asunción y la creación del Distrito Eco-Inclusivo a ser ubicado entre el Cauce More
LUS Doctoral Seminar: More-Than Methodologies: Explorations in Landscape and Urban Research
Professor Emeritus Günther Vogt mit Jellicoe Award ausgezeichnet
Der Landschaftsarchitekt João Ferreira Nunes am Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien
João Ferreira Nunes ist ein portugiesischer Landschaftsarchitekt und Gründer des Büros Proap, das 1989 in Lissabon gegründet wurde und Niederlassungen in Italien und Angola unterhält. Seine Arbeit zeichnet sich durch eine prozessorientierte Methodik und den Fokus auf langfristige Landschaftstransformationen aus. Nunes hat einen multidisziplinären Ansatz für Landschaftsarchitektur entwickelt, More
Gaststudio Boulouki am Institut für Landschaft und Urbane Studien
Boulouki ist ein interdisziplinäres Forschungskollektiv mit Sitz in Athen, das sich der Wiederbelebung und zeitgenössischen Anwendung traditioneller Bautechniken widmet. Das Kollektiv wurde 2018 gegründet und ist als gemeinnützige Gesellschaft organisiert. Zum Studio von Boulouki an der ETH Zürich gehören der Architekt Ionas Sklavounos, der Bauingenieur Nikiforos Meimaroglou, der More
Urban Spaces for More-than-human Communities: Collaborative Processes, Design Attitudes and Hybrid Practices
The presence of biodiversity in cities is associated with multiple benefits, from climate adaptation to social well-being. These aspects have been widely studied, but in public space design biodiversity is often treated in purely quantitative terms: how much green surface, how many trees, how many different species. This More