Search result: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2020
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| First Year Examinations | ||||||
| Examination Block 1 | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
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| 052-0603-00L | Structural Design I | O | 2 credits | 3G | P. Block | |
| Abstract | The courses Structural Design I and II explain the fundamentals of how structures function. These courses put great emphasis on studying the relationship between the form of a structure and the internal forces within it by means of graphic statics. | |||||
| Learning objective | At the conclusion of the courses Structural Design I and II, students will be able to: 1. visualize the internal forces within two-dimensional structural elements. 2. understand the relationship between the form of a structure and the internal forces within it. 3. modify the design of a structure in order to improve it. 4. identify the most important structural typologies. 5. use graphic statics for the form-finding and analysis of structures. 6. carry out basic dimensioning of structural elements. | |||||
| Content | Structural Design I: - Fundamentals of static equilibrium - Introduction to graphic statics - Basic dimensioning of structural elements - Cables and stiffening schemes of cables - Arches and stiffening schemes of arches - Arch-cables structures Structural Design II: - Trusses - Beams - Frames - Plates - Buckling of compression elements | |||||
| Lecture notes | on eQUILIBRIUM "Skript Tragwerksentwurf I/II" http://www.block.arch.ethz.ch/eq/course/4?lang=en A printed version can be bought at the chair of Structural Design Prof. Schwartz for sFr. 55.-. | |||||
| Literature | "The art of structures, Introduction to the functioning of structures in architecture" (Aurelio Muttoni, EPFL Press, 2011, ISBN 13: 978-0415610292, ISBN 10: 041561029X) "Rule of thumb structural design" (Philippe Block, Christoph Gengangel, Stefan Peters, DVA Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2013, ISBN: 978-3-421-03904-0) "Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures" (Edward Allen, Waclaw Zalewski, October 2009, ISBN: 978-0-470-17465-4) | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | No course on 22.10. (seminar week) and on 10. and 17.12.2020 (before final submissions). The lecture will be held bilingually (German/English). The course will be held in HS20 in hybrid classes (bubbles of 24 students). Below is an overview of the bubbles by date: 17.09: Bubbles 1-10: classroom teaching HPH G1, Bubbles 11-15: online lecture HIL G41/G61; 24.09: Bubbles 6-15: classroom teaching HPH G1, Bubbles 1-5: online lecture HIL G41/G61; 01.10: Bubbles 1-15: classroom teaching HIL G41/G61; 08.10: Bubbles 11-15 and 1-5: classroom teaching HPH G1, Bubbles 6-10: online lecture HIL G41/G61. 15.10: Bubbles 1-10: classroom teaching HPH G1, Bubbles 11-15: online lecture HIL G41/G61; 29.10: Bubbles 1-15 classroom teaching HIL G41/G61; 05.11: Bubbles 1-15 classroom teaching HIL G41/G61; 12.11: Bubbles 6-15: classroom teaching HPH G1; Bubbles 1-5: online lecture HIL G41/G61; 19.11: Bubbles 1-15 classroom teaching HIL G41/G61; 26.11: Bubbles 11-15 and 1-5: classroom teaching HPH G1, Bubbles 6-10: online lecture HIL G41/G61 03.12: Bubbles 1-15: classroom teaching HIL G41/G61. | |||||
| 052-0703-00L | Sociology I | O | 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. | |||||
| 052-0901-00L | Building History I | O | 2 credits | 2V | S. Holzer | |
| Abstract | History of building from classical antiquity to modernity: building types, constructions, forms, with particular reference to functional issues such as flexibility of use, statics, durability. | |||||
| Learning objective | Participants know the fundamentals of building history, including landmark monuments of each era, key historic constructions and forms. They are able to "read" a historic building and to relate it to building history. | |||||
| Content | Building history I covers the period from classical Greek antiquity to Gothic architecture. The principal topics include construction issues such as Greek megalithic buidling, Roman mortar-and-rubble construction, and Gothic rationalism of vaulted architecture. Within the Vitruvian and Albertian triad of firmitas, utilitas and venustas, we focus on the first two topics, whereas the last topic (deciphering the "meaning" of architecture) stands at the heart of the "architectural history" lectures. | |||||
| Lecture notes | Lecture slides are provided for download. The lecture will be recorded a priori. During normal lecture times, questions can be put online. Lecure notes will be provided (in German!) | |||||
| Literature | Will be announced during the lectures. | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | ACHTUNG: ONLINE-Unterricht - KEIN PRÄSENZUNTERRICHT - KEINE BUBBLES Die Vorlesung findet Online statt. Die Lehreinheiten wurden - angepasst an die CoViD-19-Situation - vorab im August 2020 aufgezeichnet. Ab 1. September 2020 können die Videos auf video.ethz.ch angeschaut oder heruntergeladen werden. Ausserdem stehen auf der website des Institutes, https://holzer.arch.ethz.ch/studium/vorlesungen.html auch die Vorlesungsfolien (als pdf) zum Download bereit. Auf https://holzer.arch.ethz.ch/studium/skripte.html finden Sie Skripte. WIR EMPFEHLEN IHNEN DRINGEND, DIE VORLESUNG WÄHREND DER REGULÄREN STUNDENPLANZEITEN ANZUSEHEN. WICHTIG: Wir stehen Ihnen während der Vorlesungszeit außerdem für direkte, individuelle Live-Interaktion per Mail, Zoom, oder auch persönlich zur Verfügung (Voranmeldung per Mail erforderlich). Nähere Informationen dazu folgen. | |||||
| Examination Block 2 | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
| 052-0803-00L | History and Theory of Architecture I | O | 2 credits | 2V + 2U | T. Avermaete, M. Delbeke, M. Charitonidou, L. Stalder, H. Teerds, P. Ursprung | |
| Abstract | Introduction and overview of the history and theory of architecture from the Renaissance to the eighteenth century. (Prof. Dr. M. Delbeke) Introduction in the methods and instruments of the history of art and architecture. (Prof. Dr. M. Delbeke, Prof. Dr. L. Stalder, Prof. Dr. P. Unsprung, Prof. Dr. T. Avermaete) | |||||
| Learning objective | Acquiring basic knowledge of the history of architecture and architectural theory, resp. of the methods and instruments of research into architecture. Being able to identify the main architectural issues and debates of the period and geography covered in the course. Acquiring the attitudes and tools to develop a historically informed reading of the built environment. Acquiring the tools to be able to draw on historical, theoretical and critical research to nourish one's architectural culture. | |||||
| Content | The course History and Theory of Architecture I offers a chronological and thematic overview of the architecture and architectural theory produced in Europe from the 15th up to 19th century. Thematic lectures about key questions at play during the period will be combined with the in-depth analysis of historical buildings. Themes will cover the emergence and development of Vitruvian design theory and practice up to the 19th century, and related issues such as the emergence of the architect; the media of architectural design and practice (drawings, models, building materials); patterns and media of dissemination and influence (micro-architecture, imagery); building types (the palazzo and the villa); questions of beauty and ornament; questions of patronage (e.g. the Roman papacy); the relation of buildings to the city (e.g. the development of European capitals); attitudes towards history (origin myths, historicism); the question of the monument. The course Fundamentals of the History and Theory of Architecture I consists of different parts, each dealing with a particular area of research into the history of art and architecture (1) Architecture and the book (M. Delbeke) (2) Architectural media (L. Stalder). (3) Architecture and art (P. Ursprung) (4) Urbanism and the Commons (T. Avermaete) | |||||
| Literature | Literature and handouts will be provided over the course of the term. | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | For the course History and Theory of Architecture I students will rely on assisted self study to acquire basic knowledge of the canonical history of architecture in Europe. The exercise is taught in the hybrid mode (Bubbles of 24 students: 1st week: Bubbles 1-5 face-to-face teaching, bubbles 6-10 and 11 - 15 online in studio G41/G61; . 2nd week: Bubbles 6-10 face-to-face teaching, bubbles 11-15 and 1 - 5 online in studio G41/G61; 3. Woche: Bubbles 11-15 face-to-face teaching, bubbles 1-5 and 6 - 10online in studioG41/G61; 4th week equal to 1st week etc. | |||||
| 052-0601-00L | Building Materials I | O | 2 credits | 2V | J. Pauli | |
| Abstract | Building Materials - Introduction to the most common building materials Origin + Production Properties + Application Ecological footprint + Recycling | |||||
| Learning objective | The lecture develops an understanding of different building materials and its reasonable and appropriate application for construction under the aspects of material properties and ecological aspects. | |||||
| Content | The lecture introduces the most common building materials concrete, steel, masonery and timber, but also clay, glas and polymers in a historical context. The fabrication processes are described and the most important properties regarding construction explained. A special focus is on the ecological aspects such as availability of raw materials, effort for production, emission of hazardous substances, disposal and recycling. | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Hybrid teaching, changing, in groups (bubbles of 24 students): Week 1: Bubbles 1-5 in HIL E3, 6-10 and 11 - 15 online in studio G41/G61. Week 2: Bubbles 6-10 HIL E3, 11-15 and 1 - 5 online in studio G41/G61; Week 3: Bubbles 11-15 HIL E3, 1-5 and 6 - 10 online in studio G41/G61. Week 4 = week 1 etc. | |||||
| 052-0701-00L | Urban Design I | O | 2 credits | 2V | M. Wagner | |
| Abstract | The means and potentials in the field of urban planning and design are pointed out from different perspectives in order to shape the city in the sense of a future-proof and humane environment. To this end, the basic principles are explained and concrete methods of urban design are presented. | |||||
| Learning objective | The goal is to provide students with a broad systemic basic knowledge, that enables them to synthesize and evaluate complex urban design and planning problems. | |||||
| Content | The lecture series imparts basic knowledge in urban planning and design. Pressing questions and main topics of contemporary urban design practice and theory will be addressed. The focus is on illustrating the richness of relationships as well as the potential of the discipline and its handling in everyday urban planning and design practice. | |||||
| Lecture notes | There is no script to the lecture series. The lectures are recorded on video and made available online on http://www.video.ethz.ch/lectures.html a few days after each lecture. | |||||
| Literature | At the end of the year course a reader with secondary literature will be made available for download. | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Further Informations: https://www.staedtebau.arch.ethz.ch The lecture is held in HS20 in the hybrid mode (bubbles of 24 students): 1st week: Bubbles 1-10 in Auditorium HPH G1, bubbles 11-15 Online in studio G41/G61; 2nd week: Bubbles 6-15 in Auditorium HPH G1, bubbles 1-5 Online in studio G41/G61; 3rd week: Bubbles 11-15 and 1-5 in Auditorium HPH G1, bubbles 6-10 Online in studio G41/G61. 4th week = equal to 1st week. | |||||
| 052-0605-00L | Mathematics and Programming I | O | 2 credits | 2V | L. Hovestadt | |
| Abstract | An introduction to information technology for architects. It is not about the HOW, but rather about the WHAT, not about virtuosity when dealing with digital tools, but rather about understanding coding. Not about pragmatism, but rather about literacy. It forms the basis of digital architectonics, the art of joining, which needs to be cultivated with care, prudence and patience. | |||||
| Learning objective | Normally, one would expect this course to teach students how to draw architecture while using computers. This course does not because digital architectural models are not drawn, but encoded. In the current discussion about building information models (BIM), we see how blocked the situation can become when one draws architecture digitally. Today, digital models are a tedious 'minefield' with hundreds of gigabytes of data of all kinds. A digital model as code, however, is lightweight, compact and fast – a sparkling crystal, like poetry. That is why coding is the focus of this course. More specifically, students learn to read code and to value thinking in code. Learning active coding goes beyond the time-frame and should not be forced upon people. Thanks to digital awareness, students can quickly learn a wide variety of software using help available in the Internet, and competently use it according to their personal preferences. The aim of the course is for the students to develop as architects and to grow a digital personality. Specific reference is made to the history of architecture in conjunction with mathematics and philosophy. The essential tool of the trade is the lambda calculus in the implementation of Mathematica. The information technology interconnection of all digital media will be presented: text, image, graphic, model, animation, film, audio and the corresponding software. Current issues will be discussed: Internet, Internet of things, cryptography, privacy, big data, machine intelligence, building information models, responsive cities, smart homes, robotics, energy and logistics. Current and historical modelling processes will be worked on. | |||||
| Content | The Mechanics of Digital Introduction and overview on folding Calculus Text and numbers Lists and colours Pictures and films Cryptography and communication Rules and graphs Graphics and Animation 3D models Solid models Music and sound The Big Plenty Parsers Databases Machine intelligence Many images Many texts Many drawings Many models Smart buildings City and country On the Internet of Things A Digital Archaeology of Architecture The geometry of Euclid The architecture of the Greeks The arithmetic of Ptolemy The architecture of the middle ages The geometry of Descartes The architecture of the Renaissance The arithmetic of Lagrange The architecture of the Enlightenment The algebra of Boole The architecture of the classical period The theory of categories The architecture of the 20th century The Digital Architectural Model Architecture and poetry The perspective model The probabilistic model The crystal The hybrid The continuum The Oikos The model concept 1920 The model concept 1950 The model concept 1980 The model concept 2010 Brand and style | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Hybrid teaching: Groups (bubbles) of 24 students: Week 1: Bubbles 1-5 in HIL E3, 6-10 and 11 - 15 online in studio G41/G61; Week 2: Bubbles 6-10 in HIL E3, 11-15 and 1 - 5 online in studio G41/G61; Week 3: Bubbles 11-15 in HIL E3, 1-5 and 6 - 10 online in studio G41/G61. Week 4 = week 1. | |||||
| Subjects with Semester Grade | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
| 052-0501-00L | Design and Construction I  Participation in the seminar week of the chair Deplazes (topic "Hybrid Modeling") from October 19 to 23, 2020, is mandatory! 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. | O | 8 credits | 4V + 10G + 2U | A. Deplazes, D. Mettler, D. Studer | |
| Abstract | Designing and constructing will be understood to be a complementarily complementary offer. The content and methodical foundations of design and construction are taught and deepened through lectures and exercises. | |||||
| Learning objective | Understanding and dominating the methodology of designing and constructing. | |||||
| Content | Lectures and exercises to achieve the methodology and ability of designing and constructing. | |||||
| Lecture notes | Andrea Deplazes (Hrsg.), Constructing Architecture, From Raw Materials to Building, A Handbook, Birkhäuser, Basel Boston Berlin, 2013 | |||||
| Literature | Literature will be published in the lectures. | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | 100% of interest and engagement! Participation in the seminar week of the Deplazes chair (topic "Hybrid Modeling") is compulsory (19.-23.10.2020). For the lecture, Tuesday 8-12 teaching is as follows (BUK I scroll down please): Hybrid Teaching, changing: 1st week: 8-10 h: Bubbles 1-10 Auditorium, Bubbles 11-15 Studio 10-12 h: Bubbles11-15 und 1-5 Hörsaal, Bubbles 6-10 Studiol; 2nd week 8-10 h: Bubbles 6-15 Auditorium, Bubbles 1-5 Studio 10-12 h: Bubbles 1-10 AuditoriumBubbles 11-15 Studio 3rd week: 8-10 h: Bubbles 11-15 und 1-5 Auditorium, Bubbles 6-10 Studio 10-12 h: Bubbles 6-15 AuditoriumBubbles 1-5 Studio From 4th week: proceed analogue 1st week! | |||||
| 052-0503-00L | Architecture and Art I 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. | O | 8 credits | 2V + 5G + 1U | H. E. Franzen, K. Sander, T. Becker, E. Vonplon | |
| Abstract | Attendance in the lecture „Thinking and Speaking about Art“. Elaboration of a self-contained artistic work in the framework of the group mentorates. (Emphasis of grading for the final semester grade: 3/5 final presentation, 1/5 written project-conception, 1/5 drawing examination in free and perspective drawing). | |||||
| Learning objective | In the HS20, students prove artistic thinking and practise and develope their knowledge in a mentored course with an independent artistic work. | |||||
| Content | Attendance in the lecture „Thinking and Speaking about Art“. Elaboration of a self-contained artistic work in the framework of the group mentorates. (Emphasis of grading for the final semester grade: 3/5 final presentation, 1/5 written project-conception, 1/5 drawing examination in free and perspective drawing). | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Courses taking place in the rooms as follows: Bubbles 1 und 2: ONA E7 Bubbles 3 und 4: HIL E1 Bubbles 5 und 6: HPL D32/34, HIL G41 Bubbles 7 und 8: HIT J53, HIL G41 Bubbles 9 und 10: HIL H 40.9, HIL G61 Bubbles 11 und 12: HCP E47.1, HCP E47.4 Bubbles 13 und 14: HIL B18.2, HIL G41 Bubble 15: ONA E16 | |||||
| Repetition Fist Year Architecture BSc | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
| 900-9001-00L | Repetition Fist Year Architecture BSc | 0 credits | not available | |||
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| Examination Block 1 | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
| 052-0607-00L | Structural Design III | O | 2 credits | 3G | P. D'Acunto | |
| Abstract | The course Structural Design III complements the courses Structural Design I and II, which show the fundamentals of how structures function. The course explores the relationship between architecture and structure by analyzing buildings built using the main structural materials. | |||||
| Learning objective | At the conclusion of Structural Design III, students will be able to: 1. understand the structural behaviour of a building. 2. design efficient and expressive structural systems. 3. extend the application of graphic statics from 2D to 3D. 4. assess the structural and architectural potentials of the most important building materials. 5. establish a relationship between material aspects, form and forces. 6. understand how construction details work from a structural perspective. 7. carry out basic dimensioning of structural elements. | |||||
| Content | After a brief review of the key aspects taught in Structural Design I and II, the course Structural Design III will examine the interplay of architectural concepts and structural systems by analyzing buildings of exemplary quality. Structures built out of steel, reinforced concrete, timber and masonry are studied. During the exercise sessions, three-dimensional structures will be analyzed using graphic statics taking into account the relationship between form, forces and material aspects. | |||||
| Lecture notes | eQUILIBRIUM https://block.arch.ethz.ch/eq/ | |||||
| Literature | "The art of structures, Introduction to the functioning of structures in architecture" (Aurelio Muttoni, EPFL Press, 2011, ISBN 13: 978-0415610292, ISBN 10: 041561029X) "Rule of thumb structural design" (Philippe Block, Christoph Gengangel, Stefan Peters, DVA Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2013, ISBN: 978-3-421-03904-0) "Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures" (Edward Allen, Waclaw Zalewski, October 2009, ISBN: 978-0-470-17465-4) | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | To take part in this course, it is recommended to first complete the courses Structural Design I and II or to have knowledge of graphic statics. | |||||
| 052-0805-00L | History and Theory in Architecture III | O | 2 credits | 2V | L. Stalder | |
| Abstract | This two-semester course is an introduction to the history of architecture from the Second Industrial Revolution in the 1850s to the Oil Crisis in the 1970s in Europe. Students will be able to identify the “things”—technical objects and ensembles—that transformed architecture, and to relate them to the technical, scientific, and cultural concerns that introduced them as key features of modernity. | |||||
| Learning objective | To introduce students to the history and theory of architecture, the course has three objectives. First, students will be able to identify the “things” that transformed architecture in modernity, and the crucial events, buildings, theories, and actors that characterize their history. Second, students will be able to describe how these “things” operated at different scales, focusing less on the formal level, and naming instead the different forms of expertise that constituted them historically, as well as the processes within which they were embedded. Third, students will be able to reflect on a series of apparatuses, devices, and building parts that are in fact micro-architectures which have often been neglected, despite their pivotal role in shaping the daily lives of modern societies. | |||||
| Content | The course proposes a new approach to the study of the history and theory of architecture in Europe during modernity. It focuses less on single architects or their buildings, and more on those “things” that have brought profound transformations in the built environment and daily life over the last 200 years, such as the revolving door, the clock, and the partition. The notion of “thing” includes both the concrete building parts and the concerns associated with them, such as material performance, social synchronization, and individual expression. To understand buildings as assemblages of “things,” therefore, does not mean to diminish their significance, but on the contrary to add reality to them, to understand them in terms of the complex, historically situated, and diverse concerns within which they were designed. Each lecture introduces one “thing” through a genealogy that shaped it, from patents and scientific discoveries and technological advancement, to cinema, the visual arts, and literature. A set of renowned projects as well as lesser-known buildings from all around Europe offer a variety of case studies to describe these “things,” to understand how they operated in relation with one another, and to identify the theories and tactics that architects mobilized to make sense of them. | |||||
| Lecture notes | http://www.stalder.arch.ethz.ch/courses | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Location: 1. hour: Zoom: https://ethz.zoom.us/j/96835699990 2./3. hour: Studios | |||||
| 052-0635-00L | Mathematical Thinking and Programming III | O | 2 credits | 2V | L. Hovestadt | |
| Abstract | An introduction to information technology for architects. It is not about the HOW, but rather about the WHAT, not about virtuosity when dealing with digital tools, but rather about understanding coding. Not about pragmatism, but rather about literacy. It forms the basis of digital architectonics, the art of joining, which needs to be cultivated with care, prudence and patience. | |||||
| Learning objective | Normally, one would expect this course to teach students how to draw architecture while using computers. This course does not because digital architectural models are not drawn, but encoded. In the current discussion about building information models (BIM), we see how blocked the situation can become when one draws architecture digitally. Today, digital models are a tedious 'minefield' with hundreds of gigabytes of data of all kinds. A digital model as code, however, is lightweight, compact and fast – a sparkling crystal, like poetry. That is why coding is the focus of this course. More specifically, students learn to read code and to value thinking in code. Learning active coding goes beyond the time-frame and should not be forced upon people. Thanks to digital awareness, students can quickly learn a wide variety of software using help available in the Internet, and competently use it according to their personal preferences. The aim of the course is for the students to develop as architects and to grow a digital personality. Specific reference is made to the history of architecture in conjunction with mathematics and philosophy. The essential tool of the trade is the lambda calculus in the implementation of Mathematica. The information technology interconnection of all digital media will be presented: text, image, graphic, model, animation, film, audio and the corresponding software. Current issues will be discussed: Internet, Internet of things, cryptography, privacy, big data, machine intelligence, building information models, responsive cities, smart homes, robotics, energy and logistics. Current and historical modelling processes will be worked on. | |||||
| Content | The Mechanics of Digital Introduction and overview on folding Calculus Text and numbers Lists and colours Pictures and films Cryptography and communication Rules and graphs Graphics and Animation 3D models Solid models Music and sound The Big Plenty Parsers Databases Machine intelligence Many images Many texts Many drawings Many models Smart buildings City and country On the Internet of Things A Digital Archaeology of Architecture The geometry of Euclid The architecture of the Greeks The arithmetic of Ptolemy The architecture of the middle ages The geometry of Descartes The architecture of the Renaissance The arithmetic of Lagrange The architecture of the Enlightenment The algebra of Boole The architecture of the classical period The theory of categories The architecture of the 20th century The Digital Architectural Model Architecture and poetry The perspective model The probabilistic model The crystal The hybrid The continuum The Oikos The model concept 1920 The model concept 1950 The model concept 1980 The model concept 2010 Brand and style | |||||
| Examination Block 2 | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
| 151-8009-00L | Building Physics II | O | 2 credits | 2G | J. Carmeliet, M. Ettlin, A. Rubin | |
| Abstract | Moisture related problems are common in buildings leading to costly damage and uncomfortable indoor environments. This course aims at providing the necessary theoretical background and training in order to foresee and avoid these problems. | |||||
| Learning objective | • to develop a basic understanding of mass transport and buffering • to become aware of potential moisture-related damage and health risks • to learn how to (i) design building components and (ii) assess their hygrothermal performance | |||||
| Content | • hygrothermal loads • conservation of mass (dry air, water vapor, liquid water) • moist air: constitutive behavior, transport, potential problems and solutions • liquid water: constitutive behavior, transport, potential problems and solutions • exercises | |||||
| Lecture notes | Handouts, supporting material and exercises are provided online via Moodle. | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Prior knowledge of "BP I: heat" is required. | |||||
| 052-0801-00L | Global History of Urban Design I | O | 2 credits | 2G | T. Avermaete | |
| Abstract | This course focuses on the history of the city, as well as on the ideas, processes and actors that engender and lead their developments and transformations. The history of urban design will be approached as a cross-cultural field of knowledge that integrates scientific, economic and technical innovation as well as social and cultural advance. | |||||
| Learning objective | The lectures deal mainly with the definition of urban design as an independent discipline, which maintains connections with other disciplines (politics, sociology, geography) that are concerned with the transformation of the city. The aim is to make students conversant with the multiple theories, concepts and approaches of urban design as they were articulated throughout time in a variety of cultural contexts, thus offering a theoretical framework for students' future design work. | |||||
| Content | In the first semester the genesis of the objects of study, the city, urban culture and urban design, are introduced and situated within their intellectual, cultural and political contexts: 01. The History and Theory of the City as Project 02. Of Rituals, Water and Mud: The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia and the Indus 03: The Idea of the Polis: Rome, Greece and Beyond 04: The Long Middle Ages and their Counterparts: From the Towns of Tuscany to Delhi 05: Between Ideal and Laboratory: Of Middle Eastern Grids and European Renaissance Principles 06: Of Absolutism and Enlightenment: Baroque, Defense and Colonization 07: The City of Labor: Company Towns as Cross-Cultural Phenomenon 09: Garden Cities of Tomorrow: From the Global North to the Global South and Back Again 010: Civilized Wilderness and City Beautiful: The Park Movement of Olmsted and The Urban Plans of Burnham 011: The Extension of the European City: From the Viennese Ringstrasse to Amsterdam Zuid | |||||
| Lecture notes | Prior to each lecture a chapter of the reader (Skript) will be made available through the webpage of the Chair. These chapters will provide an introduction to the lecture, the basic visual references of each lecture, key dates and events, as well as references to the compulsory and additional reading. | |||||
| Literature | There are three books that will function as main reference literature throughout the course: -Ching, Francis D. K, Mark Jarzombek, and Vikramditya Prakash. A Global History of Architecture. Hoboken: Wiley, 2017. -Ingersoll, Richard. World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. -James-Chakraborty, Kathleen. Architecture Since 1400. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. 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). | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Students are required to familiarize themselves with the conventions of architectural drawing (reading and analyzing plans at various scales). Hybrid teaching: 33/33/33 (face-to-face/online, changing) | |||||
| 052-0707-00L | Urban Design III | O | 2 credits | 2V | H. Klumpner, M. Fessel | |
| Abstract | Students are introduced to a narrative of 'Urban Stories' through a series of three tools driven by social, governance, and environmental transformations in today's urbanization processes. Each lecture explores one city's spatial and organizational ingenuity born out of the realities of a particular place, allowing students to transfer these inventions into a catalog of conceptual tools. | |||||
| Learning objective | How can students of architecture become active agents of change, what does it take to go beyond the scale of a building making design relevant decisions to the city rather than to a single client? How can we design in cities with lack of land, tax base, risk, and resilience, understanding that Zurich is the exception and these other cities are the rule? How can we discover, set rather than follow trends and understand existing urban phenomena activating them in a design process? The lecture series is producing a growing catalog of operational urban tools across the globe, considering Governance, Social, and Environmental realities. Instead of limited binary comparing of cities, we are building a catalog of change, analyzing what design solutions cities have been developing informally incrementally over time, why, and how. We look at the people, institutions, culture behind the design, and make concepts behind these tools visible. Students get first-hand information from cities where the chair as a Team has researched, worked, or constructed projects over the last year, allowing competent, practical insight about the people and topics that make these places unique. Students will be able to use and expand an alternative repertoire of experiences and evidence-based design tools, go to the conceptual core of them and understand how and to what extent they can be relevant in other places. Urban Stories is the basic practice of architecture and urban design. It introduces a repertoire of urban design instruments to the students to use, test, and start their designs. | |||||
| Content | Urban form cannot be reduced to physical space. Cities are the result of social construction, under the influence of technologies, ecology, culture, the impact of experts and accidents. Urban un-concluded processes respond to political interests, economic pressure, cultural inclinations, along with the imagination of architects and urbanists and the informal powers at work in complex adaptive systems. Current urban phenomena are the result of urban evolution. The facts stored in urban environments include contributions from its entire lifecycle, visible in the physical environment, but also for non-physical aspects. This imaginary city exists along with its potentials and problems and with the conflicts that have evolved. Knowledge and understanding, along with a critical observation of the actions and policies are necessary to understand the diversity and instability present in the contemporary city and to understand how urban form evolved to its current state. How did cities develop into the cities we live in now? Which urban plans, instruments, visions, political decisions, economic reasonings, cultural inputs, and social organization have been used to operate in urban settlements in specific moments of change? We have chosen cities that are exemplary in illustrating how these instruments have been implemented and how they have shaped urban environments. We transcribe these instruments into urban operational tools that we have recognized and collected within existing tested cases in contemporary cities across the globe. This lecture series will introduce urban knowledge and the way it has introduced urban models and operational modes within different concrete realities, therefore shaping cities. Urban knowledge will be translated into operational tools, extracted from cities where they have been tested and become exemplary samples, most relevant for providing the understanding of how urban landscape has taken shape. The tools are clustered in twelve thematic clusters and three tool scales for better comparability and cross-reflection. The Tool case studies are compiled into a global urbanization toolbox, which we use as typological models to read the city and to reflect upon it critically. The presented contents are meant to serve as inspiration for positioning in future professional life as well as to provide instruments for future design decisions. In an interview with a local designer, we measure our insights against the most pressing design topics in cities today, including inclusion, affordable housing, provision of public spaces, and infrastructure for all. | |||||
| Lecture notes | The learning material, available via https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/ is comprised of: - Toolbox 'Reader' with an introduction to the lecture course and tool summaries - Weekly exercise tasks - Infographics with basic information of each city - Quiz question for each tool - Additional reading material - Interviews with experts - Archive of lecture recordings | |||||
| Literature | - Reading material will be provided throughout the semester. - Please see ‘Skript’, (a digital reader is available). | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | "Semesterkurs" (semester course) students from other departments, students taking this lecture as GESS / Studium Generale course, and exchange students must submit a research paper, which will be subject to the performance assessment: "Bestanden" (pass) or "Nicht bestanden" (failed). The performance assessment type for "Urban Design III: Urban Stories" taken as a semester course is categorized as "unbenotete Semesterleistung" (ungraded semester performance). | |||||
| Examination Block 3 | ||||||
| Number | Title | Type | ECTS | Hours | Lecturers | |
| 052-0807-00L | History and Theory of Architecture V | O | 2 credits | 2V | P. Ursprung | |
| Abstract | History of Art and Architecture since the 1970s | |||||
| Learning objective | The course target is to let the students gain a overview of a line of formative occurrences, works of art, buildings and theories from the early nineteen-seventies. The students should become sensitive for questions and problems in the field of history and theory and they should increasingly be able to relate their own praxis with historical relations. | |||||
| Content | The two-semester course offers an introduction to the history of modern and contemporary art and architecture since ca. 1970. Motivated by questions of the current discourse, central topics and exemplary works of art and architecture are discussed. Concepts such as "labor", "economy", "experience", "research", "nature", "diversity" or "surface" are used to focus on specific historical developments and connections. Art and architecture is considered as a field of cultural change as well as an indicator of social, economic, and political conflicts which in turn helps to understand historical dynamics. | |||||
| Lecture notes | A video documentation of the lecture class is available. https://video.ethz.ch/lectures/d-arch/2019/autumn/052-0807-00L.html | |||||
| Literature | Philip Ursprung, Die Kunst der Gegenwart: 1960 bis heute, München, Beck, 2019. Philip Ursprung, Der Wert der Oberfläche, Essays zu Kunst, Architektur und Ökonomie, Zürich, gta Verlag, 2017. | |||||
| 052-0651-00L | Building Process I | O | 2 credits | 2G | S. Menz | |
| Abstract | The building process is the main focus of this lecture series. The process is understood as a sequence of criteria in time. Topics: Acquisition and Building legislation, building economics and facility management, the people involved and their work, construction and planning organization. Process thinking and a glance at our foreign neighbours complete the series. | |||||
| Learning objective | Alongside a discussion of the basic principles, trends and terminologies, a closer look will be taken at each topic using case studies that investigate current structures as well as those relevant in terms of architecture and urban design. Active participation as well as interdisciplinary and process-oriented thinking on the part of students is a prerequisite. | |||||
| Content | The building process is the main focus of this lecture series. The process is understood as a sequence of criteria in time. These criteria are divided into acquisition and building legislation, building economics and facility management, the people involved and their work, construction and planning organization. Process thinking and a glance at our foreign neighbours complete the series. Alongside a discussion of the basic principles, trends and terminologies, a closer look will be taken at each topic using case studies that investigate current structures as well as those relevant in terms of architecture and urban design. Active participation as well as interdisciplinary and process-oriented thinking on the part of students is a prerequisite. | |||||
| Lecture notes | https://map.arch.ethz.ch | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | Hybrid teaching (50/50). | |||||
| 052-0705-00L | Landscape Architecture I | O | 2 credits | 2V | C. Girot | |
| Abstract | Introduction to the history and theory of garden design and landscape architecture. Analysis of the design of historical gardens and landscapes within the cultural background. | |||||
| Learning objective | The course covers the basic history and theory of garden design and landscape architecture from its beginnings to the 21th century. The course aims to raise awareness of a changing perception of nature and landscape. | |||||
| Content | The lecture series on “History and Theory of Garden Design and Landscape Architecture” deals with the historical development of designed nature, from the beginnings of cultural landscapes and gardens to 21th century landscape architecture. In the analysis of each era, the focus is on the spatial and cultural relationship between the garden, the city and the landscape, as well as the changing perceptions of nature and its representation. | |||||
| Lecture notes | Handouts and a reading list will be provided. | |||||
| Literature | A reading list will be provided for the exams. | |||||
| Prerequisites / Notice | General Information for the final exam: Bachelor students: The content of the lectures as well as texts and exam-relevant literature provided by the Chair make up the basis for preparing for the exam. The lecture series is conceived as a yearlong course. Since the written session examination will test knowledge from both semesters, it is necessary to fully attend the lectures of both courses "Landscape Architecture I" and "Landscape Architecture II". The themes of the examination will be announced at the end of the semester. The Chair will provide literature and texts available for download as pdfs. These allow a more in-depth understanding of the lecture material. Exchange students or students from other departments: Students, who are attending only one semester, may pass the oral end-of-semester examination. Test-relevant literature will also be made available for download for this purpose. The students are requested to get in touch by email with the Chair. | |||||
| 052-0609-00L | Energy- and Climate Systems I ITA Pool Introduction Event: Information on all the courses offered by the Institute ITA: 7.9.20, 10-11 h, HIB Open Space. | O | 2 credits | 2G | A. Schlüter | |
| Abstract | The first semester of the annual course focuses on physical principles, component and systems for the efficient and sustainable heating, cooling and ventilation of buildings on different scales and the interaction of technical systems with architectural and urban design. | |||||
| Learning objective | After this lecture, students can identify relevant physical principles, active and passive approaches, technical components and systems for efficient and sustainable supply of buildings with heat, cold and fresh air. Students are aware of the implications and interactions of such technical systems on urban and architectural design, construction and operation of buildings. Using simplified methods of analysis and quantification, students are able to estimate the relevant qualities and quantities to supply a building. | |||||
| Content | 1. Introduction and overview 2. Heating and cooling systems in buildings 3. Ventilation | |||||
| Lecture notes | The Slides from the lecture serve as lecture notes and are available as download. | |||||
| Literature | A list of relevant literature is available at the chair. | |||||
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