Markus Peter: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2020

Name	Prof. em. Markus Peter
Field	Architektur und Konstruktion
E-mail	peter@arch.ethz.ch
Department	Architecture
Relationship	Professor emeritus

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
051-0155-00L	Architectural Technology V Only for Architecture BSc, Programme Regulations 2011.	2 credits	2V	M. Peter
Abstract	The lecture series explores the correlation among intentions of design, architectonic expression and construction premises. These critical areas or aspects of study, which are presented with selected projects, their respective theoretical backgrounds and historical development, are pluralistically associated and brought into relation with varying contemporary opinion.
Learning objective	The final part of the lecture series Konstruktion V/VI aims to analyse (structural) construction techniques and their formal appearance and expression in their interrelation. The different themed parts of structural design, building shell and knowledge of material get connected with architectural design in practice and reflected in the wider context of architectural theory. The intention is to consolidate the understanding of the connection between structure, process and formal appearance and expression in the architecture of the 20th century.
Content	The lecture series in the course entitled Architecture and Construction explores the correlation among intentions of design, architectonic expression and construction premises. Each lecture is focused on individual themes, as for example, the application of certain materials (glass, or natural stone), of particular construction systems (tectonic, hybrid) or design generators (grids, series) and alternatively the search for a definable, tangible architectural expression (vernacular architecture, readymades). These critical areas or aspects of study, which are presented with their respective theoretical backgrounds and historical development, are pluralistically associated and brought into relation with varying contemporary opinion. The yearlong lecture cycle is comprised of twenty individual lectures, in which the majority of projects being analyzed date from the last few decades.
Lecture notes	The brochures published by the chair offer additional help. Knowledge of these brochures and their key subjects is recommended for the exam. The brochures can be ordered at the chair after the last lecture before the examination. However, the subject matters of the brochures and the lectures are not identical, the brochures provide information for a deeper understanding of the lectures. Apart from additional articles written by the chair, the brochures are composed of three modules: Project documentation, crucial texts on the work reception as well as theoretical articles about the particular thematic priorities by various authors. Concerning their content these anthologies allow insights into a wide range of theories, lines of reasoning and fields of research up to diverging point of views of specific problems.
Literature	list of literature per lecture
Prerequisites / Notice	General remarks (on exam as well as exam preparation) The comprehensive topics of the lectures are the subject matter of the exam. The lectures are scheduled for a full year (Konstruktion V/VI) and therefore the knowledge of the subject matter of the running as well as of the preceding semester's lectures is required. To improve your chances to pass the examination at first try, we strongly recommend you to take the exam after having visited the lecture during two semesters. A “Leistungselement" as an interim examn will take place as part of the lecture in the first half of the semester. The interim examn is voluntary. It will be conducted under examn conditions and will be graded. Its grade will contribute to the overall grade of the course, if it has a positive influence. If you are an exchange student, or a student from a different department and wish to take a partial examination covering only the subject matter of the last semester (Konstruktion V or VI), you need to contact the chair in advance.
052-0507-00L	Architectural Technology V	2 credits	2V	M. Peter
Abstract	The lecture series explores the correlation among intentions of design, architectonic expression and construction premises. These critical areas or aspects of study, which are presented with selected projects, their respective theoretical backgrounds and historical development, are pluralistically associated and brought into relation with varying contemporary opinion.
Learning objective	The final part of the lecture series Konstruktion V/VI aims to analyse (structural) construction techniques and their formal appearance and expression in their interrelation. The different themed parts of structural design, building shell and knowledge of material get connected with architectural design in practice and reflected in the wider context of architectural theory. The intention is to consolidate the understanding of the connection between structure, process and formal appearance and expression in the architecture of the 20th century.
Content	The lecture series in the course entitled Architecture and Construction explores the correlation among intentions of design, architectonic expression and construction premises. Each lecture is focused on individual themes, as for example, the application of certain materials (glass, or natural stone), of particular construction systems (tectonic, hybrid) or design generators (grids, series) and alternatively the search for a definable, tangible architectural expression (vernacular architecture, readymades). These critical areas or aspects of study, which are presented with their respective theoretical backgrounds and historical development, are pluralistically associated and brought into relation with varying contemporary opinion. The yearlong lecture cycle is comprised of twenty individual lectures, in which the majority of projects being analyzed date from the last few decades.
Lecture notes	The brochures published by the chair offer additional help. Knowledge of these brochures and their key subjects is recommended for the exam. The brochures can be ordered at the chair after the last lecture before the examination. However, the subject matters of the brochures and the lectures are not identical, the brochures provide information for a deeper understanding of the lectures. Apart from additional articles written by the chair, the brochures are composed of three modules: Project documentation, crucial texts on the work reception as well as theoretical articles about the particular thematic priorities by various authors. Concerning their content these anthologies allow insights into a wide range of theories, lines of reasoning and fields of research up to diverging point of views of specific problems.
Literature	List of literature per lecture.
Prerequisites / Notice	General remarks (on exam as well as exam preparation) The comprehensive topics of the lectures are the subject matter of the exam. The lectures are scheduled for a full year (Konstruktion V/VI) and therefore the knowledge of the subject matter of the running as well as of the preceding semester's lectures is required. To improve your chances to pass the examination at first try, we strongly recommend you to take the exam after having visited the lecture during two semesters. A “Leistungselement" as an interim exam will take place as part of the lecture in the first half of the semester. The interim examn is voluntary. It will be conducted under examn conditions and will be graded. Its grade will contribute to the overall grade of the course, if it has a positive influence. If you are an exchange student, or a student from a different department and wish to take a partial examination covering only the subject matter of the last semester (Konstruktion V or VI), you need to contact the chair in advance.
052-1129-20L	Architectural Design V-IX: City, Apartment, Furnishing/Building in - Zurich (M. Peter) Please register (www.mystudies.ethz.ch) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see http://www.einschreibung.arch.ethz.ch/design.php). Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 3rd November 2020, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio is 3.11.2020, 24:00 h.	14 credits	16U	M. Peter
Abstract	Along with guest lectures during the semester, which highlight the key protagonists and currents of this discourse in Europe, we form the starting point for our semester topic: Hugo Häring and Hans Scharoun in Germany; Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in France; Caccia Dominioni in Italy; Josef Frank and Adolf Loos in Austria,
Learning objective	The interiors of another project are worked on alternately in an intermediate exercise. In doing so, the appropriation of the given substance is to be checked and the dialogical relationship between structure and extension, or apartment and furnishings, is to be examined in terms of design.
Content	In our time since the 1960s, we have actually observed a separation between architecture and interior design, a separation between structure, shell and interior design. In the extreme, the elementary architectural relationship between structure and shape, or light and space, is abandoned. The question of whether home furnishings belong to architecture leads us directly to elementary demarcations, which ended in sometimes violent controversies in the separation and delimitation of architecture and interior design within the development of modern architecture. From the tradition of a unity of interior and architecture to a total work of art, to the dissolution of any relationship between interior and furnishings with the elimination of everything "superfluous" and reduction to standard furniture. Along with guest lectures during the semester, which highlight the key protagonists and currents of this discourse in Europe, we form the starting point for our semester topic: Hugo Häring and Hans Scharoun in Germany; Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret in France; Caccia Dominioni in Italy; Josef Frank and Adolf Loos in Austria The semester task lies at various locations in the city of Zurich and is to be understood as an insertion into the Tessuto of the built city. The primary morphological setting and ordering of structure, shell and access creates the basis for the residential building as a complex organism in order to take on the role of interior designer in the next step. The interiors of another project are worked on alternately in an intermediate exercise. In doing so, the appropriation of the given substance is to be checked and the dialogical relationship between structure and extension, or apartment and furnishings, is to be examined in terms of design.
Prerequisites / Notice	Individual work only. Extra costs: CHF 50.-- (seminar week not included).
063-0187-20L	Procedures in Design - Techniques of Construction (Thesis Elective)	6 credits	13A	M. Peter
Abstract	Within three elective courses the students need to fulfill an elective work (seminar work). Elective works serve the independent way of dealing with the contents of the according elective course.
Learning objective	The aim of the Thesis Elective is a independent engagement with the subjects of the related Elective Course.
Content	The contents of these elective studies are expected to link to the subject matter of the attended course.