Department / Institute: Department of Architecture (D-ARCH)
Understanding a Place by Looking at its Soil
Doing fieldwork – such as the study of soil, vegetation, or other living systems – is an essential task in the discipline of landscape architecture. It helps to understand and translate the existing conditions of a place to uncover its potential for future transformations. The Chair of Being More
Mapping Power: Landscape Transformation in the Jordan Valley
An interaction of three variables can account for landscape transformation processes at Naharayim/el Baqura over the last century and a half: territory, cartography, and terrain. This interaction is examined across three historical periods marking the passage from nomadism to sedentism: The Ottoman Period (1858-1917), the British Mandate (1918-1948), More
Städtische Verdichtung und Verdrängung
9. Februar 2023, 17:00–18:45 Uhr | ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich, Höschgasse 3, Zürich. Expert:innen, Politiker:innen und Aktivist:innen diskutieren über die sozialen Auswirkungen der anhaltend raschen Verdichtung der Stadt Zürich. Diese erfolgt oft durch den Ersatz von preiswertem Wohnraum durch neue Wohnungen, die für einkommensschwächere Menschen nicht mehr erschwinglich sind. Am 25. Januar 2023 eröffnet More
Sprungbrett Wohnungsbau
False Clouds
Writing Landscapes, Writing the Urban
Methoden der Stadtforschung: 21 Years of Urban Sociology
PROGRAMM GEÄNDERT! 22. September bis 8. Dezember 2022, jeweils Donnerstag, 13:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E1. Diese Vorlesungsreihe vermittelt einen Rückblick auf die Arbeit der Dozentur Soziologie am D-ARCH und einen aktuellen Überblick über sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung.
Jennifer Duyne Barenstein wird Leiterin des ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE
Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein übernimmt die Leitung des interdisziplinären Forschungszentrums ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE. Sie tritt die Nachfolge von Dr. Marie Glaser an und bringt langjährige internationale Leitungserfahrung mit. Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin ist seit sechs Jahren am ETH Wohnforum tätig und spezialisiert auf sozioökonomische und kulturelle Aspekte des More
Sprungbrett – Impulse im Wohnungsbau
Master of Science ETH in Landscape Architecture
Apply now for Autumn 2023! The ETH Master‘s degree programme in Landscape Architecture is aimed at students with a Bachelor‘s degree in architecture or landscape architecture from a university or a Swiss university of applied sciences with at least 180 ECTS or equivalent. A motivation letter and a portfolio are More
Fieldwork Week in Cima Città. Join us!
Calculate or co-create?
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder – yet how do we find consensus on a shared amenity such as a neighbourhood? We took a stroll with two ETH architects to discover how they see their role as mediators between the conflicting priorities of urban consolidation, More
Future Cities Laboratory Indicia 03
Zu Fuss zu Netto-Null
4D Geo-designing Urban Transformation: Final Reviews
An Agent-based Digital Twin for Sarajevo
Tentacular Writing. A Peer-to-Peer Writing Retreat
11–16 September 2022, public final presentations: 16 September | Tschlin, Graubünden | an ETH Zurich / EPFL Summer School for doctoral students. «It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; [it matters] (…) what thoughts think thoughts» (Haraway, 2016).
Imaginaries Exhibition
The Imaginaries exhibition edition, previously at the 2021 MAK Vienna Biennale, will travel to the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) Shenzhen, China from August to November 2022. The central theme is architectural responses and strategies in the context of global climate change.
Festival «Sonic Topologies»
Das Festival Sonic Topologies erkundet die Zürcher Klanglandschaft in vielfältigen Hörerlebnissen. Vom 24. bis 26.6. finden Konzerte, Vorträge und Workshops im Alten Botanischen Garten, Reservoir Lyren, Wärmebad Käferberg und am Zürichsee statt. Internationale Expert*innen aus Klangkunst, Klangarchitektur und akustischer Ökologie entfalten die Akustik dieser Orte und eröffnen neue More
Transitional Space – Six Japanese Houses Traversed
«Not Just Roads» by Nitin Bathla and Klearjos E. Papanicolaou wins SAH Award for Film and Video
The SAH Award for Film and Video recognizes annually the most distinguished work of film or video on the history of the built environment. «Not Just Roads is a well-filmed, focused and nuanced take on the impact of highway building in contemporary India on the disenfranchised. The film brings More
Agreement on Realisation of ‘Sarajevo Urban Transformation Project’ Signed
The agreement was signed by Prof. Hubert Klumpner from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), Prof. Dr. Rifat Škrijelj, Rector of the University of Sarajevo (UNSA), Prof. Dr. Adnan Pašić from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo (UNSA) and Faruk Muharemović, Director of the More
Alpine Landscapes in Transformation: Infrastructure, Culture, and Climate
Symposium, 12 and 13 May 2022. Public event, registration until 29 April 2022. Research workshops, round tables and keynote. Climate change, energy transition, urbanization, and industrialization have and will have tremendous effects on the Alpine landscape. Located at the crossroads of Europe, the transformations of this fragile environment More
Urban Research Incubator at ISTP Inaugurates New Interactive 3D Platform
The Urban Research Incubator at ISTP, researching public lighting, segregation, and security in two cities of the Global South (Cape Town and Bogota) created an interactive multi-user platform, making their research, policy briefs, and multimedia and immersive content more available. In doing so, they continue to engage in More
Gehen, Sitzen, Schauen: Körper und Landschaft
«School of Architecture for Reconciliation» Nominated for KITE Award
The first phase of this school, organised by ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE, has been nominated for the prestigious KITE Award for Innovation in Learning and Technology, which honours the extraordinary efforts of teaching staff during the enforced remote teaching phase and showcases excellent examples of online teaching practice. On More
Wohnen. Zwölf Schlüsselthemen sozialräumlicher Wohnforschung
Wohnen ist ein hochrelevantes und vieldiskutiertes Thema in Gesellschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft: Es ist existenzielles Grundbedürfnis und alltägliche soziale Praxis, knappes Gut und wohnungspolitische Herausforderung, aber auch Ausgangspunkt und Vision architektonischer Entwürfe und zukunftsweisender Bauprojekte.
Rhythmic Transformations: the L200 Hybrid Space in Zurich
A centrally located hybrid community space in Zurich, at Langstrasse 200, by the name L200, is being shaped since 2018 through a co-creation process, a series of self-organization experiments with an action-oriented participatory design process. By bridging a multitude of social worlds in a small lively place, L200 More
Eine Geschichte des gemeinschaftlichen Wohnens – Modelle des Zusammenlebens
Repository
www.avermaete.repository.ethz.ch is an open repository for the chair’s education, research, and publication activities. Next to the chair’s Instagram account, the website informs and inspires students and professionals using graphic material and represents each team member. The website also contains a virtual exhibition space on, for example, the student More
MAS Urban and Territorial Design 2022/23
The City in Theory – Her Agency
This seminar follows the work and life of a series of «female professionals» (architects, politicians, urban designers, journalists, editors, curators, philanthropists, etc.) in the post-war era who started to critically engage in discussions on urban design and actively contribute to the design of cities. By fully acknowledging the contributions More
Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics
Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism. Confronted by tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable More
Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture
Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Fisker’s output is closely associated with the functional tradition, a hybridization of international modernism and regional architectural More
The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual
Architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level. Through the work of his collaborative firm (Banfi Belgiojoso Peressutti Rogers, or BBPR), the editorship of publications such as Domus and Casabella, and his teaching at the More
Theme Issue ‘Modernities’, OASE 109. Journal for Architecture
Laufen Manifesto Global Meeting
22 – 24 July 2022 | Laufen, Germany. Building on the 2013 «The Laufen Manifesto», which called for the development humane design culture, this event will discuss the relevance of the ideas of the original Manifesto and encourage scrutiny, actions, and decisions on methods and goals with relevant leaders in the urban More
Under the Landscape. Boulouki – Itinerant Workshop on Traditional Building Techniques
Sonic Topologies
24 to 26 June 2022 | Old Botanical Garden, Zurich (festival centre). The interdisciplinary symposium and sound festival «Sonic Topologies» explores the relationship between place, sound, and knowledge. Researchers, architects, and artists develop site-specific sonic contributions at different locations in the city of Zurich, which explore the acoustic, ecological, social, or historical characteristics More