«Vertical extensions of buildings are becoming a key option for urban redevelopment»
Why are more new housing units being constructed in Geneva each year, while Zurich is seeing a decline? Why are older residential buildings in Basel, Geneva and Lausanne being vertically extended, while they are being demolished and replaced in Zurich? ETH researchers provide new answers to the role More
“It’s not enough simply to improve the system we have”
Eva Heinen investigates the factors that influence our choice of transport. Her personal commute to ETH is by bus and on foot. Article in ETH Globe.
First International Earth Construction Forum (ECF)
Call for Papers until 30 June | 3 and 4 October 2025 | OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule, Rapperswil.
Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems – Regenerative Practices, Pitching MAS QUEST Projects
4 July 2025, 10:30 – 14:30 | Immersive Exhibition | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Alumni Pavilion (MM C 78.1).
Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes
In February 2025, over 40 practitioners, researchers, and educators came together at ETH Zürich for this colloquium, to discuss the evolving relationship between the design and maintenance of living systems. In response to accelerating climate uncertainty, shrinking municipal budgets, and precarious labour conditions, the colloquium posed a simple More
Care, Cooperation, and Commoning: Revisiting «The System Nobody Knows»
Switzerland’s cultural landscapes – green pastures and flowering hay meadows – have been deeply shaped by resources (forests, pastures, and irrigation water) governed as commons (Allmende). In spite of radical changes to their institutional and infrastructural framework, the irrigation systems of Canton Valais remain grounded in an enduring More
Design++ XR in AEC Summer School 2025
Application deadline: 1 July | Summer School: 1-5 September 2025 | at ETH Zurich. This hands-on programme brings together students, researchers, and professionals to explore how extended reality is reshaping architecture, engineering, and construction.
E-Bike City: Results
If you missed the event «E-Bike City: Results & Future», have a look at the downloads and recordings section on this website. It offers a brochure, presentations, posters, video recordings, and street visualisations. May they positively impact our traffic situation and quality of life!
Wiederbelebung marginaler Räume: Eine Praxis der imaginativen Aktivierung
Abraumhalden sind ein charakteristisches Landschaftselement ehemaliger Kohlebergbaugebiete. In Flandern und im französischen Norden werden sie Terrils genannt. Lange Zeit galten sie als Randzonen, wurden häufig abgetragen und als Erholungsflächen umgenutzt oder in Grün-Blau-Netzwerke integriert. In Einzelfällen bleiben sie als Zeugnisse des industriellen Erbes erhalten.
Mapping Future Development Scenarios Through Spatial Clustering with Land Use Models
Scenario planning is increasingly used in urban planning in recognition of the uncertain and complex interactions between the built and the natural environment. Scenario planning develops alternative stories about the future, as combinations of important drivers of change, qualitatively. The use of computational models can inform the development More
disP 60/4, December 2024
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 60, Issue 4, December 2024 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Hybrides Entwerfen für multikodierte Wasserlandschaften
Die Landschaftsarchitektur sieht sich im Kontext des Klimawandels mit vielfältigen Herausforderungen konfrontiert. Beim Umgang mit Wasserlandschaften treffen zunehmend intensivere hydrologische Dynamiken auf überwiegend statisch gestaltete Landschaften. Diese Entwicklung bedingt ein Umdenken und ein dynamischeres Verständnis der Wechselwirkungen zwischen Wasser und Land. Um zukunftsfähige und robuste Landschaften gestalten zu More
Agrarian Urbanism and the Politics of Food and Land
Urban farming and agrarian struggles are reshaping cities and urbanising landscapes. In Zurich and beyond, agroecological initiatives, political food movements, and global urbanisation projects reveal how urban and agrarian worlds are entangled and enmeshed – offering new ways to rethink planning, property, urban ecology, and the future of More
From Design to Research to Play: A Co-creative Process for Designing a Serious Game on Flood Management
TANTAN’EAU – a wordplay merging «Tantano» (to manage in Malagasy) and «Eau» (water in French) – is a serious game that helps decision-makers explore flood risk management. Designed to balance playability, realism, and the incorporation of architectural propositions, it immerses players in the challenges of peri-urban development in More
Experimental Planting: Garden of the 21st Century New Orleans
New Orleans is a landscape paradox – a city largely below sea level, which continues to sink as the sea rises outside the levee walls that protect it. Despite its capacity to produce a tremendous amount of biomass and ecological diversity, the city’s urban forest has been in More
Venice Biennale: Designs of Resilient Landscapes for Flood-Prone Areas of Antananarivo
10 May – 23 November 2025 | 19th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia.
Swisstopo-Kolloquium: Präzisionsmodellierung auf grossem Massstab in der Landschaftsarchitektur
Nach sechs Jahren LiDAR-Vermessung aus der Luft ist nun die klassifizierte Punktwolke der Schweiz – swissSURFACE3D – für das gesamte Schweizer Territorium verfügbar. Zu diesem Anlass präsentierte Dr. Philipp Urech Forschungsarbeiten aus dem Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab (LVML), ergänzt durch praktische Beispiele seiner wegweisenden Methode für die More
Symposium – Stories from Naturecultural Places
26 May 2025, 13.00–17.30 and 27 May 2025, 09.30–14.00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon ONA E 25 Design in Dialogue Lab, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, 8050 Zürich.
10-Minuten-Nachbarschaften
Wir laden Sie herzlich zu unseren Wanderausstellungen «10-Minuten-Nachbarschaften» ein.
“The lack of vision has led transport policy down a dead end.”
Cities can expand their bike lane networks significantly without causing additional congestion on the roads. That is the conclusion reached by the ETH research project E-Bike City. Project lead and transport researcher Kay Axhausen explains the implications for traffic, the environment and costs. Article on the ETH News More
Tenure Lecture David Kaufmann: Weaving the Urban Fabric. The Governance of Sustainable Urban Development
3 June 2025, 11:00-12:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HCI G 3.
CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials – Hygrothermal Specialisation 2025
The application window is now open and will be closed as soon as the group is defined (or by 31.08.2025 at the latest). Start: Autumn semester 2025.
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Bitte nehmen Sie sich bis am 21. Mai kurz Zeit für diese wichtige Umfrage.
DELUS Chasing Water at Microscope
Opening: 3 July, 18:00-21:00 | Exhibition: 3 – 19 July 2025 | Microscope, 2-4 Tottenham Road, London E9 7BL.
Reasons to feel confident
From bridges and tunnels to railways, Switzerland has always invested heavily in the upkeep of its infrastructure. But how does it keep everything operating safely and smoothly while also instilling confidence that nothing will go wrong? Read the full article at ETH News
David Kaufmann is New Editor-in-Chief of the disP – The Planning Review
The plan is to (re)position the journal as a key publication in the field of planning. They will build on the long history and high reputation of the journal – as being owned by ETH Zürich / Netzwerk Stadt und Landschaft (NSL), ETH Zürich and having close ties More
ENHANCE Summer School 2025: «Synergic Urban Systems»
Application deadline: 22 April | 1-6 September 2025 in Berlin.
International Cooperation Forum 2025 at ETH Zürich
At this year’s International Cooperation Forum, the Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo – including the first Urban Digital Twin for the Canton of Sarajevo was presented. The presentation took place during Session 4: Swiss Solutions for Smart Cities, in the presence of Swiss Federal Councilors Ignazio Cassis and Guy More
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025
Das neue NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025 ist da!
Kigali Unplanned Neighbourhood Upgrading Tool (KUNUT)
Kigali, Rwanda, has emerged as a pioneer in urban and digital transformation. Kigali sets a new inversed model of city development that expands from its hilltops downwards to the vital wetlands. The Kigali Unplanned Neighbourhood Upgrading Tool (KUNUT) provides a research platform that integrates digital technology with ecological More
At the Ends of Autobahn Urbanism
For a century, highways have shaped cities, economies, and national identities. But in November 2024, Swiss voters rejected a CHF 5 billion highway expansion, signaling a shift away from infrastructure-led urbanisation. As nations worldwide double down on highway-driven growth, Switzerland’s moratorium invites us to rethink mobility, territorial organisation, More
Negotiating Space for Housing Cooperatives in Latin America: The Case of Post Conflict Colombia and El Salvador
Can housing cooperatives contribute to reintegrating former combatants into civil society? Can they evolve into a broader housing strategy for marginalised communities? What conditions are necessary for their sustainable growth within national housing systems? This research project examines the emergence of bottom-up housing cooperative initiatives by former combatants More
Regionale Effekte von Wohnungsknappheit in urbanen Gebieten
Durch die anhaltende Attraktivität von Städten als wirtschaftliche, kulturelle und soziale Zentren ist Wohnungsknappheit in Metropolitanräumen in ganz Europa zu einem akuten Problem geworden. Das Angebot an Wohnraum in Kernstädten konnte mit der Nachfrage nicht Schritt halten, weshalb dieses Forschungsprojekt die Auswirkungen der Wohnungsknappheit auf die umliegenden Regionen More
Architekturen der Familie. Tagung zu den Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und Anforderungen an den Wohnungsmarkt
Während sich Familienstrukturen in der Schweiz rasant verändern, hält der Wohnungsmarkt weitestgehend an traditionellen Modellen fest. Das ETH Forum Wohnungsbau «ARCHITEKTUREN DER FAMILIE» beleuchtet aktuelle Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und innovative Wohnformen. Expert:innen aus Forschung, Architektur und Immobilienwirtschaft diskutieren Lösungen für die Herausforderungen des sozialen Wandels.
Den Lebensraum der Zukunft gestalten
Der ETH Master-Studiengang Raumentwicklung und Infrastruktursysteme bietet eine fundierte, interdisziplinäre Ausbildung in Stadtplanung, Mobilität und Infrastrukturmanagement. Durch die Verbindung von Theorie und Praxis entwickeln Studierende nachhaltige Lösungen für aktuelle Herausforderungen. In Kooperation mit Professorinnen, Professoren und Studierenden ist ein kurzes Video entstanden, um Studieninteressierte für diesen Fachbereich und More
Informationsveranstaltung: MAS ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design
12. März 2025, 9:00–10:00 | Online-Veranstaltung.
disP 60/3, September 2024
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 60, Issue 3, September 2024 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Verkehr ’45: UVEK priorisiert Ausbauprojekte für Schiene und Strasse
Die Verbesserungen der Verkehrsinfrastrukturen auf Strasse und Schiene können nicht wie ursprünglich geplant umgesetzt werden. Der jüngste Ausbauschritt für die Nationalstrasse wurde von der Bevölkerung abgelehnt. Die Umsetzung des Angebotskonzepts 2035 der Bahn führt zu erheblichen Mehrkosten. Das Eidgenössische Departement für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation (UVEK) hat More
Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Regenerative Systems
Application: 1. June – 30. June 2025 | Duration: September 2025 – January 2026. CAS#1 Worldviews: From Sustainability to Regeneration
EPFL ETH Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design
Application: 1. January – 31. March 2025 | Duration: September 2025 – June 2026.
MAS Raumentwicklung & CAS Raumentwicklung und Planungspraxis
Bewerbung: 1. Mai – 31. Juli 2025 | Dauer: 25. August 2025 – 6. Februar 2026.
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
23. May 2025, 9:00-13:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, building: HIT, room: F12.
The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945 – 1989
21. May 2025, 18∶00 – 19∶30 | Book Launch and debate | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL Foyer.
Diversifying the Architectural Canon with «Crossed Histories»
Call for papers open until 15 May 2025 International Workshop 2. – 4. November 2025 | Place Congressi Stefano Franscinci, Monte Verità, Switzerland.
ARCHITEKTUREN DER FAMILIE – Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und Anforderungen an den Wohnungsmarkt
9. Mai 2025, 9∶30 – 17∶00 | ETH Forum Wohnungsbau | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Auditorium Maximum (HG F 30), Rämistrasse 101.
Infoveranstaltungen MAS Raumentwicklung & CAS Raumentwicklung und Planungspraxis
17. Juni (MAS), 18. Juni (CAS) 2025 | Informationsanlässe | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H35.1 und Zoom (Link nach Registrierung).
