Department / Institute: Dipartimento di Architettura (D-ARCH)
CURREV Project Coordinator in Architecture
Book Chapter: ‘Case Study – AI-powered Digital Twin for Sarajevo Urban Plan’
International Cooperation Forum 2025 at ETH Zürich
At this year’s International Cooperation Forum, the Urban Transformation Project Sarajevo – including the first Urban Digital Twin for the Canton of Sarajevo was presented. The presentation took place during Session 4: Swiss Solutions for Smart Cities, in the presence of Swiss Federal Councilors Ignazio Cassis and Guy Continua
Housing and Reincorporation Strategies in post-Conflict Colombia. Mismatch of micro-level visions and macro-scale approaches
There is a consensus among scholars and policy makers that durable peace after violent conflicts is contingent upon addressing affected communities’ livelihood needs and, in particular, housing. Post-conflict reconstruction is challenging, but at the same time an opportunity to address pre-existing housing deficits. In this Update, we present Continua
Exploring the conditions for the emergence and sustainability of housing cooperatives in Latin America
Housing cooperatives are being reconsidered in many countries worldwide as potentially relevant actors in the provision of affordable housing. This is also the case in Latin America, characterised by neo-liberal housing policies that have led to an increasing financialization of housing and marginalisation of the poor. Uruguay is Continua
RESH – Regionale Effekte von Wohnungsknappheit in urbanen Gebieten (ESPON Projekt)
Wohnungsknappheit in Städten ist in ganz Europa zu einem akuten Problem geworden. Dies ist auf das Bevölkerungswachstum und die anhaltende Attraktivität von Städten als wirtschaftliche, kulturelle und soziale Zentren zurückzuführen. Das Angebot an Wohnraum in urbanen Gebieten konnte mit der Nachfrage nicht Schritt halten. Dieses Forschungsprojekt untersucht daher Continua
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Frühjahrssemester 2025
Producing New India. Periodising India’s Infrastructure-led Extended Urbanisation
New highway corridors are being implanted at various scales – local, metropolitan, regional, and interregional – often bypassing existing routes and opening new speculative frontiers for urban land markets. This article periodises the different stages of highway construction in India during the neo-liberal era.
Authoritarian Urbanism Beyond the City: Infrastructure-led Extended Urbanisation and India’s More-than-neoliberal Configurations
In the context of the prevailing global rightward and populist shift, there exists a largely unexplored yet profound nexus between authoritarian neoliberalism and infrastructure-led extended urbanisation beyond the city. Drawing on insights from extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted along India’s highway corridors, this paper examines the authoritarianism and social Continua
Kigali Unplanned Neighbourhood Upgrading Tool (KUNUT)
Kigali, Rwanda, has emerged as a pioneer in urban and digital transformation. Kigali sets a new inversed model of city development that expands from its hilltops downwards to the vital wetlands. The Kigali Unplanned Neighbourhood Upgrading Tool (KUNUT) provides a research platform that integrates digital technology with ecological Continua
At the Ends of Autobahn Urbanism
For a century, highways have shaped cities, economies, and national identities. But in November 2024, Swiss voters rejected a CHF 5 billion highway expansion, signaling a shift away from infrastructure-led urbanisation. As nations worldwide double down on highway-driven growth, Switzerland’s moratorium invites us to rethink mobility, territorial organisation, Continua
Negotiating Space for Housing Cooperatives in Latin America: The Case of Post Conflict Colombia and El Salvador
Can housing cooperatives contribute to reintegrating former combatants into civil society? Can they evolve into a broader housing strategy for marginalised communities? What conditions are necessary for their sustainable growth within national housing systems? This research project examines the emergence of bottom-up housing cooperative initiatives by former combatants Continua
Regionale Effekte von Wohnungsknappheit in urbanen Gebieten
Durch die anhaltende Attraktivität von Städten als wirtschaftliche, kulturelle und soziale Zentren ist Wohnungsknappheit in Metropolitanräumen in ganz Europa zu einem akuten Problem geworden. Das Angebot an Wohnraum in Kernstädten konnte mit der Nachfrage nicht Schritt halten, weshalb dieses Forschungsprojekt die Auswirkungen der Wohnungsknappheit auf die umliegenden Regionen Continua
Architekturen der Familie. Tagung zu den Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und Anforderungen an den Wohnungsmarkt
Während sich Familienstrukturen in der Schweiz rasant verändern, hält der Wohnungsmarkt weitestgehend an traditionellen Modellen fest. Das ETH Forum Wohnungsbau «ARCHITEKTUREN DER FAMILIE» beleuchtet aktuelle Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und innovative Wohnformen. Expert:innen aus Forschung, Architektur und Immobilienwirtschaft diskutieren Lösungen für die Herausforderungen des sozialen Wandels.
Negotiating Space for Cooperative Housing in Latin America. The Case of Post-Conflict Colombia and El Salvador
Wohnbaugenossenschaften entstanden Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts in Europa und spielten eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Friedensförderung, der Versöhnung und dem Wiederaufbau nach dem Ersten und Zweiten Weltkrieg. In den letzten Jahren – nach der globalen Finanzkrise, dem Rückzug der Regierungen aus dem Wohnungssektor und der Unfähigkeit des Privatsektors, die Continua
FamyCH (SNF SINERGIA Projekt). Sorgerechtsarrangements und Kindeswohl in der Schweiz
Das vierjährige SNF Sinergia Projekt «Sorgerechtsarrangements und Kindeswohl in der Schweiz» (FamyCH) nimmt Sorgerechtsregelungen nach der Trennung der Eltern und deren Auswirkungen auf die Kinder in den Blick. Interdisziplinär angelegt, hat das Projekt zum Ziel, Risiko- und Resilienzfaktoren für das Wohlergehen der Kinder zu identifizieren. Das ETH Wohnforum Continua
Informationsveranstaltung: MAS ETH EPFL in Urban and Territorial Design
EPFL ETH Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design
MAS Raumentwicklung & CAS Raumentwicklung und Planungspraxis
LUS Doctoral Crits Spring 2025
The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945 –1989
Diversifying the Architectural Canon with «Crossed Histories»
ARCHITEKTUREN DER FAMILIE – Dynamiken des Zusammenlebens und Anforderungen an den Wohnungsmarkt
Rebuilding Everyday Life: Housing Practices in Urban China
2 + 2 + 1 Eine Debatte über zeitgenössische Landschaftsarchitektur
Three doctoral theses from D-ARCH honoured with ETH Medal
During the doctoral awards ceremony on 24 January 2025, Matthew Critchley, Rune Frandsen and Kam-Ming Mark Tam received a Silver Medal for outstanding doctoral theses. Rune Frandsen, who is currently working as Scientific Collaborator at Bundesamt für Kultur BAK, receives an ETH Medal for his doctorate, that he Continua
Planetary Urbanisation and the 21st Century Agrarian Question
Global Theories of Urban Design
Built from Dust: Earth, Soil and the Modern Afropolis
Built from Dust: Engaging with Modern Afropoli
Sessions on Territory – Agency: Architecture in the Civil Service
100 Ideas for the Western Balkans: Belgrade Underground Opening
InternationaI Cooperation Forum Switzerland
Review of DELUS Journal for Landscape and Urban Studies: Chasing Water
The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies is young and evolving. While it builds on a rich research history across various chairs, its identity still continues to take shape through its doctoral community, lecture series, and biannual research colloquia. In this context, it is particularly noteworthy that the Continua
Master of Science in Landscape Architecture
Wohnen erforschen. Qualitative Methoden und forschungspraktische Reflexionen
Final Reviews Voser, Landscape Architecture: transizioni
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 Continua
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 Continua
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,” Continua
Wanderausstellung und Podium «10-Minuten-Nachbarschaften»
Conservación de la naturaleza y territorios indígenas: en transición de lo biológico a lo biocultural
Durante las dos últimas semanas de octubre de 2024 se celebró en Colombia la 16ª Conferencia de las Partes del Convenio sobre la Diversidad Biológica (COP16). La ciudad de Cali se convirtió en el principal escenario de esfuerzos intergubernamentales para proteger la naturaleza. Un resultado clave de la Continua
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 Continua
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 Continua