Injecting new impetuses into sustainable housing

With one or two exceptions the rented-housing market of the 1970s to mid-1980s produced very few innovations. The handful that emerged – mostly small-scale initiatives – were initiated by private developers or newly established housing cooperatives. One such private developer is ProMiet AG, who in the 1980s realized More

Academising Architecture: Design as a Research Practice

This cooperative project is funded by an ETH research grant and includes ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE (lead Monika Kurath), Michael Hagner, Science Studies, and Philip Ursprung, gta. It analyses the epistemic basis, form and content of design research in architecture at eight leading Western architecture schools in More

How to Grow: Planning for Holistically Sustainable Land Use

Investigate Spatial Structure and Project Theoretical Pictures of Dynamic Planning Opportunities Background: Metropolitan areas are systems of organized complexity, highly adaptable to changing circumstances or emerging usage requirements. Aggravating to envisaged future qualitative growth seems the current regulatory maze of normative planning law of static zoning, construction and More

EPFL ETH Master of Advanced Studies
in Urban and Territorial Design

Application period: 1 January 2025 – 31 March 2025. Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design ETH Zürich D-ARCH LUS and EPFL ENAC HRC, joint master programme.

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Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein | ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE

ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE, founded in 1990, is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich.

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