Tom Avermaete: Katalogdaten im Frühjahrssemester 2022 |  |
| Name | Herr Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete |
| Lehrgebiet | Geschichte und Theorie des Städtebaus |
| Adresse | Geschichte u.Theorie d. Städtebaus ETH Zürich, HIL D 70.7 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telefon | +41 44 633 73 09 |
| tom.avermaete@gta.arch.ethz.ch | |
| Departement | Architektur |
| Beziehung | Ordentlicher Professor |
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| 052-0802-00L | Global History of Urban Design II  | 2 KP | 2V | T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course focuses on the history of the city, as well as on the ideas, processes and actors that propel their development and transformation. This course approaches the history of urban design as a cross-cultural field of knowledge that integrates scientific, economic and technical innovation as well as social and cultural change. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | The lectures in this course deal with the definition of urban design as an independent discipline that nevertheless maintains strong connections with other disciplines and fields that affect the transformation of the city (e.g. politics, sociology, geography, etc). The aim is to introduce students to the multiple theories, concepts and approaches of urban design that have been articulated from the turn of the 20th century to today, in a variety of cultural contexts. The course thus offers a historical and theoretical framework for students’ future design work. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | 24.02.2022 / lecture 1: Housing and the Industrial City 03.03.2022 / lecture 2: Cities and Ideologies 10.03.2022 / lecture 3: Envisioning Urban Utopias 17.03.2022 / lecture 4: Reconstructing the City, Constructing New Towns 24.03.2022: no class (Seminar Woche) 31.03.2022 / lecture 5: New Capitals for New Democracies, New Institutions for Old Democracies 07.04.2022 / lecture 6: Rethinking Masterplanning 14.04.2022 / lecture 7: Countercultural Experiments with Urbanity 21.04.2022 / no class (Easter) 28.04.2022 / guest lecture 05.05.2022 / lecture 8: Finding Meaning in the Postmodern City 12.05.2022 / lecture 9: Open-Ended Strategies for Imploding Cities | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Prior to each lecture a chapter of the reader (Skript) will be made available through the webpage of the Chair. These Skripts will introduce the lecture, as well as the basic visual references of each lecture, key dates and events, and references to further/additional readings. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | The book that will function as main reference literature throughout the course is: -Tom Avermaete, Janina Gosseye, Urban Design in the 20th Century: A History (Zürich: gta Verlag, 2021). Other books that provide background information for the course are: -Eric Mumford, Designing the Modern City: Urban Design Since 1850 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2018) -Francis D. K. Ching, Mark Jarzombek and Vikramditya Prakash, A Global History of Architecture (Hoboken: Wiley & Sons, 2017) -David Grahame Shane, Urban Design Since 1945: A Global Perspective (Hoboken: Wiley & Sons, 2011) These books will be reserved for consultation in the ETH Baubibliothek, and will not be available for individual loans. A list of further recommended literature will be found within each chapter of the reader (Skript). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-0804-00L | Architekturgeschichte und -theorie II | 2 KP | 2V + 2U | M. Delbeke, T. Avermaete, L. Stalder, P. Ursprung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | Einführung und Überblick zur Architekturgeschichte und -Theorie von der Renaissance bis zum 19. Jahrhundert. (Prof. Dr. M. Delbeke) Einführung in Methoden und Werkzeuge der Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte (Prof. Dr. M. Delbeke, Prof. Dr. L. Stalder, Prof. Dr. P. Ursprung, Prof. Dr. T. Avermaete) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | Erwerb grundlegenden Wissens in Architekturgeschichte und -theorie bzw. der Methoden und Werkzeuge der architekturbezogenen Forschung. Fähigkeit, wesentliche Gegenstände und Debatten der Architektur von den im Kurs behandelten Epochen und geographischen Gegenden zu bestimmen. Erwerb eines Bewusstseins und der methodischen Herangehensweisen für ein historisch sensibles Verständnis der gebauten Umwelt. Erwerb der Werkzeuge für die Fundierung eigenen architektonischen Schaffens in der historischen, theoretischen und kritischen Forschung. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Die Vorlesung Architekturgeschichte und -theorie II bietet einen zeitlichen und thematischen Überblick über die europäische Architekturpraxis und -theorie vom 15. bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Thematische Vorlesungen über zentrale Fragen einer jeweiligen Epoche werden vertieft mit detaillierten Analysen einzelner historischer Bauten. Themen umfassen das Aufkommen und die Entwicklung des Vitruvianismus in Architektur und -theorie bis ins 19. Jahrhundert und damit verbundene Themen wie die Herausbildung des Architektenberufs; Medien architektonischen Entwerfens und Bauens (Zeichnungen, Modelle, Baumaterialien); Formen und Medien der Verbreitung und Einflussnahme (Klein-Architekturen, Bildmedien); Bautypen (wie Palazzo und Villa); Fragen von Schönheuit und Ornamentik; Fragen der Auftraggeberschaft (wie der Päpste in Rom); das Verhältnis von Bauten zur Stadt (beispielsweise die Entwicklung europäischer Hauptstädte); Positionen gegenüber der Geschichte (Ursprungsmythen, Historismus); das Problem des Monuments. Der Kurs Grundlagen der Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur II umfasst verschiedene Teile die sich jeweils einem bestimmten Forschungsbereich der Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte widmen. (1) Historiographie (Geschichtsschreibung) der Architektur (M. Delbeke) (2) Medien der Architektur (L. Stalder) (3) Architektur und Kunst (P. Ursprung) (4) Städtebau und die Commons (T. Avermaete) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | Literaturangaben und Handzettel werden im Laufe des Semesters zur Verfügung gestellt. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Für die Vorlesung Architekturgeschichte und -theorie II müssen StudentInnen sich in selbständigem Studium grundlegendes Wissen der kanonischen Geschichte europäischer Architektur erwerben. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 052-0828-22L | Seminar History and Theory of Urban Design  Findet dieses Semester nicht statt. This course is not offered in FS22. | 4 KP | 2S | T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course is not offered in FS22. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-0834-22L | PhD Teaching: Petrographies - Geological Thinking and Architecture | 2 KP | 2S | T. Avermaete, C. Rachele, L. Xynogala | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course will examine the relevance of geological thought and methodology for the understanding of the built environment. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | WHY (Course Goals) By critically examining material specimens and their manifestations in practices of drawing and analysis, students will be exposed to the impact of material processes as they unfold in time. Acquiring an understanding of fundamental geologic principles, the seminar will expand the students’ knowledge beyond typical architectural understandings of matter and space. Ultimately, the seminar will shift the discussion beyond formal resemblances that currently prevail in architectural design. By doing so it aims to provoke a more expansive and complex analysis of the relationship between architecture and the material earth, one that engages the interrelatedness between different scales, times and matters. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | WHAT (topic) This course will examine the relevance of geological thought and methodology for the understanding of the built environment. Students will be introduced to key geological concepts. They will then bring this knowledge into the analysis of built artefacts through the reading of texts, discussion of definitions, understanding of field discoveries, and investigation of specimen. For the geologist James Hutton, “The crucial material link between human life and the earth is the soil” . The earth and its rocks have been a source of knowledge for the science of geology. Today we notice a proliferation of buildings resembling rocks, caves, geological formations and earthly excavations. Meanwhile environmental and philosophical discussions focus on the earth’s new epoch, one that is marked by human presence, activities and their after-effects. HOW (methodology) Methodologically, the seminar will discuss terms such as rocks, fossils, minerals, aggregates as well as modes of representations such as stratigraphy, geosections and petrography. Concurrently we will read historic and contemporary geological texts paired with select texts from the fields of philosophy, anthropology and geography. The discussion will aim in a collective writing of field questions: how does the knowledge gathered relates to the making of the built environment? If we take on Joan Tronto’s suggestion to “instead of thinking of buildings as things, can we think of them in relationships—with ongoing environments, people, flora and fauna, that exist through time as well as in space”- then how does this new understanding of earthly time writings and processes affects our thinking? WHERE (Teaching approach) Besides the classroom, the seminar will be partly be conducted in the field. We will visit select sites: there, we will graft our own field recordings of individual and collective observations. These will form the basis of a group field guide. Finally, each student will compose a text, and an experimental drawing. These will form their own petrography, a writing through stone that addresses select questions, issues and directions prompted from the collective writing exercise, field questions and field guide. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 052-0840-22L | Spezialfragen in Architekturtheorie: Ruskin & Wir: Lektüre, Rezeption, Aktualität | 2 KP | 2S | R. Hanisch, T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | Der englische Gentleman-Schriftsteller, Erzieher, Maler, Kunstkritiker, Sozialreformer, Denkmalpfleger und Architekturtheoretiker John Ruskin hat wie wenig andere die Gedankenwelt der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts dominiert. Im Seminar sollen die Texte von John Ruskin analysiert und auf die so vermittelten Reformideen auf ihre Aktualität für heutiges Bauen überprüft werden. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | Die Studentinnen und Studenten werden jeweils einen Text analysieren und vorstellen, gerne auch als Gruppenarbeit. Im Seminar werden wir die Texte vergleichen und in ihren Entstehungskontext einbinden. Danach soll allgemein kritisch diskutiert werden, was davon heute noch relevant sein könnte. Die Studierenden sollen so einerseits lernen, sich in diese historischen Texte hinein zu denken, und auf der anderen Seite, sie kritisch auf heutige Fragen hin überprüfen. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Ruskin & Us: Lektüre, Rezeption, AktualitätDer englische Gentleman-Schriftsteller, Erzieher, Maler, Kunstkritiker, Sozialreformer, Denkmalpfleger und Architekturtheoretiker John Ruskin hat wie wenig andere die Gedankenwelt der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts dominiert. Durch die unglaubliche Vielfalt seiner Schriften zu Ästhetik über Sozialpolitik bis zu Umweltfragen hat er William Morris, Octavia Hill, Mahatma Gandhi, Karl Marx, Marcel Proust u.v.a.m. beeinflusst. Die Architekturtheorien von Frank Lloyd Wright, Adolf Loos, Hermann Muthesius und Walter Gropius sind ohne Übernahmen von Ruskins Gedanken nicht vorstellbar. Die Sozialwissenschaftler Patrick Geddes und Otto Neurath greifen auf seine Ideen zur Reform der Wirtschaft, den Ausbau der Arbeiterbildung und die Kontrolle der Urbanisierung zurück. Besonders nachhaltig waren seine frühen Beobachtungen der Folgen der Industrialisierung auf die Landschaft, die in erste Maßnahmen des Umweltschutzes im Lake District mündeten. Die Denkmalpflege verdankt Ruskin die Konzeption der Altersspuren, die flächendeckende Dokumentation von Bauten und die Gründung des Englischen National Trust. Im Seminar sollen die Texte, Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Photographien von John Ruskin analysiert werden und auf die so vermittelten Reformideen auf ihre Aktualität für heutiges Bauen überprüft werden. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Texte werden online gestellt. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | Ruskin & Us: Lektüre, Rezeption, Aktualität | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 052-0850-22L | The City in Theory: Her Agency | 2 KP | 2S | C. Nuijsink, T. Avermaete, C.‑L. Szacka-Marier | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This seminar explores women's contribution to post-war urban theory and design, focusing on 1) the concept of agency 2) the notion of “professional woman” and 3) critical writing as a methodology. Students will read and critically engage in class discussions. They will also each analyze a female protagonist's contribution to urban design and theory and, collectively, build an online exhibition. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | Upon completion of this course students will: (1) Be familiarized with the notion of “agency” and learn how to use it as an analytical lens for research (2) Better understand the different roles that professional women have played in the design of cities, post-war. (3) Be able to use critical writing as a methodology for analyzing women's contribution to urban theory and design (4) Be skilled in communicating research findings to a wider audience | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Architecture and urban culture operate along axes, which sometimes run parallel and sometimes cross each other. Traditionally, these axes have been defined and dominated by male figures. In the post-war era, however, the “female professional” emerged (in the role of architects, politicians, urban designers, journalists, editors, and curators) who started to critically engage in discussions on urban design and actively contribute to the design of cities. This seminar intents to follow the work and life of a series of these female professionals of the post-war era, showing how, while operating in different contexts and networks, these women have forged the discourses and practices of their generation. By fully acknowledging the contributions of these female protagonists as both an inspiration source and as designer, this seminar sets out to make a correction to the existing, male-dominated histories and theories of urban design. During the seminar, we will study the concept of agency – that is, the action or intervention producing a particular effect— of women through their contribution to urban theory and design. Parallel to that, we will explore to what degree ideas on cities have changed in the post-war period because of women's thinking and actions. Questions we will address in class discussion include but are not limited to, in what different roles did professional women operate and put their agency to work in sharing their ideas? How can we use critical writing to assess the agency of women on the city? Course structure This course is based on weekly, two-hour seminars structured around a series of input sessions on the themes of “agency” and “professional women,” as well as the acquisition of critical writing skills. During the first class, students will be asked to choose one female protagonist (from a pre-selected group) on which to focus their individual research to be carried out over the course of the entire semester. As part of their research, students will actively gather relevant sources in the library that can contribute to the research questions posed above. The semester-long individual research will culminate in a short piece of critical writing to be included in the collaborative online exhibition. Assessment The final grade consists of: Active participation in class discussions (15%) Individual research project and piece of critical writing (55%) Collective online exhibition (30%) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Scans of the texts that need to be read before each session will be provided in digital form at the start of the semester via the website of the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | This course is open to master students and advanced bachelor students. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-0852-22L | Topical Questions in History and Theory of Architecture: World Making After Empire | 2 KP | 2S | H. A. Kennedy, T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | What do we mean by the terms colonialism, imperialism, postcolonialism, decoloniality, and coloniality, and how do they intersect with and unsettle studies of the built and spatially imagined environment? Using postcolonial thought as our lens, this course introduces students to the core ideas and key methodological strategies that inform inquiries into the colonial past and its enduring present. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | This is a reading and discussion-based seminar. The aim is to introduce students to the core ideas and key methodological strategies that inform critical spatial inquiries into the colonial past and its enduring present. Students will be introduced to these concepts and methods through close readings of classic polemical texts that have shaped the arc of postcolonial thought and criticism, paying close attention to the political and intellectual contexts from which these texts emerged, as examples of embodied and situated knowledge. Charting the development of a radical movement in thought that disavowed and sought to expose the violence of colonialism, this course will explore recent narrative trends in architectural history that have taken seriously the imperatives of this movement, scholarship that works to rethink and reclaim marginalized aesthetic histories and agencies. We will approach the subject of decolonial and postcolonial critique from an intersectional perspective, considering its close relation to the many currents of thought that it sits alongside, including critical race theory, feminist and trans/queer criticism, anticolonial criticism, cultural studies, and minority and indigenous studies, all of which have generated new entry points into the study of the colonial past and present. Thinking with Ania Loomba, we will ask how ongoing struggles, such as those of indigenous peoples and threatened lands, and the enclosure of the commons in different parts of the world, shed light on the long histories of colonialism. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | World-Making After Empire: Reflections on the Postcolonial What do we mean by the terms colonialism, imperialism, postcolonialism, decoloniality, and coloniality, and how do they intersect with and unsettle studies of the built and spatially imagined environment? Using postcolonial thought as our lens, this course introduces students to the core ideas and key methodological strategies that inform inquiries into the colonial past and its enduring present. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | This course is designed for Master's student level, and also open for PhD candidates. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 063-0804-22L | History and Theory of Architecture VIII | 2 KP | 2V | R. Choi, T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This lecture course begins with the premise that architecture’s “color,” or its not-quite-so-whiteness, is difficult to see. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | The course will move through projects, concepts, and ideas that have seemingly ignored race and racism, followed by projects that offer anti-racist forms of architectural visions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Thinking through Architecture’s Color Line, the course explores three arenas that have been central to the formation of what some historians call architecture as a discipline: the profession, the university and the museum. These institutional “nodes” will serve as loose framework to introduce how racial politics were embedded within each structure and will demonstrate how the architectural field was not as white as we might have previously thought: there were communities of color, Black architects and architects-in-training thinking against the architectural grain though the social organizing very much using architectural terms that have not always been at the forefront of the discipline. Organized thematically, the course will move through projects, concepts, and ideas that have seemingly ignored race and racism, followed by projects that offer anti-racist forms of architectural visions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | https://choi.arch.ethz.ch/courses/the-color-line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | https://choi.arch.ethz.ch/courses/the-color-line | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | https://ethz.zoom.us/j/5777551284 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 063-0806-22L | History and Theory of Architecture: Inputs From Outside Findet dieses Semester nicht statt. This is a course taught by guest professors. | 2 KP | 2V | T. Avermaete, M. Delbeke | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course will aim to explore the Mediterranean, a region of great importance to trade, culture and politics over many centuries that continues to defy conventional academic and geographic categories. The course will aim to expand the existing discussion towards the inclusion of the built environment and cultural artifacts, and contemporary reverberations of the region’s history. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | The course considers buildings and landscapes from across the Mediterranean world, encompassing Italy, Spain, the Ottoman Empire, North Africa and Egypt. Its chronological and geographical scope is meant to bring into question some the conventional categories by which art and architectural history are studied: “Medieval,” “Renaissance,” “Italian,” “Islamic,” “Western,” etc. These categories tend to impose a particular narrative on history, suggesting that the Renaissance was a break with the middle ages, that Florence was the cultural center of Europe, and that the relation between European and Islamic societies could be manifest only through conflict. This course will attempt to resist this narrative, and to propose an alternative one based on the ideas of cultural interchange, rivalry, and appropriation. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Nationalism has cast a long shadow in the humanities, dividing disciplines along lines that often do not correspond to the most important boundaries of earlier eras, or even of our own. This course will aim to explore the Mediterranean, a region of great importance to trade, culture and politics over many centuries that continues to defy conventional academic and geographic categories. While Mediterranean studies were established by Fernand Braudel (in La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l’époque de Philippe II, 1949) and have seen a revival of interest in the last decades, the course will aim to expand the existing discussion towards the inclusion of the built environment and cultural artifacts, and towards a consideration of the contemporary reverberations of the region’s history. The course considers a range of buildings and landscapes from across the Mediterranean world, encompassing Italy, Spain, the Ottoman Empire, North Africa and Egypt. Its chronological and geographical scope are meant to bring into question some the conventional categories by which art and architectural history are studied: “Medieval,” “Renaissance,” “Italian,” “Islamic,” “Western,” etc. These categories tend to impose a particular narrative on history, suggesting that the Renaissance was a break with the middle ages, that Florence was the cultural center of Europe, and that the relation between European and Islamic societies could be manifest only through conflict. This course will attempt to resist this narrative, and to propose an alternative one based on the ideas of cultural interchange, rivalry, and appropriation. In considering this range of subject matter, emphasis will be placed on sites, cities, and monuments that show the traces of a layered or contested history. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 063-0858-22L | Subject Semester FS22 (Fachsemester) in the Field of History and Theory in Architecture (gta) Enrolment in agreement with the chair only. Meetings as required and in consultation with the chair. A student can only register once for a "Fachsemester" during the Master studies! The application deadline is Wednesday January 26, 2022, 8 p.m. You will receive a message about acceptance or rejection for the subject semester by Wednesday. February 2, 2022, 2 p.m. at the latest. Students who have been rejected have the opportunity to choose a design class. | 14 KP | 29A | T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | Material Commons and the City: Zurich This Research Studio focuses on the material commons of Zurich and explores how local material resources influence the aesthetic, construction and craft cultures. It attempts to answer questions as: What are the material commons and how do architects and other citizens engage with them? How do material resources produce a common architectural and urban idiom? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | The Research Studio has two objectives. First, to develop an ‘Archeology’ of Zürich’s material commons. In this part, the work of the urban historian or theoretician is understood as an archaeological venture. The collective material stock, as well as the crafts and realisations (buildings and neighbourhoods) related to it, will be systematically analysed as the outcome of codes and as reliant on established practices of ‘commoning’. The result will be a catalogue of the city’s common pool material resources, illustrating how these provide a basis for practices of ‘commoning’ and how, as architectural and urban figures, they are integrated into and have an impact upon the city fabric. Second, to develop a 'Retroactive Manifesto'. Based on the archeology of the first phase, students will explore the inherent logics of the material commons of Zurich. The idea is that the uncovering of these logics not only helps to comprehend the historical development of the material commons, but also to speculate about future scenarios for engaging with material resources in the city. The past, present and future roles of material commons in the city will be discussed, as a more comprehensive project for the city as we know it and as it might evolve. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Material Commons and the City: Zurich Cities have always been places based on common resources and common practices. While designing and constructing the architecture of the city, architects, urban designers, builders, and inhabitants have had to engage with common resources located in particular places and geographies: inherited common-pool resources (water, nature, air); material common-pool resources (clay, brick, stone, wood); and immaterial common-pool resources (craft, knowledge). This understanding of the city, as related to common resources and practices, has gained renewed attention, as neoliberalism replaces ever-shrinking welfare structures, and global urbanization is accompanied by rising inequality. It is not only architects and urban designers who are again becoming interested in alternative principles of governing common resources, but also political movements and society at large. Some of these issues – generally called ‘the commons’ – have also received growing academic attention in the last decades within the fields of critical urban studies, urban history, urban geography and the social sciences. This Research Studio continues the investigations into the rich history of ‘the commons’ in the city of Zürich by focusing on its material resources. The ‘material commons’ will be investigated from architectural, urban, typological, environmental and material perspectives. We will explore how common practices have affected the development of the city, and conversely how material commons enable and structure common practices. The research will unlock an alternative reading of the urban and architectural qualities of the built environment of the city. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Methodology: Exploring the Tools and Knowledge of the Architect The main hypothesis of the Research Studio is that historical and theoretical research can gain from a profound use of the tools and knowledge of an architect. During the Research Studio students will employ specific architectural tools, such as drawing, writing, and model making to explore historical and theoretical realities. Students will be urged to explore various methods of composing analytical and interpretative drawings. They will reflect upon the capacity of drawing methods from the field of architecture, such as plan drawing, sectional drawings, mappings, serial visions, public drawings, diagramming and perspective representations to act as tools of historical and theoretical research. At the same time, they will be asked to investigate various analytical and interpretative modes of scale-model making. Students may work with different types of models (structural models, mass models, counter form models, landscape and territorial models) as ways to historically or theoretically explore the reality of the city. Far from being simple graphic or artefactual restitutions of the city, these drawings and models will create morphological, thematic or theoretical links between various occurrences in the city. These methods of drawing and model making will be combined with more conventional investigative techniques in the fields of history and theory such as discourse analysis, iconographic studies and compositional investigation, to support a better historical or theoretical understanding of specific occurrences and conditions in the city of Zürich. Students will also be stimulated to use their spatial, formal, material and constructive architectural knowledge to offer alternative historical or theoretical interpretations of the reality that they encounter in the archives, in the library or in the city. They will be asked to activate their specific spatial, typological, compositional, technical, material and constructive expertise to probe into the various historical layers of the architecture of the city in newfangled ways. Within the general theme of material commons, students will be guided to identify their own subtheme, as well as explore their own different methodologies of doing research. During the Research Studio students will confront their empirical knowledge (about space, typology, composition, technique, material and construction), pertaining to the autonomy of architecture, with other types of knowledge (on politics, economy, the social and cultural) that belong to the heteronomy of architecture. In the relation between autonomous and heteronomous knowledge, a new understanding of the city will be constructed. The combination of these tools and methods will offer an in-depth mode of historical and theoretical research, wherein the students will retro-actively explore the spatial, formal, material and constructive features of a particular situation to uncover and reconstruct the logics that have led to a certain urban condition. On the basis of this research, students will be able to develop an architectural hypothesis of the developments in the city of Zürich. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | A student can only register once for a "Fachsemester" during the Master studies! The application deadline is Wednesday December 8, 2021, 8 p.m. You will receive a message about acceptance or rejection for the subject semester by Wednesday January 26, 2022, 2 p.m. at the latest. Students who have been rejected have the opportunity to choose a design class. Self-dependent work. Enrollment on agreement with the chair only. Meetings as required and after consultation with the chair (Wednesdays). The collective and individual projects together will offer an alternative reading, which retro-actively traces the urban territory and architectural quality of the city of Zurich back to the local common resources and common practices. The different materials – texts, drawings, models – will be combined in an atlas, which presents this alternative reading to a larger audience. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 064-0004-22L | Advanced Topics in History and Theory of Architecture | 3 KP | 2K | M. Delbeke, T. Avermaete, L. Stalder, P. Ursprung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | Advanced Research Methods in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | Acquiring insight in the different possible research methods available to PhD-researchers in the fields of the history and theory of art and architecture. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Today, it is still common to think of architecture in terms of individual authors, styles and canonical buildings. Any study following this logic, however, will always miss out on the complexity of a practice embedded in, and actively contributing to, the global process of modernisation. For the factors that have transformed architecture worldwide in the last two hundred years have been less individual figures, formal accomplishments or singular buildings, than new technologies, organisational models and professional alignments. One way of grasping these processes, and by extension better understanding architecture’s central role in the continual unfolding of modernity, is to shift our attention from the discipline’s internal discourse to what buildings are actually made of. In other words, to think of architecture as an assemblage of technical objects—or ‘things’—like elevators, pipes, air conditioning systems, and so on. This doctoral-level course will encourage students to think about buildings in terms of ‘things’ by introducing them to a vast literature on the ontological, epistemological and social politics of objects and matter more in general. Students successfully completing the course will be in a position to read buildings from an object-oriented perspective. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 064-0018-22L | Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies: Creative, Sensory & Imaginative Approaches | 3 KP | 2K | G. Vogt, T. Avermaete, T. Galí-Izard, C. Girot, H. Klumpner, F. Persyn, C. Schmid | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | As part of the ‘Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies’, the ‘Research Methods in Landscape and Urban Studies' seminar offers PhD students at the D-Arch an application-oriented introduction into the variety of methodologies and tools available to conduct research on the (built) environment at the urban and territorial scale. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | The seminar's objective is to introduce PhD students to the multitude of research methodologies, tools, and techniques within the fields of urban studies, urban design, territorial planning and landscape architecture. Based on the conveyed knowledge, the seminar ultimately aims at enabling PhD candidates to critically assess existing methods and tools, and to refine and develop an academically sound research framework for their own studies. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | The seminar is organised along four modules that are arranged according to the PhD classes' particular needs: A: Methodology Module >>> Introduction of a research methodology/approach by an expert + exercise and discussion / moderated by doctoral programme coordinator. (3 per semester) B: Framework Module >>> Sessions organised and conducted by doctoral programme coordinator and invited experts to develop a first overview of different theories on landscape and urban studies (with this semester a specific focus on the Anthropocene and living systems). (3 per semester). C: Techniques Module >>> Introduction into research techniques and tools / organised by doctoral programme coordinator and respective experts. These modules will make students familiar with technical aspects such as academic writing, or the the use of GIS software and visual analysis (3 per semester) D. Doctoral Reviews >>> Presentation and discussion of individual PhD projects organised by the doctoral program coordinator with external guests (2 per semester). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The online seminar is jointly organized by the coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Landscape and Urban Studies, and the I-LUS faculty. Although located at the D-Arch, the seminar is open to all doctoral students (at ETH) who are involved or interested in research at the urban and territorial scale. This seminar is complementing the gta doctoral colloquiums on Thursday afternoons. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||