Ileana Apostol: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2020

Name	Ms Ileana Apostol
Address	Schmid, Christian (Tit.-Prof.) ETH Zürich, HIL E 61.2 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND
E-mail	apostol@arch.ethz.ch
Department	Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
Relationship	Lecturer

Number	Title	ECTS	Hours	Lecturers
052-0703-00L	Sociology I	2 credits	2V	C. Schmid, I. Apostol, M. Streule Ulloa Nieto
Abstract	Sociology I investigates the relation between social developments and the production of the built environment from a macro-sociological point of view. It examines central aspects of social change, historical and contemporary forms of urbanization, and typical examples of models of urbanization.
Learning objective	This series of lectures should enable students to comprehend architecture in its social context.
Content	Sociology I deals with the macro-sociological point of view, and investigates the relation between social developments and the production of the built environment. In the first part central aspects of social change are examined, –in particular the transition from Fordism to Neoliberalism and the interlinked processes of globalization and regionalization. The second part deals with historical and current forms of urbanization. Among other aspects, it focuses on the changed significance of the urban-rural contradiction, the processes of suburbanization, periurbanization, and planetary urbanization; the formation of global cities and metropolitan regions; the development of new urban configurations in centres (gentrification) and in urban peripheries (edge city, exopolis, new urban intensity). In the third part these general processes are illustrated by typical models of urbanization: Manchester, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris and Zürich.
Literature	A detailed collection of original texts will be distributed.
063-0701-00L	Methods of Urban Research	2 credits	2G	C. Schmid, I. Apostol, L. B. Howe, M. Streule Ulloa Nieto, C. Ting
Abstract	This course conveys an introduction into methods of urban research in social sciences through lectures and accompanying exercises. It treats the basic principles of scientific research, literature research, different forms of participant observation, qualitative interviews (expert interviews and ethnographic interviews), and the analysis of urban qualities.
Learning objective	This course aims at enabling students of architecture to use sociological analysis as basis for concrete projects in architecture and urban design. It is based on a specific set of methods that is applied in design studios (integrated disciplines) as well as in the master thesis (supplementary discipline sociology).