100%, Zurich, fixed-term. The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich Department of Architecture invites applications for two doctoral fellowship positions. The fellowship will start on 1 October 2026, with a 100% workload, based in Zurich, and is fixed-term for three-and-a-half years. Job description
12 & 13 March 2026 | ETH Zürich, ONA, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, Zürich Oerlikon. The Spring 2026 NSL Colloquium Designing Moments of Learning: International Forum on Pedagogies for Urban Transformation will bring together specialists from various disciplines to reconceptualise urban planning as a process of collective learning.
During the last year, members of the Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation (also known as NEWROPE) have documented and systematised the chair’s teaching experiments – to set examples and to invite others to explore and perform « Working on Transformation » themselves. The examples revolve around pedagogical experiments, with Plus
100%, Zurich, fixed-term. The doctoral programme at the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta), ETH Zurich, offers two fellowship positions to start on 1 October 2026. This programme focuses on the history and theory of architecture and urbanism in a wider context of cultural history, including Plus
La recherche de Philippe Vandenbroeck se concentre sur l’interface entre imagination, transformation urbaine et paysages contestés, à partir de l’étude de cas exploratoire d’un site minier historique dans le Limbourg belge. L’étude de cas examine l’ancien charbonnage de Winterslag, près de Genk – région profondément marquée par l’exploitation Plus
La thèse EOuvrir une boîte et découvrir un monde inédit: la recherche-action sur la relation entre la production et le lieu à Kuklen – Bulgarie étudie la dynamique spatiale de la fabrication mondiale et la relation toujours plus complexe entre production et lieu. L’accent est placé sur la Plus
La biodiversité en milieu urbain offre de nombreux avantages: de l’adaptation au changement climatique jusqu’au bien-être social. Ces aspects ont été déjà largement étudiés, mais lors de la conception d’espaces publics, la biodiversité reste souvent considérée uniquement de manière quantitative: surfaces d’espaces verts, nombre d’arbres, de différentes espèces. Plus
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 Plus
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.
The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies is young and evolving. While it builds on a rich research history across various chairs, its identity still continues to take shape through its doctoral community, lecture series, and biannual research colloquia. In this context, it is particularly noteworthy that the Plus
New Ruralities (NERU) is an Erasmus+ Cooperation partnerships programme, which brings together six design units within the universities of ULB (Brussels), POLITO (Torino), UDC (La Coruña), UMinho (Braga), UACEG (Sofia) and ETH (Zürich). The Newrope chair is participating on behalf of ETH. The partnership’s aim is to generate Plus
Spaces of global production are formed by a diverse set of spatial figures that result from and support a global division of labor. Spaces of global production include multinational manufacturing networks, industrial agglomerations, plantations, logistics corridors, and special economic zones.
Rooted in the tension between concrete locations and global networks, between movement and stillness, space and place, and between clusters and dispersed zones, global production landscapes are challenging to understand. Where do these production spaces originate? Who owns, designs, and manages them? Due to the opaque nature of Plus
Le numéro pilote de DELUS a été lancé à l’automne 2023 au sein de l’ONA DiD Lab. Il propose une série d’aperçus sur les problématiques urbaines et paysagères et présente de nouvelles méthodes pour dévoiler des univers multiples et raconter des histoires riches en facettes. Les contributions vont Plus
This article is a reflection on an action research project with stakeholders of a special economic zone in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The article describes the process of engagement from the perspective of the workers and the managers of three international factories, with the aim to discover moments and entry Plus
20 October 2022, 18:30 (2 December: 17:30) | ETH Zürich, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, ONA Fokushalle (E7), Zürich. This year, the LUS Talks will engage diverse perspectives from practitioners and theorists addressing South America’s complex social and ecological landscapes.
Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder – yet how do we find consensus on a shared amenity such as a neighbourhood? We took a stroll with two ETH architects to discover how they see their role as mediators between the conflicting priorities of urban consolidation, Plus
A centrally located hybrid community space in Zurich, at Langstrasse 200, by the name L200, is being shaped since 2018 through a co-creation process, a series of self-organization experiments with an action-oriented participatory design process. By bridging a multitude of social worlds in a small lively place, L200 Plus
The second volume in the ‘Chapters’ series from Brussels-based architecture firm 51N4E focuses on how design processes can be shaped through dialogue. First, it investigates their work together with two design-focused consulting firms, endeavour (Antwerp) and Denkstatt (Basel), wherein all three explore the boundaries of architecture, advocating openness Plus
Production and manufacturing have shaped nations, cities, and urban environments worldwide. The rise of China as the leading global industrial power, the phenomenon of radical automation or the new cutting-edge developments in Silicon Valley, California, have for some time attracted the focus of academic study. Contrastingly, the form Plus