Department / Institute: Department of Architecture (D-ARCH)
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
Extended Urbanisation. Tracing Planetary Struggles NOW OPEN ACCESS DOWNLOAD!
Vocabularies for an Urbanising Planet: Theory Building through Comparison NOW OPEN ACCESS DOWNLOAD
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 More
An Advocate of Public Space
The Great Repair: Praktiken der Reparatur (DE/EN)
The Great Repair is an oxymoron. the title captures the convergence of two seemingly contradictory principles: the revolutionary ambition for systemic change and the evolutionary act of repair. Despite the justified (postmodern) skepticism toward revolution as a concept of rupture, we must not abandon our aspiration to bring about More
COLLECTIVE WORKSHOP Transformational Encounters in the Trakia Economic Zone
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 More
Community-led Landscape Restoration 2024: Call for Applications
Application deadline: 10 February 2024 | Working sessions: 7 March, June, September, December 2024. The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at ETH Zurich is delighted to announce the Community-led Landscape Restoration 2024 working group, a transdisciplinary series open to citizen groups, activists, academic researchers, and policy More
Biocultural Cartographies
Prof. Maria Conen und Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi erneuern das Direktorium des ETH Wohnforum
Die Departementsleitung Architektur der ETH Zürich hat Prof. Maria Conen und Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi ins Leitungsgremium des ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE gewählt. Sie treten ihre Position am 1. November 2023 als Nachfolgerinnen von Prof. Hubert Klumpner und Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid, langjährige Mitglieder des Direktoriums, an.
Urban Research Seminar
29.11.2023, 12:00 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL H 35.1. Urban Research Seminar is a new initiative hosted by D-BAUG with the aim of building a bottom-up network that brings together early career researchers and their ongoing urban research projects across ETH Zürich.
NSL Colloquium: Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes
26. – 28. February 2025, ETH Zürich Hönggerberg and Zentrum. 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 attempt to maintain otherwise.
More Than Human Cinema
Planetary Urbanisation – Agendas for Action | Agrifutures Zürich – Agroecological Projects
Generationenwohnen
MAS ETH in Housing
Applications: 1 January – 30 April 2024. This programme aims at contributing to finding solutions to the challenges of housing construction in Switzerland, Europe, and low and middle-income countries worldwide through high-level multidisciplinary training and research.
EPFL ETH MAS Urban and Territorial Design
Application: Mid-December 2023 – 30 April 2024. The MAS UTD deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales, based on social and environmental equity and justice and a deeper understanding of the cultural and ecological dimensions of territories.
LVML-Integration into Design++ at the ETH Zurich
The Large-Scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab (LVML) becomes part of Design++, the Center for Augmented Computational Design in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. It opens its usage to Design++ members to foster interdisciplinary collaboration and supports knowledge integration and co-creation to advance planning and design tools and workflows. Contact: More
Symposium ‘Drawing the Urban’
‘Baukultur und Recht’
Inputreferat «Generationenwohnen – ein Wohnmodell mit Potenzial»
Peeling out the Details of Chestnuts in Castasegna, Bregaglia, Switzerland
The landscapes dominated by chestnut trees in the southern alpine valleys are among the traditional agroforestry systems of Switzerland and have long been the main source of food for the local population. These complex socio-ecological systems provide a great learning space for landscape architects and planners, as chestnut More
Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT)
Architecture of Territory: MY WEATHER
Lecture Series | Thursday 7.12., 10:00 – 12:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA Fokushalle E7. This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism to territorial scales, corresponding to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation.
LUS Talks 2023
Future Cities Laboratory Global Conference and Exhibition
Agroecological Repair – Food, Territory and Agriculture in the Canton of Zürich
On the highlands, across crop rotation plains and within the drained valley floors the «Agriterritories» of Zurich require immediate action for design to take back its political role within the rural. The ETH Zürich studio Agroecological Repair – Transformative Practices for the Zürich Territory (spring 23) was part More
2+2+1: Eine Debatte über zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur
«Unser Ziel ist es, Lösungsansätze für die rasante globale und schweizweite Urbanisierung zu finden.»
David Kaufmann ist für die nächsten zwei Jahre neuer Direktor des Netzwerks Stadt und Landschaft (NSL). Seine Prioritäten sind die Stärkung der ETH Zürich im Bereich der nationalen und internationalen Stadtforschung sowie die Förderung von Synergien zwischen den Stadtforschungsgruppen der ETH in Forschung, Lehre und Engagement für die More
Opening of the ‘Large-scale Virtualization and Modeling Lab – LVML’
Open House Zürich, Quartierrundgang
Inaugural Lecture of the ETH MSc in Landscape Architecture 2023–2024
18 September, 15:00–17:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E3. Lecturer: Catherine Mosbach, French Landscape Architect, mosbach paysagistes. Landscape asserts a painting that some aspire to put under bell. The bottomless abysses of our practice as landscape architects probe the alliances beyond courtiers of generic green.
Days of Architecture Sarajevo
Generationenfestival
15. September | 17:00–22:00 und 16. September, 10:00– 18:00 | Generationenfestival Thun «Märit», Mittlere Ringstr. 8, 3600 Thun. Wie können Wohnformen das Zusammenleben von Jung und Alt fördern? Wo liegen Herausforderungen und Chancen? Das ETH Wohnforum nimmt am Generationenwohnen Festival in Thun teil und bietet Einblicke.