Department / Institute: Department of Architecture (D-ARCH)
Doctoral Fellowship in Landscape and Urban Studies
Doctoral Fellowship in History and Theory of Architecture (2 positions)
LUS Doctoral Crits HS24
Transhumance Urbanism as an Urban Otherwise: Inhabiting Agrarian Incompletion at the Intersections of Extended Urbanisation-Extended Ruralisation
Amid the ongoing transformation of agrarian territories in peripheral geographies across the world through extended urbanisation, this paper delves into the persistence of peasant and pastoral strategies amidst the closing down effects of land enclosure and fragmentation.
New Ruralities (NERU)
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 More
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 More
Behind Closed Doors
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.
Amazônía
Awaska Alpa_Woven Territory
14.10.2023–14.01.2024 | Exhibition | Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Awaska Alpa is a research project that critically explores the representation of Inga territory in the Andean Amazon of Colombia. During colonial times, the Spanish crown established the Indigenous resguardo (reserve) as a form of collective land tenure to “protect,” More
Wanderausstellung und Podium «10-Minuten-Nachbarschaften»
Nature conservation and Indigenous territories – Transitioning from the biological to the biocultural
The 16th Conference of Parties of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (COP16) took place in Colombia during the last two weeks of October 2024. The city of Cali became the main stage for intergovernmental efforts to protect nature. A key outcome of the summit was recognising the More
DELUS Issue 1
Developing a Unity-based Tool to Integrate Sound into Landscape Design and Evaluation
The acoustic quality of outdoor spaces is receiving increasing attention in planning and design disciplines. Yet, it is very difficult for non-experts in acoustics to include the effects of landscape changes on the so-called soundscape in their daily work. In the Innovedum project «Unity App for Soundscape Design More
Creating a Situated and Multilayered Understanding of Global Production Space Through Collective Interventions
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 More
Digitale Zwillinge für unsere Städte
Research Fellow in Housing Studies
DAM Book Award 2024 for «Researching Otherwise»
Multi-disciplinarity is on the agenda for the contemporary architectural debate, and Researching Otherwise – edited by ETH-based scholar Nitin Bathla – takes a broad look at the topic. Divided into three chapters dedicated to transdisciplinary, sensory, and restitutive methods, the book presents pluriversal research projects, which range from More
Open House Westhof «Architekturen des Zusammenlebens – Small Talk!», Architekturführung im Anschluss
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board: Video and Manifesto now online!
Did you miss the NSL Forum and Cycling Research Board «Digital Twins for Europe’s Future Mobility», on September 4th? The video link is now available on the event website! In addition, for a quick read and an overview of the workshops, you can download the «Collective Manifesto for More
CAS ETH in Regenerative Materials – Essentials 2025
Call for Papers: Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE25)
We are thrilled to announce the Sustainable Built Environment Conference (SBE25), which will be held from June 25 to 27, 2025 in Zürich. The conference topic is “Shaping Tomorrow: Systems Thinking in the Built Environment”. Releasing over 40% of global greenhouse gas emissions and consuming over 40% of More
Brasilândia Design Studio at University of St. Gallen Latin America Week
Transitioning to Sustainable Cities and Communities
The publication features scholarly articles and interviews from leading experts working in various fields anchored in urban design and architecture. Each piece in the volume addresses the challenges and opportunities prompted by the SDG11, and by extension, the climate crisis. As a whole, the volume illuminates and showcases More
Call for Papers: NSL Colloquium 2024: Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes
The NSL Colloquium will take place February 26-28 2025 at ETH Zürich and publishes an open call for submissions until November 8, 2024. The colloquium will investigate the relationship between the design and maintenance of living systems, seeking to cultivate practices, terminology, and theoretical insights into approaches that More
Against wastelanding: distributed design at the pace of soil in the Conca de Barberà
What Does the Swiss Landscape Need Today? An Interview with Martina Voser
Martina Voser was a Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich from 2021. At the end of 2023, she was appointed Full Professor of Landscape Architecture. She talks about the profound changes that the Swiss landscape is facing and how her chair can develop the necessary transformation processes together with More
LUS Doctoral Seminar: More-Than Methodologies: Explorations in Landscape and Urban Research
Open House Zürich, Quartierrundgang «10-Minuten-Nachbarschaften»
LUS Talks 2024: AFTER BREAKDOWNS
Matters of Urban Expertise: Who develops the City of the Future?
Digital Double: Situating and Troubling AI Technologies for Architectural Reconstruction and Urban Simulation
Guest Lecturer to teach a Design Studio
Einführungsvorlesung Prof. Martina Voser: I paesaggi invisibili – Eine Reise durch blaugraugrüne Facetten
2 + 2 + 1 Eine Debatte über zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur
Professor of Architecture and Adaptive Re-use
Baukultur back to the future
Grundlagen: Vitrinen. A Zürich Lexicon
Urban Codes and Urban Forms: The Case of Zurich
Researching Otherwise: Pluriversal Methodologies for Landscape and Urban Studies
Methodological, epistemic, and ontological borders have long prevented landscape and urban studies from engaging in transdisciplinary dialogue, sensuousness, and affect. Researching Otherwise uncovers possibilities for deploying sensory, collaborative, and restitutive methodological tools to craft spaces for producing knowledge from pluriversal worlds. These methods connect researchers and their objects More
Teresa Galí-Izard nominated for Schelling Architecture Prize
The Schelling Architecture Foundation awards the Schelling Architecture Prize biannually. In 2024, under the guiding principle of “Deep Transformations – Earth, Landscape, Architecture” the board of trustees has nominated three offices that leave classic professional profiles behind: Bureau Bas Smets from Brussels, LOLA Landscape Architects from Rotterdam and More
Open Access ETH Studio Basel
The website «Open Access ETH Studio Basel» presents a selection of publications by the ETH Studio Basel as open access. ETH Studio Basel, Contemporary City Institute, was founded in 1999 as an institute of urban research at the ETH Zürich Department of Architecture by architects Roger Diener, Jacques More
Digital Twin für Sarajevo
Professor Hubert Klumpner’s chair designed the first AI-supported 4D model for Sarajevo. It takes spatial and temporal dimension into account in urban planning and was the basis for public hearings. “To map the complexity of the city, we need new methods, processes and technologies,” says Klumpner.
Public Guest Talk with Arturo Escobar – POSTPONED
Wohnraum für alle ist hindernisfrei-anpassbar
DER AUTOMOBILE MENSCH – Filmvorführung & Podiumsdiskussion zur Verkehrswende
Haushälterische Bodennutzung vollziehen
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
Digital Twins for Europe’s Future Mobility 4 – 6 September 2024 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E3 and HIT. Today’s design reflects the car-oriented consensus, which was formulated between the 1930’s and 1950’s and adopted around the world since then. The climate crisis challenges this orientation and asks More
Empowering the Next Generation: Illustrating Landscape Systems by Computation
Landscape systems are intricate and challenging to illustrate effectively. The BeingAliveLanguage, a groundbreaking software integrated into Rhino/Grasshopper, revolutionizes the visualization of soil-centric information. Developed by ETH Zurich’s “Chair of Being Alive,” this tool empowers designers and planners to create expressive, automated illustrations that support decision-making processes.
Drive Forward: Revolutionizing Traffic with Advanced Vehicle Trajectory Reconstruction
Understanding how vehicles move is crucial for safer, more coordinated, and smarter transportation systems. However, directly observing vehicle trajectories is impractical, posing a challenge to obtaining accurate trajectory data with limited sensing capabilities. We explore our innovative approach to vehicle trajectory reconstruction, reshaping the future of traffic management.