Pairi-daeza: Umgrenzung

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

Tokio. The Street as Lived Space

The street has always been one of the most significant public spaces. Particularly in Asian cities, the street – not the square – remains even today the most important location for the activities of daily life. In Tokyo, the street is not merely an area for traffic, but More

Trying to Find Happiness in the Garden

The theme of paradise is presented in eight illustrated essays that are based on individual and collective activities: community gardens in Berlin, war gardens in Iraq, the prayers rugs of Muslims and eruvs, which are fences that enclose a Jewish residential area and allow the circumvention of the More

Geomorphic Agent

Man is a ‘Geomorphic Agent’. As the most important factor in the shaping processes of the earth, nowadays we move all together far more material than all natural geological processes combined. The removal, transportation and deposition of raw and waste materials have already reached unprecedented proportions in the More

The Landscape of Abandonment in Europe

The abandonment of agricultural land and the general withdrawal from inhabited, cultivated and farmed areas is a growing global phenomenon that the Chair is exploring in greater depth as part of its research. Triggered by complex processes and various factors, the current extent of abandoned land has reached More