Jerusalem Divan Urbanism: 100 Ideas for Dialogue
10 December 2025 (exhibition opening) – 31 January 2026 | in two key locations in Jerusalem.
15 Years Singapore – ETH Centre International Research Hub
11 – 12 December 2025 | Exhibition | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, main hall, Rämistr. 101.
Places in Transition
20 November 2025 – 24 January 2026 | Baugeschichtliches Archiv der Stadt Zürich, Neumarkt 4.
Transportation and Mobility Planning
18 November 2025, 9∶00 – 16∶00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIF C 80 (kleine Bauhalle).
Driving change: Roads ahead in transport and mobility planning
17 November 2025 | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, HG F 30 (Audimax), Live stream.
Exploring Keyline Design in Switzerland – «Marktplatz» im Jurapark Aargau
15 November 2025 | Biberstein, Jurapark Aargau.
Diversifying the Architectural Canon with «Crossed Histories»
2 – 4 November 2025 | Congressi Stefano Franscinci, Monte Verità, Switzerland.
2 + 2 + 1 Eine Debatte über zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur
22. Oktober 2025 und 28. Januar 2026, jeweils 18:30 | Zürich, Langstr. 200, L200.
Architecture of Territory: MY CLOUD
9, 16, 30 October; 27 November 2025, 13∶45 – 15∶30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E7.
Living Together: More-than-Human Ecologies for Architectural Thinking
1 October 2025, 18∶30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Room DiD lab, ONA, Neunbrunnenstr. 50.
Symposium for Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT) 2025 Buffalo edition
18-21 September 2025 | School of Architecture and Planning, University of Buffalo, New York, USA.
Informationsveranstaltung CAS Raumentwicklung und Prozessdesign
18 November 2025, 12:00-13:00 | Online, Zoom (Link nach Registrierung).
The Great Together
10 September 2025, 17∶30| ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT H13, Wolfgang-Pauli Strasse 27.
Engaging with Naturecultural Places: Action-Research in Five Sites Across Europe
How can urban areas shaped by both humans and non-humans be investigated and connected? This doctoral project explores naturecultural places in five European cities through first-person action research, engaging directly in their daily life. The aim of this approach is to understand how this model of urban transformation More
Strategies and policies of housing cooperatives in Switzerland and Uruguay
ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE has launched a new standardised format for publishing Working Papers in the ETH Research Collection. The first papers to appear in this series stem from the project Tackling the Global Housing Challenges: Relevance and Replicability of Switzerland’s and Uruguay’s Housing Cooperatives’ Policies and More
Mit VR in die Natur: Neue Wege zur Stressreduktion im Spital
Kann ein Waldspaziergang im Spital Stress senken? Virtuelle Realität macht es möglich. Eine Untersuchung mit gangunsicheren Seniorinnen und Senioren zeigt: Nach VR-Trainings in verschiedenen Landschaften fühlten sich die Teilnehmenden entspannter und sicherer, auch wenn ihre physiologischen Stresswerte stabil blieben. Ob Wald, Stadt oder Landwirtschaft: Die Wirkung war ähnlich More
Lebendige Milieus am Oberrhein: Landschaften neu wahrnehmen
Die Oberrheinische Tiefebene ist geprägt von Jahrhunderten des Wandels: vom amphibischen Lebensraum zum regulierten Fluss. Heute, im Zeichen von Klima- und Biodiversitätskrisen, eröffnet die Perspektive des «lebendigen Milieus» neue Wege, Landschaften jenseits von Fortschritts- oder Verlustnarrativen zu verstehen und zu gestalten.
Urban Agroecology on Uetliberg’s Foothills. A Research and Design Study with Grün Stadt Zürich
How can agriculture become part of Zurich’s urban future? This question guided the joint study conducted by the Chair of Architecture of Territory together with Grün Stadt Zürich (GSZ), the City of Zürich’s public green space department. Against the backdrop of the city’s projected 25% population growth by More
Mapping Cycling Infrastructure from the Sky
How can cities plan safer cycling routes without reliable data on cycling infrastructure? Using machine learning on aerial imagery, we generated a comprehensive historical dataset of cycling-specific infrastructure across Switzerland’s largest urban areas. This opens new possibilities for planning and research.
A Century of Urban Futures: Archives, Vectors, and Perspectives (1950-2050)
10-11 September 2025 | Symposium | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIB Open Space 2.
Integrating Walking & Public Transport: Potentials and Opportunities
27 August 2025, 12:00-13:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL F 36.1. IVT Seminar with Helge Hillnhütter, Vice Dean for Research at the Department of Architecture and Planning, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Language: English Further Information
Future Cities: Science, Design, and Policy for Urban Transitions
4-5 September, 4.9. National Design Centre, 5.9. at CREATE Theatrette, Singapore | Symposium and Exhibition.
disP 61/1, March 2025
disP – The Planning Review, Volume 61, Issue 1, March 2025 is now available online on Taylor & Francis Online.
Dr. Hermann Patrick Braess is Professor of Practice in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Dr Hermann Patrick Braess (*1979), currently Technical Director and Head of Research and Development at TrackNet Holding Group (Tensol Rail SA and EFSA SA), as Professor of Practice in the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT), Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering. Hermann Patrick Braess is More
Aisling O’Carroll is Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Geohistorical Practice
Aisling O’Carroll (*1986), currently Doctoral Student and Lecturer at University College London, United Kingdom, as Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Geohistorical Practice in the Department of Architecture. Aisling O’Carroll takes a fundamental approach to her research, which concerns the theory and methods of landscape architecture More
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
The Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich invites applications for the position mentioned above.
«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.