Department / Institute: Dipartimento di Architettura (D-ARCH)
Colloquium on Sociology and Urban Studies
ETH Forum Wohnungsbau: 17. internationale Tagung «GENERATIONENWOHNEN – Von der Idee bis zur Umsetzung»
MAS ETH in Housing
ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE | Application until 30 June 2023 (2nd round). The MAS focuses on the assessment of housing challenges and on the affordability, effectiveness and sustainability of a wide range of housing and neighbourhood development strategies pursued by municipalities, cooperatives, local governments, non-governmental and governmental Continua
Unlocking the ‘Contact Zone’. Towards a New Historiography of Architecture
This research project seeks to develop a new method of writing the history of post-WWII architecture, reflecting the complexities of globalisation and its influence on the built environment. The project investigates an alternative historiographic approach by organising history around cross-cultural ‘contact zones’. This term was first used by Continua
Unlocking a Multidisciplinary Discourse on Architecture and the City
This research project sets out to develop a new methodology of crossing disciplinary perspectives with the goal of unlocking a multidisciplinary historiography of architecture. It is based on the conviction that something fundamentally new can be learned from the exchanges that architects have had with other disciplines.
How can Urban Policy-makers Leverage Science and Technology to Create Safer, more Inclusive Cities that Serve the Needs of all Citizens?
Two overarching technological methods including agent-based modelling and simulations, and visualisation technology are connecting and overlapping three urban themes of public lighting, segregation, and security in Cape Town and Bogotá. Within this common ground called Urban Research Incubator (URI), researchers collaborate on several projects.
Critically Thinking and Acting on the Ground: An Interview with Christophe Girot
Christophe Girot started as visiting professor in 1999 shortly after the death of professor Dr. Dieter Kienast, he became professor at ORL and chair of landscape architecture at the ETH in 2001. He has substantially fostered and developed the discipline of landscape architecture within the Department of Architecture Continua
Doctoral Crits of the Institute of Urban and Landscape Studies LUS
Bright environments: Daylight in Sustainable Building Design
Entdecken, wie sich Landschaften anhören
Knarzen des schimmernden Morteratschgletschers, Grollen in aschfahlen Dämmen und stetes Schwappen graublauer Zürcher Stauseen: Ludwig Berger erkundet mit Studierenden, wie man Räume mit dem Gehör erkunden kann. Im ETH-Podcast spricht der wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiter über die klangliche Annäherung an die Landschaftsarchitektur, das Einfangen von Klängen und das Einspielen auf Schallplatten. Er Continua
Sudamérica LUS Talks
20 October 2022, 18:30 (2 December: 17:30) | ETH Zürich, Neunbrunnenstrasse 50, ONA Fokushalle (E7), Zürich. This year, the LUS Talks will engage diverse perspectives from practitioners and theorists addressing South America’s complex social and ecological landscapes.
Forecasting District-wide Pedestrian Volumes in Multi-level Networks in High-density Mixed-use Areas
Film, Architecture, and Urban Studies
Agadir. Building the Modern Afropolis
NSL Veranstaltungsplakat Herbstsemester 2022
Field Reconnaissance
As part of the design studio «Atomic Heart River», students in collaboration with the Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) were asked to develop visionary concepts for the science campus of the future. In addition to point clouds, other design tools such as a GNSS drawing device and virtual reality applications Continua
Wer in Zürich arbeitet, soll hier wohnen können – doch wo genau?
Das Projekt Neugasse der SBB in der Stadt Zürich ist umstritten. Stadtzürcher:innen stimmen am 25. September darüber ab. Auf einem 30 Hektar grossen Areal an gut erschlossener Lage sind bloss 375 Wohnungen vorgesehen. Das heisst, es wird nicht hinreichend verdichtet, nicht so viel Wohnraum geschaffen, wie es möglich Continua
Inaugural Lecture Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard
Von Bewegung, Video und Wolken
Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism/Architecture 2022/23
Nature and Engineering: The Park of the Buttes-Chaumont
«Incontri con il paesaggio»
Bibliothekseröffnung Lucius und Annemarie Burckhardt
(RE)Acting/(EN)Acting: New Approaches in Landscape Architecture
Architecture of Territory: MY ENERGY
Thursday 24.11./1.12., 10:00 – 12:00 | ETH Zürich, Oerlikon, Neunbrunnenstr. 50, ONA E 7 + online. 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.
The [Seasonal] Arrival City: Designing for migrants’ ‘transient right to the city’
Bodies of Water – A Swiss Landscape Trilogy
Profile der Alpen: Landschaft, Landscape, Paysage – Talschaft
Henri Lefebvre and the Theory of the Production of Space
Pamphlet 26: Probing Zurich
ARCH+ 249: Learning Spaces
Gotthard Landschaft – eine digitale Reise durch das alpine Massiv
20. – 30. September | ETH Zürich, Zentrum, Hauptgebäude (HG) Innenhof. Im Rahmen der Schweizer Digitaltage bespielt die Ausstellung «Gotthard Landschaft» der Professur Christophe Girot mit einem Punktwolken-Modell dieser bedeutsamen Bergregion den Innenhof des ETH Hauptgebäudes.
River Campus 2030
Understanding a Place by Looking at its Soil
Doing fieldwork – such as the study of soil, vegetation, or other living systems – is an essential task in the discipline of landscape architecture. It helps to understand and translate the existing conditions of a place to uncover its potential for future transformations. The Chair of Being Continua
La mappatura del potere: La trasformazione del paesaggio nella valle del Giordano
I processi di trasformazione del paesaggio a Naharayim/el Baqura nell’ultimo secolo e mezzo possono essere spiegati dall’interazione di tre variabili: territorio, cartografia e terreno. Questa interazione viene esaminata lungo tre periodi storici che segnano il passaggio dal nomadismo alla vita sedentaria: il periodo Ottomano (1858-1917), il mandato britannico Continua
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 Continua
Sprungbrett Wohnungsbau
False Clouds
Writing Landscapes, Writing the Urban
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 Continua
Sprungbrett – Impulse im Wohnungsbau
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 Continua
Fieldwork Week in Cima Città. Join us!
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, Continua