Tom Avermaete erhält einen der begehrten ERC Advanced Grants
Architekturprofessor Tom Avermaete erforscht, wie Städte entstehen, wachsen und sich verändern – und was wir daraus für die Stadtplanung der Zukunft lernen können. In seinem ERC-Projekt untersucht er, wie Genossenschaften, Verbände und andere gemeinschaftlich organisierte Institutionen Wohnraum, Kulturzentren und andere öffentliche Einrichtungen gemeinschaftlich planen, bauen und verwalten.
Resourceful Cities
A series of Research Studios at the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design investigates the role of resources in the history of urban design. How are resources relied upon, managed, and produced by cities? How can historical experiences inform the challenges of today? How do Plus
«Aus der Geschichte lernen und so wenige Gebäude wie möglich abreissen»
Zürich wächst – aber braucht die Stadt dafür zusätzliche, neue Hochhäuser? Nein, sagt ETH‑Städtebauhistoriker Tom Avermaete. Sein gemeinsames Forschungsprojekt mit Architekturprofessor Jonathan Sergison zeigt: Mittelgrosse Gebäude und gezielte bauliche Verdichtung können das Wachstum auffangen. Aritkel in den ETH News
Densités écologiques. Quel futur pour le bâti genevois? Ecological densities. Where Next for Geneva’s Built Environment?
Call for Contributions: 5 July 2026 | Seminar: 9-10 December 2026 | Geneva.
ETH Medal for the outstanding doctoral theses at D-ARCH of Sara Frikech
Sara Frikech received an ETH Medal for her doctoral thesis at the Institute gta. It deals with a historical topic in architecture from the mid‑19th century onwards.
Thinking Through Soil
28 April 2026, 18:15 | book launch | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H E67. With: Tom Avermaete, gta and LUS, ETH Zürich; Hubert Klumpner, LUS, ETH Zürich; Teresa Galí-Izard, LUS, ETH Zürich and the authors: Montserrat Bonvehi and Seth Denizen
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2026
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Zürich. Dialoge zur Verdichtung / Dialogues on Densification
26. February – 25. June 2026 | ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich.
Zurich Atlas. An Archaeology of Urban Codes and Forms + Zurich Primer. A Propositional Planning Vision for the City
26. Februar, 19:00 | ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich.
Zurich Atlas. An Archaeology of Urban Codes and Forms | Zurich Primer. A Propositional Planning Vision for the City.
26 February 2026, 19:00 | Book Launch | ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich.
Zürich. Dialoge zur Dichte / Dialogues on Densification
27.2.2026 – 25.6.2026 | Exhibition and Events | ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich .
1990s Feminist Theories that Inspired Architecture and Urban Design
What would a non-sexist city look like? That was the question urban historian Dolores Hayden posed in 1980, during the transitional period between the second and third waves of feminism in the United States— a question that, more than forty years later, feels increasingly urgent across different parts Plus
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2025
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Diversifying the Architectural Canon with «Crossed Histories»
2 – 4 November 2025 | Congressi Stefano Franscinci, Monte Verità, Switzerland.
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.
A Century of Urban Futures: Archives, Vectors, and Perspectives (1950-2050)
10-11 September 2025 | Symposium | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIB Open Space 2.
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 Plus
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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 2 – 4 November 2025 | Place Congressi Stefano Franscinci, Monte Verità, Switzerland.
Global Theories of Urban Design
28.02. / 07.03. / 14.03. / 28.03. / 04.04. / 11.04.2025, 13∶45 – 15∶30 | Guest Lectures | HIL E4, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg.
Built from Dust: Earth, Soil and the Modern Afropolis
25. February 2025, 17∶00 – 18∶00 (vernissage), 25. February – 9. May (exhibition) 2025 | Exhibition | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL Archena.
Built from Dust: Engaging with Modern Afropoli
25. February 2025, 10∶00 – 16∶00 | Colloquium | ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HIL Archena.
LUS Doctoral Crits HS24
4 December 2024, 09:00 – 13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT F 12. The autumn semester crits will follow a condensed format, featuring five presentations. We are honoured to welcome Prof. Dr. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes from EPFL as our external reviewer.
History and Theory of Architecture VIII: Seen from the South
A new core theory course for master’s students taught for the third time in spring 2025 argues that the list of ‘great’ cities needs to be rethought. Given the diversity of urbanisms around the world, it would be a disservice to limit one’s perspective to theoretical notions originating Plus
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NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2024
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Spielraum & Öffentlicher Raum (lecture) | Public Space: The Real and the Ideal (journal presentation)
21 February 2024, 17:30–19:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 4.
City of Codes
The city of Zurich is a testament to the incredible power of urban codes and their influence on urban form. From the mid-nineteenth onwards, these codes, such as building laws, norms, standards, or even municipal constitutions, shaped and reshaped the city into what it is today. The research Plus
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2023
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Symposium ‘Drawing the Urban’
16–17 November | USI, Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio. This symposium will investigate the multiple ways in which recent and current urban conditions are represented, analysed, and informed, through drawings.
‘Baukultur und Recht’
Third Annual Colloquium Stiftung Baukultur | 8 November (ganztägig) | Aula Magna, University of Fribourg.
Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT)
1–3 November | Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands.
Design Studios as «Communities of Tacit Knowledge»
Much of what architecture students learn in the studio is «tacit knowledge.» They develop the skills and sensibilities of architectural and urban design with practice, often under the supervision of instructors and peers, not by studying textbooks. Yet, despite its importance, we know relatively little about how this Plus
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La Norme d’Agadir – Un Urbanisme sur Mesure (Exhibition) & Agadir – Building the Modern Afropolis (Book Launch)
NEW: anytime after 25 June | Musée de la Reconstruction d’Agadir, Morocco, and online.
Writing Urban Landscapes of the Anthropocene
LUS Methodology Seminar, Spring Semester 2023. Fridays, 11:45-13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 67.
History and Theory of Architecture VIII: Seen from the South
Guest lecture, 28.4., 13:45–15:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E 9.
Tacit Knowledge in Architecture
Conference and exhibition «Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit». 19-21 June 2023 | ETH Hönggerberg, Stefano-Franscini Platz 5, Zürich Tacit knowledge is a key characteristic of architecture culture.
Unlocking a Multidisciplinary Discourse on Architecture and the City
This research project sets out to develop a new methodology of crossing disciplinary perspectives with the goal of unlocking a multidisciplinary historiography of architecture. It is based on the conviction that something fundamentally new can be learned from the exchanges that architects have had with other disciplines.
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2022
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Writing Landscapes, Writing the Urban
Methodology Seminar | Starting 22 September on Thursdays, 14:00 – 16:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, Rote Hölle, HIL E67.
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 Plus
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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 Plus
Tête-à-Tête Lectures: Material Commons
9 March, 5 April, 3 May 2022 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT 31.1.