Mapping Power: Landscape Transformation in the Jordan Valley

An interaction of three variables can account for landscape transformation processes at Naharayim/el Baqura over the last century and a half: territory, cartography, and terrain. This interaction is examined across three historical periods marking the passage from nomadism to sedentism: The Ottoman Period (1858-1917), the British Mandate (1918-1948), More

Städtische Verdichtung und Verdrängung

9. Februar 2023, 17:00–18:45 Uhr | ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich, Höschgasse 3, Zürich. Expert:innen, Politiker:innen und Aktivist:innen diskutieren über die sozialen Auswirkungen der anhaltend raschen Verdichtung der Stadt Zürich. Diese erfolgt oft durch den Ersatz von preiswertem Wohnraum durch neue Wohnungen, die für einkommensschwächere Menschen nicht mehr erschwinglich sind. Am 25. Januar 2023 eröffnet More

Sprungbrett Wohnungsbau

15. September, 17:30–20:15 | PROGR, Bern.

False Clouds

9 September – 20 October | National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Urban Design Studio Sarajevo, BiH.

Writing Landscapes, Writing the Urban

Methodology Seminar | Starting 22 September on Thursdays, 14:00 – 16:00 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, Rote Hölle, HIL E67.

Methoden der Stadtforschung: 21 Years of Urban Sociology

PROGRAMM GEÄNDERT! 22. September bis 8. Dezember 2022, jeweils Donnerstag, 13:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E1. Diese Vorlesungsreihe vermittelt einen Rückblick auf die Arbeit der Dozentur Soziologie am D-ARCH und einen aktuellen Überblick über sozialwissenschaftliche Stadtforschung.

Jennifer Duyne Barenstein wird Leiterin des ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein übernimmt die Leitung des interdisziplinären Forschungszentrums ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE. Sie tritt die Nachfolge von Dr. Marie Glaser an und bringt langjährige internationale Leitungserfahrung mit. Die Sozialwissenschaftlerin ist seit sechs Jahren am ETH Wohnforum tätig und spezialisiert auf sozioökonomische und kulturelle Aspekte des More

Sprungbrett – Impulse im Wohnungsbau

15. September, 17:30–20:15 | PROGR, Bern. Neudenken des Schweizer Wohnungsbaus: Clusterwohnen auf dem Dorf und mehr.

Master of Science ETH in Landscape Architecture

Apply now for Autumn 2023! The ETH 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 a Swiss university of applied sciences with at least 180 ECTS or equivalent. A motivation letter and a portfolio are More

Fieldwork Week in Cima Città. Join us!

15. – 19. August 2022, registration deadline: 31.7.2022 | Cima Città, Valle di Blenio, Ticino. An open invitation to join the Chair of Being Alive for a week of getting their hands dirty.

Calculate or co-create?

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, More

Future Cities Laboratory Indicia 03

This third and final volume in the Indicia book series presents the results of the Future Cities Laboratory research programme in the form of actions for sustainable city-making.

Zu Fuss zu Netto-Null

Kürzlich wurde im Kanton Zürich das Klimaschutzziel «Netto-​Null 2040» beschlossen. Sibylle Wälty plädiert im ETH Zürich Zukunftsblog für mehr 10-​Minuten-Nachbarschaften, weil sie den Siedlungsraum besser nutzen und dadurch viele Emissionen vermieden werden.

4D Geo-designing Urban Transformation: Final Reviews

6 July 2022, 13:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIL E67.

An Agent-based Digital Twin for Sarajevo

To support and enable the Urban Transformation of the City of Sarajevo through quantitative, data-driven assessments and novel 4D digital aesthetics, we apply digital twins and large-scale, agent-based, and bottom-up simulations.

Tentacular Writing. A Peer-to-Peer Writing Retreat

11–16 September 2022, public final presentations: 16 September | Tschlin, Graubünden | an ETH Zurich / EPFL Summer School for doctoral students. «It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with; [it matters] (…) what thoughts think thoughts» (Haraway, 2016).

Imaginaries Exhibition

The Imaginaries exhibition edition, previously at the 2021 MAK Vienna Biennale, will travel to the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB) Shenzhen, China from August to November 2022. The central theme is architectural responses and strategies in the context of global climate change.

Festival «Sonic Topologies»

Das Festival Sonic Topologies erkundet die Zürcher Klanglandschaft in vielfältigen Hörerlebnissen. Vom 24. bis 26.6. finden Konzerte, Vorträge und Workshops im Alten Botanischen Garten, Reservoir Lyren, Wärmebad Käferberg und am Zürichsee statt. Internationale Expert*innen aus Klangkunst, Klangarchitektur und akustischer Ökologie entfalten die Akustik dieser Orte und eröffnen neue More

Transitional Space – Six Japanese Houses Traversed

The articulation of transitional space forms a key element in Japanese architecture and its relationship to landscape. Climate and cultural history have shaped myriad forms and expressions of these spaces, which connect as well as separate.

«Not Just Roads» by Nitin Bathla and Klearjos E. Papanicolaou wins SAH Award for Film and Video

The SAH Award for Film and Video recognizes annually the most distinguished work of film or video on the history of the built environment. «Not Just Roads is a well-filmed, focused and nuanced take on the impact of highway building in contemporary India on the disenfranchised. The film brings More

Agreement on Realisation of ‘Sarajevo Urban Transformation Project’ Signed

The agreement was signed by Prof. Hubert Klumpner from the Swiss Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich), Prof. Dr. Rifat Škrijelj, Rector of the University of Sarajevo (UNSA), Prof. Dr. Adnan Pašić from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Sarajevo (UNSA) and Faruk Muharemović, Director of the More

Alpine Landscapes in Transformation: Infrastructure, Culture, and Climate

Symposium, 12 and 13 May 2022. Public event, registration until 29 April 2022. Research workshops, round tables and keynote. Climate change, energy transition, urbanization, and industrialization have and will have tremendous effects on the Alpine landscape. Located at the crossroads of Europe, the transformations of this fragile environment More

Urban Research Incubator at ISTP Inaugurates New Interactive 3D Platform

The Urban Research Incubator at ISTP, researching public lighting, segregation, and security in two cities of the Global South (Cape Town and Bogota) created an interactive multi-user platform, making their research, policy briefs, and multimedia and immersive content more available. In doing so, they continue to engage in More

Gehen, Sitzen, Schauen: Körper und Landschaft

Ohne Gehen, Sitzen und Schauen gibt es keine Landschaft. Diese einfachen, grundlegenden Handlungen prägen unsere Beziehung zur Umgebung – und die Umgebung selbst.

«School of Architecture for Reconciliation» Nominated for KITE Award

The first phase of this school, organised by ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE, has been nominated for the prestigious KITE Award for Innovation in Learning and Technology, which honours the extraordinary efforts of teaching staff during the enforced remote teaching phase and showcases excellent examples of online teaching practice. On More

Wohnen. Zwölf Schlüsselthemen sozialräumlicher Wohnforschung

Wohnen ist ein hochrelevantes und vieldiskutiertes Thema in Gesellschaft, Politik und Wissenschaft: Es ist existenzielles Grundbedürfnis und alltägliche soziale Praxis, knappes Gut und wohnungspolitische Herausforderung, aber auch Ausgangspunkt und Vision architektonischer Entwürfe und zukunftsweisender Bauprojekte.

Rhythmic Transformations: the L200 Hybrid Space in Zurich

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 More

Eine Geschichte des gemeinschaftlichen Wohnens – Modelle des Zusammenlebens

29. März 2022, 18–19.30 Uhr | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT H 13, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27.

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 More

MAS Urban and Territorial Design 2022/23

Call for applications: 28 February to 31 May 2022 | ETH Zürich D-ARCH LUS and EPFL ENAC HRC joint programme.

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 More

Modern Architect and Migrant in the Australian Tropics

Despite a European training and an early career working with Peter Behrens, a migration from Vienna to the Australian state of Queensland positioned the architect Karl Langer (1903-1969) at the very edge of both European and Australian modernism. Confronted by tropical heat and glare, the economics of affordable More

Works and Ideas in Danish Modern Architecture

Kay Fisker (1893-1965) is considered one of the most influential Danish architects of the twentieth century, and yet there has existed until now no in-depth English-language study of his works and writing. Fisker’s output is closely associated with the functional tradition, a hybridization of international modernism and regional architectural More

The Modern Architect as Public Intellectual

Architect Ernesto Nathan Rogers (1909-1969) was a towering figure in 20th-century Italian architecture, with a significant impact at the international level. Through the work of his collaborative firm (Banfi Belgiojoso Peressutti Rogers, or BBPR), the editorship of publications such as Domus and Casabella, and his teaching at the More

Theme Issue ‘Modernities’, OASE 109. Journal for Architecture

The history of architecture is often read in terms of periods that each have their own zeitgeist and movements that each have their own architectural language. What happens if we depart from this zeitgeist concept and use a cyclical history model instead?

Laufen Manifesto Global Meeting

22 – 24 July 2022 | Laufen, Germany. Building on the 2013 «The Laufen Manifesto», which called for the development humane design culture, this event will discuss the relevance of the ideas of the original Manifesto and encourage scrutiny, actions, and decisions on methods and goals with relevant leaders in the urban More

Under the Landscape. Boulouki – Itinerant Workshop on Traditional Building Techniques

26 – 29 June 2022 | Symposium | Santorini and Therasia, Greece. Keynote: Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard.

Sonic Topologies

24 to 26 June 2022 | Old Botanical Garden, Zurich (festival centre). The interdisciplinary symposium and sound festival «Sonic Topologies» explores the relationship between place, sound, and knowledge. Researchers, architects, and artists develop site-specific sonic contributions at different locations in the city of Zurich, which explore the acoustic, ecological, social, or historical characteristics More

Agriculture de Non-Agir

5 May 2022, 12:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E 25. Lecturers: François Léger, Researcher, AgroParisTech & Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard.

Tête-à-Tête Lectures: Material Commons

9 March, 5 April, 3 May 2022 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HIT 31.1.

The City in Theory: Her Agency

Selected Thursdays 2022, 15:45 – 17:30 | ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg, HPT C 103.

Sessions on Territory – Urbanism & the Countryside AGRICULTURE

28 February – 16 May 2022, 16:00 – 18:00 | Lecture Series | hybrid: ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E7 / Zoom.

Agrarian Questions Under Extended Urbanisation

Starting 24 February 2022 on Thursdays, 16:00 – 18:00 | Elective Course / Urban Theory Seminar | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, Fokushalle ONA E7.

Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies: Towards Sensory, Creative, and Imaginative Methodologies

Starting 24 February 2022 on Thursdays, 10:00 – 12:00 | Methodology Seminar | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA Design in Dialogue Lab.

ACTION! On the Real City: Filmmaking of the Future – Urban Experiments in New Media Technology

Starting on 21 February 2022 on Mondays, 10:00 – 12:00 | Elective course | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E16 / Online. Lecturers: Prof. Hubert Klumpner, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou, Dr. Michael Walczak.

Keep it Living

17 March 2022, 12:45 – 15:30 | ETH Zurich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E 7. Lecturers: Tessa Peters, Director of Crop Stewardship, The Land Institute & Bonnie-Kate Walker, Research Associate, Chair of Being Alive.

Climate Corridors Sarajevo

11 April 2022 | Exhibition | work and event space «Urban Design Studio Sarajevo», Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

More than Human. Cinema

7 March – 2 May | Film Screenings and Discussions.

Master of Science ETH in Landscape Architecture

Application open until 30 April 2022. We offer a new two-year master’s programme in landscape architecture at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich with a focus on the design and planning of open spaces and landscapes.

Robotic Landscapes – Designing the Unfinished

11 March 2022, 18:30 | Book Launch | Never Stop Reading, Spiegelgasse 18, 8001 Zurich. Book presentation, discussion with guests, and apero.