Department / Institute: Department of Architecture (D-ARCH)
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.
“The image of Heidi’s Switzerland will change and there will be new natures”
“The term ‘Alpine fallow lands’ was a provocation”
Sociology professor Christian Schmid will retire this year. In an interview with Andres Herzog, he looks back on his time at the ETH Studio Basel, which sparked discussions with the book “Switzerland: An Urban Portrait” and whose publications will be freely available online as Open Access from May.
Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS)
The Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo (UTPS) aims to support the modernisation of the integrated urban planning system in Sarajevo Canton, and the creation of better conditions for sustainable climate resilient socio-economic development. The project is supported by the Swiss Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) and corresponds with Switzerland’s foreign policy strategy More
LUS Doctoral Crits AS 2024 & Book Launch
ReHousIn: Contextualized Pathways to Reduce Housing Inequalities in the Green and Digital Transition (EU Horizon Project)
This EU Horizon project focuses on the impact of policies to achieve climate neutrality by 2050 on the access to adequate and affordable housing. Climate change and the environmental crisis pose challenges that must be addressed in a rapid and decisive way. The green transition is expected to More
Ramification. Eine Ausstellung zur zeitgenössischen Landschaftsarchitektur
Hybrid Summer School Synergic Urban Systems
DELUS Issue 0
Garden of the XXI Century in Til-Til, Chile
The garden located in Huertos Familiares, Tiltil, Chile, investigates how soil modification through changes in land-management practices can establish a ecological and social capacity in the community, and create opportunities for the emergence of a new type of public garden in the com¬munity of Tiltil. Tiltil, which already More
Garden of the XXI Century in New Orleans, USA
The garden is located in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans, a neighbourhood which suffered from extensive damage in 2005 during the city’s most severe weather-related disaster, Hurricane Katrina. The garden is a collection of five interconnected 10mx40m housing lots, which had homes on them prior to More
Garden of the XXI Century in Zurich, Switzerland
The garden of the XXI century in Zurich is located at the north-facing edge of Campus Hönggerberg, directly next to the HIT building. It is enclosed by roads on three sides and a day-care centre on the fourth side. With a size of roughly 1,000 m2 and a rectangular More
Garden of the XXI Century in Senan, Spain
As part of the Garden of the XXI Century research, the project in Senan, Spain, investigates how a simple practice of modifying the soil through the carefully managed grazing of horses can build ecological and social capacities in a rural area with limited resources. Based on the regenerative More
Garden of the XXI Century in Baldomar, Spain
On June 15, 2022, a fire burned 2,683 hectares of forest and agricultural land around the villages of La Clua de Maià and Alos de Balaguer in the municipality of Baldomà, a region of La Noguera north of Catalunya, Spain. Concerned about the intensity of the fire and More
Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard | Chair of Being Alive
Teresa Galí-Izard is professor of the Chair of Being Alive and director of the Master of Landscape Architecture at ETH. She is a principal of Arquitectura Agronomia, a landscape architecture firm based in Barcelona. Teresa is the author of “The Same Landscapes. Ideas and Interpretations” and trained as an agronomist at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.
DELUS began its journey in 2021, born from a shared vision between the LUS doctoral fellows Sara Frikech and Johanna Just to highlight the research endeavours of the Institute and establish a platform to establish dialogues on pressing topics within the field of landscape and urban studies.
Situated at the intersection of architecture, landscape, and urban studies, DELUS seeks to become a platform for exchange. It co-operates with research based at LUS and far beyond, connecting designers, artists, scientists, scholars, and students; dealing with landscape and urban questions; and giving visibility to emerging topics, concepts, and projects in these fields.
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Master of Science in Landscape Architecture
Applications until 30 April for autumn 2024. The Master‘s degree programme in Landscape Architecture is aimed at students with a Bachelor‘s degree in architecture or landscape architecture from a university or Swiss University of Applied Sciences with at least 180 ECTS or equivalent.
Colloquium on Sociology and Urban Studies
10-Minuten-Nachbarschaften – Eine Tour rund um den Idaplatz
MEHR WOHNRAUM IN STÄDTEN – Wie gelingt die innere Verdichtung?
ETH STUDIO BASEL Open Access: Public Launch
Abschlussvorlesung / Final Lecture Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid: No Condition is Permanent
10-Minuten-Nachbarschaften
2 + 2 + 1 A Collective Discussion on the Role of Landscape Architecture
Meaningful Careers: Built Environment Professionals in Humanitarian Aid
100 Ideas for the Western Balkans: Designing Urban Imaginaries
Anna Pagani «On housing justice: let’s talk about fixes that fail»
Die 10-Millionen-Schweiz: Platz für alle?
Sessions on Territory – Climate Anxiety and Mobilizing in Crisis: CLIMATE
Spielraum & Öffentlicher Raum (lecture) | Public Space: The Real and the Ideal (journal presentation)
The Agrarian Question: From Colonialism to Urban Agriculture
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
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 for designs which emphasize the micro-mobility. More
NSL Forum & Cycling Research Board
4 – 6 September 2024 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E3 and HIT. VIDEO NOW ONLINE! Today’s design reflects a 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 for designs that More
Martina Voser Appointed Full Professor of Landscape Architecture
Martina Voser, currently owner and member of the Executive Board of mavo Landschaften gmbh and Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, is now Full Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Architecture. Martina Voser is regarded as one of the leading figures in Swiss landscape architecture and has More
LUS Doctoral Crits
NSL Colloquium Planetary Urbanisation: Video now Online!
You missed the keynote speech of Roberto Luís Monte-Mór about extended urbanisation in the Brazilian Amazonia? Or you would like to pick and see one of the panels only? The choice is: New Urban Vocabularies, Concepts of Extended Urbanisation, Agrarian Urbanisms, Urban Design and Territories of Extended Urbanisation, More
Listening In: Conversations on Architectures, Cities and Landscapes, 1700-1900 – Programme and Abstracts
Codes and Conventions for Future Zurich: A Propositional Planning Approach to Qualitative Densification
This 4-year project uniquely combines historical and design-led research to explore urban strategies for housing the anticipated 25% population increase that Zurich is facing in the next 20 years. A ‘retroactive analysis’ of the historical evolution of building codes, as well as of the specific urban types and More