Strassen bilden seit jeher das Grundgerüst jeder Stadt. Ohne Strassen gibt es keine Stadt. Sie bilden für das Leben der Bewohner und Bewohnerinnen notwendige Verbindungs- und Aufenthaltsräume, verbinden Innen und Aussen, das Private mit dem Öffentlichen. Der Strassenraum ist ein wichtiger öffentlicher und sozialer Raum, er ist Handlungs- More
Die Gesellschaft produziert ihren Raum – der Raum ist ein gesellschaftliches Produkt, lautet eine der zentralen Thesen des französischen Soziologen, Intellektuellen und Philosophen Henri Lefebvre, welche er vor etwa 40 Jahren aufgestellt hat. Lefebvres Anliegen war es, zu zeigen, dass sich «Raum» nur aus der jeweiligen Gesellschaft heraus More
Switching Trajectories in the Rhine Delta by Matanya Sack and Liesl Vanautgaerden. On 15 September the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) announced the winners of the 2009 Student Awards. Among them ranks Switching Trajectories in the Rhine Delta. Faculty advisors: Christophe Girot, professor for landscape architecture, ETH Zurich and Sebastien Marot, guest professor for landscape architecture, ETH Zurich.
Beim Engagement für einen sparsamen Umgang mit Ressourcen und für den Schutz unserer Lebenswelt kommen Architektur und Städtebau eine wichtige Rolle zu. Mit ihrem Anspruch, feste, schützende und identifikationsstiftende Orte zu schaffen, sind sie das menschliche Instrument der Nachhaltigkeit schlechthin.
In: Swisspearl Architecture 8, April, S.2-5. Mehr It is not the large and imposing monuments pictured on the advertising brochures and postcards that make the city what it is, but the individual neighbourhoods with their continuity of housing that is anything but remarkable. On the contrary, they define More
In: Hönig, Roderick; Moll, Claudia (Hrsg.): Unterwegs in Zürich und Winterthur: Stadträume und Landschaftsarchitektur 2000–2009. Zürich. Mehr Der Führer durch die Städte Zürich und Winterthur behandelt sechzig wegweisende Projekte zeitgenössischer Landschaftsarchitektur. In seinem Essay rollt Christophe Girot die Geschichte der Schweizer Aussenräume und der jungen Disziplin auf. Der More
Urban Design Studio 2008. Zürich: Professur für Architektur und Städtebau – Prof. Kees Christiaanse. Das Urban Design Studio wurde von der Stadt Perm eingeladen, um einen Masterplan für die Stadt mitzuentwickeln. 40 Studierende erarbeiteten für drei verschiedene Gebiete Perms Transformationsvorschläge, die nicht nur situativen Charakter besitzen, sondern auch More
Eduard Neuenschwanders Werk überschreitet Grenzen: Er ist sowohl Architekt als auch Umweltgestalter und versteht sich zudem als Biologe und Denkmalpfleger. Das Œuvre des 1924 geborenen Gestalters, das in Zürich unter anderem die Kantonsschule Rämibühl, der westliche Teil des Irchelparks und das vor dem Abriss gerettete Haus am Rindermarkt More
Wie plant man eigentlich eine Stadt, die sich über drei Länder erstreckt? Wie könnte sich die Region in den nächsten Jahren verändern? Ein See für Basel? Ein städtischer Platz, mitten über dem Rhein schwebend? Lineare Parks, die sich aus dem Jura, dem Schwarzwald und den Vogesen in die More
Ab Herbstsemester 2009 wird die Professur für Geschichte des Städtebaus ihre traditionellen Lehrinstrumente um eine interaktive, web-basierte Lernumgebung erweitern. Durch diese neue Form des selbst gesteuerten Lernens sollen die Architekturstudentinnen und Architekturstudenten die Geschichte als geisteswissenschaftliche Disziplin und intellektuelle Inspirationsquelle besser verstehen und städtebauliche Handlungskonzepte üben, die sie More
Kees Christiaanse, Architekt, Urbanist und Professor für Architektur und Städtebau an der ETH Zürich, spricht mit Fabienne Hoelzel über offene Stadtstrukturen, soziale und kulturelle Koexistenz sowie Stadterneuerung und informelle Prozesse. Er kuratiert die 4. Internationale Architekturbiennale Rotterdam. Die Ausstellung trägt den Titel Open City – Designing Coexistence und More
Zwei aktuelle Projekte an der Professur für Landschaftsarchitektur bei Professor Christophe Girot beschäftigen sich mit dem Thema Landschaftsarchitektur und Film: Sabine Wolf untersucht anhand ausgewählter Spielfilme die Referenzbilder urbaner Landschaften im Berlin des 20. Jahrhunderts. Ihre Dissertation «Die Ästhetisierung des Imaginären. Filmische Repräsentationen urbaner Berliner Landschaften.» liegt voraussichtlich More
Workbook der Professur Günther Vogt für das Frühjahrssemester 2009. Zürich: Institut für Landschaftsarchitektur, ETH Zürich. Mehr «Pairi-daeza» ist persisch für «eine Mauer, die einen Garten umschliesst». Der Begriff ist Ausgangspunkt einer Wahlfachserie, die sich mit landschaftsarchitektonischen Grundelementen und Typen auseinandersetzt. «Umgrenzung» bildet den Auftakt und wird verknüpft mit More
Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz Verlag. Konzept und drei Beiträge: 58-79, 106-119, 248-251. (englisch und deutsch publiziert). Mehr Das Buch stellt die Geschichte und Entwicklung des Werkareals der Novartis AG St. Johann in Basel, den modellhaften Denk- und Entwurfsprozess, den gegenwärtigen Stand des ehrgeizigen Campus-Projektes sowie die zukünftigen Planungen und Ziele More
Zürich: gta Verlag. Mehr Namhafte Architekten und Experten präsentieren und kommentieren anhand internationaler Beispiele zeitgenössische Trends im Campus-Design. Betrachtungen zu 30 ausgewählten Campusprojekten – seien dies suburbane oder innerstädtische Hochschulanlagen, Technologieparks oder Konzernzentralen – geben Aufschluss über mögliche zukünftige Entwicklungen und deren Beziehung zum urbanen Kontext.
Since 2006, the MAS in Urban Design investigates Addis Ababa as well as rural Ethiopia as a developing territory and a case study scenario for the program. A recent installation at the Swiss pavilion of the Venice Biennale, under the heading «Explorations in Architecture: Teaching, Design, Research», depicts More
Seit neun Jahren entwickelt ein interdisziplinäres Team aus Wissenschaftlern, Landschaftsarchitektinnen und Filmemachenden an der Professur für Landschaftsarchitektur Christophe Girot gemeinsam die Forschung und Lehre im Bereich LandscapeVideo. Ziel der transdisziplinären Kooperation ist es, dem zeitgenössischen Entwurf der Landschaft mit der Erforschung des Mediums Video neue Impulse zu verleihen.
The Richti neignbourhood of Wallisellen lies between the train station of Wallisellen and the shopping centre of Glatt. It is organised around the Richtiarkade, a slightly bent, linear main street which directly and comfortably connects these two major points in the city. The public park, Richtiplatz, begins to More
The St. Johann area owned by Novartis in Basle is to be transformed from a production site into a research and administration center. An arrangement capable of remaining sustainable on a long-term basis is to be introduced into the structural and aesthetic arbitrariness of a factory area that More
This dissertation by Rafael Gaus discusses the urban qualities and deficits of the town of Bassersdorf and researches how the city centre can be improved spatially, structurally and functionally. In a comparison with reference examples, the case study discusses, in addition to urban solutions, the planning strategies and More
In the discussion about the city, no other term has experienced so many different meanings, analyses, interpretations and evaluations as the word density. City density is always changing its meaning, and sometimes it means two things at the same time; for example, being used as a synonym for More
Suburban spaces and urban development design – for a long time these two themes appeared to be mutually exclusive. The spatial interpenetration of city and countryside with its functional, aesthetic and typologically contradictory statements has been, until recently, discussed in terms of ecological, sociological and economic aspects as More
The bachelor education takes three years. During this time, 180 credit points (according to the European Credit Transfer System) must be earned. Additionally, six months of internship are to be completed. Entrance into the first semester is only possible in the fall. With the appropriate prior qualifications, entry into a more advanced semester is also possible in the spring.
To complement one’s studies, a wide range of interdisciplinary subjects including Social Studies and the Humanities can be taken at either ETH Zurich or the University of Zurich.
The language of instruction is German. Classes and examinations take place in German or English.
The successful completion of the course of study results in award of a Bachelor of Science ETH in Architecture (BSc ETH Arch).
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The Master’s degree programme in Architecture lasts two years and should be supplemented with an additional six-month internship period.A total of 120 credit points must be obtained.
Entry into the programme is only possible in the fall (exception: students of the Bachelor’s degree programme at ETH Zurich).
The language of the study programme is German. Classes and examinations take place in German or English.
The successful completion of the course of study results in award of a Master of Science ETH in Architecture (MSc ETH Arch).
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A growing number of people wish to enjoy the advantages of affordable accommodation in a dense urban environment and combine this with a socially and ecologically sustainable lifestyle. The project ANANAS aims to develop strategies that contribute to a housing stock which is attractive to this target group More
A growing number of people wish to enjoy the advantages of affordable accommodation in a dense urban environment and combine this with a socially and ecologically sustainable lifestyle. The project ANANAS aims to develop strategies that contribute to a housing stock which is attractive to this target group More
This project highlights repair and maintenance as qualities of infrastructures and the built environment. Whilst current efforts to increase density of cities raise hope for the next urban revolution, repair and maintenance become key features of 21st century urban development. The people involved in this project are architects, More
With one or two exceptions the rented-housing market of the 1970s to mid-1980s produced very few innovations. The handful that emerged – mostly small-scale initiatives – were initiated by private developers or newly established housing cooperatives. One such private developer is ProMiet AG, who in the 1980s realized More
This cooperative project is funded by an ETH research grant and includes ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE (lead Monika Kurath), Michael Hagner, Science Studies, and Philip Ursprung, gta. It analyses the epistemic basis, form and content of design research in architecture at eight leading Western architecture schools in More
Investigate Spatial Structure and Project Theoretical Pictures of Dynamic Planning Opportunities Background: Metropolitan areas are systems of organized complexity, highly adaptable to changing circumstances or emerging usage requirements. Aggravating to envisaged future qualitative growth seems the current regulatory maze of normative planning law of static zoning, construction and More
This research vessel combines practical and theoretical efforts to investigate metropolitan regions and their constituent parts using analytical and design methods to analyse strategies and planning instruments of urban regions and to present a synopsis of the knowledge gained. The focus is first on research into the available More
Everything shaped by humans is culture. This includes the territory. Cultural landscapes are created by the constant interaction of humans with nature. Their regional characteristics are due to natural conditions and increase with the growing technological development of the society inhabiting them. Cities are also part of the More
SeDUT, a Swiss-Cuban cooperative research project on urban development in Havana, was conducted from 2004 – 2007. The Chair of Sociology at the Department of Architecture from the ETH Zurich joined forces with the design offices of Metron AG to head up Switzerland’s contributions to the project, while More
Urban landscapes of metropolitan regions are subjected to permanent change. This does not take place homogeneously throughout the entire territory but rather captures entire quarters in cycles. Through structural, economic, social or cultural transformation processes, zones formerly regarded as very stable can change within a few years to More
Airports and Cities is a research platform that brings together projects investigating the complex and multi-faceted reciprocity of urban and airport development to better understand the contemporary city and its mechanisms of urbanisation. Urban development is strongly determined by transport infrastructures. Many railway stations were initially positioned outside of More
The Nile Valley covers merely 5% of Egypt’s territory, while providing a living environment for 95% of the country’s population. This thousand kilometer long and fertile strip of land embedded in smooth valley topography bordering the desert allowed the genesis of civilizations dating back as far as 3000 More
Continuously inhabited since the Neolithic age, Belgrade is one of the oldest cities in Europe, but its development is based on frequent ruptures and breaks instead of continuity and cumulative growth. The identity of Belgrade is historically linked to the Orient (Byzantium, Ottoman Empire) and the Occident (Austro-Hungarian More
Since June 2006, a project team of ETH Studio Basel has been elaborating concrete projects for the “quiet zones” in the Canton of Thurgau on behalf of the Thurgau Think Tank, a foundation with private and public participation. This research is a continuation of a study on Switzerland More
Similar to Hong Kong, because of its strategic situation on the coast of the Atlantic, Casablanca is one of the oldest Global Cities. From the beginning of the last century, first under the French protectorate and then, from 1956 onward, as the economic center of Morocco, the city More
The Asian city of Hong Kong is a place of extraordinary economic and demographic dynamics. Formerly under British rule, it has undergone a radical change in orientation since the 1997 handover. The creation of the HKSAR (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) as a city-state implies an ambiguous and More
This semester Central Florida was investigated, a territory that has changed radically in the last century; in a relatively short period, a multi-layered urban topography has covered the near-tropical wilderness. The area’s complexity results from an interaction of different processes: the forces driving urban growth such as the More
Our first steps on the Canary Islands were accompanied by prejudices and doubts as to whether there would be anything interesting to see there apart from the usual phenomena accompanying the distasteful development of mass tourism. We were trying to establish whether anything could be found that would More
Nairobi is shaped by strong contrasts in wealth and quality of infrastructure. While some of the most affluent neighborhoods can be found in the west of the city, along with beautiful gardens and vast golf courses, Nairobi is home to one of the biggest slum of the continent, More
We can observe the cities in the Middle East at a crucial moment in time. Rich in architectural and urbanistic heritage and finding themselves at a turning point of political transformation and undergoing extensive (re-) construction, these cities grapple with questions of identity, globalization and a reconsideration of More
Strategically located at the mouth of the Nile Delta, the region around Cairo has been continuously inhabited for the last five millennia. With Memphis, capital of the Old Kingdom approximately 3000 BC located a few kilometers to the south, the pyramids of Giza, constructed approximately 2500 BC to More
In Hoograven Invites You, project presented last year with the Utrecht Manifest, urban Morocco and urban Holland were compared to extend the frontiers of knowledge regarding the quality of urban environments and human experience with respect to social design. The informal is embraced, its elements and processes defined, More
Lecuna Avenue Revitalization project is a master plan linked to the Metro Cable San Agustin; it aims to recover abandoned sites leftover from the construction of Caracas Metro’s Line 4, in order to create new low-income, residential buildings and community services. By proposing a series of interventions that More
Previous experience has shown that the residents of the barrios in Caracas are well-informed and knowledgeable, and possess a firm understanding of what their communities need most, even if untutored in the principles of planning and development. In this vein, the expertise of residents, community leaders, government officials, More