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Das Eisenbahnbetriebslabor der ETH Zürich
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
Gehen, Sitzen, Schauen: Körper und Landschaft
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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
Reflective Practitioners. Berichte und Reflexionen aus der Raumplanungspraxis
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Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies: Towards Sensory, Creative, and Imaginative Methodologies
More than Human. Cinema
Master of Science ETH in Landscape Architecture
Robotic Landscapes – Designing the Unfinished
Landscript 6: Landscape Analogue. About Material Culture and Idealism
The difficulty of reconciling our basic needs with the long history of cultural landscapes, in all their inherent beauty and sufficiency, has become clear. With our deep trust in modern technology, in progress and in a demanding global lifestyle we have become a real threat to our world.
Fest, Flüssig, Biotisch. Alpine Landschaften im Wandel
Towards the Unfinished – Dynamic Design for Landscapes at Risk
The effects of climate change are leading to an increase in extreme natural events and danger in Alpine landscapes in Switzerland. Today, the Swiss territory is already being hit more often by floods, debris flows, and landslides. This increase in natural risks tells us about the fragile balance More
Robotic Landscapes – Designing the Unfinished
Landschaftsplanung und Stadtklima. Das Architekturbuch-Festival bei Never Stop Reading!
Neues Team – MAS Raumplanung
Eine neue Leitung des MAS DAS CAS in Raumplanung hat mit 32 Studierenden in das neue Semester gestartet. Der neue Studiendelegierte ist PD Dr. Joris Van Wezemael und die Studienleitung hat Andreas Rupf übernommen. Weitere Informationen. Anmeldedeadline für den CAS: 10.01.-30.04.21. Kontakt: Andreas Rupf
MOCK-UP
Die Alpen im Fluss. Landschaften im Kontext des Wandels neu denken und gestalten
Book launch: Solid, Fluid, Biotic. Changing Alpine Landscapes
Alpine Landschaften profilieren
Der Klimawandel beschleunigt die Veränderung der Alpen. Dabei entstehen «neue Landschaften», die zahlreiche Potentiale bergen, zumal die Alpen keinen abgeschotteten Raum darstellen, sondern eng mit dem westeuropäischen Kontinent verwoben sind. Die aktuelle Debatte ist indes geprägt von Einzelinteressen, was ein koordiniertes Handeln verunmöglicht. Ein übergeordnetes Bild der Alpen, More
Solid, Fluid, Biotic. Changing Alpine Landscapes
The Alpine region is characterized by a great diversity in all spatial dimensions and qualities. This circumstance is not to be read primarily as the result of adfirst of all as an expression of the alpine topography, determined ministrative drawing of borders, but at the same time by More
Common Water – the Alps
The Alps are not a static assemblage but a dynamic and sensitive living space. Geological and geomorphological processes formed their characteristic topography over millions of years and in so doing established the fundamental conditions for the development of Alpine culture. This is characterised by the continuous creation of More
Umfrage zum Forschungs-, Lehr- und Ausbildungsbedarf in der Raumentwicklung aus Praxissicht
Was wären gegenwärtig für die Schweizer Planungspraxis relevante Forschungs- und Lehrthemen? Wie positionieren sich die Raumentwicklungsabteilungen der Schweizer Hochschulen mit Blick auf die Bedürfnisse der Fachpraxis? Wenn Sie solche Fragen auch schon beschäftigt haben, dann können Sie jetzt die letzte Gelegenheit nutzen, um die Umfrage der Spatial Transformation More
Eine Karte der Raumqualität aus Sicht der Bevölkerung
Wie erleben wir die Atmosphäre eines Ortes, wo fühlen wir uns sicher? «Streetwise» stellt die menschliche, visuelle Wahrnehmung von (Vor-) Plätzen, Gehwegen, Strassen usw. mit Hilfe von künstlicher Intelligenz dar. Planerinnen und Planer erhalten so eine Entscheidungsunterstützung. Die zentrale Variable der Innenentwicklung, nämlich die Wahrnehmung von Qualität, kann More
Metropolitane Landschaften: Case Study Berlin-Brandenburg
NSL Forum: Pandemie? Mitten im Klimawandel. Was bedeutet das für die räumliche Entwicklung der Schweiz? Ein Dialog.
Video jetzt online! In einem Dialog für Praxis und Hochschulen nahm das Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft (NSL) der ETH Zürich am 11. November im Volkshaus Zürich eine Standortbestimmung für die räumliche Entwicklung in der Schweiz vor. Ausgangspunkt bildeten Erkenntnisse aus der Pandemiesituation, Hintergrund der Klimawandel. Die Tagung war More
Baukultur und die Stadt
Symposium: Transitional Space – Japanese Houses Through Digital Scans
On a joint trip entitled «Transitions» in autumn 2019, students from the Kyoto Institute of Technology and the ETH Zürich investigated a series of houses and their relationship to the (urban) landscape in Kyoto, Osaka and Tokyo, using sound recordings and laser scanning. The Symposium was an opportunity to More
New Center for Augmented Computational Design at ETH Zurich
ETH Zurich has recently launched a new center for augmented computational design in architecture, civil engineering and construction. 24 professorships, including the NSL chair of Christophe Girot, are joining forces under the name Design++ to develop digitally enhanced design methods which support rational and intuitive decisions during the design More
Transitional Space – Japanese Houses Through Digital Scans
Neues Video über das Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung
Neben dem Lehrstuhl für Planung von Landschaft und Urbanen Systemen (Prof. Adrienne Grêt-Regamey) sind in den letzten Jahren zwei neue Forschungsgruppen im Institut für Raum- und Landschaftsentwicklung entstanden: Raumentwicklung und Stadtpolitik (Prof. David Kaufmann) und Spatial Transformation Laboratories (PD. Dr. Joris Van Wezemael). Ein neues Video stellt die More
Common Water – The Alps
Secondary Infrastructure Exposed: the Temporary Settlements of La Grande Dixence (1950-1965)
As a response to Susan Leigh Star’s call to study “boring things” and mundane aspects of infrastructure, this research project offers a reflection on the notion of “secondary infrastructure”, understood here as the infrastructure enabling the fabrication of the primary one. Through this lens, high alpine networks of hydroelectricity are seen More
The Project of Hydroelectric Landscapes: Material and Cultural Constructions of Lake Sihl (1897-1937)
In the history of rivers in Switzerland, the emergence of hydroelectricity from 1870 to 1970 made the reservoir a new and major landscape figure. However, research works on hydropower have typically focused on dams and power plants, leaving reservoirs in the background, as a passive element. This dissertation More
Relational Theories of Urban Form. An Anthology
This project stemmed from the editors’ shared interest in theories of urban form and a reading seminar they jointly taught at the D-ARCH, ETH Zurich. In their ongoing investigations into questions of form in theory and practice, the relationship between the social and the material emerged again and More
Turkey Red: Ottoman Decorative Arts at the Root of the ‘Parterre de Fleurs’
This dissertation project sets out to trace the transregional and transmaterial journey of the quatre fleurs, four of the most popular flowers featured in Ottoman decorative arts – the tulip, rose, carnation, and hyacinth – as they made their way from the wild desert landscapes of Central Asia More
Shaping Physical Landscape
Point cloud modeling as a site-specific design method in landscape architecture applied to a case study in Singapore. The design of large-scale urban landscapes often takes place without topographical reference and fails to build a cohesive relation between terrain, land cover and urban space. This research aims to More
New Civic Landscapes & Public Health
The course is organized around core principles of civic design, public health and landscape systems at the scale of the watershed – including riverine and wetland systems, steep slopes subject to erosion, soil stability and soil quality, and varied forests, meadows, wilds and productive landscapes. The overall structure More
Beschneiungsspeicher: erfassen, analysieren und beurteilen
Der Klimawandel verändert die Konditionen für die touristischen Regionen in den Alpen. Zahlreiche Speicherkapazitäten für die Produktion von Schnee wurden in den letzten Jahren gebaut oder sind projektiert. Diese artifiziellen Kleinstseen stellen massive Eingriffe in das sensible Gefüge der alpinen Landschaft dar. Das von den Toggenburg Bergbahnen geförderte More
CUARZO: Cities, Urban Planning and Architecture in the Reconstruction of the 0 Zones
Form and Performance in Shaping Urban Landscapes
Digital technologies have become ubiquitous in current design practice for urban landscapes. Not only does the rapidly increasing extent and resolution of digital data help to study urban systems, but digital technologies have also enabled the inclusion of dynamic conditions in the design process. Understanding these conditions makes More
Information Event Master of Science in Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich
Paradise Now. Die neuen Grenzen des Gartens
Grenzen überschreiten – Räume aktivieren. Transnationale Ansätze der Raumplanung in Europa
Die Herausforderungen der europäischen Raumentwicklung sind nur in transdisziplinärer Kooperation zu bewältigen. In einem sich dynamisch verändernden Europa mit seinen komplexen Wandlungsprozessen sind neue, integrierende Planungs- und Entwurfsansätze gefragt, um den Zusammenhalt zwischen den Ländern und Regionen zu stärken.
Mutation und Morphosis. Landscape as Aggregate
Anyone viewing what we call a «landscape» from a distance will recognize that it is an artifact, a habitat created by humans as part of our built environment. Designing this realm carefully is a discipline that is taking on increasing importance today. Günther Vogt, with his practice in More
ETH-EPFL Summer School: Transects Through Alpine Water Landscapes
Focus Policy
Inward development calls for open modes of governance After fifty years of spatial development not sustainable with regard to land use, energy consumption, or infrastructure costs, the only alternative to overcome this development is to transform and advance existing spatial structures. Historically, Switzerland has evolved from a landscape More
Focus Design
The Spatial Transformation and Design unit explores processes and potentials of spatial transformation and its consequences from neighbourhoods to transnational scales. Its research focuses on mechanics of change and methods for collaborative processes of spatial transformation using design as a key element dealing with complex problem situations.