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Architecture Bachelor Information
Bachelor Studies (Programme Regulations 2017)
First Year Examinations
Examination Block 1
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0604-00LStructural Design II Information O2 credits3GP. Block, J. Schwartz
AbstractDetermination of internal forces and description of structural behaviour of mixed arches and cable structures, of truss systems, beams, slabs, panels and frames using method of graphical statics as well as dimensioning of these structural systems. Structural behaviour of columns. Discussion of reference buildings and illustration of interplay of structural system and architectural intention.
ObjectiveAwareness of the most important structural systems. Understanding of the interplay of load and form. Estimation of the inner forces and dimensioning of elements.
ContentAfter a general introduction of basic concepts, structural systems such as cable and arch structures will be analyzed with the help of graphic statics. The students will learn to understand the flow of forces in a structural system in relation to the system's form. They will be able to modify this force flow and give dimension to the structural components.

All concepts, approaches and methods will be introduced in the weekly lectures and practiced in subsequent exercises.
Lecture noteson eQuilibrium
"Skript Tragwerksentwurf I/II"
Link

A printed version can be bought at the chair of Structural Design Prof. Schwartz for sFr. 55.-.
Literature"Faustformel Tragwerksentwurf"
(Philippe Block, Christoph Gengangel, Stefan Peters,
DVA Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 2013, ISBN: 978-3-421-03904-0)

Weiteres Lernmaterial:
"Form and Forces: Designing Efficient, Expressive Structures"
(Edward Allen, Waclaw Zalewski, October 2009, ISBN: 978-0-470-17465-4)

"The art of structures, Introduction to the functioning of structures in architecture"
(Aurelio Muttoni, EPFL Press, 2011, ISBN-13: 978-0415610292, ISBN-10: 041561029X)
052-0704-00LSociology II Information O2 credits2VC. Schmid, I. Apostol, M. A. Glaser, L. B. Howe, M. Streule Ulloa Nieto
AbstractSociology II introduces current perspectives and methods on urban studies in the first and second part (Monika Streule and Lindsay Blair Howe). The third and fourth parts of the course discuss housing as social and cultural practice, and neighborhood life in the right to the city context (Marie Glaser and Ileana Apostol).
ObjectiveThis series of lectures enables students to comprehend the built environment in its social context. It approaches the architectural profession from two different angles: macro-sociological and micro-sociological.
ContentIn the first part, Sociology II focuses on current perspectives of analysis in urban studies. Theoretical approaches are presented with the help of concrete case studies. First, the postcolonial perspective in urban studies will be introduced, illustrated with examples of empirical research. This part concludes with an introduction into scientific research by presenting different methods in the analysis of urbanization processes in Mexico City, Tokyo and San Francisco (lecturer: Monika Streule). In the second part, transdisciplinary research initiatives and planning processes will be presented using examples from Sub-Saharan and East Africa (lecturer: Lindsay Blair Howe). In the third part, various models of housing are discussed (lecturer: Marie Glaser), and in the fourth part, urbanity and the quality of life in the neighborhood are placed in the right to the city context (lecturer: Ileana Apostol).
Lecture notesNo script - Information available at the following link: Link
LiteratureVarious texts, in addition to the lecture will be provided.
052-0902-00LBuilding History II Information O2 credits2VS. Holzer
AbstractHistory of building from the 15th to the early 20th century
ObjectiveParticipants are familiar with building history in centuries XV through XX
ContentHistory of building II covers:
- the XVth century between late Gothic and early Renaissance
- Renaissance in Europe
- Baroque
- neoclassical architecture
- gothic revival
- late XIXth century architecture
- classical modernity
Lecture notesLecture notes permitting in-depth study of individuak topics are available.
For the general preparation for the exams, the lecture slides are provided online.
Lecture recordings will be provided on video.ethz.ch
LiteratureWill be announced during the lectures.
Examination Block 2
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0804-00LHistory and Theory in Architecture II Information O2 credits2V + 2UM. Delbeke, T. Avermaete, L. Stalder, P. Ursprung
AbstractIntroduction and overview of the history and theory of architecture from the Renaissance to the nineteenth 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. Ursprung, Prof. Dr. T. Avermaete)
ObjectiveAcquiring 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.
ContentThe course History and Theory of Architecture II 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 II consists of different parts, each dealing with a particular area of research into the history of art and architecture
(1) The historiography of architecture (M. Delbeke)
(2) Architectural media (L. Stalder).
(3) Architecture and art (P. Ursprung)
(4) Urbanism and the Commons (T. Avermaete)
LiteratureLiterature and handouts will be provided over the course of the term.
Prerequisites / NoticeFor the course History and Theory of Architecture II students will rely on assisted self study to acquire basic knowledge of the canonical history of architecture in Europe.
151-8002-00LBuilding Physics I: Heat and Acoustics Information O2 credits2VJ. Carmeliet, M. Ettlin
AbstractHeat: Basics of stationary heat transport and application to the design building envelopes.

Acoustics:
Basics of noise protection and room acoustics
ObjectiveHeat: Goal is that students acquire the basic knowledge of stationary heat transport and are able to apply this knowledge for the design and performance analysis of energy efficient building envelope components. Students make simple exercises to practice this design process.

Acoustics:
The students acquire a basic knowledge in the following fields:
description of sound, the human ear, properties of sound waves, propagation of sound, legal and planning basics, airborne sound insulation, structure-borne sound insulation, room acoustics.
Students can make simple calculations to proof sound insulation and calculate the reverberation time of a room.
ContentACOUSTICS:
1. Basics:
description of sound, sound perception, properties of sound waves, propagation of sound.

2. architectural acoustics:
legal and planning basics, noise protection, airborne sound insulation, structure-borne sound insulation.

3. room acoustics:
Sound absorption, sound reflexion, reverberation, planning of room acoustics.
Lecture notesThe course lectures and material are available on the Website for download (MOODLE Link).
052-0702-00LUrban Design II Information O2 credits2VM. Wagner
AbstractThe 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.
ObjectiveThe goal is to provide students with a broad systemic basic knowledge, that enables them to synthesize and evaluate complex urban design and planning problems.
ContentThe 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 notesThere is no script to the lecture series. The lectures are recorded on video and made available online on Link a few days after each lecture.
LiteratureAt the end of the year course a reader with secondary literature will be made available for download.
Prerequisites / NoticeFurther Informations:
Link

Live stream from the lecture hall: Link

Live stream with chat: Link

Recordings: Link
052-0606-00LMathematics and Programming II Information O2 credits2VL. Hovestadt
AbstractAn 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.
ObjectiveNormally, 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.
ContentThe 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
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Subjects with Semester Grade
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0502-00LDesign and Construction II Information
Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 2.4.21, 24:00 h (valuation date) only.

Ultimate deadline to enroll or unsubscribe from this course is 2.4.21, 24:00 h.

Obligatory introductory course for the Raplab: 15.-19.2.2021 (one week before the semester start. Room: Raplab, HIL B). Students are divided into groups.
O8 credits4V + 10G + 2UA. Deplazes, D. Mettler, D. Studer
AbstractDesigning 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.
ObjectiveUnderstanding and dominating the methodology of designing and constructing.
ContentLectures and exercises to achieve the methodology and ability of designing and constructing.
Lecture notesAndrea Deplazes (Hrsg.), Constructing Architecture, From Raw Materials to Building, A Handbook, Birkhäuser, Basel Boston Berlin, 2013
LiteratureLiterature will be published in the lectures.

Book recommendation BUK I - IV: "Construction";
A reference work on contemporary construction
German or English
360 pages, 171 images, 20 color images, texts
ISBN 978-3-0356-2225-6
Online reference source: Link Konstruktions.html
Prerequisites / Notice100% of interest and engagement!

Obligatory introductory course in model making: 1 week, from 15th to 19th February 2021, place (room) will be announced in due time.
052-0504-00LArchitecture and Arts II Information
Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 2.4.21, 24:00 h (valuation date) only.
Ultimate deadline to enroll or unsubscribe from this course is Friday 2.4.21, 24:00 h.
O8 credits2V + 6G + 2UH. E. Franzen, K. Sander, T. Becker, E. Vonplon
AbstractAttendance 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).
ObjectiveIn the FS21, students prove artistic thinking and practise and develope their knowledge in a mentored course with an independent artistic work.
ContentAttendance 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).
Examination Blocks
Examination Block 1
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0608-00LStructural Design IV Information O2 credits3GJ. Schwartz, P. Block
AbstractIn Structural Design IV, students will apply the knowledge gained during the courses Structural Design I, II and III in a semester-long design project.
ObjectiveAt the conclusion of Structural Design IV, the students will be able to:
- design structures creatively.
- identify the relationships between architectural concept, structural form, internal forces and building materials.
- effectuate the transition from architectural concept to structural idea.
- use graphic statics in a design-oriented manner.
- generate structural forms beyond known structural typologies.
- explore spatial equilibrium by means of physical models.
ContentThe course begins with a series of lectures in which built projects with a succesful integration between architecture and structure are presented. After, the students, in groups of four, design the structure of an architectural project using graphic statics and physical models. The development of the design proposal is supported during table critics and its evolution is assessed in intermediate submissions. At the end of the semester, all projects are reviewed by structural engineers, structural designers and architects.
Lecture noteson eQuilibrium
"Skript Tragwerksentwurf I/II/III/IV"
Link

Printed versions can be bought at the chair of Structural Design Prof. Schwartz.
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)

- "Faustformel Tragwerksentwurf"
(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 / NoticeTo take part in this course, it is recommended to first complete the courses Structural Design I, II and III or to have knowledge of graphic statics.
052-0806-00LHistory and Theory of Architecture IV Information O2 credits2VL. Stalder
AbstractThis 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.
ObjectiveTo 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.
ContentThe 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 notesLink
Prerequisites / NoticeLocation:
1. hour: Lecture: Link
2./3. hour: Seminars in groups on Zoom
052-0636-00LMathematical Thinking and Programming IV Information O2 credits2VL. Hovestadt
AbstractAdvanced knowledge of the CAD Programme "Blender"
Advanced knowledge of "Lambda Calculus" and "Mathematica"
ObjectiveAdvanced knowlede of the CAD program "Blender"
Advanced knowlede of "Lambda Calculus" and the programming environment "Mathematica".
ContentIntroduction to the consistent processing of the following media per code: text, colour, image, graphs, graphic (2D and 3D), animation and web.
Examination Block 2
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
151-8004-00LBuilding Physics III: Building Energy Demand and Urban Physics Information O2 credits2GJ. Carmeliet, K. Orehounig
AbstractBasics and application of thermal comfort, building energy demand and urban physics.
ObjectiveThe students acquire basic knowledge in building energy demand and urban physics and apply the knowledge to the design of low energy buildings and mitigation of urban climate.
ContentTopics of the course are:
- climatic change & energy
- thermal comfort and transparent envelopes
- stationary energy demand
- dynamic heat transport
- urban physics: urban heat island, wind, rain
- durability
Lecture notesThe course lectures and material are available on the Website for download (MOODLE Link).
052-0802-00LGlobal History of Urban Design II Information O2 credits2VT. Avermaete
AbstractThis 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.
ObjectiveThe 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.
Content25.02.2021 / lecture 1: Course introduction
04.03.2021 / lecture 2: Housing and the Industrial City: From Speculative to Cooperative
11.03.2021 / lecture 3: Cities and Ideologies: Building for Healthy Minds in Healthy Bodies
18.03.2021 / lecture 4: Envisioning Urban Utopias
25.03.2021: no class (Seminar Woche)
01.04.2021 / lecture 5: Reconstructing the City, Constructing New Towns
08.04.2021: no class (Easter)
15.04.2021 / lecture 6: New Capitals for New Democracies; New Institutions for Old Democracies
22.04.2021 / lecture 7: Rethinking Masterplanning
29.04.2020 / lecture 8: The Countercultural City
06.05.2020 / lecture 9: The Postmodern City: From Neo-rationalism to Neo-liberalism
20.05.2020 / lecture 10: Urban Implosion
Lecture notesPrior 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.
LiteratureThere are three books that will function as main reference literature throughout the course:

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).
Prerequisites / NoticeHybrid teaching: 33/66 (face-to-face/online, changing). 1/3 in auditorium, 2/3 Streaming from home, changing every week.
The groups are formed on the first day of lecture.
052-0708-00LUrban Design IV Information O2 credits2VH. Klumpner, M. Fessel
AbstractStudents 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 a particular place's realities, allowing students to transfer these inventions into a catalog of conceptual tools.
ObjectiveHow can students of architecture become active agents of change? What does it take to go beyond a building's scale, making design-relevant decisions to the city rather than a single client? How can we design in cities with a 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 produces 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.
ContentUrban form cannot be reduced to physical space. Cities result from 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, and critical observation of the actions and policies are necessary to understand the diversity and instability present in the contemporary city and understand how urban form evolved to its current state.

How did cities develop into the cities we live in now? Urban plans, instruments, visions, political decisions, economic reasonings, cultural inputs, and social organizations have been used to operate in urban settlements in specific moments of change. We have chosen cities that exemplify 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. The lecture series will translate urban knowledge into operational tools extracted from cities where they have been tested and become exemplary samples, most relevant for understanding how the 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 critically reflect upon it. The presented contents are meant to serve as inspiration for positioning in future professional life and 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 notesThe learning material, available via Link 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
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0808-00LHistory and Theory of Architecture VI (P. Ursprung) Information O2 credits2VP. Ursprung
AbstractHistory of Art and Architecture since the 1970s
ObjectiveKnowledge of the history of art and architecture since the 1970s. Sensibility for historical processes and for the concepts in the realm of visual culture.
ContentThe 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 notesA video documentation of the lecture class is available.
LiteratureRequired reading will be announced in the class and on the website of the chair.
052-0652-00LBuilding Process II Information O2 credits2VS. Menz
AbstractThe building process is the main focus of this lecture series. The process is understood as a sequence of criteria in time.
Topics: Building legislation, building economics, the people involved and their work, construction and planning organization and facility management.
Process thinking, acquisition and a glance at our foreign neighbours complete the series.
ObjectiveAlongside 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.
ContentThe 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 building legislation, building economics, the people involved and their work, construction and planning organization and facility management. Process thinking, acquisition 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 notesLink; The recordings of the lectures are also available on the MAP under this link (book symbol at the top right).
LiteratureLiteraturempfehlungen unter Link
052-0706-00LLandscape Architecture II Information O2 credits2VC. Girot
AbstractThe lecture series gives an introduction to the field of contemporary landscape architecture. The course
provides a perspective on forthcoming landscape architecture in terms of the aspects site, soil, water and
vegetation.
ObjectiveOverview to contemporary and forthcoming tasks of landscape architecture. A critical reflection of the
present design practice and discussion of new approaches in landscape architecture.
ContentThe lecture series "Theory and Design in Contemporary Landscape Architecture" (Landscape Architecure
II) follows the lecture series "History and Theory of Garden Design and Landscape Architecture"
(Landscape Architecure I). Rather than concentrating only on questions of style, the series will also tackle
issues such as revitalisation, sustainability etc. The lectures review design approaches that critically
reflect our inherited perception of nature. The themes of site, soil, water and vegetation provide some
useful aspects for the design practice.
Lecture notesNo script. Handouts and learning material will be provided.
LiteratureA reading list will be provided for the exams.
Prerequisites / NoticeGeneral 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 tests knowledge from both semesters. It is necessary to attend the lectures throughout the course of the year.
The test themes 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.

Transfer students or students of other departments: Students attending one semester may opt to take only 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.
052-0610-00LEnergy and Climate Systems II Information O2 credits2GA. Schlüter
AbstractThe second semester of the annual course focuses on physical principles, component and systems for the efficient and sustainable supply with electricity, daylight and artificial light. This includes concepts of on-site generation of energy, building systems controls and human-building interaction. Additionally, larger scale building energy systems for districts are discussed.
ObjectiveThe lecture series focuses on the physical principles and technical components of relevant systems for an efficient and sustainable climatisation and energy supply of buildings. A special focus is on the interrelation of supply systems and architectural design and construction. Learning and practicing methods of quantifying demand and supply allows identifying parameters relevant for design.
ContentEfficient buildings and integrated design
Renewable, on-site energy generation
Daylight and artificial light
Intelligent buildings: automation and user
Urban energy systems
Lecture notesThe slides of the lecture serve as lecture notes and are available as download.
LiteratureA list of relevant literature is available at the chair.
052-0508-00LArchitectural Technology VI Information O2 credits2GK. Z. Weber, A. Thuy
AbstractThe 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.
ObjectiveThe 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.
ContentThe 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 notesThe 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.
Prerequisites / NoticeGeneral 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.
Architectural Design
Architectural Design (4. Semester)
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0546-21LArchitectural Design IV: "Small Pleasures of Life" (A.Spiro) Information
Please register (Link) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see Link).
Students who do not wish to change the design class don't have to participate in the internal enrolment.

Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 2nd April 2021, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Deleting or enrolling after the aforementioned date is prohibited!
W14 credits2V + 14UD. Mettler, A. Spiro, E. Christ, T. Crowther, T. Emerson, C. Gantenbein, D. Studer
AbstractWe design residential buildings in the urban context of the city of Zurich. From a selection of construction sites, you determine the best suited for your project and develop a specific form of living right down to the materialization in detail. Inspirational buildings, whose architectural elements and spatial situations are the inspiration for your living ideas, serve as the starting point.
Objective- Design of an urban residential building with a specific form of living that relates to the context
- Getting to know standards and typologies in residential construction
- Anchoring the project in urban space through intensive analysis of the access from the street to the apartment, development of your own access idea including the entrance situation
- Taking a stance on the ground floor in the city dwelling
- Understanding of the relationship between space, structure, construction and detail
- Development of a spatial and atmospheric quality based on the approximation via component references and their materialization
- Development of personal components in the interior and on the facade on a scale of 1:10
- High quality representation in collage, line (floor plan 1: 100, floor plan 1:50, detailed drawing) and model (interior model 1:20)
ContentSmall Pleasures of Life is the name of a series of sketches by Alison and Peter Smithson. The episodic drawings of everyday living situations illuminate functional issues, but at the same time stimulate the senses and leave room for the imagination to visualize the in between ’.

In the spring semester we deal with the topic of living. The architect's ultimate task is simple and difficult at the same time, it requires precision, hard work and imagination. Providing people with a home is perhaps the oldest, but certainly the most elementary task of architecture. The basic needs - protection and comfort - have changed little over time, but the way we live together has changed. In the past year in particular, the living range has acquired an additional function: In addition to living, space should now also be created to work. This new coexistence will also occupy us in the coming semester.

In the spirit of Smithson's ‘Small Pleasures of Life’, we first examine the elementary situations of living and ask ourselves: What does it take for an everyday living situation to become a spatial experience? What makes an apartment so unique that I don't want to exchange it for a bigger one despite the limited space? Can I set up a nice workspace without needing another room?
First you ‘reconstruct’ the floor plan and section based on pictures of selected interiors of existing houses and invent something new. By closely observing reference buildings and reading excerpts from the text, you will acquire a wealth of knowledge about the most diverse elements of a living situation - from the kitchen to the stairs to storage space. Building on this, you develop your own living idea and design an "ideal" apartment floor plan in which the situations studied at the beginning play a key role. Only now do you come to the construction site, locate your ’ideal’ apartment in the urban space and adapt it to the circumstances of the specific situation.

We have selected four attractive building sites with different characteristics in the city of Zurich. We design new buildings on parcels that are under-used and whose urban conditions are already heavily influenced by the neighboring buildings. The challenge of increased density requires ingenuity and experimentation. With spatially surprising solutions, we want to prove that architectural wealth can make you forget confined spaces. Because compaction through more building mass alone does not make sense. Rather, by densification we mean a larger number of residents and a more diverse range of options on the same area. Only in this way is densification sustainable and contributes to the revitalization of the quarter.

[...] For example, the architect's task is to create a warm, comfortable space. Carpets are warm and cozy. So he decides to spread a carpet on the floor and hang up four to form the four walls. But you can't build a house out of carpets. Both the carpet and the tapestry require a structural framework that keeps them in the right position. Inventing this framework is the architect's second task. [...] writes Adolf Loos in, “The Principle of Clothing”, 1898. In a recently published article, the architecture critic Sabine von Fischer also refers to textiles and demands of the apartment 'The cut of an apartment must fit as well as a dress; cuddly for comfort and with scope for movement ’.
The character and shape of your floor plan lead to the choice of a suitable supporting structure and materials. The inherent conditions of the chosen construction method and the associated material as well as the parameters of the location form the framework for your design of a contemporary urban apartment.
Lecture notesDigital course material is provided by the chair.
LiteratureBook recommendation BUK I - IV: "Construction";
A reference work on contemporary construction
German or English
360 pages, 171 images, 20 color images, texts
ISBN 978-3-0356-2225-6
Online reference source: Link Konstruktions.html
Prerequisites / NoticeHead: Prof. Annette Spiro
Senior assistant: Florian Schrott
Assistants: Rosário Gonçalves, Nicole Leuthold, Tobia Rapelli, Luis Sarabia

Common welcome to the 2nd annual course: Tuesday, February 23rd, 2021, 10 a.m. on Zoom (Link see Info Office and the chair's website)
Introduction: Tuesday, 02/23/2021, 10.30 a.m. on Zoom, Link

work in groups
With a few exceptions, the design semester is completed in pairs.

Tool
The hypothetical ‘reconstruction drawing’ and the measurements are just as much design and work equipment as the collage and the furnishing plan. In addition to drawing plans, we mainly work with physical models and photography. In a full-day workshop at the beginning of the semester, a proven model photographer and architect introduces the secrets of model photography. Further topics are structure, construction and material. According to the chosen construction method, you also design a constructive detail.

The semester is accompanied by inputs on the individual tools and on the subject of housing construction. Invited architects complete the program with guest lectures.
052-0542-21LArchitectural Design IV: Real Architecture: Workspace (E.Christ / Ch.Gantenbein) Information
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Students who do not wish to change the design class don't have to participate in the internal enrolment.

Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 2nd April 2021, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Deleting or enrolling after the aforementioned date is prohibited!
W14 credits2V + 14UE. Christ, D. Mettler, A. Spiro, T. Crowther, T. Emerson, C. Gantenbein, D. Studer
AbstractWhat will the workplace of tomorrow look like?
Designing a project in four steps:
1. Envisioning scenarios about the future of the workplace.
2. Design of a spatial system to the scenario.
3. Translating the system into an architectural structure in wood.
4. Developing of the real project.
ObjectiveDevelop an independent, responsible and visionary attitude towards a current social issue. Ability to critically read and discuss (architectural) theoretical texts and relate them to the question. Develop an independent project that is coherent in terms of urban planning, typology, form and construction in a methodically controlled process.
ContentOur studio’s second semester is the conceptual counterpart of the first semester: research and examination of history is contrasted with a real project, in the here and now where the office of the past will become the workplace of the future.

The starting point of the design is a reflection on today's working environment. How and where is work performed and with what means? Is the much-cited "home office" really a desirable alternative to the office desk? And what role does the physical space play in this choice? Which are the spatial needs when it comes to being creative and productive? Texts, lectures, seminars, and discussions will help us to develop various theses on tomorrow’s working environment. Drawing on these inputs, the students will develop scenarios for their individual project at a specific location.
The here and now involves a confrontation with the challenges of our environment and calls for action. In our case, it also means to design responsibly. Thus, working with a renewable building material is one of the many contributions in reaction to climate change. As a sustainable material, wood offers unexpected possibilities, especially for contemporary urban architecture and it will become the compulsory material in all student projects. In the course of the semester we will visit historical as well as contemporary wooden buildings, and exchange ideas with experts.
Methodologically, "Workspace" directly draws on the previous semester "The Office": the typologies and principles studied during the first semester are further developed in the second semester’s project and linked to the specific aspects of scenario and location. The broad idea of an architectural form and type thus gets a concrete and specific formulation. And there, in its real application in a definite case, the architectural form also acquires its social, economic and ultimately political relevance. When ideal becomes real.
LiteratureBook recommendation BUK I - IV: "Construction";
A reference work on contemporary construction
German or English
360 pages, 171 images, 20 color images, texts
ISBN 978-3-0356-2225-6
Online reference source: Link Konstruktions.html
052-0544-21LArchitectural Design IV: What's in Store? (T.Emerson) Information
Please register (Link) only after the internal enrolment for the design classes (see Link).
Students who do not wish to change the design class don't have to parcitipate in the internal enrolment.

Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 2nd April 2021, 24:00 h (valuation date) only. Deleting or enrolling after the aforementioned date is prohibited!
W14 credits2V + 14UT. Emerson, D. Mettler, A. Spiro, E. Christ, T. Crowther, C. Gantenbein, D. Studer
AbstractThe provocation that ‘shopping is over’ which opened last semester HS20 has turned out be truer than imagined. Department stores are falling around the world. We will consider a future for the legendary Zurich department store Jelmoli. Not because it is failing, but because of its continued success.
ObjectiveCritical thinking, personal attitude:
-Demonstrate, through design work, a critical understanding of climate change and the ethical responsibilities of the architect
-Reflect on pieces of work in progress or already completed both individually and in conversation with peers and faculty
-Demonstrate, through design work, a growing knowledge of contemporary and historical architectural discourse
-Critically interpret requirements and working priorities in light of constraints to work practice arising from Covid and home working. Communicate with teaching team if difficulties arise.

Working methodology:
-Conduct qualitative site/building analysis through photography and observational drawing
-Perform basic topographic surveying
-Use archives to conduct systematic analysis into social history, uses, materials, etc.
-Interpret and synthesize information into a concise and ongoing knowledge base for the design of a project
-Develop an understanding of the geology, climate, ecology, etc. of a place
-Assimilate small, fragmentary observations into broad understanding of place

Acquisition of subject-specific knowledge:
-Consider and understand the relationship and impact of a design on a wider landscape
-Understand the impacts of construction on ecology
-Demonstrate an understanding of the impacts of time on the repair and maintenance of a project
-Demonstrate an understanding of contemporary and historical construction techniques
-Demonstrate a critical understanding of the use of materials in relation to non-renewable resources, embodied energy, recyclability

Conversion of a conceptual intention into an architectural project:
-Develop an integrated and relevant structural, constructional and environmental concept for the project
-Formulate a spatial concept for a project, demonstrating an understanding of conceptual, spatial and programmatic decisions
-Design with reference to historical, political, cultural and other creative and technical fields
-Demonstrate an ability to assimilate a broad range of working practices, identifying and engaging especially with those which help to demonstrate and further your ideas

Capability to design:
-Demonstrate an ability to design interior and exterior spaces, as well as the thresholds and the surrounding spaces
-Demonstrate awareness of a design project’s environmental performance in construction and in use
-Demonstrate a good understanding of professional regulation and ethical responsibilities of the architect
-Design buildings, spaces and landscapes which are fully accessible

Representation and presentation in different media:
-Develop a critical eye in photography of place, space and design work with reference to broad photographic traditions
-Develop model making skills of small conceptual models (carved and cast for the Atlas and design working models made of everyday household materials with precise conceptual purpose
-Demonstrate high technical and critical proficiency in 2D and 3D CAD drafting and modelling
-Develop an understanding of the status and purpose of different kinds of representation, and deploy them effectively
-Use detailed drawings and models to illustrate the constructional concept of a project
-Demonstrate high technical and critical proficiency in image making and collage
- Clearly and concisely describe a concept, working practice, and outcome through written and oral material in English or German.
-Explore use of film and short film clips to present three-dimensional work. Note, advanced editing skills is not required.

Engagement in the studio:
-Actively participate in group projects such as the garden
-Actively listen to others
-Be able to learn alone, as part of a group and as a whole studio
-Demonstrate an ability to work comfortably with ambiguity as circumstances change
-At all times demonstrate honesty, integrity and respect for fellow students, teachers and staff.
ContentWhen an ancient tree falls in a closed canopy forest, far from being the end of life, light enters the dark space, “mixing new nutrients into the soil from debris, and initiating a race for succession.” [1] The old tree simply and naturally makes space for the new. This universal cycle, which is as much spatial as it is biological, may explain at least in part, the fascination for ruins in the modern era. In the nineteenth century Romantic imagination, the ruin showed architecture at its most pure, freed from the burdens of complex function, at one with nature. But today such processes may be more than nostalgia, they may just be the beginning of another age.

The provocation that ‘shopping is over’ which opened last semester HS20 has turned out be truer than imagined. Department stores are falling around the world. We will consider a future for the legendary Zurich department store Jelmoli. Not because it is failing, but because of its continued success. Jelmoli’s evolution has not only witnessed the emergence of metropolitan Zurich, it has participated and even anticipated many of the urban and social transformations which are once again pressing in our own time.

The future department store lies within the existing walls if only it were allowed to diversify naturally. We need to shift our attention towards what already exists, to be attentive to architecture, materials and techniques which have given us the spaces of everyday life. Today’s new reality requires us to look more closely, to document, to excavate, to release new spaces in existing fabric and breathe new life into the city. Each stone block, steel column, sheet of glass, plasterboard partition has been placed in space according to the rules and needs of its time. The architecture, reimagined as an Atlas which can be edited, cut, thinned, renewed with the precision of the architect and the care of a gardener.

The porosity of the city is central to its ecological recovery. New species of plants, insects and mammals are rediscovering habitats in the unseen corners of the city. Perhaps now is the moment to welcome them into the heart of things by looking at urban development in reverse. But not a return towards origins per se, but to acknowledge that the world is cyclical and after the growth comes decay followed by recycling in order to grow back stronger, more diverse and resilient.

But as much as this question may be about the future of cities and the culture of retail, we shall approach the project by direct means of architecture. We shall initiate a series of simple constructional operations on the site of Jelmoli at Seidenhof; the first is to record what is there through the act of surveying; measuring, photographing and drawing what we see. The second will be to excavate material from the sealed city fabric (like the ancient tree falling in the forest) to create or recreate new spaces for new ecologies. And the final stage will be to re-inhabit the excavated city to propose the future of retail that contributes to the human and non-human ecologies of the city.

We shall initiate a series of simple constructional operations on the site of Jelmoli at Seidenhof; the first is to record what is there through the act of surveying; measuring, photographing and drawing what we see. The second will be to excavate material from the sealed city fabric (like the ancient tree falling in the forest) to create or recreate new spaces for new ecologies. And the final stage will be to re-inhabit the excavated city to propose the future of retail that contributes to the human and non-human ecologies of the city.

[1] S Denizen, The Flora of Bombed Areas (an allegorical key), The Botanical City, M Gandy and S Jasper (eds), Jovis, 2020, pp 40.
Lecture notesAtlas
The act of surveying will be expanded by what cannot be seen but can be deduced from archives documents and social histories. And what is neither visible in the place or contained in records can be induced by speculation into and beyond the walls of Jelmoli. The materials extractions and transformations that constitute the built and the supply chains interacting with social habits to constitute its uses. And finally, the traces that bear witness to the passage of time.

Excavation
With the Atlas, we shall ask you to excavate the built fabric of Seidenhof; to introduce spaces for an enlarged and more diverse environment. By stripping away layers of construction or cutting segments, we will ask you to open the city block for re-inhabitation. The new spaces may be invented from within the city block or simply rediscovered from its evolution. Their potential lies in how they will extend the range of environments for human and non-human users and in the re-use of the materials produced in the process.

Inhabitation
With the Seidenhof opened for earth, light water and air to play their natural role, you will design the next layer of re-inhabitation by Jelmoli. How can the future department store be model for a botanical city? How can the interaction of environments respond to the social, ecological and commercial needs of the city? And most importantly, what how will architecture and construction find the form and expression that connects the past with most pressing issues of tomorrow?
LiteratureEssential Texts

Ms. Consumer. The making of public space.
Chuihua Judy Chung. 2000
in: Harvard Design Guide to Shopping. p. 504-525

The science of the concrete.
Claude Levi Strauss. 1962
Chapter one in: The savage Mind.

The Ruin
Mark Pimlott. 2016
in: The Public Interior as Idea and Project.

Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary
Eva Horn. 2016

Dasgupta Review: Nature’s value must be at the heart of economics.
Fred Lewsey. University of Cambridge. 2021



Extended Reading

Garden as Theater as Museum
Dan Graham. 1993
in: Rock my Religion

Congestion Without Matter. Parc de la Villette. Paris. France. Competition 1982
OMA. Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. 1995
in: SMLXL

Collision City and the Politics of ‘Bricolage’
Colin Rowe and Fred Koetter. 1978
in: Collage City



Book recommendation BUK I - IV: "Construction";
A reference work on contemporary construction
German or English
360 pages, 171 images, 20 color images, texts
ISBN 978-3-0356-2225-6
Online reference source: Link Konstruktions.html
Architectural Design (from 5. Semester on)
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-1130-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Bergell - Records of a Territory (GD C.Menn) Information Restricted registration - show details
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Project grading at semester end is based on the list of enrolments on 2nd April 2021, 24:00 h. This is the ultimate deadline to unsubscribe or enroll for the studio!
W14 credits16UC. Menn
AbstractIs the Bergell a geographically and economically isolated "chamber" in the border area? A remote place of poetry, but of standstill and resignation, threatened by nature? In our exploratory notes we are interested in the relationship between the landscape and the architecture and their history of ideas.
ObjectiveThe students learn to discover a landscape and cultural area in its multi-layered temporal and spatial dimensions, which enables them to take a critical approach to the present. You will learn from this and from the resource of the location to form an architectural idea and develop it into a consistent project.
ContentThe geography and history of the valley is characterized by amplitudes and contrasts. Topographically and climatically a steep drop from the alpine pass heights to the almost Mediterranean Lombardy plain, for centuries one of the most important alpine transit arteries favored the implementation of a foreign culture that combined with the symbiotic rural way of life. The relocation of traffic routes and geopolitical shifts initiated isolation and migration in the first half of the 19th century, which the construction of power plants in the 1950s counteracted. The recent landslide in Bondo exemplified the consequences of climate change in the Alpine region.

We are looking for an approach to the present by researching the territory and understanding the history and its structural forms. Is the Bergell a geographically and economically isolated "chamber" in the border area? A remote place of poetry, but of standstill and resignation, threatened by nature? In our exploratory notes we are interested in the relationship between the landscape and the architecture and their history of ideas.

Based on our analysis, we design a public meeting space, a "multi uso"
for the people of the valley. The multi-purpose room damaged by the landslide raises the social need for a place of identification and orientation, for which we consider the entire valley area as a possible location. Using speculative interventions, we take an architectural position in the reference space of history and landscape. - Perhaps as foreign as the idea of ​​baroque geometry in the steep mountain landscape, as rigorous as the Albignia dam, as inconspicuous as the rural Cascina in the chestnut grove or as poetically enigmatic as the garden of ruins of Lan Müraia. They all aim to emerge in their attitude from the structure of the valley and finally to be woven into it again as a critical re-recording of the territory.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work and group work, whereof at least 3-4 week of group work.
Mid term crits: 16.3. / 20.4. / 11.5.
Costs: CHF 150.--.
052-1182-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Spaces for Universities - Design as Criticism II (Ch.Kerez) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UC. Kerez
AbstractThe design process is part of preparing for the daily professional life of an architect. Point of departure for this semester will be nine case studies, consisting of existing, curated competition briefs from different countries and fields of work. All of the cases describe accommodation for research and teaching activities at universities.
ObjectiveThe design studio aims to provide an insight into the history and development of spaces at universities and to foster understanding of current course on this issue in several disciplines and in different countries.

This semester the design studio will focus on University Campuses.
Students will develop a design based on a given brief and will deal with the theme through a critical approach. Analysis of relevant case-studies, meticulous understanding of fundamental aspects of the given task, fast track design methods leading to alternative concepts should establish the strategic and factual basis for a critical understanding on how contemporary University buildings and Campuses can be thought today.
ContentThe design process is part of preparing for the daily professional life of an architect. Point of departure for this semester will be nine case studies, consisting of existing, curated competition briefs from different countries and fields of work. All of the cases describe accommodation for research and teaching activities at universities.
The design studio aims to provide an insight into the history and development of spaces at universities and to foster understanding of current course on this issue in several disciplines and in different countries.
Design is understood as a means of critiquing and investigating these wide-ranging fields of activity. The design of the architectural project ensues from analytical understanding of the task at hand, with the goal of helping students develop their own, independent approach to design.
The students will use Rhino3D to design and explain the projects. The spatial experience will be illustrated in filmed sequences, for which they will receive additional support.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work and group work, whereof 3-4 weeks of group work.
Mid-term crits: Dates will follow.
Costs: CHF 30.--.
052-1104-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Athens Derelict Plug-In (GD A. Antonakakis) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UA. Antonakakis
AbstractAthens Derelict Plug-In proposes an investigation and a set of designs taking place in Athens. Projected at the many layers of the city, the design process is addressed to a palimpsest of different phases of the urban landscape. After many decades of decline of the downtown, an idiosyncratic functional void in the midst of the built city center is created.
ObjectiveThe objective of the course is to explore the urban environment and to suggest ways to improve some of its components. The way individuals and groups perceive and appropriate the city is presented and put under question in lectures and seminars, finally researched in the studio.

Of special interest will be the focus on areas where the new hybridic public domain meets the transformed domestic sphere and the diffuse borders between them. The studio includes codification of quantifiable data; pinpointing of physical elements that grant some specific character to urban space; description of people’s everyday life and the possible projections of it that could transform it in the direction of the use of the available infrastructure; the design is aiming at solving specific problems, but more than this – since we will work with semi-abandoned areas of the city center – contributes to upgrading the selected areas for different forms of life.

The particular modes of thinking are projected onto an architectural production that takes under consideration the mutations that occur under the influence of different factors (historical, social, cultural, technological, but also interpretational, theoretical, and critical).
ContentAthens Derelict Plug-In proposes an investigation and a set of designs taking place in Athens. Projected at the many layers of the city, the design process is addressed to a palimpsest of different phases of the urban landscape. After many decades of decline of the downtown, an idiosyncratic functional void in the midst of the built city center is created. The city center was mostly used at its ground floor, hosting mostly shops, bars and restaurants, while the multistoried buildings in it (polykatoikies, or office ensembles, and high manufacturing buildings) were usually abandoned at the upper parts of the modern constructions. Today partly inhabited by users of the common internet infrastructure, Athens downtown is more and more served by independent courier and food delivery services that circulate goods and food coming from invisible peripheral warehouses and ghost kitchens. It is operating by elaborate ordering or more complicated logistic systems of classification, digital control of the provisions and response to order making. In this sense, the project beyond its specificity becomes an architectural essay about the transformation of the decline of the city into a post-pandemic state; an unconditional investigation about the use of infrastructure operating on a multitude of scales. Such new urban arrangements become important not only for Athens, but also for cities becoming ghosts elsewhere. This generic new field of research is projected at an existing unfunctional urban organism in order to test the options of its possible promises for new forms of life.

Athens Derelict Plug-In is a project that investigates the relationship of the general condition of networks to the idiosyncratic field of a doubly ruined city. The presence of the ancient layers of the city, whose remains still lie under the new constructions of modern Athens, is doubled by this modern ruin being touched by the economic turmoil of the last decades; both invisible and visible ruins act as a promising field to deal with a different architecture. The abandoned existing structures in the midst of a developed network can open alternative understandings of what their inhabitation could mean. “The program for an unlimited extension of networks to a neutral field” – if we can name the process of urbanization this way – is expanded already on the internet and reinforced as a new set of facilities to which the derelict material city can be connected. Data infrastructure, besides determining the functioning of the city, can open the city for a different character of use. The presence of the infrastructure constitutes a new type of empty space which can be experienced as hybridic in many senses.
LiteratureGilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Brian Massumi (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987) Marc Augé, Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (London: Verso, 1995) David Harvey, Spaces of Global Capitalism: Towards a Theory of Uneven Geographical Development (London: Verso, 2006) James Bridle, New Dark Age: Technology and the End of the Future, (London: Verso, 2018). Graham Harman, Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (Chicago: Carus, 2002), Graham Harman, Object-Oriented Ontology: A New Theory of Everything, (London: Penguin Books, 2018). Manuel Castells, The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban-Regional Process (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989). Manuel Castells, Rise of the Network Society Edward Hollis, The Secret Lives of Buildings, Portobello Books, 2009. Alberto Toscano, ‘Logistics and Opposition,’ Mute, 9 August 2011, Link. Jacques Rancière, Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy, trans. Julie Rose (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999)
Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft: The Power of Infrastructure Space (London: Verso, 2014). Keller Easterling, Enduring Innocence: Global Architecture and Its Political Masquerades (Cambridge, MA: MIT, 2005).
Massimo Cacciari, ‘Nomads in Prison,’ Casabella 705 (2002).
Richard Hanley, ed., Moving People, Goods, and Information in the 21st Century (New York: Routledge, 2004).
Deborah Cowen, The Deadly Life of Logistics: Mapping Violence in Global Trade (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014), 125–127.
Jesse LeCavalier, ‘The Restlessness of Objects’, Cabinet 47 (2012)
Clare Lyster, Learning from Logistics: How Networks Change Our Cities (Basel, Berlin: Birkhäuser, 2016)
Maxwell G. Lay, Ways of the World: A History of the World's Roads and of the Vehicles That Used Them (Sydney: Rutgers University Press, 1992).
Richard de Neufville and Amedeo R. Odoni, Airport Systems: Planning, Design and Management (New York: Mc Graw Hill Education, 2003)
Mark Levinson, The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008).
Deborah Cowen, ‘Containing Insecurity: Logistics Space, U.S. Port Cities, and the “War on Terror”’, in Disrupted Cities: When Infrastructure Fails, ed. Stephen Graham (Routledge, 2010)
Kushal Nahata, ‘Trends that will revolutionize logistics in 2018’, Material Handling and Logistics News, 26 December 2017, Link.
Jasper Bernes, ‘Logistics, Counterlogistics and the Communist Prospect’, Endnotes 3 (September 2013), Link.
Markus Hesse, The City as a Terminal: The Urban Context of Logistics and Freight Transport (London: Routledge, 2008).
Carolina A. Miranda, ‘The Unbearable Awkwardness of Automation’, The Atlantic, 13 June 2018, Link.
Gabrielle Espredy, ‘Building Data: Field Notes on the Future of the Past’, Places Journal (September 2013), Link.
Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011).
Prerequisites / NoticeThematic and methodic focus :
Architecture, Urban planning and development, Landscape architecture, Model making, Visualization, Representation techniques, Moving drawings, Photoshop, Video montage.

Individual work and group work, whereof 5 or more weeks group work.

Mid term crits: 16.3., 20.4., 11.5.

Costs: CHF 100.--
052-1124-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Temporary Construction. Design of Circular Structures (R. Boltshauser GD) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UR. Boltshauser
AbstractA new awareness of our limited resources and their use are bringing low-carbon materials and the permanent or renewed use of components back to the fore. We want to take the principle of planning circular buildings to extremes, understand / design buildings as temporary structures and make a contribution to energy generation / urban greening / noise reduction.
Objective• Dealing with dense, sustainable, simple building
• Development of a broad theoretical and historical knowledge of a
topic in order to transfer the resulting findings to the current context
• Understanding of sustainable building techniques and building
materials
• Holistic design of spatial atmospheres in the interplay of context,
construction, climate, sustainability and materiality
• Recognizing the potential of building materials with different
technical properties in order to develop own ideas for new building
systems and translate them into a design
• Practical work on the model and in the visualization program as par
of the design process
ContentA new awareness of our limited resources and their use is bringing low-CO2 materials and the permanent or renewed use of building components back to the fore - and this is also urgently needed. We want to take the principle of planning circular buildings to the extreme and understand and design buildings as temporary structures. At the same time, we want to contribute to energy generation, urban greening, noise reduction, the creation of public spaces or the development of new living and working opportunities.

This path, which we want to explore in the spring semester of 2021, is the design of temporary buildings whose components can be used several times and which can thus be integrated into a circular cycle with the least possible losses. With this strategy, land reserves are occupied only as long as necessary for their use. Areas in which the development strategies are not clear can be put to interim use, and existing buildings can be maintained and expanded for longer. The building sites are located in the city of Zurich, the utilization concept is developed in connection with selected strategies of climate-conscious building. Depending on the concept, it may be useful to test and demonstrate the functionality of the structure on different parcels in the city. Based on an analysis of site potential, site-specific as well as flexible structures and energy concepts will nevertheless be designed. In parallel with the design and construction, we will include grey energy demand, operational energy as well as energy generation.

However, designing with climate as a factor concerns us not only on the technical and constructional level, but also on the architectural level. The architecture should be able to find a new, contemporary expression under the aspects of climate-conscious building as well as in connection with the use and the service life.
Already during the construction of a building, consideration is given to its limited life span and possible further use, both in the choice of materials, construction methods and supporting structure. Designing and constructing with this goal in mind means an intensive examination of the material and the components. While in the classical design process a space is designed and only later materialized and constructed, these aspects must be considered from the very beginning.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work and group work, whereof 3-4 weeks group work.
Mid term crits: 16.3., 20.4., 11.5.
No extra costs.
052-1150-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: New Urban Landscapes - Focal Points of Urban Densification (M.Brakebusch) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UM. Brakebusch Geser
AbstractWith the help of cartographic and statistical surveys, digital and analog, we figure out the limits of the individual metropolitan areas with regard to their possible compression and cooling. After an initial deep drilling in Zurich (in HS20), we will continue with the investigations in the Basel metropolitan area in FS21.
Objective- Analyze the landscape conditions for the Development of the city
- Learning the basics of urban climate planning
- Developing a specific vocabulary (concepts) in Area of ​​landscape
architecture
- Development of an urban / landscape architecture project
ContentCase Study 2: Metropolitan Area Basel
The global phenomenon of the rise in temperature requires individual solutions for the increasingly heated and dense settlement area, depending on the local conditions of the place. The programs presented for heat reduction describe fields of action and approaches that are mostly thought out selectively and remain within the political administrative boundaries. However, the federalism of Switzerland leads to an area-wide settlement of the Swiss plateau, the extent of which is given by the geological morphology of Switzerland with the mountain ranges of the Jura and the Alps. The three metropolitan areas of Zurich, Basel and Geneva extend from east to west, and in addition to their urban density, they also have the largest calculated temperature rise.

In the Design Studio "New Urban Landscapes" with the help of cartographic and statistical surveys, digital and analog, we figure out the limits of the individual metropolitan areas with regard to their possible compression and cooling. After an initial deep drilling in Zurich (in HS20), we will continue with the investigations in the Basel metropolitan area in FS21.

An analysis phase in which experts impart knowledge and tools in the field of urban climate and GIS application is followed by a spatially evaluating synthesis workshop as the conclusion of the four-week group work. The aim of this is to locate a definable room / s for the subsequent nine-week draft. After the semester week, the individual determination of one's own perimeter and program for the urban, landscape architectural design begins. Subject-specific vocabulary and knowledge imparted in the process should help to describe and further develop one's own ideas for the location and its landscape-architectural formulation in a joint discourse.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work and group work, whereas 3-4 weeks of group work.
Mid-term crits: 16.3., 27.4., 12.5.
Kosten: CHF 20.--.
052-1120-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: E.A.N.@M - Experiments on Architecture and Nature [at] Mäusebunker Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UA. Brandlhuber
AbstractMäusebunker, the former animal testing laboratory in Berlin, survived its almost inevitable demolition, thanks to the joined forces of architects, politicians and citizens. Now that the building got a second chance the question is: What is the future of Mäusebunker?
Together we will answer this question by proposing an architectural design for re-using the iconic brutalist building.
Objective1. Gathering all building data regarding structure, building systems and biotope by establishing recurring meetings with our collaborators, working in three groups:
- Chair of Structural Design (Prof. Schwartz)
- Climate Engineering (Transsolar)
- Landscape and Nature (Sandra Bartoli)

The output of this phase will result in a ‘Mäusebunker Atlas‘ with three layers.

2. Consolidating the research to define a pre-scheme that brings together and translates the data during a collective workshop. The output of this phase will result in a common ‘Mäusebunker Masterplan’.

3. Individually designing the diferent zones of the pre- scheme, implementing the spatial and programmatic requirements of our users (E.A.N. @M).

Communicating the design and arguments through video, based on the accompanying seminar Access to Tools. Using techniques from scenography and filmmaking, such as green screen, model to film, etc. This will help us communicate the designs to the broader audience in a compressed and self-explanatory manner.

The semester will conclude with the final reviews. Each presentation will include a one-minute video pitching the proposal and will be streamed on our TV channel station+.
ContentMäusebunker, the former animal testing laboratory in Berlin, survived its almost inevitable demolition, thanks to the joined forces of architects, politicians and citizens. Now that the building got a second chance the question is: What is the future of Mäusebunker?

Together we will answer this question by proposing an architectural design for re-using the iconic brutalist building.

The sixties were a decade of technological thriving – first man on Moon versus gloomy scientific achievement which had been used in the Vietnam War. The social and environmental implications of these novel technologies were still unknown at that time.

The estrangement of people from technological progress and change, led a group of artists and engineers to establish an organisation: E.A.T. (Experiments on Art and Technology). They aimed at facilitating the direct collaboration between artists and engineers, set within the industrial environment, in which the technology was being developed. Together, they were speculating about the impact of such collaborations on industries, technology and individuals itself.

At the same time, the Mäusebunker, one of Europe ́s biggest animal testing facilities was designed and built and reflected the common understanding of human—non- human relations at that time. Its high hygiene and security standards made the building inaccessible to the public, which created a certain myth of what was happening behind closed walls, doors, holes and tubes. Soon after its opening, the first protests against the institution began to form, but it took a long time before it eventually closed in 2020 and was declared to be demolished.

Why? Because a re-use of the typology seemed both uneconomical and unrealistic. Thus, the city did not want to impose the high costs on its citizens. Alternatively to its intended demolition, we will transform the building architecturally and ideologically. Therefore, we will develop a spatial strategy for the existing building to become a laboratory for architecture, art and research on multi- species cohabitation.


Cohabitation:
Today, the current environmental and biodiversity crisis has transformed our ecosystem fundamentally. The collaboration between humans and non-humans is the only alternative for all of us – planetary – to survive: we must not only co-exist but co-operate. This is what we mean by cohabitation, an idea that has been explored in the previous design studios:

‘Housing the Non-Human 01’ focused on decentring humans from the design process, and developing new design strategies of spatial production for multispecies cohabitation.
‘Housing the Non-Human 02’ pushed the topic further, rethinking the balance between the built and the natural environment by intervening on an existing built structure in order to allow for multi-species cohabitation.

‘On Housing the Non-Human 03’ will go beyond scenarios and speculations. For our architectural design we want to recapture the spirit — interdisciplinary & collaboratively — of E.A.T. and develop an architectural project for our fictional cultural organization: E.A.N. @M (Experiments on Architecture and Nature [at] Mäusebunker).
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work and group work, whereof 3-4 weeks of group work.
Mid-term crits: 30.3., 4./5.5.
No extra costs.
052-1102-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Quinten - Architecture From an Understanding of Space (G.A.Caminada) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UG. A. Caminada
AbstractWe would like to examine the most important elements in creating a strong sense of place. We design architecture in selected locations in Quinten, aiming to create a house that both reflects today's knowledge and the features and conditions unique to its location.
ObjectiveArchitecture requires a fine perception of what already exists and a courageous design for what is to come. As a basic prerequisite for both moments, we consider a sustainable attitude to be developed from the lifeworld collective. The aim of the course is to strengthen the sensitivity for such an attitude. At the same time the skills should be learned to make this attitude effective. Dealing with the immediate reality of construction and material plays a key role here.
ContentQuinten is a small community on Lake Walen. The villagers see the functionality and thus the viability of the village as endangered in the long term. The necessary village size to guarantee an independent existence is unrealistic. The federalist principle in Switzerland has set itself the goal of preserving settlement even in places that have fallen below a critical limit for a functioning place. The proximity to urban space continues to promise economic advantages. Villages like Quinten suddenly get a boost from the changed perspectives from other camps. The ecological threat to our environment and a global pandemic have changed our view of living space. For places like Quinten, the question arises: isn't the physical distance to the urban and its apparent otherness the most important potential? In this paradigm shift, the question is not about the quantity (number of inhabitants) but about the quality (sensitivity) of the change. What could a development look like that guarantees an existence outside the purely rational?

Some social and cultural scientists are calling for a new understanding of space due to the ecological consequences. In architecture, this requirement immediately leads to the question of the relationship between space and place. How do we think of creating conditions for good places in space? As residents of the room, we are part of an undefined area. It is limitless, an interweaving of different worlds. In order to be able to act, we have to scale the space in smaller units. The territory of our work and thus our responsibility is thus determined. Only this clarity enables responsibility and, in the best case, ends with meanings and values. That's where the place is.

Within the process of understanding space, it is important to know the entities or substances of the limited space - existing and expected. The entities in Quinten are the mild climate, the constantly changing wind, the distinctive topography made up of lake and mountain, the special vegetation, the limited accessibility and others. These politically activated entities are different in the agglomeration of Zurich than in Quinten. By grasping the properties of these different entities, we take care of the space in which we expand. When developing smaller units within the larger unit, we are cosmopolitan and local actors at the same time. Remaining in a self-sufficient world would be just as disastrous as merely looking at the global. The space is given, it is not yet a place. In space you act politically, in place sensually.

In a new understanding of space, it must succeed in bringing politics, spatial planning, economy, tourism, craft and architecture together into a conglomerate, keeping them in balance and aligning them with a common goal. The development must be controlled from within, from close by, not through strategies and universal concepts from a great altitude. Then we approach a (new) culture of space.


Full Program: caminada.arch.ethz.ch
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work only.
Mid-term crits: Dates will follow
Costs: CHF 100.--.
052-1142-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Making Plans for Living Together (A.Caruso) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UA. Caruso
AbstractWe will make detailed plans for living together: Imagine ourselves freed from the false dogma of social Darwinism, in a place where essential tasks like caring for people, growing food and living in balance with our environment, are more important than non-essential activities like banking and academia. We will study models of mutual aid in the human, animal and vegetal worlds.
ObjectiveQualification to control the design process increasingly independent and with sole responsibility and to find to an individual design methodology and attitude.
ContentCharles Darwin’s On the Origin of the Species was based on its author’s observations of the natural world. Its emphasis on competition and on the evolutionary success of nature’s predators was also informed by Darwin’s experience of the competitive ravages of industrial England. The idea of a ‘social Darwinism’ was used as justification by the 19th century industrial elite for the social damage that was inherent to the industrial economy. In the age of science, what was true for nature, they argued, was equally true for the political and the social. Critiques of the apparent determinism of Darwin’s theory emerged as soon as his book was published, and a particularly eloquent and comprehensive response, Mutual Aid – A Factor of Evolution was published by Peter Kropotkin at the end of the 19th century. Based on observations, and more pragmatic than ideological, the book describes how widespread and important, mutually beneficial cooperation and reciprocity are in both the animal kingdom and within the history of human societies.

This semester we will make detailed plans for living together. We will imagine ourselves freed from the false dogma of social Darwinism, in a place where essential tasks like caring for people, growing food and living in balance with our environment, are more important than non-essential activities like banking and academia. We will study models of mutual aid in the human, animal and vegetal worlds through references that are modest in size but that engage with matters of material, technique and society altogether, acknowledging that these are different facets of large and necessarily interconnected systems. Some of our references, like the Shaker community of Mount Lebanon are historic, some like the Chelsea Hotel are urban, others like Melliodora in Australia are ongoing experiments. Withdrawing from the centre, these settlements seek out the space and the time to make societies that could be more equitable, providing alternatives to the mainstreams of their time. With a range of principles and techniques, from forms of governance to methods of upcycling and spatial experimentation, we will work on a series of sites in and around Zurich, considering programme and material, human and animal inhabitation, allowing a complexity of subjects of equivalent importance to inform the development of the designs.
Prerequisites / NoticeGroup work only.
Mid-term crits: Dates to follow.
Costs: CHF 100.--.
052-1146-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Voluptas S1E6 Apollo (F.Charbonnet/P.Heiz) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UF. Charbonnet, P. Heiz
AbstractThe semester "Apollo" aims at designing erratic hyper-contexts generated by hypothetical ruling incentives: as a marker of singularities, it is to become the passionate catalogue raisonné of elemental urban idiosyncrasies.
ObjectiveObjectives:
Research & curation of contemporary concepts, articulation of a discursive argument, visual literacy & storytelling, editing & montage, architectural drafting.

Incentives:
Movies & filmmaking, territorial & urban scale, collectivity, situations & artefacts, socio-political dimension, critical position, contemporary conditions.

Steps:
(1) Analyse a movie, research contemporary concepts, identify potentials, articulate a critical position.
(2) Project an urban scenario on both the artefactual and the territorial scale, focussing on collectiveness and the socio-political aspects of society.
(3) Express a critical position towards a contemporary condition by the means of such a fictive context in both image and plan.
(4) Train rhetorics and argumentation, master drafting skills as well as image montage.
Content"Dionysos / Apollo" is to become a rambling exploration on the lookout for an urban environment beyond reasonable or irrational, good and evil. Considering humankind as embedded in (and dependent on) its geological era, we look upon history’s intertwined layers as torpid raw potential to be fully deployed, appropriated and composed with – joyfully disrespecting historical authenticity. The visionary Hístor seeks, finds novelty in the old, rather than an unfounded assertion of the present with the past. Simultaneously, all thoughts and actions are rooted in essence in the terrestrial now.
The semester APOLLO aims at designing erratic hyper-contexts generated by hypothetical ruling incentives: as a marker of singularities, it is to become the passionate catalogue raisonné of elemental urban idiosyncrasies.

Project:
Students interpret, negotiate, and make meaning from information presented in a source movie, before transcribing their subjective reading to a telling but suggestive cinematographic draft (1.80x1.80m). Audacious and unprecedented urban environments are then extrapolated from the narrative as singular metropolitan orthoimages (1.80x1.80m) become the recording canvas of these proliferating storylines.
The complementary drawing and image both crystallize the fictional metropolis’ shared desires and aspirations in an effort to re-write an alternate architectural and territorial fiction and reflect critically on contemporary conditions, overthrowing socio-economic status quo.
Furthermore, students will construct an argumentative arsenal to support their discursive argument, based on an encyclopedic compilation of evocative historical sources.
Prerequisites / NoticeGroup work only.
Mid term crits: open, date will follow.
Costs: CHF 30.--
052-1106-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: 3,3%, 33,3%, 333%. Re-Thinking-Re Re-Zu-rich (a.o. Prof. J. de Vylder) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UJ. De Vylder
AbstractRE-Thinking-RE
Nevertheless, the RE-prefix. In all its newfound ambitions and its very first fragile exercises in recent decades. Yet a critical RE-considering is not wrong now, or early at all. To keep pace with the idea that RE-USE should be more and should be part of RE-attitude. So just to be more than physical RE-use and rather to be physical RE-attitude.
ObjectiveAll in all, one can say that the "Learning Objectives" – humble ambitions - and "Learning Outcomes" - possible answers - can be summarized by the next 3 expectations:

- As the studio explores the "Economy" of "Less Action" in the perspective of a better "Ecology of Life"; the "Research" attitude is to find "Realistic Realities" for RE-use - the "Alternative", RE-Thinking-RE gives RE-use a chance to be more than a "Tendency".

- Because the studio believes that it is not only a matter of project, but also a matter of "Urge", the pedagogical ambition is not only to make Architecture - the "Act" - but also to raise "the Architect" - the "Attitude Universum" as a "Carrousel" and as a "Journey".

- As the studio second life is the drawing and the model, the writing and the debate, the "Form" will be given to all unseen outcome when the "Method" of "Research" has no limit on the "Mix" of "Media" from analogue to digital.
ContentThe 3.33% 333% studio had its first run a while ago - let's call it the PILOT 33.3% studio 2018 - The results of that studio were not only inspiring but also thought-provoking.
What is the 3,33% 33,3% 333% studio about?
At a first glance, it seemed like just a numbers game. But it was clear that it means much more.

RE-
re-use re-store rest-ore re-pair
re-act re-cycle re-care re-accept
re-sumptions re-compress(ions)* re-economy*
re-love re-leave re-less re-confirm
re-silience re-vive re-live
re-veal un-re-vel
re-collage re-configurate
re-observe re-call re-read re-focus re-draw re-practice re-detail re-invent re-question
re-strategy re-confront re-venture

re-re

RE-Thinking RE

Nevertheless, the RE-prefix. In all its newfound ambitions and its very first fragile exercises in recent decades. Yet a critical RE-Considering is not wrong now, or early at all. To keep pace with the idea that RE-Use should be more and should be part of RE-Attitude. So just to be more than physical RE-Use and rather to be physical RE-Attitude.

The 33.3% or RE- is the first possible critical variant of 100% act. The idea that a "Context" can be "Approached" rather by "Intervention - Economy - Ecology" - and that this could be good enough as a new standard.

In this 33.3% studio - semester or master studio - we will study this. The studio will explore the possibilities of a more restrained, humble but precise action. This is in many ways an attitude of economy of means. Less energy of action, of course, means less economy and ecology, but it could also require changing the attitude of use effectively today. This could also make it a question of ergonomics: how to "Use" the given context differently and yet act less.

How to find a new "Rich-Ness" in ZU-RICH. That is the question this "33.3% Semester Studio" will ask. And this for the next three spring semesters.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work and group work, whereof 5 or more weeks of group work.
Mid-term crits: 9.3. / 13.4.
No extra costs.
052-1136-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Elements (A.Deuber) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UA. Deuber
AbstractStudents have the opportunity to examine architectural elements that define their architecture. We carry out this search throughout the semester and divide it into three phases: element, structure and whole. We will delve deeply into the architectural space and the materialized elements that define that space.
ObjectiveThe students develop a design based on the architectural theme of "elements" with the integrated disciplines of structural design. They deal with the topic, a specific material of its constructive logic and supporting structure. The aim is to arrive at a holistic design for all designs based on individual inspiration and the logic of the material and to visualize this at the end.
ContentStudents have the opportunity to examine architectural elements that define their architecture. We carry out this search throughout the semester and divide it into three phases: element, structure and whole. We will delve deeply into the architectural space and the materialized elements that define that space.

In a first step, elements that define the space are explored. Based on an inspiration, an element is designed as an object that represents this inspiration. The object leads to a structure and its own detailed architectural project with an individual program in a specific location.

The students work with different types of renderings (rendering of the element, the structure, the rooms), as well as detailed black and white CAD drawings and texts.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work only.
Mit term crits: 16/17 March, 20/21 April, 4/5 May 2021.
Costs: CHF 100.

Introduction: 23.2.21, 10:00 h, Zoom-ID: 995 4984 0569 .

Assistants: Lorenz Bachmann, Elena Miegel
Integrated discipline (3 ETCS points): Chair for structural design, Prof. Schwartz (requirement: design and supporting structure are mutually dependent)
Experts 3D visualization: Stefan Meyer, Boris Dudesek, Lukas Burkhard
052-1132-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Let's Walk About Form (a.o. Prof. An Fonteyne) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UA. Fonteyne
Abstract“Each form is an active force, it creates the community, it is life itself made manifest.” These words by Alison and Peter Smithson point at a strong belief in the power of forms in the city, claiming their active force, their generative potential, beyond a mere question of appearance or taste.
This semester, together, we will investigate the possibility of the form as a project in itself.
Objective- We will walk and discover what we can see when we look at the
context of a street over and over again. Based on those
observations, we will select relevant sites of intervention.
- We will carry out a collective reflection on form, and all that it can
do for architecture, for the city, for society, as a volume, an element,
an ornament.
- Through formal additions we will seek to establish new relations
within the existing urban conditions we will encounter.
- We will rethink form as a place that can be inhabited from the inside
and from the outside, that affords, connects, articulates, polarizes,
cuts.
- We will explore how a form can contribute to a more inviting public
space, reflecting on ownership and usership.
- We will learn from a series of guests presenting their visions on form from an architectural, artistic, or research point of view.
Content“Each form is an active force, it creates the community, it is life itself made manifest.” These words by Alison and Peter Smithson point at a strong belief in the power of forms in the city, claiming their active force, their generative potential, beyond a mere question of appearance or taste.

Although architecture is a de facto formal activity, claiming form as the main purpose of a design reflection exposes one to the dismissal of being a formalist. Thinking about form, pure form, seems to have many pitfalls: producing an all too autonomous architecture, a self-centered building, an architect’s dream, disconnected from reality, and that once again won’t change anything fundamentally.
So how can we reassert that form does matter? That, as the Smithsons point out, form is actually about life, and about community, about all the things that the form enables around and within itself?

Starting from this question, we will attempt to carry out a thorough reflection on forms in their plastic, but also in their many social, political and contextual implications. To do so, we will start by observing a selection of ‘pure forms’, and their iterations in architecture, on different scales, in different places and times, but also in art history, in crafts, or in the Zurich urban context. This individual research will result in a collective Atlas of Forms, coming together in the first weeks of the studio to then feed the rest of the semester. A research that will be accompanied by the figures of Aldo and Hannie Van Eyck, whose many thematic writings on form will be read collectively, and elaborated upon.

In parallel, we will once again observe a street starting in Zurich and extending into its periphery, cutting through heterogeneous neighborhoods and urban conditions. We will develop a walking practice, a habit of observing this strip, over and over again, learning to discover the hidden qualities of the everyday. A way to go beyond what we think we know, and make the familiar seem strange again.
An investigative process that will result in a situated knowledge. A knowledge ‘from within’ which will allow to identify relevant sites of intervention as well as investigate the agency of the architect, and will help formulate proposals to install forms along that street, establishing a new set of affordances, a connection, an articulation, a polarity, a cut. A relational approach, observing the individual form, and all that it can do for its material and social surroundings. In the process, we will discover what the pure forms of the Atlas can become: a building’s volume, an element, an ornament. Over the course of that journey, we will be accompanied by a series of guests presenting their own relationship to the idea of form.

This semester, together, we will investigate the possibility of the form as a project in itself. Forms that are not hermetic or self-referential, but open ones, that dialogue, that signal, that offer.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work and group work, whereof 5 or more weeks of group work.
Mid-term crits: 16./17.3., 4./5.5.
Costs: CHF 100.--
052-1128-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Stadtpark Katzenbach. Shaping a New Peri-Urban Park in Zurich Nord Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UC. Girot
AbstractThe Landscape Architecture Studio of Prof. Christophe Girot will design a new peri-urban park on the Katzenbach plain. The park will provide the inhabitants of Affoltern and Seebach with a new vision of public space that exploits the infrastructure, ecological value, and the productive landscape unique to the peri-urban area of Zürich Nord.
ObjectiveWe will work on the Katzensee area and its Hinterland (a protected nature reserve) and the space in between Affoltern and Seebach along the 7km long Katzenbach, Zurich’s longest open stream. The site borders a dynamic urban area which has been transformed from a pastoral landscape of scattered farmsteads into the city’s largest growing residential district with a projected population growth rate of over 17% until at least 2038. Affoltern has yet to transform any of the areas zoned for public space into significant public parks.
When viewing the remaining ‘space in-between’ Affoltern and Seebach from the perspective of the open space, recasting sprawling settlements as urban islands within a larger territory, the area holds significant value as a potential site for Zurich’s first large-scale urban park. This raises the question: what can we do as designers to give this area a structure that can hold over time and improve the quality of living at the northern edge of the city?

The FS 2021 Design Studio will focus on large-scale urban landscape design through digital point cloud modeling. During the semester, students will acquire skills in point cloud technology, digital 3D modeling and visualization techniques.

The goal of the studio is to develop a peri-urban park along the Katzenbach between Affoltern and Seebach. Students will work with microtopography and the topology of water to restructure the plain into a patchwork of public programs.

The design will follow a three-scales approach: urban design (large scale), park design (medium scale) and detail design (small scale).
ContentThe studio is structured into three phases and includes multiple site visits.

PHASE 1: SITE VISIT, URBAN DESIGN AND HYPOTHESIS
In the first part of the semester, students will focus on the urban design scale in the area between Affoltern and Seebach. After an introduction, a site visit will give the students a better understanding of the area. They will analyze the periphery of Affoltern and Seebach, identify and structure areas for public space along the urban edges and envision a landscape park using the Katzenbach as a strategic backbone to connect the urban context of Glattpark with the rural setting of the Katzenseen.
In this phase, students will also attend guest lectures on urban design and park design. A one-day design charrette with experts will help to build basic knowledge of the peri-urban area and to create the first urban park sketches.

PHASE 2: DESIGN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH MODELING AND ITERATION
This phase will be dedicated to the focus area, namely the perimeter of the new public park. At this landscape scale, they will focus on the topology of water, microtopography and propose a program appropriate for the park.
Furthermore, they will be introduced to key tools such as 3D scanning and point cloud technology to generate topographies for 3D modeling.

PHASE 3: PROJECT SYNTHESIS AND VISUALIZATION
In the final part of the semester, students will focus on further defining the social aspects of the park area through detail design. By applying modeling and visualization techniques, they will illustrate the recreational activities and opportunities for social gathering of their detail area.
Lecture notesA course booklet will be provided at the introduction.
LiteratureA course booklet will be provided at the introduction. Furthermore, a semester apparat will be available to the students at the ILA Library.
Prerequisites / Notice- Introduction: Tuesday 23.02.2021, 10:00h
- The studio space is ETH Hönggerberg HIL C40.1 (we will work via Zoom)
- The design will be developed in groups of two, with individual assignments
- Language of instruction is English; Assistance in English or German
- The studio includes "Integrierte Disziplin Planung (Ch.Girot)", 3 ETCS credits
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W14 credits16UM. Guyer
AbstractWe examine the architectural, social, structural, spatial and visual potential of the existing building and question the common practice of densification by replacing new buildings. It's about dealing with what already exists, transforming something that already exists, reusing it and adding it in a meaningful way.
ObjectiveAbility to develop a design from an idea, a concept, to a fully evolved project; to continually self-critically question the intermediary stages in this process; and, simultaneously, to find an individual design methodology and design stance.
ContentWe question the common practice of densification with replacement new buildings and give the existing structure more weight in terms of sustainable urban development. We are looking for solutions where, even under the pressure of doubling the utilization, the existing building is preserved by being reinterpreted and revitalized, renovated and rebuilt, expanded and stocked up. The stock as part of the city's history is increasingly seen as an important cultural resource for shaping the future and the stored, social, structural, spatial and visual potential is activated for new projects. The bulkiness of existing buildings often provides food for thought for new solutions and discoveries. It is important to find the right balance between old and new and to accept heterogeneity, contrasts and leaps in scale as part of the future city.

The focus is on Altstetten, which is shown in the structure plan as the quarter with high densification potential in the west of Zurich. In terms of population and area, it is the largest district in the city and has the most jobs. With the smallest proportion of Wilhelminian style buildings and the largest proportion of new buildings since 1990, it is a very heterogeneous quarter that has developed dynamically. Five different areas have been selected as design laboratories, each with its own urban planning objective. The Neumarkt Altstetten is to strengthen the district center around Lindenplatz, the Farbhof area is to create a square situation as a western gateway to Altstetten, the Hero building is to become a further developed urban building block in the service area of ​​the station, the Bachwiesen area is to maintain the garden city vision despite the densification, the Freihof area is to retain the high quality heterogeneity of an urban area reveal. The areas show the diversity of the quarter: the Farbhof area is in the west, the Freihof area in the east of Badenerstrasse, the Bachwiesen area in the south, the Hero area in the north of Altstetterstrasse. The Neumarkt Altstetten is located at the intersection of the two main axes.

n view of the current urban space deficits between newer area developments, not only the transitions between public, semi-private and private outdoor spaces within the areas, but also the relationship between the areas and the surroundings and the urban body are dealt with. Since the quality of the open space is essential during compression, courtyards and spaces between sidewalks and house edges should be made usable and accessible and be of use to the public and the owners alike.

A sensible mix of uses, new work and living typologies, suitable ground floor use, new supporting structures, intelligent building envelopes, greenery, innovative energy concepts and reuse / recycle / upcycle concepts are decisive for the design. These main topics are deepened with lectures, workshops and visits. A collection of texts and reference examples is continuously expanded during the semester and is available as a document for everyone for inspiration.

With the introductory exercise “Image - Form”, the existing situation is felt in a playful and intuitive way and the right thing to see is learned. In the first review, the concept is summarized in a concise presentation. These results are continuously processed and are part of the final submission. The projects are discussed at the final reviews with guests and the chair in the range of concept ideas, urban planning and architectural presence, dealing with the existing structure and the quality of the outdoor and indoor spaces.
Prerequisites / NoticeGroup work only.
Mid-term crits: 16./17.3., 13./14.4., 1./5.5.
Costs: CHF 50.--.
052-1134-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Material Gesture - Textile (A. Holtrop) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UA. Holtrop
AbstractIn times of constant and unpredictable change, we look at textile as one of the most adaptive and comforting materials.
ObjectiveWhen we take all aspects of the material into consideration – the geology, the sourcing, the industry, the different properties, the craftsmanship, the specialised techniques and the cultural significance – we can deploy the full potential of the inherent qualities of the material itself and our way of working it in what we call MATERIAL GESTURE.

In this design studio, you will define your gestures of making and working with material(s) through research and experiment, and in response to the topic of the studio. You are required to produce an architecture that results from your specific engagement with the material and the spatial condition you construct with it. The architecture that results from this approach does not reference or represent something, but simply attempts to exist as a physical spatial reality in its own right.

Your research should be supported by the knowledge made available by our studio, and engaged through you with the use of available resources and facilities at departments of the ETH and from external specialists/fabricators.

Throughout the whole semester, and for your final presentation, we require that you work with physical (fragment) models of your building in the actual material(s). It is important, in this design studio, not to make a complete building, but to show and support the found values of the material engagement in a spatial way, based on the full potential of the inherent qualities of the material itself and your way of working it.
ContentWe will study space as an adaptive environment in which textile plays a central role, from rugs and tents that can be traveled with, to technologically advanced woven fabrics that can transform to changing conditions.

Through the theory of Gottfried Semper, we will look back at textiles, which were used as a bonding material to string and bind, and as woven material to cover, to protect and to enclose.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work only.
Mid term crits: 20./21. June 21.
Costs: CHF 100.--
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W14 credits16UL. Hovestadt
AbstractThis studio works on the idea that a substantial understanding of
todays technology (internet of things, big data, machine
intelligence...) changes the perspective to architectural theory
and will result in different architectural designs and building
constructions.
Objective1) Identification and understanding of the challenges of todays technologies;
2) techniques of working within the plenty of the internet;
3) a methodology to design digital architectures;
4) understanding of the shift from hard building construction to soft building applications, and
5) an understanding of the importance of becoming a literate digital
persona in order to be an architect today.
ContentMETEORA #04 ALIENATIONS

in the time of corona,
sitting at home,
connected with the world.

we feel like laughing.
sitting at the edge of the world.
we start thinking.

an alien building of the last century (ludwig wittgenstein house, vienna, 1928)
meets
an alien figure of today's media (lenny belardo aka jude law by paolo sorrentino, 2016)

you look at me
and I look at you.

I'm the world,
I'm the world,
the world in a box.

METEORA #04 is an architectonic exercise
on our cultural heritage
and its challenges of today.

white noise,
beautiful white noise.

in a room without a roof
i'm staring at the ceiling.

METEORA #04  will use artificial intelligence
        to write a text to explicate a precise position in today's world,
        to create a spectrum of images to reflect this world
        and design an architectural artefact which brings things into adequate proportions

in the plentiful noise of today
lenny will help us to talk about the world today, and
ludwig will help us to make detailed architectonic arguments.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work only.
Mid term crits: Dates will follow.
No extra costs!
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W14 credits16UM. Kaijima
AbstractThe tourism industry is important economic sector in Switzerland to activate the rural area for exchange between local and global. A role of architecture is creating local identity. We engage with the question of tourism architecture in Interlaken and Grindelwald with historical perspective to use image through actor-network drawing for arguments and critics in the future local context.
Objective<Understanding of Architectural Behaviorology concept>
Today’s local populations and ecologies are confronted by a raft of critical issues that have become manifest at a shared global level. A key worldwide aspect in these interlinked challenges is the dual phenomena of aging societies and the depopulation of rural areas, whereby the development of modern technology and industry in the course of the 20th century has played a huge role in triggering these problems by establishing barriers between everyday life and local resources, such as nature, human skills and accumulated knowledge. Rural communities based on small-scale primary industries, which have traditionally been vital not only in securing national food supplies but also in maintaining a sustainable ecosystem balance between mankind and nature, face a growing struggle in terms of generational succession and transfer.
Architectural Behaviorology is our design theory and methodology whose objective is to rediscover the forgotten values of resources through the lens of ethnography. It tries to find barriers and challenge them in order to create better accessibilities to local resources, and to activate the behaviors of actors, both human and resource.
Architectural Behaviorology introduces better understanding on architectural form in the relationship with various behaviors of things, such as nature, human, and buildings.
Using the core design approach of architectural behaviourology the research project advocates and demonstrates, both theoretically and in real-world practice, the significance of creating urban-rural commons to rejuvenate community livelihoods with small-scale primary industries (farming, fisheries, and forestry), taking both Asia (Japan) and Europe (Switzerland) as geographically distant yet mutually applicable and promising applied settings.

<Learning research method>
Actor-network Drawing is design research platform in the chair learning from Actor-Network Theory (ANT) from Bruno Latour’s: Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., USA. 1987). It is for sharing research observations for area and to bridge them towards design practice and also finding hybrid knowledge between place(before 20 century model), space (20 century model) and network (21 century model). We are learning the hand drawing as a physical movement as digesting the gap between life and information setting real experience as our knowledge. And also drawing manner is allowing us to dialogue with history and to discuss between ourselves.

<Learning design method>
How we design using resources to create and to emphasis local network to be sustain the society by learning typologies and material, skill, people.

<Learning visualization method by actor net-work mapping, model, a large hand drawing
>
Integration of the visualization would be discussed under intention of the project to create architectural language for social context.

<Learning structure and material>
Integration of the concept from detail of structure and material to environmental scale as architectural language. Students would consider the network of the architectural meaning from history to today.
Content<Tourism Behaviorology in Switzerland>
The tourism industry is one of Switzerland’s most important economic sectors and employs around 4% of the working population. Tourism is also the most important driver of exchange between the rural and the urban community.
At the crossroads of Europe, Switzerland has always attracted visitors. In the 18th centuries, Romantic literature and art engendered unparalleled enthusiasm for the mountains. In the 19th century, it was discovered that high altitude fresh air had a therapeutic effect on lung disease and Swiss alpine villages began to market themselves as health resorts too. In 2015, the Swiss tourism industry generated around 2.8% of the country’s gross domestic product, or a total of CHF 17.4 billion.
Thanks to a steadily growing infrastructure network of hotels, railways, cable cars, shops and restaurants, small mountain villages are able to handle this sheer number of visitors. But what role do these infrastructures play in the appearance of the small villages and towns, sought by tourists? Strengthening the local character and creating a local identity is an important role architecture has to play in a touristic town or village. The architecture, as well as the entire tourism industry, have to keep a good balance between touristic and local aspects, between the local and global economy.
This semester we will engage with the question of tourism architecture in the case of Interlaken and Grindelwald in the canton of Bern. We will critically examine the existing context by researching its history, analyzing its actor network, and propose and argument how the two towns could be developed further. How should they look like? What should they offer? And how will the ongoing Corona pandemic and the rising temperature due to climate change affect the tourism industry in the long run?

<Schedule>
Week 1
2.23 9.00 Orientation
13.00 Workshop
17.30 Site selection
2.24 8.30-16.30 Desk critiques
16.30 Input lecture and text discussion
Week2
3.2 7.00-18.00 Site Visit
3.3 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques(13.00-13.30 Input Lecture and text discussion)
Week3
3.9 8.30-16.30 Desk critiques
16.30-Input lecture and text discussion
3.10 Parity Talks
Week4
3.16 8.30-16.30 Desk critiques
16.30-Input lecture and text discussion
3.17 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques(13.00-13.30 Input Lecture and text discussion)
Week5
Seminar Week Off
Week6
3.30/31 8.30-18.00 Mid Review1
Week7
Easter Holiday
Week8
4.13 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques
4.14 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques(13.00-13.30 Input Lecture and text discussion)
Week9
4.20 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques
4.21 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques
13.00-13.30 Input Lecture and text discussion
Week10
4.27/28 8.30-18.00 Mid Review 2
Week11
5.04 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques
5.05 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques(13.00-13.30 Input Lecture and text discussion)
Week12
5.11 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques
5.12 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques
13.00-13.30 Input Lecture and text discussion
Week13
5.18 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques
5.19 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques(13.00-13.30 Input Lecture and text discussion)
Week14
5.25/26 8.30-18.00 Desk Critiques
Week15
6.1/2 8.30-18.00 Final Review

<Assignment and deadline>
Mid Review 1 Assignment (dead line 3.29 17.00):
Actor Network Drawing Area Size: 6 x A3
Picture Essay
Text (400 words)
Mid Review 2 Assignment(dead line 4.26 17.00):
Actor Network Drawing Project Size: 12 x A3
containing: Plan(s), Section(s), Elevation(s)
Model(s)
Text (ca. 400 words)
Final Review Assignment (dead line 5.31 12.00):
Actor Network Drawing Project Size: 12 x A3
containing: Plan(s), Section(s), Elevation(s), Detail(s)
Model(s)
Text (ca. 400 words)
LiteratureBruno Latour: Science In Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society (Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., USA. 1987)
Atelier Bow-Wow: Graphic Anatomy 1, TOTO Publishing, 2007
Atelier Bow-Wow: Graphic Anatomy 2,TOTO Publishing, 2012
Momoyo Kaijima, Junzo Kuroda, Yoshiharu Tsukamoto: Made in Tokyo, Kajima Publisher,2001
Momoyo Kaijima, Laurent Stalder, Yu Iseki: Architectural Ethnography, TOTO Publishing, 2018
Andreas Kalpakchi,Momoyo Kaijima,Laurent Stalder/ETH Zurich: Arch+238 Architektur Ethnografie, Arch+,2020
Prerequisites / NoticeOrientation 2.23 9.00 @Link

Individual work and group work, where of 1-2 weeks of group work.
Final review:6.1./2
Mid-term crits: 3.30./31 and 4.27./28
Costs: CHF 100.--.

<Integrated Discipline: Tourism Behaviorology in Switzerland>
The design course is tough in collaboration with the chair for the theory of architecture. The „integrated discipline“ aims to support the students in their research. Is is organised in two parts: A methodological introduction and a field research on a particular building / neighborhood / place in Interlaken or Grindelwald. The task will be a picture-essay, that will constitute the base of the actor-network drawing.
052-1140-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Market District 24/7, Vienna (H.Klumpner) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UH. Klumpner
AbstractHow can we re-define the architecture of the social-environmental agenda for existing markets? Incorporate analog and digital lifestyles? Transform market places into prototypical urban social infrastructures connecting global, regional, and local scales? Students will re-design the Viktor-Adler Markt in Favoriten in the largest arrival district of Vienna with a population of 200.000 inhabitants.
ObjectiveStudents will immerse in our Chair’s “method-design”, and are introduced to the toolbox-reference library of the urban stories lecture series. They will be guided step by step to develop their individual prototypical design projects addressing both architectural and urban scales. They will collaboratively develop a baseline scenario, mapping, identifying and prioritising existing and future challenges and opportunities on urban development topics. They will also take on the role of stakeholders, translating their negotiated agreements into three different design scenarios. They will develop urbanistic concepts and an architectural design which is an evidence-based project- intervention. This urban urban prototype is the synthesis of a trans-scalar process in time and space. Students design projects will be framed as narratives that are consequentially visualized in atmospheric representations and communicated in analogue and digital graphics. Project concepts will be tested and upscaled through urbanistic design-policy recommendations and presented to real stakeholders in Vienna.

Students will imagine flexible, productive urban spaces, where everyday people engage with each other and the architecture of a public market space. In collaboration with local partners (TU Wien), students will conduct and exchange quantitative and qualitative research and on-site analysis to develop first arguments for their potential project prototype. Each student individually develops an initial concept for a community-oriented building intervention that responds to local and global urbanization topics. Once the specific site and approach is determined, design projects are developed to an appropriate level, taking streets, buildings and city-blocks into account. The migrant community context of Favoriten combined with the urban culture of diverse areas is acting as immediate source of inspiration and point of reference.

The Studio frames an understanding of the dynamic forces that enable the production of goods within cities, taking into account the analog and digital behavioral systems of citizens lifestyles. Students are encouraged to develop a critical position on the architect's potential role to mediate a design processes within a broader social, political, and economic discourse.
ContentThe Studio builds urban theory by research-led teaching, based on the idea of this year’s Vienna Biennale for Change at the MAK (Museum für Angewandte Kunst) and proposes a new direction towards a Care-City. This is our complementing proposal to the Smart-City concept emphasizing digital technology control. Process-oriented city-making concepts will address and incorporate human behavior, live styles, and social - environmental urbanism as an opportunity for co-design and citizen-led innovation. Re-imagining the market as a productive public space for circular thinking, care and transaction is at the core of this semester`s urban-design studio. Globally we are experiencing an alienation from the making of food and consumer goods, with production being offshored, outsourced, and products available, at the lowest competitive price. Industrialization and mass production aim at higher efficiencies, lower costs, and larger quantities while a comfortable supply level for all new things is needed in our industrialized cities. Fast growth and mass consumption in highly specialized supermarkets and department stores have for years been the consequence and the norm. As we realize now, these systems are too big and interdependent and come at a high price to our society, climate, and future generations.

Consequently, the authenticity and specificity of goods are becoming interesting and dominant, prescribing plant-based proteins, new services of delivery, low carbon footprints, and demands for a more circular economy. During the Covid-19 pandemic, many realities of supply chains and necessary adaptations to existing systems have surfaced. People in their neighbourhoods are now taking initiative in sharing local goods and networks as suppliers or producers also searching for more engaged and unique experiences, whilst refining non-food products and circular production models in analog and digital market spaces. Authenticity and specificity are becoming interesting and dominant, prescribing plant-based proteins, new services of delivery, consumption, and demands for a more circular economy. During Covid-19 many realities are becoming more visible, people in their neigbourhoods sharing goods as producers, searching for more engaged and unique experiences, refining non-food products and circular production models on analog and digital market places.

Consumers are increasingly interested in the origin of their purchased goods and are thus influencing markets impacting production processes. Buying into the producers' stories adds to the value of goods and purchasing experience whilst bettering customers' health, education, and environmental conscience. The producer has become part of the decision process. In many cities, the traditional concept of the market is turning into a new concept of what a market can be. The producers' stories and the specificity imaginary they personify add to the purchasing experience and (better) their customers' conscience.

Over the next decade, the advancing environmental mediterrianization will affect the design of market spaces in inner-city areas. In the densely populated 19th century neighborhoods of Vienna, the reduction of urban heat islands caused by solar radiation and climate-change requires seasonal cooling strategies and innovative solutions to re-design urban morphologies and micro-climatic atmospheres. Migration, localized large -scale food production and the accommodation of socio-cultural difference hold untapped potential to rethink markets as places of exchange, integration, and cohesion that embrace diversity. From urban-rural linkages, down to demand and supply of neighborhood markets and small-scale circular economies, climate change, food, and wellbeing in cities go hand in hand. The environmental and cultural needs of citizens require us to simultaneously -reset and fast forward future scenarios of what temporary and permanent markets can be.
Lecture notes“Method-design”: Systematically engaging students in the Studio topic, to unlock their potential and skills towards developing prototypical design resolution on an urban and architectural scale. Identifying, understanding and developing local stakeholder networks, so as to translate challenges into opportunities and negotiate diverse interests into strategic ideas for development, geo-references, inter-linked systems, diagrams and maps. Develop design concepts for urban prototypes on different scales, framed by a narrative of a process that is consequentially visualized and communicated in analog as well as digital tools.
Investigative Analysis/ Local Perspective: Registering the existing; prioritizing challenges and opportunities through qualitative and quantitative information; mapping on different design scales and periods of time; configuring stakeholder groups; connecting top-down and bottom-up initiatives; idea mapping and concept mapping; designing of citizen scenarios.
“Project Design”: Synthesizing between different scenarios and definition of a thesis and program between beneficiaries and stakeholders; projecting process presentation as a narrative embedded in multiple steps; describing an urban and architectural typology and prototypes; defining an urban paradigm.
“Domain Shift”: Shifting and translating different domains; testing and evaluating the design in feedback loops; including the project in the Urban Toolbox.
LiteratureReading material will be provided throughout the semester, as well as references to case studies.

The class material can be downloaded from the student-server.
Prerequisites / NoticeIntegrated Discipline: Planning | ECTS Credits – 3
Language: German, English, Spanish and Portuguese
Location: ONA, E25

Individual work and group work, thereof 3-4 weeks of group work.
No extra costs.

Team: Prof.Hubert Klumpner, Arch. Anne Graupner, Arch. Diogo Rabaça Figueiredo, Vera Baur

In Collaboration with:
UN -Habitat I Swiss University Hub for Informal Urbanism
Prof. Anton Falkeis | University of Applied Arts Vienna
Prof. Ute Schneider, Inst. Städtebau TU -Wien, Partner KCAP Zurich
Dr. Marie Glaser | ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE| KTH & TU-Wien

All inquiries can be directed to:
Link
Link

Participants: max. 24 students
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W14 credits16UE. Mosayebi
AbstractOn the basis of various construction sites in Switzerland, we try to understand and use the potential of locally available resources and their by-products. This includes natural stone, metal, gravel, sand, clay, gypsum and wood as well as recyclable or directly reusable materials in the existing building stock.
How can we make the origin of local and global materials visible in the building?
Objective• Knowledge of the extraction, processing and use of raw materials
• Design of alternative forms of living
• Constructive deepening
• Pictorial representation of complex narratives in the form of
miniatures
• Experimental photography
ContentWhere do the materials in our buildings come from? For some, the origin is easy to determine, others are part of highly globalised material flows whose supply chains cannot be easily traced. The conditions of the global market have led to a geographical separation of extraction, processing and use of raw materials. Thus, extraction areas and construction sites are often far away from each other. Favourable transport costs and cheap manual labour outside Switzerland mean that we are increasingly importing, even though we have our own material resources. Examples of this are natural stones and wood, a substantial part of which is imported from abroad despite local occurrences. In Switzerland, the rule is: imported building materials are cheaper than local ones. This reverses a historical logic according to which only selected and valuable goods were imported. This breaks the link between resources and building culture: local building forms are built with imported materials.

Using various construction fields in Switzerland, we want to understand and use the potential of locally available resources and their by-products. These include natural stone, metal, gravel, sand, clay, plaster and wood, as well as recyclable or directly reusable materials in existing building stock. Which resources are abundant, which are scarce? Which materials have to be imported from far away? What can we use raw and what needs to be optimised constructively or structurally? We ask how architectural form, expression and meaning emerge through material and construction - and how we can make the origin of local and global materials visible in the building. The project should use its resources as ecologically as possible, in that the buildings are intended to be durable or adaptable and valuable materials can remain dismantlable or components can decay into natural materials after dismantling. The task is to design houses for living and working. The same applies to the form of living sought and the consumption of goods as to the built architecture: it is about the sufficient use of resources.

The semester takes place in cooperation with Guillaume Habert's Sustainable Building Chair. After the first three weeks of analysis, miniatures summarise the research and form the narratives of the projects. Experimental images of the projects are created in workshops with the artist Shirana Shahbazi. Drawings of relevant details serve as a constructive debate.
Prerequisites / NoticeGroup work only.
Mid-term crits: 16.3., 27.4., 18.5.;
No extra costs.
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W14 credits16UF. Persyn
AbstractAt first sight, Offenbach might seem like a rather small and unimportant city. Yet Offenbach is a city of extremes: Highest debt per capita in Germany, highest unemployment rate in the state of Hessen, most international and culturally diverse city in the country, a poor city. We are interested in these edge conditions where things collide, energy is unleashed, and radical change can happen.
ObjectiveUnderstanding a place in all its complexity and its potentials for change; Developing an understanding and own interpretation of Adaptive Infrastructure; Developing an own position and design proposal; Being open to experiment; Design in dialogue
ContentDo you know Offenbach? At first sight it might seem like a rather small and unimportant city. Yet Offenbach is a city of extremes: It is the city with the highest debt per capita in Germany, it has the highest unemployment rate in the state of Hessen, and according to official statistics it is the most international and culturally diverse city in the country – about 63% of the inhabitants have a so-called migration background (which in itself is a rather ambiguous definition). Offenbach is a poor city in a rich region. Situated in the middle of the metropolitan region Frankfurt-Rhein-Main it is inevitably part of bigger global dynamics and forces that shape our cities. With NEWROPE we are interested in these edge conditions where things collide, energy is unleashed, and radical change can happen.

Maybe you know the famous rapper “Haftbefehl”. When he rhymes “Offenbach bleibt hart [...] forever Nordend [...] Bruder, dieser Ort brennt” he draws an image of his home town as a rough place, a place “on fire”. This is for sure only one perspective on the city’s reality, and it has not always been like that. Until the 1970’s Offenbach was a rather wealthy place. Yet many of the city’s promises were built on its infrastructures: It grew with its industry and the decay began with the industry’s departure: Around the 1970’s a large part of the vital leather industry moved either to Italy or was replaced by imports from Asia. Around the same time the dogma of the car-friendly city drastically re-shaped Offenbach. The remnants of these infrastructural visions are up to this day defining the everyday experience of the city. The same goes for the harbor, which during the last few years has largely been transformed into a residential area benefiting from the proximity to Frankfurt.

We see Offenbach as a prime example of a medium sized city which has been shaped and re-shaped by infrastructure in an extractive way: The infrastructure which was built after the industry’s decay does not primarily serve the city, but rather its surroundings. Infrastructure here is thought mainly from an engineering perspective and rather from an idea of physical connectivity than a sense of collectivity and community. We would like to search for entry points to turn this perspective around, and to adapt the existing infrastructure as a living environment where new infrastructure investments adapt to changing conditions.

For this endeavor we team up with a group of planners from both Offenbach and Zurich who will be the co-hosts of our studio. We will situate our work within existing transformations, by trying to design in dialogue and being strategic with the output. This studio challenges you to think – and move – beyond traditional conventions about the role of architecture and urban planning and will allow you to try out things and develop new ideas.

We will transform our Lab into a film and TV studio in order to work on a collective short film, using the short film as our touchstone we will develop new ideas, design interventions and integrative visions to re-connect Offenbach to its decaying infrastructures. These interventions can take many different forms: from an architectural proposal to a public campaign, and from a site inventory to a stakeholder roundtable.
Prerequisites / NoticeGroup work only.
Mid-term crits: 16.3. / 31.3. / 5.5. / 19.5.
Costs: CHF 250.---.
052-1138-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Building Communities: Rehabilitation and Housing in Zurich (GD Prats) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UE. Prats Güerre
AbstractTalking about building communities we think about a new community built within the city that exists, inviting new neighbours to interact with those who already live there. We propose to work in urban contexts in transformation, observing/identifying the valuable social/physical qualities embedded in the area and testing its capacity to be expanded/amplified as a basis to create a new urban chapter
Objective1. To recognize the qualities of the built fabric. The exercise will focus in recuperating existing urban structures by occupying them with new activities. Therefore, a key aspect will be to observe carefully its physical and spatial qualities, beyond the use for which they were built.

2. Assess collective housing with its ability to generate community. Taking this aspect into account will allow the design of meeting and social areas, understanding the community as the place that will help its members to gain confidence.

3. To intensify the city. Considering collective housing as an activator, an intensifier of the city and trusting in its capacity of adaptation, this program will be incorporated into existing urban systems in order to prevent social exclusion and be absorbed into the actual dynamics of the city.

4. The limits of the project. Define the area of influence of the project, its scale, limits and position, always in relation to the conditions that we find and that we want to care. The quality of the future project is implicit both on the selection of a working area and the way of occupying it.

5. To understand the project as research. The studio investigates and questions on the basis of the design, considering this as a research and experimentation tool to recognize the limits and possibilities of the material with which we work.

6. Intermediate spaces. Study which are the limits of housing, considered not only as the area that is within the house itself, but in the sequence of spaces that joins it with the city.

7. The typology is always specific. Housing typology and its variations are always linked to the urban, social and historical form of the urban context in which it is inserted. Understand the ability of variation of the housing typologies according to urban, solar or social orientation, the size and relationship with the common spaces, is the basis of the project of collective housing which creates community.
ContentWhen we talk about building communities, we are thinking about a new community built within the city that exists, inviting new neighbours to interact with those who already live there. We propose to work in urban contexts in transformation, observing and identifying the valuable social and physical qualities embedded in the area, and testing its capacity to be expanded and amplified as the basis to create a new urban chapter.

We understand urban rehabilitation as the balance between the recovery of a physical fabric and a social fabric: both complement each other and work at the same time. To work with the social fabric of a neighbourhood is to observe and incorporate the memory of hundreds of civic, cultural or personal relationships that the neighbourhood had built over time, and still remain invisible but latent. But not only people contain the memory of a neighbourhood; the buildings are also loaded with memories of the uses of the place: the built fabric is the reflection of a social behaviour. It speaks of a way of using the ground, the sky, of a way of inhabiting... To read the memory contained in buildings and in people is to think about a future that counts on that past.

After spending last semester in Kreis 5, exploring the Neugasse-Areal around the Lokomotivdepot, we will now cross the Gleisfeld to reach Kreis 4, where our working area is situated along the train tracks.
Prerequisites / NoticeIndividual work and group work, whereof at least 5 weeks of group work.
Mid-term crits: 30.3., 4./5.5.;
No extra costs.
052-1152-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: Borderline(s) Investigation #5 Visibility (A. Theriot) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UA. Theriot
AbstractWe aim to seize economic requirements to transform constraints into levers, producers of qualities. These may well be tangible or intangible, prosaic or poetic, constant or unstable, general or occasional… As long as they are initiated by the economy and located far from any rationality. Creating generosity, “excesses” that make the strength and uniqueness of a place.
ObjectiveCHAP 1: MYTHOLOGY
CHAP 2: FINDING FREEDOMS
CHAP 3: BINDING FRAGMENTS

Mandatory workshop on site (Zürich) with photographer Johannes Schwarz: 06-07.03.2021

INTEGRATED WORKSHOPS:
Three sessions with Raphael Hefti
Photography with Johannes Schwarz
3D visualisations with Olivier Campagne
Structure with Enrique Lluis
Façade and enveloppe with Gontran Dufour
Building climate with Illias Hischier
Artist Book with Julie Peeters

VISIBILITY AND ITS HIDDEN DIMENSIONS
If something catches the eye, what is next to it will be mechanically less looked at. For a light to appear, it has to emerge from the surrounding darkness. And what attracts the light often leaves its surroundings in shadow. Hence an implacable theorem: the visible is always born from the invisible.
Reflecting on visibility therefore leads us to first question invisibility. What do we not want to see? At home? Around ourselves? In the city? What are the reasons why visibility can be an annoyance? For reasons of comfort, modesty, social decency?
In the field of architecture and town planning, the visible and the invisible play a pas de deux at all scales. The first decision on the visible comes from the architect himself. Does he want his building to stand out? Is it different from its neighbours? Or on the contrary, does he want to blend in with its context? It also depends on the choice of the setting. The Haussmanian buildings were conscious of being part of a whole, ordered by a few strict rules of alignment. However, this did not prevent variations in the way the buildings were distinguished from one another.
What choice should be made in the visible? This is the very question of urban planning. What deserves to be visible? What should be made invisible in the city? Less noble programmes, sometimes deliberately hidden by infrastructure (to take an extreme example, waste disposal sites under motorway slip roads), or linked to secrecy or security (military zones). Contemporary cartography is thus full of blurred areas. But the blurring of Google Street View is also due to a basic rule of privacy, since it applies in detail to the number plates of cars and the faces of passers-by.
ContentIf something catches the eye, what is next to it will be mechanically less looked at. For a light to appear, it has to emerge from the surrounding darkness. And what attracts the light often leaves its surroundings in shadow. Hence an implacable theorem: the visible is always born from the invisible.

Reflecting on visibility therefore leads us to first question invisibility. What do we not want to see? At home? Around ourselves? In the city? What are the reasons why visibility can be an annoyance? For reasons of comfort, modesty, social decency?

In the field of architecture and town planning, the visible and the invisible play a pas de deux at all scales. The first decision on the visible comes from the architect himself. Does he want his building to stand out? Is it different from its neighbours? Or on the contrary, does he want to blend in with its context? It also depends on the choice of the setting. The Haussmanian buildings were conscious of being part of a whole, ordered by a few strict rules of alignment. However, this did not prevent variations in the way the buildings were distinguished from one another.

What choice should be made in the visible? This is the very question of urban planning. What deserves to be visible? What should be made invisible in the city? Less noble programmes, sometimes deliberately hidden by infrastructure (to take an extreme example, waste disposal sites under motorway slip roads), or linked to secrecy or security (military zones). Contemporary cartography is thus full of blurred areas. But the blurring of Google Street View is also due to a basic rule of privacy, since it applies in detail to the number plates of cars and the faces of passers-by.
LiteratureVisibility and movement
There are also territories where one does not stop, places devoted to transit and exchange (business and industrial zones, areas near railway stations or airports, etc.). From these places, we can only have a partial vision, but also a vision in movement, a dynamic vision. From then on, they call for an architecture that adapts itself to this new speed of vision, and which opens onto another imaginary world. The history of art is full of these regenerations: the impressionists who revealed a new Paris by painting the "hidden banks" of the capital on the outskirts of the stations; street-art which gives back a cyma value to the gable walls, elements a priori the least worthy of attention in architecture.

Visibility and intimacy
There is a "hidden dimension" (to use the title of Edward T. Hall's famous essay) that concerns our bubbles of intimacy, which vary according to times and cultures. These spheres remain the founding gauge of the human relationship with architecture. At what distance is a vis-à-vis acceptable? At what point does one start to see too much? Where is the boundary between proximity and voyeurism? Here we touch a balance, both intimate and social, between the visible and the invisible. What's more, we are living at a time when the apprehension of these "bubbles" is being altered by the health crisis.
Beyond crises, the flavour of architecture is also to invent subterfuges to palliate certain a priori embarrassing situations. Domestic invention is often haunted by the need to "see without being seen" (moucharabiehs, sunbreakers, blinds...). And on the more global scale of the building, the cladding and the envelope obviously also bring into play this relationship between the shown and the hidden. Finally, in the history of architecture, progress has often been associated with the notions of transparency and fluidity, even if this has led to numerous ambiguities. Fully glazed office buildings do they not induce an implicit "panoptic" type of surveillance (everyone can see everyone, including from the outside). But the nuances of the glass material are such that it is also possible to play with reflections or translucencies, which let the light through but deliberately filter the gaze.

Visibility and illusion
The gaze is, in any case, fallible and to take note of it is also to explore new areas of the visible. The art of trompe l'oeil works on certain productive ironies between painting and architecture (the frescoes in the Hall of Giants in the Té Palace in Mantua, a simulacrum of a building collapse, or closer to us, the "masking" of the Louvre Pyramid by J.R.). This art of camouflage does not always have artistic aims.

Visibility and new tools
The change in the way we look at things is also accompanied by an addiction to new tools. The advent of the digital image has had an unexpected consequence: in the cinema, in photography, on television, the nights are sharper! Contours are better defined. Humans seem to have the vision of a cat! While the silver image better restores the density of the night, this darkness is both compact and indistinct, endowed with an enveloping dimension, with the impression that one can get lost in it. A digital night simply makes you believe that you have "dimmed the light" of the day, not that day and night are two opposing reigns.
Let's go even further into the sub-light spectrum and technological innovation with thermal cameras. These reveal new images that owe as much to medical imaging (moving X-rays) as to the Gothic imagination (ghostly silhouettes and moving spectra). Here, secret and invisible, but equally structuring flows are made visible. The cartography becomes more complete.
This is yet another "hidden dimension", that of the structuring of matter. In this respect, the most convincing and poetic
Prerequisites / NoticeGroup work only.

Introduction: 23.02.2021 at 10:00
Site visit: 06-07.03.2021 (weekend) Zürich

Critics: 17.03.2021, 28.04.2021 and 04.06.2021

Costs: CHF 150.--
052-1144-21LArchitectural Design V-IX: (G. Vogt) Restricted registration - show details
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W14 credits16UG. Vogt
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052-0512-00LPlanning Strategies for Complex Buildings Using the Example of Health Facilities (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W2 credits2VT. Guthknecht
AbstractHealth facility buildings are subject to extraordinary and dynamic changes. The ageing population (to name only one example of change with resulting medical effects) confronts the entire health care building infrastructure with substantial medical and economic challenges.
ObjectiveThe elective subject offers an insight to health facility planning and traverses the themes and phases of health facility planning. Special attention is given to the functionally-differentiated planning and to the planning methodology "Integral Process Design".
ContentArchitecture for health facilities supports the provision of health care for people in need for care with flexible and adaptable building concepts. The demographic changes and the changing disease patterns in the population represent particular challenges for health facility planning. Innovative organizational and building structures have to be developed to cope with these continuously changing tasks. In order to meet these requirements, the architectural functional planning of health facilities should be differentiated further. The individual elements of planning have to be adjusted in a well-balanced manner.
As a core point of planning, the functionally-differentiated planning of health facilities provides the context for the growing need of highly qualified medical services combined with reduced operational costs.
Health facility architecture can however only support the medical workflow in the best possible way. This is because a well-designed health facility can never guarantee a good medical service but a badly designed facility can hinder if not impede entirely a good medical performance.
During the design formalization of the health facility concept various aspects such as conceptual, organizational, medical, social, human, economic and technical requirements have to be reconciled. To achieve these goals, priorities must be set and landmark decisions must be taken.
With the Integral Process Design approach a functional-differentiated design concept is applied which forms the base for the intertwined and iteratively embraced overall concept of complex buildings. By using the Integral Process Design methodology the workflows, activities, functions and departments of a health facility are connected with special consideration an optimization of their interfaces. The goal is to achieve optimal work conditions from functional-medical, human, design and economic viewpoints.

The topics of the elective subject are supplemented by a series of guest lectures following specific themes of the modules. The various specialists from different sectors of health facility planning shall directly report from their experience in the field.
Lecture notesPresentation will be made available by the lecturer.
052-0514-00LSpatial Concepts in Film and Architecture (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W1 credit1VM. Bächtiger Zwicky, A. Gigon
AbstractThe course deals with spatial phenomena at the interface of film and architecture. The alternating influence of these two media will be analiyzed, the dispositions of perception and effect will be compared and thus will sharpen the view for a architectural way of looking at space.
ObjectiveThe examination of filmic space situations and performance discloses new perceptions of architecture which will be studied on behalf of film analyses and experimental topics. During the course space-effective creative means such as editing or framing will be introduced and discussed under perceptive aspects. Mediality within spatial perception can thus be integrated into a development of cultural history and leads towards a conception which goes  beyond the limits of architecture and stimulates new processes of design.
ContentLike architecture, film can be understood both as an autonomous artistic discipline and as a politically and socially determined form of expression of a particular time and culture. "Few films are pure 'works of art', but all are to a greater or lesser extent historic documents", Siegfried Kracauer remarked already in 1947 in his famous study 'From Caligari to Hitler'. "As historic documents, however, they reflect the external and internal state of a society which, for its part, expects pretences from film." Based on the tension between the poles of artwork and document or reflection and pretence, we will look at, analyse and discuss ten selected award-winning films of contemporary international cinema - from Maïwenn's 'Polisse' (2011) to Bong Joon-ho's 'Parasite' (2019) and Chloé Zhao's 'Nomadland' (2020). The focus lies on the architectural and cinematic space, whose staging, function and symbolism will be critically examined in the context of current social issues. The seminar will start with an introduction to the construction tools of cinematic space and the study of selected texts on spatial and film theory. The films are presented and analysed by the students.
052-0522-00L3D Scanning und Freeform Modeling (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W2 credits2UA. Grüninger, K. Sander
AbstractStreetfood
Digital Sculpture. Experimental use of a system for digitalizing and modeling 3D objects. Output VR
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ContentThe department of Architecture and Fine Arts has a 3D-Bodyscanner available for the digitalization of persons and objects, and is complimented by a special software for modeling the 3D data.
After a period of training and practice, participants are asked to develop ideas and concepts for their own projects. These concepts should be used to lead and expand the system and the possibilities of its application. The process of readjustment and its realization will be a continual part of developing the individual projects.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe number of participants is limited. Proficiency in Windows systems is a precondition for participation. To enroll in the course, please consult the lecturer Adi Grüninger: Link
052-0536-00LModel and Design (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W3 credits4UA. Tellini, K. Derleth
Abstract"Seeing precedes talking". Together we will use various sources to investigate the "correct" way of seeing. The course is offered as an online seminar and supplemented by presentations and practical exercises.
ObjectiveThrough a phenomenological examination of various sources (art, film, design, architecture) we will investigate the "correct" way of seeing. Above insights are complemented by practical exercises allowing to reflect on individual perception patterns.
Content"Seeing precedes talking". What contributes to the act of seeing? It starts with the physical process of light hitting our retina through our eyes. Using these images we construct a part of our perceived reality. In the history of art, design and architecture, there are protagonists who are dedicated to the question of seeing and thus to the construction of reality. During the course we will use various sources to investigate the "correct" way of seeing. We will discuss the different points of view and the corresponding levels of meaning. Small practical design exercises will help us to experience the connections between recognising and creating.
Prerequisites / NoticeOnline seminar.
Additional work of estimated 4 hours during the week is to calculate.
Due to the wide range of source material, good German and English language skills are required.
052-0538-00LFree Drawing (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W2 credits2VM. Léonard-Contant, K. Sander
AbstractThe ability to represent visions and contents is learned through technical, as well as freehand drawing using a variety of techniques.
ObjectiveThe representation of actual circumstances, thoughts, and ideas in consideration of technical and graphic abilities. Cultivation of individual forms of expression in the areas of sketching, drawing, interpretation and caricature, work strategies and impact.
ContentDrawing is a direct way in which to visualize ideas and conceptions. In this course, ideas and skills can be explored and developed into independent means of expression, within the realm of drawing.
Prerequisites / NoticeParticipation limited to a maximum of 30 partakers.
Enrolment is a commitment to the course!
052-0842-00LMaterial-Lab (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W3 credits3GA. Spiro
AbstractIn the elective "Material-Lab" the students are given the possibility to get to know materials in a theoretical and practical way. Also they investigate the potential of the contemporary architecture by means of a material specific survey.
The focus is laid on constructive questions and on the investigation of the influence on architectonic form and expression.
ObjectiveWork on materials and make architecture out of it. This is the basic of any construction. It does not go without the knowledge of historic correlations and the know-how on how to apply on the one hand, but also an exploratory spirit on the other hand.
The elective "Material-Lab aims to become an expert of exemplary materials and handling and deepen knowledge for the correlation of material, construction, forma and architectonic expression.

In the Material-Lab new, common and partly forgotten materials and their workmanship is investigated and where and ow the potential for new possibilities in architecture could be. We discuss why certain materials have disappeared from nowadays building practice and how far the could again be usable by means of new tools and methods. we investigate the possibility of such "old" materials for new architectonic projects.

Particular focus is laid on the investigation of use and constructive implementation with sustainable targets, namely long-lasting architecture keeping its values in any respect.
ContentVarious techiques are investigated on their current and architectonic potential and discussed in colloquiums. Basics are given in lectures and prepared research results.

The students work in small groups during the semester on a project which is also being discussed with experts. We are looking for conepts for contemporary and material specific constructions and a appropriate architectonic expression.

Subsequent to this course the studies may be deepened in a elective thesis and transferred in a project 1:1.

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052-0524-00L360° - Reality to Virtuality (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W2 credits2GK. Sander
AbstractStreetfood Zürich
Basics of 3D-scanning of rooms and bodies, individual scan projects, 3D-visualizations and animations. Definition and realization of a project, working alone and in groups.
ObjectiveCovid Wahlfach Anpassung

Meet & Eat Zürich
Nach den beiden letzten strikten Online-Semestern des vergangenen Jahres werden wir für das kommende Semester eine neue Kursform einführen: Persönlich wie auch virtuell treffen wir uns in Zürich und gehen den Umständen wie auch derzeitigen Möglichkeiten des Streetfoods nach. Dabei ist unser Ziel die verschiedenen Buden, Trucks und Container aufzusuchen, zu scannen und unser Essen gleich mit zu digitalisieren.

Imbiss Buden im Umkreis der ETH Hönggerberg sind unsere Anlaufstellen (Altstätten/Oerlikon/Seebach/Affoltern/Höngg/Schwamendingen usw.) Gerne könnt ihr während des ersten Kurstermins vorschläge einbringen und eure Lieblingsbude emphehlen.

Wichtig!!!
Wir werden den Kurs auf beide 3D Wahlfächer vom Lehrstuhl Sander ausdehnen:
360 Grad (052-0524-00L: Montag 12 Uhr bis 14 Uhr) & 3D Scan und Modeling (052-0522-00L: Montag 14 Uhr bis 16 Uhr)
StudentInnen welche an beiden Kursen eingeschrieben sind werden bei der Auswahl bevorzugt.

Das Programm wird folgendermaßen aussehen:
12:15 Uhr Treffen an der definierten Imbissbude / Streetfood in Zürich (bei bestehenden Einschränkungen ggf. in Kleingruppen)
- Roadmap & Arbeiten besprechen
- Bestellen & Essen
- 3D Scan & Datensammlung

Bis 13:45 Uhr
- Rückreise, ETH oder Home Office

Ab 14:00 bis 16:00 Uhr
- 3D Datenbearbeitung und Zoom Treffen

Der persönliche Kontakt soll in diesem Semester unter den geltenden Richtlinien wieder ermöglicht werden.

So können wir einen persönlichen Kontakt mit euch aufbauen indem wir Essen und Wahlfach vermischen. Nachträglich im digitalen OFF weiter an der Umsetzung arbeiten.

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Understanding 3D-technologies, handling positive and negative spaces, handling hardware and software, processing 3D point clouds (registering scans, filtering, merging of data sets, precision, visualizations, animation), interpretation of the generated data.
ContentCovid Wahlfach Anpassung

Meet & Eat Zürich
Nach den beiden letzten strikten Online-Semestern des vergangenen Jahres werden wir für das kommende Semester eine neue Kursform einführen: Persönlich wie auch virtuell treffen wir uns in Zürich und gehen den Umständen wie auch derzeitigen Möglichkeiten des Streetfoods nach. Dabei ist unser Ziel die verschiedenen Buden, Trucks und Container aufzusuchen, zu scannen und unser Essen gleich mit zu digitalisieren.

Imbiss Buden im Umkreis der ETH Hönggerberg sind unsere Anlaufstellen (Altstätten/Oerlikon/Seebach/Affoltern/Höngg/Schwamendingen usw.) Gerne könnt ihr während des ersten Kurstermins vorschläge einbringen und eure Lieblingsbude emphehlen.

Wichtig!!!
Wir werden den Kurs auf beide 3D Wahlfächer vom Lehrstuhl Sander ausdehnen:
360 Grad (052-0524-00L: Montag 12 Uhr bis 14 Uhr) & 3D Scan und Modeling (052-0522-00L: Montag 14 Uhr bis 16 Uhr)
StudentInnen welche an beiden Kursen eingeschrieben sind werden bei der Auswahl bevorzugt.

Das Programm wird folgendermaßen aussehen:
12:15 Uhr Treffen an der definierten Imbissbude / Streetfood in Zürich (bei bestehenden Einschränkungen ggf. in Kleingruppen)
- Roadmap & Arbeiten besprechen
- Bestellen & Essen
- 3D Scan & Datensammlung

Bis 13:45 Uhr
- Rückreise, ETH oder Home Office

Ab 14:00 bis 16:00 Uhr
- 3D Datenbearbeitung und Zoom Treffen

Der persönliche Kontakt soll in diesem Semester unter den geltenden Richtlinien wieder ermöglicht werden.

So können wir einen persönlichen Kontakt mit euch aufbauen indem wir Essen und Wahlfach vermischen. Nachträglich im digitalen OFF weiter an der Umsetzung arbeiten.

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1. Introduction to 3D laser scanning (getting to know technologies, methods and context; carry out practical tests)
2. Project development within the group (idea, concept, target, intention, selection of methods & strategies)
3. Project implementation within the group (possible results, videos, pictures, prints, publications, web, blog, forum etc.)
4. Project presentation (exhibition incl. critiques, discussions)
Prerequisites / NoticeThe number of participants is limited. Proficiency in Windows systems is a precondition for participation. To enroll in the course, please consult the lecturer Adam Kiryk: Link
052-0550-00LHybrid Modeling: 3D-Printing for the Architectural Design (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
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W2 credits2SJ. Benhamu Esayag
AbstractDuring 12 weeks, students will get to know both the hardware and the software to successfully use 3D printing technology as an aid to the architectural design process.

3D Printers will be made available to the Students.

hytac.arch.ethz.ch
ObjectiveThe students have to produce blocks of consecutive output. This ensures that all safety regulations are understood and the hybrid model technology is mastered. The focus is on the students learning how to best illustrate their architectural concept with the new model construction technique.
ContentBy means of numerous physically produced concepts of the students the range of possible developments is to be pointed out. The course is divided into 3 blocks: A (up to the seminar week): learning the basic technique. B (until 4 Weeks prior to End of semester): Develop and present 5 possible architectural concepts. C (until the end of the semester): deepening a concept by creating different variants.
Prerequisites / NoticeKnowledge of 3D printing technology is not required.
052-0552-00LThe Architecture of Maintenance (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2GA. Perkins, N. Zimonjic
AbstractIn this elective course we will interrogate the possibilities of repair as a method for a new kind of architectural design model, as a disciplinary response in the era of climatic change. The course should pose range of questions and challenges to conventional building economies, standards of construction industry ranging in scale from urban to material choices.
Objective- Investigate design research methods through analyses of architectural examples that focus on repair.
- Produce an in-depth survey of the maintenance of one building in the form of a Maintenance Manual.
- Question and suggest improvements to repair methods applied in the
contemporary building culture.
- Compare possibilities of repair-as-design method in multiple disciplines
(art, landscape, medicine, industry, software, etc) with the help of
invited specialist guests.
ContentCan we practice architecture, with the care of a gardener?
In this weekly elective course, the goal will be to look at repair as a possible method for a new kind of design. As a disciplinary response in an era of climatic change, it is envisioned that this study should pose a range of questions to challenge conventional building economies and the durability of the constructed environment. We will interrogate and look for ways of improving and repairing standards of construction industry ranging in scale from the urban to material choices. The methods developed and gathered should become an outline of experimental possibilities for designers and practitioners who face the growing challenge of a lack of newly built form, and ever growing need to address the existing built substance, with an outlook to a conflict between construction industry standards orientated toward new buildings and acknowledged methods of prolongation and altering architecture. Instead of aspiring to build new, can we as a generation focus mainly on what is already there.
Using the knowledge you gather, you will work in pairs to create one annotated architectural drawing which attempts to reveal the information which lacks. The drawing will be passed or sent to your partner each week for additions, removals, edits and comments, and we will review these drawings during the two-hour slot each week.
LiteraturePeter Maxwell. ‘A Dangerous Breed’. Originally published in FORM 246, 2013
Herman E. Daly. ‘Wealth, Illth and Net Growth’. In: From Uneconomic Growth to a Steady- State Economy (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2014)
Michael Thompson, Rubbish Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1979) Ch.3 ‘Rat
infested slum or glorious heritage?’ p.34-56
Arjun Appdurai. The Social Life of Things (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1986)
p.3-63 ‘Introduction: commodities and the politics of value’
Peter Maxwell, ‘Understanding Repair’ In: Useless (London: Royal College of Art, Critical
Writing in Art & Design, 2012)
Alvaro Siza, Living in a House, March 1994, Originally published in: Kenneth Frampton,
Álvaro Siza: Complete Works (London: Phaidon, 2000. p252)
Tim Ingold, ‘Skill’. In: The Perception of the Environment Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling
and Skill, London: Routledge, 2000
Tim Ingold, ‘Building, Dwelling, Living’. In: The Perception of the Environment Essays on
Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, London: Routledge, 2000
Beatriz Colomina, “The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism” Sexuality and Space (New York:
Princeton Architectural Press, 1992)
Charlotte Perkins Gillman, The Home, its Work and Influence (New York: Charlton
Company. 1910) Ch2. ‘The Evolution of the Home’ p.14-35
Charlotte Perkins Gillman, The Home, its Work and Influence (New York: Charlton
Company. 1910) Ch2. ‘The Home as Workshop. I. The Housewife’ p.82-103
Vishmidt, Marina. ‘Management and Maintenance’. In Look at Hazards, Look at Losses,
edited by Anthony Iles, Danny
Mirales Ladermann Ukeles. ‘Manifesto for Maintenance Art’
Mary Douglas. Purity and Danger (London and New York: Routledge Classics.2002) p. 1-35
Elinor Ostrom. Governing the Commons (New York: Cambridge University Press. 1990) Ch.
3 ‘Analyzing long-enduring, self-organizing, and self-governing CPRs’ p.58-102
William Cronon. ‘The Wealth of Nature, Lumber’ In Nature’s Metropolis
Gilles Clement. The Planetary Garden (Philadelphia: University of Philadelphia Press: 2015)
Donald Worster. ‘History as Natural History’, In: The Wealth of Nature (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993)
Peter Wohlleben, The Hidden Life of Trees. Translated by Jane Billinghurst. (London:
William Collins. 2016) p.1-18, p.241-250
051-1202-21LIntegrated Discipline Construction (D.Mettler/D.Studer) Information Restricted registration - show details
Presence on the first day (initial course event) to the integrated discipline construction is compulsory for participating in this course.
W3 credits2UD. Mettler, D. Studer
AbstractIn the context of the semester-long design projects, the reciprocity between design, construction and materiality is reinforced.
One focus is the coherence of design and construction.

In the process of developing a project's constructional aspects, design intentions become formulated in a more precise and binding way.
ObjectiveThe integration of knowledge gained in the basic courses lends the work an additional dimension and demands of the students an increasingly integrative ability to think and design.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
Prerequisites / NoticeFor your attention:
Your presence at the introduction lesson taking place at the beginning of the semester (date will be communicated in due time) is compulsory for all further work within the Integrated Discipline Construction.

The Integrated Discipline Construction at BUK consists of the obligatory introductory event, the central elements Exercise 1 + 2, Presentation and Interim Criticism, as well as the final submission.
052-0518-21LTheory and Practice: Special Turn and Immaterial Space Joseph Beuys versus René Descartes Information W2 credits2GC. Posthofen, A. Brandlhuber
AbstractBoth the rationalism of "radical doubt" in Rene´ Descartes and the "understanding" in Beuys' sense of "standing somewhere else" have philosophical-aesthetic roots and spatial-theoretical and spatial-practical consequences. In dealing with this, the students work on their own position on spatial theory, whereby material and immaterial spatial aspects play a role.
ObjectiveThe students gain insight into the spectrum of epistemological and perceptual theories, learn to read them and analyze and critique their respective requirements. From this work an object relationship model is developing in progress, which serves self-examination in the design process as well as the evaluation of architectural situations in general and in particular. The writing of "scientific diaries" in which the contents of the colloquium are combined with the everyday experience of the students in free form, trains the concentrated result-oriented thinking in general, as well as in architectural situations. The special form of the writing of the "cientific diary" leads abstract theory together with the experience of the students and make the knowledge cratively available in their own way.
ContentSpecial turn and immaterial space. Joseph Beuys “how I explain art to the dead rabbit” versus Rene ‘Descartes“ I think therefore I am ”. Reflections and exercises on the aesthetics of the room.

Both the rationalism of "radical doubt" in Rene 'Descartes, as
also about "understanding" in the Beuysian sense of "standing somewhere else" have philosophical-aesthetic roots and spatial theory and practical consequences. In dispute a.o. with these opposing positions, the seminar participants worked on one own spatial theory position. Both material and intangible spatial aspects play a role.
Lecture notesHand out at the first meeting.
LiteratureRene’Descartes, Meditations, Felix Meiner Verlag, Hamburg 2009; Volker Harland, What is Art? Workshop talk with Beuys, Urachhaus Verlag,
Stuttgart 2001; Harlan, Rappmann, Schata, Soziale Plastik - Material zu Joseph Beuys, Achberger Verlag, Achberg 1984.
052-0534-21LNew Focal Points of Construction: Steel Construction Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 35.
W2 credits2GI. von Meiss-Leuthold, D. Mettler, D. Studer
AbstractThe elective subject "New focal points of construction" investigates on the basis of contemporary architecture the complexe interaction of construction elements. The comparative analysis of built constructions serves as a basis for further development of hypothetical future constructions. These semester will fokus on building with steel.
ObjectiveTarget of the course is the understanding of the impacts of material, technology and construction to the architectural education of constructive points.The focus lies on the present state of technology and the current challenge of building.The conjunction to current constructive methods and basic conditions enables a critical evaluation of the constructive Status Quo within the contemporary producing architecture as well as a perspective to new constructive education.
ContentThe current building scene will be analysed through lectures and the visit of buildings and manufacturing sites. An exercise with a following descussion will deepen the analyses. More information about the course can be found on Link.
Prerequisites / NoticeNumber of students limited to 35.
052-0540-21LSummer School: Workshop Valparaiso (in Collaboration with EPFL) Information Restricted registration - show details W4 credits7SA. Spiro
AbstractThis summer school it not taking place (COVID19) !
Please do not register / cancel your registration!
ObjectiveObservation, analysis, 1:1 testing, drawing, design and collaborative working are the primary focus of the workshop.

1. Analyze the existing project and its site through observation, measurement and writing and be able to communicate the ideas drawn from this analysis with others.

2. Develop analytical drawing and model making to explore both the research topic and its potential application to the existing project.

3. Collaborate in a team to develop a coherent argument through drawing, model-making and prepare oral presentation of these elements.

4. Apply research prototypes for architectural solutions to the constraints of the project and its site through their transformation into full-scale, material assemblages using a reiterative process of testing and design.

5. Interrogate the specificity of the site and community through drawing and active participation in readings and lectures.

6. Collaborate on a work-site with a diverse group, while taking initiative, sharing knowledge and being respectful of the capacities of others and the safety of the work-site.

During the Lausanne week of the project, learning outcomes are assessed through individual group desk critiques where analytical and design work is discussed and oral-feedback provided. Larger sessions, in the middle and at the end of the week, allow students to present their ideas to their colleagues who are encouraged to provide feedback.
During the time in Chile, assessment happens as on-going discussion on the progress and development of student propositions, 1 on 1 discussion that happens naturally as we work alongside the students, and in more formal, structured sessions where student groups up-date each other on the developments of their work. In evening discussions of material from the “Building Cultures Valparaiso” publication, students are encouraged to participate and to lead the conversation with their questions and views on the text being discussed.
Students will also be asked to keep a journal of there time during the workshop, comprising both written, drawn and photographic observations.
ContentBegun in 2014, the Open City Research Platform was initiated to provide undergraduate and masters level students an introduction to immersive full-scale construction that involves:

- exposure to and participation in the alternative building culture developed over nearly 50 years through pedagogical and design research experiments at the Open City, a community of architects, poets and designers founded by members of the ead-PUCV in 1973.
-A direct relationship to site where drawing and observation are used as tools for the analysis of environment.
-A direct contact with materials, fabrication and assembly that draws on “low-tech”, hands-on construction methods.
- A humanistic understanding of architecture’s relationship to other creative disciplines.
- An opportunity to work and learn collaboratively with architects and engineers and in an interdisciplinary way on a research project.

The Open City Research Platform was founded as a collaboration between the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne (EPFL), and the Open City/ Corporación Cultural Amereida, a community of designers, architects and poets that has sustained itself on a coastal site near Valparaiso, Chile for nearly fifty years. Since 2014, this collaboration has brought together students from Switzerland and Chile to work on the incremental building of El Pórtico de los Huéspedes (The Threshold of the Guests) for the Open City.

The goal was to create an innovative and interdisciplinary context that would make it possible to research on architecture through the pedagogy of making as a research that:
- Positions the university student at the intersection between teaching and research.
- Questions the boundary between the theoretical and the practical, between the academic and the professional.
- Involves students in a creative process linked to the material, human and temporal realities of building;
- Investigates how tacit knowledge is transmitted through experience.

In the Open City, we found a context to address these questions through the incremental development of a project of an open duration.

The research project sensitized EPFL and ETHZ students to fabrication as a collective act involving the community. Students build with rudimentary yet precise tools, such as the Japanese saw and readily available materials: local bricks, sections of Chilean pine, concrete mixed on site. In their collaborative work, testing different solutions, Swiss and Chilean participants research on different materials and tectonic possibilities and its use for innovative solutions. This encounter between two cultures of techné created conditions for knowledge exchange and broadened understandings of how the built environment, sustainability and development are linked to a local context.

Objectives
The Open City Research Platform will therefore use the summer workshop as a period where student participants carry out full-scale experiments in construction that are guided by the research interests of the organizers and are applied to the constraints and needs of the Open City.
El Pórtico de los Huéspedes is understood as a platform welcoming interdisciplinary research and exploration, whether it be into building technologies as we propose for the next several years, or on other subjects related to the mission of the community and the larger school.
LiteratureAnderson, Stanford. “Types and Conventions in Time: Toward a History for the Duration and Change of Artifacts.” Perspecta 18 (1982): 108.
Cacciari, Massimo, “Mies’s Classics.” RES 16 (Autumn 1988): 9-16.
Cavanagh, Ted. “Balloon Houses: The Original Aspects of Conventional Wood-Frame Construction Re-Examined.”
Journal of Architectural Education (1984-) 51, no. 1 (September 1997): 5.
Cruz Prieto, Fabio. De l’observation. (Vina del mar: Inéditos, 1993).
Guisado, Jesus Maria Aparicio. “The Dematerialization of the wall, an evolution of tectonics. Gottfried Semper,
Mies van der Rohe and the Farnsworth House.” Arquitectura. 310 (1997): 16-21, 116-119.
Hartoonian, Gevork. “Mies van Der Rohe: The Genealogy of Column and Wall.” Journal of Architectural Education (1984-) 42, no. 2 (1989): 43. doi:10.2307/1425090.
Hays, K. Michael. “Critical Architecture: Between Culture and Form.” Perspecta 21 (1984): 14.
Mannell, Steven, “Architectural Reenactments at 1:1 Scale”, Journal of Architectural Education (1984-), Vol. 60, No. 2, 1:1 (Nov., 2006), pp. 29-42.
Milobedzki, Adam. “Architecture in Wood: Technology, Symbolic Content, Art.” Artibus et Historiae 10, no. 19 (1989): 177.
Sayer, Derek. “The Unbearable Lightness of Building: A Cautionary Tale” Grey Room, no. 16 Memory/History/Democracy (Summer, 2004): 6-35.
Tigerman, Stanley. “Mies van Der Rohe: A Moral Modernist Model.” Perspecta 22 (1986): 112.
Wilson, Colin St. John. “The sacred buildings and the sacred sites.” OASE 45/46 (1997): 64-87.

Ressources en bibliothèque:
Devabhaktuni, Sony, Guaita, Patricia, and Tapparelli, Cornelia, (eds.), Building Culture Valparaiso: Pedagogy Practice and Poetry at the Valparaiso School of Architecture and Design. Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2015.

Sites web:
Link
Prerequisites / NoticeThis summer school it not taking place (COVID19) !
Please do not register / cancel your registration!

The workshop is open to all students who have finished there license or the 1st year of Masters. Students from other years may take part in the workshop but will not receive credit.

Dates: Introduction to the course: ( tbc)
Dates for the workshop:Lausanne July 6 – 9 2020; Open City August 3 – 21, 2020.

Students are responsible for financing the cost of lodging, meals and flights. More information on these will be provided during a ETH campus information session. For any immediate questions please contact us. Workshop travel subsidies may be available through the ETH department of architecture.

Applications should be sent via email to Link and should comprise a brief letter that describes why you are interested in the project and expectations for the workshop. All candidates will also be interviewed as part of the selection process.

We are looking for self-motivated students who are interested in an experience that provides human, intellectual and physical challenges.
Applications will be accepted until 6th April 2020 with interviews conducted in April and decisions made shortly afterwards:

10 undergraduate and master students from EPFL ;
10 undergraduate and master students from ETHZ ;
8 master students from ead-PUCV

Faculty teaching participants (being with the students on a continual basis throughout the workshop period):
Patricia Guaita, ENAC, EPFL; Raffael Baur, ENAC, EPFL;
Dr. David Jolly Monge, Professor, School of Architecture and Design of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso ead-PUCV;
EPFL Assistant:Romain Dubuis, architect EPFL

Invited Experts :
Victoria Jolly, architect, Corporación Cultural Amereida.
Patrick Valeri, Doctoral Assistant, ENAC IIC IBETON EPFL

Faculty and Institutional Partners:
Paolo Tombesi, Director Institute of Architecture and the City, EPF Lausanne;
Annette Spiro, Professor , Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich
052-0566-21LFormalistic Analysis of the Architecture of the Neo-Liberal Ideology: Europaallee Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 12.

This course is offered until end of HS22.
W2 credits3GE. Christ, C. Portmann
AbstractUsing the example of Zurich's Europaallee, the elective examines the architecture that produces the neoliberal ideology. Based on the method of historical building surveys, the formal-architectural properties are described, analyzed and finally summarized in the sense of a formal catalog of neoliberal architecture.
ObjectiveThe participants critically deal with contemporary urban and building production from a design perspective. By applying the method of the course, they learn the ability to describe and analyze the formal-architectural properties of architecture.
ContentThe Europaallee was created and advertised as fulfilling the highest demands that can currently be made on architecture and planning by the SBB, a publicly owned company, in close cooperation with the authorities of the city of Zurich. Just completed, in the Swiss context it exemplifies the self-image of what 'good planning' and 'good politics' are with regard to the development of urban space.
Instead of comprehending the complex planning process and accepting the built as a consequence, the elective turns the analysis 'head on its feet': What kind of quarter, piece of city has been realized? If objects cannot lie (cf. Bulle, Heinrich: Handbuch der Archäologie, Munich 1913), the ideology of the planning process can also be read from the architecture itself, provided that it is questioned methodically and precisely. Therefore, the elective is based on a formal-architectural analysis of Europaallee. In a first step, based on the scientific method of historical building surveys, the urban spaces, building structures, facades, entrances, etc. are described in detail in order to identify possible architectural principles and typological properties of the overall project in a second step. In a final step, the results from this formal-architectural analysis are summarized in the sense of a formal catalog of neoliberal architecture.
052-0564-21LFifty-Fifty: Acoustics in Public Spaces and 50 Years of Women's Voting Rights in Switzerland Information W2 credits2SE. Mosayebi
AbstractOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Swiss women's right to vote in 2021, an experimental ephemeral structure will be designed and constructed within the framework of a seminar in the spring semester and a subsequent elective work over the summer, which will use the Münsterhof in an intelligent, sensitive and surprising way. The installation will be built in September.
ObjectiveConception and realization of a temporary structure in cooperation with organizers, authorities and specialists.
ContentOn the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Swiss women's suffrage in 2021, there is an opportunity to work with the créatrices.ch association, which wants to make the achievements of women in the environment and lifestyle visible. A spatial installation will occupy the Münsterhof in Zurich for ten days. In terms of content, the installation and its display refer to the period from 1971–2071, 50 years back and 50 years ahead. 50:50 is the goal, 50:50 also symbolically represents the participation of men and women. The architectural framework we are looking for offers space for fun activities and discussions about equality and democracy.
Together with students from the ETH, an experimental ephemeral structure is to be designed and constructed as part of an elective, which plays on the urban space in an intelligent, sensitive and surprising way and invites visitors to be politically committed to the past and above all to the future . The installation takes into account the ideas of the association and, in its materialization and design, takes a position on current issues about climate, consumption and community. One special focus is placed on the human voice - as a central instrument of expression and communication - through which the charter of créatrices2021 is presented in a variety of ways,
modulated and reproduced far into the urban space.
052-0562-00LTerritories of Play - Surveying Architecture Through Gaming (FS) Information
This course (with "00L" at the end) can only be passed once. Please check before signing up!
W2 credits2SF. Charbonnet, P. Heiz
AbstractThis seminar will challenge students to take a complementary look onto the built environment through the lenses of Gaming, focusing on specific episodes in order to draw relations between the notions of Play/Game, Society and Architecture.
ObjectiveThe seminar addresses a way of perceiving reality which has become key, with the gaming industry reaching unforeseen volumes in output and sales, as well as gaming theories sitting at the core of general social and financial strategies and policies. Besides offering students steady footing on the makings of an architectural publication, by confronting students with key texts and voices in the past and present of gaming theory and praxis, the seminar will provide them with a complementary tool with which to approach architecture and urbanism.
ContentFrom Game Theory to Dices, touching Go, Hide-and-seek or Sims, a multitude of games and acts of play will serve as standing points for the perception and re-reading of the functioning of societies and the built environments these give rise to. The seminar will be structured into three distinct moments:
An in-depth introduction to the theoretical frame of the seminar through three lectures; by a game designer, by an architectural historian or architect, and by the seminar's tutor. Key theoretical works and authors - Jesse Schell, Johan Huizinga and Katie Salen & Eric Zimmerman - will thus be presented and analyzed, hinting at possible bridges to a critical analysis of architecture and the built environment through its decomposition into Mechanics, Aesthetics, Narrative and Technology, the four pillars of game design. A moment of individual work when students will be invited to select a game, dissect it according to the theoretical input previously received, and select a key aspect of it. This key aspect will in turn be used as lenses through which students should analyze and question their reality, a milieu of their own choice: from the spaces and urban situations formulating their daily routine in the city, to their hometown or fetish city. From this analysis, a visual -drawings and images- and written essay presenting and defending their hypothesis of reading of their milieu through gaming should emerge. The writing will be conducted mostly during the seminar's attendance time. And a final moment when students are to produce a ludic publication compiling the classes' essays into an accessible survey.
052-0554-21LSummer School: Voluptas - A World at Play Information W2 credits3GP. Heiz
AbstractThe online summer school brings together a limited number of students with different backgrounds (architecture, game design, programming, art, philosophy) in order to build a playable digital world based on the projects produced within the frame of the voluptas design studio since FS18. Students will be offered key lectures and tutoring by some of the leading names in game design.
ObjectiveOne-week online summer school, aiming at building pieces of a digital playable world.

The pedagogic goals of the summer school are twofold: to foster interaction and cooperation between students of seemingly disconnected fields towards a common goadl, and to impart students with the tools to project meaningful, playable spaces in the digital realm.
ContentA selected group of students will evolve towards the common goadl of bringing a playable world to being by drawing from their specific strengths and learning backgrunds. Starting with a first day of theoretical input by the voluptas chair and by group of renowned figures from the game design world, when students will gain the overview of the week's processes and a grasp on the end goal, the week will see students gradually approaching the final game ghrough a series of daily exercises and discussions with the tutors. On the last day, the playable world will be presented to a group of architects, game designers, artists and philosophers, in a format similar to that of a final critique.
052-0570-21LLecture Series Design and Architecture: One Building (Part 1) Information W2 credits1VE. Christ, A. Antonakakis, R. Boltshauser, A. Deuber, A. Holtrop, C. Kerez, E. Prats Güerre, A. Theriot
AbstractThe lecture series of the Institute of Design and Architecture - in the FS21 provides students with an overview of the various positions of the teachers within the IEA (Institute Design in Architecture).
ObjectiveThe lecture series of the Institute of Design and Architecture - in the FS21 provides students with an overview of the various positions of the teachers within the IEA (Institute Design in Architecture).

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051-1242-21LIntegrated Discipline Construction - Spring Semester 2021 Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2ULecturers
AbstractThe integrated focal work has to accompany the design, though the focal work has to be an autonomous work. The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.

Work on a current design project with focus on construction.
ObjectiveA case study with a clear topic and a clear formulation of a question. The findings and the discoveries shall be part of the base of the design.

Obtain competence in the field of construction and constructive design.
Prerequisites / NoticeFor students who attend the architectural design only.
051-1234-21LIntegrated Discipline Architecture and Urban Design (F. Persyn)W3 credits2UF. Persyn
AbstractThe integrated study performance has to accompany the design, though it has to be a clearly recognizable independent performance within the discipline of urban planning.The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.
ObjectiveAn urban design case study with a clear topic and a clear formulation of a question. The findings and the discoveries shall be part of the base of the design.
ContentThe integrated study performance has to accompany the design, though it has to be a clearly recognizable independent performance within the discipline of urban planning.The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.
051-1248-21LIntegrated Diszipline Architecture and Art Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UK. Sander, M. Wermke
AbstractIn the integrated discipline the architectural design will be juxtaposed by artistic thinking and working. The conceptional approach will in particular be rendered more precise in the dialogue between architectural and artistic methods. There is also a focus on the technique of describing the context precisely.
ObjectiveArt ist the discipline that is constantly creating new realities of terminology and perception. The purpose of the integrated discipline is to use this knowledge, that is produced by art, and to concern it by making design decisions.
ContentA systematic procedure for every step in the design is expected, from the generation of new ideas through to detailing and up to presentation. These can then be reflected in a variety of different ways in the outcome. Reflections on method flow into the design in an integrated manner. There will also be an emphasis on giving expression to the results of the design process using artistic means. In addition a publication should be compiled, presenting the conceptual steps developing the design.
Prerequisites / NoticeApplication to the chair.
History and Theory of Architecture
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0822-00LArchitecture and Photography (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 15.
Students will be selected on the basis of a motivation letter until 15.2.21, 12:00 h to Link.
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2ST. Wootton
AbstractRepresentation of architecture is inextricably linked to photography since the mid 19th century. As buildings are commonly discussed on the basis of images, understanding their technical origin is key to reading and making them. By teaching students how to use a 4x5'' view camera, the artist and photographer Tobias Wootton will introduce different techniques of 'thinking through the lens'.
ObjectiveKnowledge of architectural photography
Prerequisites / NoticeThis be-weekly course is taught in English and German.
15 participants limit.

Course dates s. room reservations!

Students will be selected on the basis of a motivation letter until 15.2.21, 12:00 h to Link.
052-0830-00LHistory of Art and Architecture: Hunting Shadows Restricted registration - show details
Does not take place this semester.
Not eligible as a Compulsory GESS Elective for students of D-ARCH.

This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2GM. Delbeke
AbstractThis is a survey course that explores the history of architectural representation through a single motif—the shadow. The "illustration" of shadows is a feature of architectural drawing that is capable of revealing much precisely because it is perceived as incidental.
ObjectiveAs a minimal outcome of this course, you should be able to compare a contemporary architectural image with an early modern image, and discuss the appearance of convention, media and content in both. More capable students should also be able to trace a single motif across multiple case studies, and thereby identify anachronic elements that persist not only in contemporary architecture, but are embedded in the tools of contemporary architectural design. The best students should be able to relate this analysis to broader historical questions regarding the autonomy of architecture, and the relationship between technique and knowledge.
ContentThis is not a course that approaches architecture via media, nor by material, but rather by something that is between the two. The shadow is as inevitable a part of architecture as light, but it is rarely, if ever, a subject of sustained inquiry. The shadow silently slips through the net of almost all the serious discourses of architectural history. All the same, it is a motif through which the entire history of architectural representation can be retold, from the development of drawing techniques to the definitions of shelter. From Hugh Ferriss’ tenebrous charcoals of New York skyscrapers to contemporary overshadow laws (visible in the form of Zurich’s Prime Tower), shadows shape the legal limits of buildings just as they delimit them on paper. Akin to the latent image in photography, the heightened role of the shadow in architecture is the logical consequence of the constant pursuit of light.

What is a shadow? Contrary to the tale of the maid of Corinth, who was said to have traced the shadow of her departing lover, in order to possess at least an outline, natual shadows are neither still, nor do they present sharp silhouettes. All natural shadows move, because all natural light sources are mobile. Before the invention of electric light, the only shadows that were fixed in place were those that had been drawn or painted. Furthermore, shadows are never completely sharp, because of the wave-like behaviour of light. It is only now that computer graphics specialists are developing techniques to simulate penumbra, the soft edges of cast shadows.

The study of shadows has a prominent role in classical architecture, from the panoply of horizontal shadows—Σκοτία—in columns and entablatures, to the the metaphysical importance da Vinci attributed to sfumato. In other traditions, the shadow plays even more obscure roles, connecting to questions of nostalgia, the distant past, and to the dead. As architectural drafting evolved, the depiction of shadows was used to demonstrate technical skill, as much as to indicate three-dimensional depth. Today, the shadow is an active protagonist in architectural legislation, and by extension, architectural design. Shadow casting is a standard feature of CAAD design packages, and serves both pragmatic and aesthetic functions. But can we use them to navigate through the history of architectural representation?
Prerequisites / NoticeNot eligible as a Compulsory GESS Elective for students of D-ARCH.
052-0848-00LExperiments on the Spatial Perception and Spatial Cognition of Architects (FS) Information
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W2 credits2SA. Gerber
AbstractThe course deals with the question of how architects perceive architectural and urban space and how their spatial imagination can be grasped empirically. This before the tradition of comparable investigations in history and the theory of architecture.
ObjectiveStudents gain insight into the history and theory of scientific spatial research and architectural aesthetics as well as into the related contemporary cognitive sciences (cognitive psychology and neuroscience). They develop an original question about the perception of space and the spatial imagination of architects, which they verify in an experiment.
ContentThe course presents the "state of the art" of cognitive sciences and their relevance to architecture against the background of the historical analysis of architectural theory with these topics. Discussions take place on existing experiments and theories that pertain to architecture and uses them to develop original, empirical experiments from which a sound understanding of architecture and design can be gained. Students will work also with Hololens and thus investigate upon the boundary between the experience of "real" and of "virtual" spaces.
052-0814-21LHistory, Criticism and Theory in Architecture: Things of Modernity Information Restricted registration - show details W2 credits2SL. Stalder
AbstractThis course will unpack the agency of a wide range of devices, gadgets and apparatuses in the design of buildings, the experience of the city and the mediation of social relations in the modern era.
ObjectiveStudents successfully completing the course will be in a position to consider ways of applying these conceptual apparatuses to architectur
ContentArchitectural histories focussing on the discipline’s ‘heroes’, ‘styles’ and ‘canonical buildings’ miss 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 (in the case of the HIL building, for instance, a concrete frame, metal cladding panels, glass panes, neon lights, elevators, air-conditioning machines, ventilation ducts, radiators, partitions, studded rubber tiles, and so on). From this standpoint, modern buildings appear as ensembles of things. But what is a ‘thing’? And how do such ‘things’ change the way we conceive of buildings, of ourselves and of others?

This course will unpack the agency of a wide range of devices, gadgets and apparatuses in the design of buildings, the experience of the city and the mediation of social relations in the modern era. Throughout the course, we will do so by tracing the positioning and function of discrete artefacts within broader networks of human, material and legal stakeholders. Parallel to that, we will survey a broad literature on the ontological, epistemological and social politics of things and matter more in general. Readings will include key texts in architectural history, semiotics, material culture studies, actor-network theory, and the recent field of ‘new materialism’. Students successfully completing the course will be in a position to consider ways of applying these conceptual apparatuses to architecture and to read buildings from an object-oriented perspective.
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LiteratureLink
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052-0816-21LSeminar Architectural Criticism: The Other Institution - About Criticism and Emancipation Information W2 credits2GA. Stahl
AbstractThe seminar investigates the potential and the limitations of architectural criticism. The course comprises theoretical reflection, discussions of architectural objects, as well as work on texts.
ObjectiveThe aim of the seminar is to develop the basics of architectural theory and to apply it in joint field research. Students are therefore expected to take on different research tasks, short presentations and a series of text contributions. At the end of the academic year we plan on realizing a publication and an exhibition, that both needs to be conceptualized and organized.
ContentSince the late 1960s it has become accepted practice among artists to fire critique at the institutions historically dedicated to them. In one of many examples, Hans Haacke famously asked visitors of the Museum of Modern Art in his 1970 MoMA Poll whether they would vote again for Nelson Rockefeller as governor of the state of New York, knowing that he was in favor of the Vietnam War. The Rockefellers were among the founding members of MoMA and at that time served on the MoMA Board, the group of people that help steer the artistic direction of the institution. No wonder they requested to shut the Haacke show down shortly after the opening. Thanks to John Hightower, the museum director at the time, the "freedom of artistic expression" won – and so-called “institutional critique” was born, which to this day questions the conditions of art production and therefore art itself. For the upcoming academic year 2021, we will take this “institutional critique” as a starting point for our studies and aim to implement it within the ETH discourse.
Lecture notesWill be handed out at the beginning of the semester.
LiteratureEssays and reviews from architectural journals, magazines and other media.
Prerequisites / NoticeEspecially for students from the 5th semester Bachelor.
052-0818-21LTheory of Architecture Seminar
Does not take place this semester.
W2 credits2GL. Stalder
AbstractThe elective course/seminar "Architectures of Gender: body_building" seeks to provide an interdisciplinary introduction to gender theory in its relation to architecture.
ObjectiveParticipating students will become familiar with contemporary gender-based approaches to architecture and spatial practice, and learn to apply this knowledge to critical discussion of historical and current examples.
ContentThe body as ontology, epistemology, and representation has long provided a model for architecture. Architecture, in turn, has contributed to the construction of the human body, especially in the modern era – for example, through techniques of measuring, norms and standards. How does this relationship change today, as the boundaries between human body and technology increasingly blur, and the presumed integrity of the body becomes subject to debate and alteration?

This seminar addresses the mutual co-construction of the body and its surrounding built environment historically as well as theoretically, in particular from the perspective of technofeminist (and more recent xenofeminist) thought. Since the 1960s, architectural theories have referred to the figure of the “cyborg.” In 1985, Donna Haraway famously subverted this initially technocratic concept into an emancipatory tool to counter gender bias, binary constructions, the “reproductive matrix” and essentialist ontologies of nature. Over the last three decades, feminist scholars have further deterritorialised and appropriated different technologies to their own ends.

Revisiting feminist theorization and speculations, both past and present, we ask for the utopian potential of this un- and re-building of the body in its capacity to destabilize its associated understandings of nature, technology and culture. Weekly close-readings and discussions of key texts will familiarize the participants with provocative voices in the field, as well as provide the basis and methods for a research-oriented assignment in small groups.
Lecture notesAll required readings will be made available online.
Prerequisites / NoticeRegular class attendance is mandatory. Students are required to actively participate in weekly readings and discussions.
052-0824-21LHistory of Art and Architecture: Exhibiting Architecture Information W1 credit2GP. Ursprung, F. Fischli, N. Olsen
AbstractIn this Wahlfach you become an active curator for a touring exhibition.
ObjectiveIn this elective course you become an active curator for a touring exhibition. The subject of the exhibition and Wahlfach is CGI (Computer Generated Images).

The studio focus' on methods of conceiving and producing architecture exhibitions.
Content«Exhibiting architecture» has a growing significance as a form of practice. In this Wahlfach you become an active curator for a touring exhibition. The subject of the exhibition and Wahlfach is CGI (Computer Generated Images) and your tutors are the curators Fredi Fischli and Niels Olsen (gta), Luigi Alberto Cippini of the experimental architecture studio Armature Globale, as well as a group of guest lecturers. We are also visiting ETH Zurich’s Disney Research Laboratory, who is behind the technical innovation of numerous movies.
Throughout the semester we both reflect on the exhibition’s main question of departure and you develop individually and in teams contributions for the upcoming exhibition. Enhanced by the pandemic, CGI gains an increasing presence. In architecture CGI is used to both visualize and design buildings, but also to test their behavior during possible earthquakes, fire or how the flow of people is accommodated. In medicine digital models are used to train surgeons, digital avatars in music culture question understandings of gender, in forensics they are used to re-enact scenarios and movies confuse different realities in often non traceable ways. For this exhibition we research how CGI for architecture and beyond is produced. We will look at video tutorials and how the knowledge about CGI distributes. Who are the programmers, CGI architects and what’s the culture behind this new, powerful field of image production?

Throughout the semester we read together texts on the subject of CGI, new forms of representation and on display techniques.
We organize discussions with protagonists from various fields. In teams you realize contributions for the upcoming exhibition.
LiteratureA reading list will be provided.
Prerequisites / NoticeContribution / project realized as a team or individually for the exhibition.

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052-0828-21LSeminar History and Theory of Urban Design: The City Represented - The View from the Car Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 18.
W4 credits2SM. Charitonidou, T. Avermaete
AbstractThe automobile has reshaped our conceptions of space and our modes of accessing and penetrating the urban and non-urban territory, revolutionizing how architects perceive the city and contributing significantly to the transformation of the relationship between architecture and urban space. The seminar examines architects’ automobile vision.
ObjectiveThe main objective of the seminar is to help students understand how the automobile influenced architects’ perception of the environment and how its generalized use provoked the emergence of new theoretical concepts and eventually led to new design perspectives. It aims to untie the specificity of car travel as a new episteme of the urban landscape. One of the main learning objectives will be to help students understand that the emergence of the generalised use of the car is related not only to a new epistemological regime, but also to a new representational regime. The latter, which relies upon photography, film, new modes of visual mapping and particular diagrams, serves to capture this new epistemological regime. The seminar will make students aware that there is an agency and an intentionality behind this new representational regime. The themes addressed will be grouped per means of visualization including three sections: “Drawing and the View from the Car”, “Photography and the View from the Car”, and “Film and the View from the Car”. The structure of the seminar is organized in clusters of architects that were interested in similar questions related to the emergence of the new perceptual regime due to the generalized use of the car.

This seminar will help students understand the difference between capturing and interpreting reality when one films or photographs during a car trip. It will help students realize that each of these modes of representation is based on a different way of retrieving an experience later on. By the end of the course, the students will be able to argue why, when we decide to represent an experience of the city and more specifically a trajectory which is based on the sequential experience of landscape in a specific way, we make choices about what we extract from reality. These choices are based on what we consider to be the most important features of an urban landscape and depends on our own values and methods regarding not only the interpretation of architecture but also the strategies of intervention on a given site. By the end of the seminar, the students will acquire the skill of achieving the best possible alignment between what they consider to be the most important characteristics and the means for representing them.

In parallel, by the end of the teaching process, the students will be able to explain why the choice of specific fragments of reality and the ways in which we relate them goes hand in hand with the taxonomies we wish to build while narrating an experience of driving through a landscape. They will also be expected to understand that there is a tension between stimulation and documentation and that the quick change of views while driving though a landscape promotes a ‘snapshot aesthetics’ and connects to memory in a different way based on the superimposition and juxtaposition of visual impressions. The objective is to help students realise that even if we intend to focus on the same features of reality each mode of representation is characterised by a capacity to focus on certain aspects of reality. Focusing of the analysis of the different modes of representation, the seminar will help students become aware that when one chooses a means of representation over another, one is setting priorities.
ContentAn important component of the course will be the exploration of the interconnection between theory and architectural design practice. The analysis of the connections between epistemological regimes and representational regimes will help them become aware of the intentionality characterizing the use of specific modes of representation. The seminar will also aim to help students understand how to choose the mode of representation that most efficiently promotes their architectural and urban design objectives. Special attention will be paid to the improvement of their skills in elaborating concepts coming from the history and theory of architecture and urban design for self-analysing their design processes, and to the enhancement of interactive learning through the organisation of several sessions of peer feedback on the texts, drawings and photographs produced by the students.

Telling regarding the understanding of car travel as a new episteme is Reyner Banham's following remark, in Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies: "like earlier generations of English intellectuals who taught themselves Italian in order to read Dante in the original, I had to learn to drive in order to read Los Angeles in the original". During the second half of the 20th century, architects became increasingly aware of the impact of the car. Particular emphasis will be placed on the fact that the new perceptual regime related to its generalised use became more apparent within the American context. Some seminal books in which this becomes evident are Donald Appleyard, Kevin Lynch, and John Myer's The View from the Road (1964), Reyner Banham's Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), and Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour's Learning from Las Vegas (1972). In the latter, it becomes evident that one cannot make sense of Las Vegas by walking. Special attention will be paid to the analysis of cases that demonstrate that the view from the car as a new perceptual regime, instead of functioning simply as a tool serving to document visual impressions during travel, plays an important role in shaping the architects' own architectural and urban design strategies.

Throughout the seminar the students will work collaboratively in order to contribute to the production of an exhibition entitled "The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime", which will be displayed at the gta exhibitions foyer space. An ensemble of exercises that will be held every two sessions will help students get familiarized with the theoretical concepts and the modes of representation analysed in the seminar. A booklet published at the end of the seminar will bring together the outcomes of these different exercises. The final presentation of the seminar will take place within the exhibition space and will be accompanied by the feedback of a jury consisting of different professors from the school.
Structure of the seminar:
Drawing and the view from the car
Seminar 1: Kevin Lynch, Donald Appleyard and John Myer's Mapping Strategies: Cognitive Maps
Seminar 2: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour's Diagrams: The Specificity of the American Urban Landscape
Seminar 3: Ian Nairn and Gordon Cullen's "serial vision", Outrage and subtopia

Photography and the view from the car
Seminar 4: John Lautner's residences as equivalents of cameras: The 'autophotographic grasp'
Seminar 5: The "as found" and the act of capturing the materiality of artefacts through street photography
Seminar 6: Aldo Rossi's act of taking photographs from the car: Shaping mental maps of the cities

Film and the view from the car
Seminar 7: Kevin Lynch's movie "View from The Road" and Reyner Banham's movie "Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles"
Seminar 8: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's "Deadpan" film
Seminar 9: The cross-fertilization between the view from the car and the design strategies
Seminar 10: Final presentations of the students
Lecture notesA printed syllabus and a handout including the visual and textual material to be investigated during the seminar will be provided in the first seminar class.
LiteratureWeekly assigned readings will be provided in digital form. Additional readings will be put on reserve in the library.

Representative bibliography:

Appleyard, Donald, Kevin Lynch, John Myer, The View from the Road (Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1964).

Banham, Reyner, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (1971), introduction by Anthony Vidler (Berkeley, California; London: University of California Press, c2000).

Brown, Denise Scott, Steven Izenour, Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1972).

Cullen, Gordon, The Concise Townscape (London: Architectural Press, 1961).

Hess, Alan. Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004).

Nairn, Ian, Outrage (London, Architectural Press, 1955); the book combined articles published in Architectural Review, 117, no. 702 (1955): 364-460.

Nairn, Ian, The American Landscape: A Critical View (New York, Random House, 1965).

Stadler, Hilar, Martino Stierli, Peter Fischli, Las Vegas Studio: Bilder aus dem Archiv von Robert Venturi und Denise Scott Brown (Zürich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2008).

Stierli, Martino, Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2013).

_ _ _ _. “In Sequence: Cinematic Perception in Learning from Las Vegas”, in Hunch 12 (2009): 76-85.

Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, "Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas", in Architectural Forum (1968): 37-43.

Yoder, Joh, “Vision and Crime: The Cinematic Architecture of John Lautner”, in D. Medina Lasansky, ed., Archi.Pop: Mediating Architecture in Popular Culture (London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), 45-58.
Prerequisites / NoticeThis course is offered mainly for master’s students and is limited to 18 participants.

Assessment requirements:
- Active participation in class discussions (10 % of final grade)
grade)
- Exercises during the semester (20% of final grade each, total 60% of final grade)
Students are invited to produce a triptych consisting of three A3 (portrait) panels. Each A3 panel will address one of the three means of representation analysed during the seminar: drawing, photography and film respectively.
Each A3 panel will include visual elements (selected and/or developed by the student) and a textual analysis that critically scrutinizes the relation of the visual analysis to the view from the car. (500-600 words for each A3/1500 words for the triptych).
All the triptychs will be part of the booklet that will be produced at the end of the seminar. They will also be displayed in the exhibition “The View from the Car: Autopia as a New Perceptual Regime”.
- Final presentation of the triptych (30% of final grade)
052-0834-21LPhD Teaching: Ways of Seeing - Working With the Visual Materials of Architecture Information W2 credits2SL. Stalder, M. Critchley, S. Hefti, M. Lähteenmäki, G. Verhaeghe
AbstractWhat do images do? How can you understand drawings, photographs and other visual material in architectural practice? This course will give you a critical toolkit for understanding, analysing and questioning the visual material of architecture.
Objective• Provide a toolbox for critical, cultural and visual analysis
• Study key texts in visual analysis in order to improve the critical reading of visual material.
• Understand the act of showing and displaying visual material.
• Achieve a better understanding of one’s own use and presentation of the visual material of architecture.
Content“It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world” – John Berger in "Ways of Seeing". Taking its title and que from John Berger's groundbreaking tv-series on art made in 1972, the course seeks to engage with visual materials and extend Berger's ambition towards architecture. We will discuss methods and questions from the fields of seeing and the visual. In addition to providing various methods of visual analysis, this seminar will also critically examine the powerful practices of seeing, interpreting, assembling and translating the visual material of architecture. We will look at how meanings change between production and reception, and how images circulate and mediate between media, between individual and collective views, between times, places and cultures.

This seminar will help you reflect upon and revisit the use of visual material within your own architectural work.

"Ways of Seeing" available (and recommended) on youtube: Link
Lecture notesLink
LiteratureLink
Prerequisites / NoticeLink
052-0850-21LThe City in Theory: Urban Matter and Design Information W2 credits2SH. Teerds, T. Avermaete
AbstractThis elective seminar focusses on contemporary issues of urban theory. During the spring of 2021 the seminar will focus on (1) the ideal of public space and (2) the processes of gentrification. Students that participate in the course will read and critically engage in seminal readings that discuss these topics, which continue to influence and characterize the contemporary urban territory.
ObjectiveThis course will:
- Introduce students to several historical and contemporary contributions to actual debates on cities and urban design, in particular the discourses on gentrification and public space,
- Discuss the motivations, purposes and ideologies behind particular contributions to these discourses on cities and their future
- Emphasize the specificity of the 'designerly view' upon the deficiencies and potentialites of the urban territory
- Highlight the relationship between theoretical as well as design approaches to the contemporary city
- Equip students to reflect upon the contemporary situation in cities with the help of both theoretical as well as design perspectives
ContentThe City in Theory: Urban Matters and design is an elective seminar course that focusses on issues of urban theory, urban and architectural design, and urban analysis. Students that participate in the course will read and critically engage in seminal readings that discuss particular topics which continue to influence and characterize contemporary cities.

During the spring of 2021, the seminar will focus on two critical topics of urban theory: (1) the ideal of public space and (2) the processes of gentrification.

The multiple interfaces between these two topics will be used to come to a better understanding of the concrete processes and ideologies that reshape and transform our cities.

The course will not only investigate the topics from a theoretical point of view but also questions how architectural and urban design (1) contribute to the vitality of public spaces and (2) influence pernicious processes of gentrification. Conversely, various material manifestations of public and urban space will be used to explore specific conceptions of the relationship between the city and the citizens, as well as between the built environment and notions of well-being.

During each meeting, seminal texts that address these topics from different domains (the perspective of the designer, the perspective of social research and political theory), and from different geographies (conceptions and experiences from the Global South and Global North) will be read and discussed.

In addition, students are asked to analyze a contemporary (re)development of a city, wherein they trace the topics discussed during the seminar.
Prerequisites / NoticeAdvanced bachelor students and master students can enrol in this course
052-0852-21LTopical Questions in History and Theory of Architecture: Apartheid Modernism Information W2 credits2SH. A. Kennedy
AbstractThis course brings a decolonizing perspective to spatial histories of German modernism. It offers a critical history of modern architecture in Germany as framed by the global networks of European, and specifically German, colonialism, which gave shape and form to the 19th and 20th centuries, and which continue to contour the world today.
ObjectiveThis seminar introduces students to methodologies drawn from several intersecting fields: postcolonial history and theory; critical studies of race and ethnicity; settler colonial studies; critical geography; and global history. While we focus on historical developments at the crossroads of colonial and architectural culture in German-speaking Europe, this seminar will also take up key questions of the present, as we wrestle with the meanings and violence of the modern colonial past: Namely, how to identify the endurance of colonial practices and colonial thinking in the present, with a focus on architectures, institutional formations, infrastructures, and territories. Here we will engage the theories of Nelson Maldonado-Torres, who uses the term Coloniality to describe “long-standing patterns of power that emerged as a result of colonialism, but that define culture, labour, intersubjectivity relations, and knowledge production well beyond the strict limits of colonial administrations.” Emphasis will also be placed on learning to read architectural historiographies from the perspective provided by Maldonado-Torres, critically engaging the concept of Coloniality.

Upon the completion of this course, students should be able to: Demonstrate a critical understanding of colonialism, colonial practices, nationalism, imperialism, and concepts of the racial in the history of architecture, urbanism, landscape, and territory, as well as demonstrate the central themes related to the spatial history of German colonialism; understand how architecture evolved as a discipline in the context of national, imperial, and colonial formations (including movements seeking to reject or counter those forms of rule), and to understand architecture’s modern development in relation to adjacent disciplines, professions, and cultural practices; identify blind spots in received narratives of German modernism; develop an analytical response to assigned readings and to organize brief image-based presentations that open up and provoke discussion; conduct in-depth architectural historical research, and to demonstrate a facility with interdisciplinary critical analysis.
ContentThis course brings a decolonizing perspective to spatial histories of German modernism. It offers a critical history of modern architecture in Germany as framed by the global networks of European, and specifically German, colonialism, which gave shape and form to the 19th and 20th centuries, and which continue to contour the world today. This seminar takes up the work of Itohan Osayimwese, focusing on how colonial encounters and imperial entanglements affected architectural developments within Germany itself, and responds to the imperative of postcolonial studies to “provincialize Europe.” A core objective of this seminar will be to understand how liberal humanist thought was informed by European colonial expansion in the Americas, Asia, and Africa, and how in the revolutionary era, concepts of alterity—what Denise Ferreira da Silva calls an "analytics of raciality"—came to be embedded within Enlightenment aesthetics, when concepts of historicity and globality were refigured in prevailing notions of the nation and the racial.

We will also consider the transnational mechanics of imperialism, tracing the translation of “territorializing” techniques across geographies in the form of media-technological, human-corporate, material-ecological, urban-architectural, financial and infrastructural interventions. These interventions shaped colonial space, as white European settlement was superimposed on to indigenous territories across the globe through the creation of material architectures of reclamation, occupation, extraction, and development. Crucially, this process of territorialization will be understood through the dynamics of multidirectional frontier entanglements. Using this multidirectional and decolonial approach, we will seek to foreground local, non-European, and indigenous agencies within these histories, placing emphasis on the role of mass resistance among indigenous polities in the shaping of the colonial built environment.
LiteratureLink
Prerequisites / NoticeThose who would like to enroll in this seminar must submit a short statement (PDF) that outlines why you are interested in taking this course. Please send the statements to the instructor, Dr. Hollyamber Kennedy, (Link) no later than Wednesday, 17. February. I will notify those who are admitted to the course by Friday, 19. February. Please include your name, ETH e-mail, program, department, and year on your statement.

Seminar Zoom Link: Link
052-0832-21LBasic Concepts in Architectural Theory 18th to 20th Centuries: From Atmosphere to Sign Information
This course is offered until end of FS22.
This course is full. Do not register as of 1.2.21.
W2 credits2SB. Hub
AbstractThe seminar is devoted to central concepts and exemplary texts from the history of architectural theory of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, the reading and analysis of which is introduced by a short student presentation and concluded by a synthetic written commentary.
ObjectiveThe seminar examines central concepts of architectural theory in their historical and social contexts in order to understand them in their respective cultural context. In a second step, questions should be asked about the consequences of the architectural-theoretical concepts on the actually built architecture. Finally, the lasting importance for the architectural-theoretical discourse and the built environment today is discussed.

The texts are chosen in such a way that a representative overview of the central architectural-theoretical concepts of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries is obtained. The focus, however, is on practicing the critical analysis and interpretation of historical texts (and buildings) and their confrontation with the present.
Finally, the analysis of the conditionality of historical concepts should also lead to a better understanding and a sharper awareness of the conditionalities of one's own positions and discourses.
ContentThe design of architectural forms and spaces is based not least on theories that are determined by the historical and social context and the contemporary discourses in other disciplines, sometimes also by little or no longer reflected fashions, on which they have an effect. In the 18th century, for example, the architectural-theoretical concept of the sublime was preceded by a philosophical questioning of beauty and proportions as well as a romantic conception of nature. The concept of the monumental arose around 1910 in the context of the modern city characterized by industry and traffic and as a reaction to “a previously unknown optization of life“ (W. Hellpach) and “the growing nervousness of our time“ (W. Eckart). Etc.

After brief historical introductions to the respective epoch in question, we turn to central terms of architectural theory of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, such as mimesis, beauty, character, style, clothing, the sublime, empathy, shape/form , Monumentality, rhythm, transparency, sign/symbol, atmosphere, identity/authenticity. An exemplary text is provided for each term, which the students should contextualize, analyze and relate to contemporary architecture in independent individual or small group work. For the teaching units, which are each devoted to one or two texts (in chronological order), a brief introduction to the respective text and its author is given and - after reading them together - the discussion is to lead, which also deals with the meaning of the historical terms and concepts should go for the present. A written version of the presentation must then be prepared, which takes into account the results and suggestions of the discussion. The final aim of the seminar is to print an annotated anthology of central texts on architectural theory of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries along their most important terms.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe course is full. Please do not register as of 1.2.2021!
051-1206-21LIntegrated Discipline History of Urban Design Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UT. Avermaete
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ObjectiveAim of this subject is to explain bacis principles of scientific methods to the students. This aim shall be obtained through the analysis of plans and texts of urban case stuies.
Prerequisites / NoticeBefore the registration to Integrated Discipline History of Urban Design the students have to make an appointment with one of the assistants of the chair.
051-1208-21LIntegrated Discipline History of Art and Architecture Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UM. Delbeke
AbstractThe "Integrated Discipline History of Art and Architecture" requires an independent demonstration of achievement within the History of Art and Architecture as an integral part of the Architectural Design project. The assignment must be completed in writing and/or in the form of creative work. Choice of subject, form and scope of the assignment must be defined in accordance with the Chair.
ObjectiveThe assignment objective is a detailed analysis within the area of the History of Architecture of a clearly defined monographic or thematic topic. The conclusions thus gained shall be integrated into the Architectural Design project.
Prerequisites / NoticeVoraussetzung ist die Anmeldung unter mystudies.ethz.ch und per e-mail an die Professur bis spätestens zum Ende der ersten Semesterwoche unter Angabe des Entwurfsthemas und der betreuenden Professur sowie die Teilnahme am Kolloquium in der zweiten Semesterwoche zur allgemeinen Einführung und konkreten Besprechung der Integrationsleistung (Ort und Uhrzeit des Kolloquiums werden auf der Homepage des Lehrstuhls Oechslin bekannt gegeben). Die Abgabe der Arbeit erfolgt gleichzeitig mit der Abgabe des Entwurfs.
051-1210-21LIntegrated Discipline History of Art and Architecture (P. Ursprung) Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UP. Ursprung
AbstractA brief assignment within the History of Architecture completed in writing and/or in the form of creative work is integrated into the Architectural Design project.
ObjectiveThe objective is a detailed analysis of a topic chosen within the
History of Architecture. The conclusions gained shall be integrated into the Architectural Design project.
ContentThe integrated study performance is associated with the draft, but a clearly recognizable independent performance in the form of a short written and / or creative work must be performed. The choice of topics is made in close consultation with the substitute professorship, the form and scope of the work are agreed in advance.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe prerequisite is registration at mystudies.ethz.ch and an e-mail to the chair by the end of the first week of the semester stating the design topic and the supervising chair, as well as participation in the colloquium in the second week of the semester for a general introduction and concrete discussion of the integration work . The place and time of the colloquium will be announced on the homepage of the Professorship in Hildebrand. The submission deadline is set analogously to that of the draft.
051-1214-21LIntegrated Discipline Theory of Architecture Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UL. Stalder
AbstractThis course is offered by the Chair of Architectural Theory as an integrated discipline in the Design Studio "Tourism Behaviorology in Switzerland" and can only be booked as a joint bundle. The general aim of the course is to trace possible genealogies of a building / neighborhood / place in the Bernese Oberland and its larger network, through a picture-essay.
ObjectiveThe task of the first part of the course will be a small research project on a specific building / neighborhood / place in Grindelwald or Interlaken. The work will consist of an analysis of its architectural, technological or cultural characteristics, in their historical and current forms, and situated in its larger environment. The research will be carried out using two different approaches: firstly, site visit, and secondly, a collection of visual documents compiled from historical sources, stories, films, paintings, historical texts, images from the advertising industry, etc. The research is composed of the phases "collecting", "constellating" and "representing", the intermediate products of which will be presented during the desk critiques and handed in as a picture essay.
In the foreground of the assignment in architectural theory, the picture essay fulfils two experimental functions at once: On the one hand, the picture essay as an intermediate product of this process is an experimental arrangement and thus testimony to critical thinking with and in images, or with and in the combination of image and text. On the other hand, the collected images and arguments are part of a preliminary study for the design of an actor network drawing. Thus, they are a means in the decision-making process for a product and part of an experimental praxis.
ContentIn the literary tradition, the essay refers to an experimental text form, not least due to the fact that 'essay' can be translated into German as 'Versuch'. In addition to the practice of writing, it is primarily a critical experiment in thought that finds its form in the written essay.

If the focus is on thought experimentation, this should also be able to take place via other media. 'Picture essay' can therefore refer to critical thinking with and in images, or with and in the combination of image and text. If the literary practice of the 'essay' is transferred to the visual realm as a 'picture essay', firstly a medial change from text to image takes place and secondly an intermedial structure of text and image emerges, whose units stand in relation to each other. The medialisation of thought in text or image, however, is subject to a different medial logic. This makes it clear that experimenting with thinking in language or in images cannot mean the same thing. While the reception of images allows for the simultaneous recognition of several objects, the reading of a text follows a temporally linear sequence along the syntax.

To create an image essay, the first step is to collect image material – images of sources, artworks, sketches and objects – make a selection and arrange them in a constellation. Constellated, the images show their subject as well as their relation to the image collection. The images thus fulfil a function of showing, whereby a meaningful overall picture can emerge from their constellation.

The constellation is followed in a second step by the text. If we look at picture essays from architectural history and architectural journals, it becomes clear that the text can take on different functions: As a commentary, it can highlight both the content of the picture and the connecting element between the pictures in a descriptive way. If there are references between the image and the text, an argument is usually developed on the basis of image and text modules. Furthermore, the essayistic text can also run parallel to the picture section as a separate narrative thread.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe integrated design is organized and operated by both chairs engaged in close cooperation.

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Landscape and Urban Studies
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
052-0712-00LSessions on Territory (FS) Information
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W1 credit1VH. Hortig
Abstract"Sessions on Territory" are public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory within and beyond the neoliberal order.
Objective"Sessions on Territory" is a series of public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory. Focus on the materials of architecture and urbanism — from territories of resource extraction to the construction site — the upcoming series unravel contemporary forces at work in the formation of the built and natural environment. Through a series of debates with invited guests, the seminar aims to critically reflect on the materiality of contemporary urbanism. Every intervention by a guest speaker is followed by a panel discussion with invited respondents.
Lecture notesTexts to accompany each presentation will be sent via email before each weekly session.
052-0714-21LSerendipity: Upper Waters Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 16.
W2 credits2GC. Girot
AbstractAn investigation into the water infrastructure of Zurich and it's impact on the contemporary urban landscape will be undertaken. Through acoustic and visual field recordings the students find a variety of ways to represent urban systems.
ObjectiveThrough the use of multimedia tools, this course will reflect on the contemporary use and perception of landscape. Analogue photography and audio recordings will be represent the core body of the work.
ContentAttention: The final inscription will take place on the first course date, everybody is treated the same.

After a long journey from its alpine sources, Zurich’s drinking water is stored in hidden chambers underground before it is ultimately directed to the user. Although being vital to everyday life, these very specifically designed and highly connected infrastructures remain mostly out of sight. The fresh-water reservoirs form a ring of single bodies located on the hilltops around the city’s center. A second lake of the city—decentralized, artificial, underground.

Throughout the historic development of Zurich it’s water supply has been critical to its flourishing as a city. Drinking water could initially only be sourced from groundwater wells or local springs. Both of which still play a role in today’s water supply. But additionally and most importantly today is the sourcing of lake water. The latest opportunity gradually became possible due to a combination of better filtration systems and the cleaning of rivers and lakes in and around Zurich.

Different infrastructure and nationwide fishery and water protection laws established around 1900 made this shift possible. Ever since the water quality is constantly monitored and improved especially in regards to agricultural chemicals. Since 1914 Zurich gains a large portion of its drinking water from the lake even if a plurality of water sources is maintained for the water system to be resilient towards possible threats and natural disaster.

Notes: The course will be limited to 16 students. Participation on all dates of the course (Introduction, Workshop, Mid- and Final Presentations) is mandatory. The Chair will provide some financial support (costs for production), possible additional costs (transportation, overnight stay, food and drinks) are asked to be paid by the participants. Basic trekking experience and outdoor clothing is required.
Prerequisites / NoticeCourse language: English or/and German (number of participants is limited!)

25.2.2021 Introduction & final inscription – before the participation can't be guaranteed Zoom Link: Link

6th-7th Mar 2021 Weekend workshop, all day, in Zurich (mandatory) [if the current state of the pandemic allows]

CORONA: Due to the pandemic and the current situation during the semester, the course may still be adjusted. It is unclear at the moment whether a visit inside the reservoirs will be possible. Likewise, the physical work in the laboratories will have to be adapted selectively, depending on the rules and regulations.

More information under: Link
Any Questions regarding this course, contact: Link
052-0716-21LTopology: Choreographies of the Landscape Information Restricted registration - show details W2 credits2KC. Girot
AbstractThe elective course 'Topology' in FS 2021 investigates the choreographic aspects of landscape.
ObjectiveThis elective gives students the opportunity to expand their knowledge in the area of landscape architecture.
ContentThe line of a path or the texture of a meadow not only guide the direction of our movements through the landscape, but also impacts its dynamics and rhythm. At the same time, the ephemerality of human movements is contrasted with the durability of natural (physical and biological) processes, such as the growth of trees, the erosive force of the wind, the folding of the mountains.
These choreographic aspects of landscape morphology are investigated in different ways in this elective: We discuss a selection of texts and films and examine significant positions from dance, art and landscape architecture. In addition, we practically explore in various workshops the relation of our own movements to the landscape.
Finally, we will focus on the dynamic qualities of a selection of squares and parks in Zurich. By juxtaposing our own intuitive choreographies with the spatial qualities of these sites, we will create a dynamic analysis of the landscape. This will be documented with videos and individually composed scores.
Notes: The course will be limited to 20 students.
LiteratureReader
Prerequisites / NoticeCourse languages: German; (English and French if desired)

Introduction: Thursday, 25 February 2021, 12h, online: the zoom link will be sent to all registered students by mail.
052-0718-21LTerritory of the City: Bern Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 12.
W2 credits2GG. Vogt
AbstractThe elective deals with current transformation processes of metropolitan landscapes in Europe and introduces landscape architecture design on a territorial scale.
On the basis of cartographic analysis and field trips, students will develop concrete strategies for the urban landscape of the Swiss Midlands.
ObjectiveThe elective introduces to the subject and complexity of the urbanized landscape and teaches the critical engagement with the challenges and potentials of current tendencies in Landscape Architecture. On the basis of a concrete study area, students examine the large-scale processes of reuse, reform and reinterpretation of metropolitan landscapes in Europe and develop new approaches and strategies on various scales. They become familiar with GIS as an analytical tool, model building as a design methodology and the representation of landscape through plans. They develop a project based on the perception of place, knowledge of landscape-architectonic typologies and conception of public space. The design process is accompanied by workshops, lectures, excursions, critiques and a workbook.
ContentDie Art und das Ausmass der Nutzung von Landschaft haben sich in den letzten Jahrzehnten grundlegend verändert. Einerseits wird die Ressource Landschaft heutzutage viel intensiver genutzt, wie dies die starke Zunahme von Rohstoffabbau und Materialtransporten sowie der massive Ausbau von Infrastrukturen verdeutlichen. Gleichzeitig wird die Nutzung in gewissen Gebieten auch extensiviert, wodurch Verbrachungs- und schliesslich Verwilderungsprozesse eintreten. Zudem sind Landschaften zunehmend rasanten und teilweise global wirkenden Veränderungen in Mobilität, Klima, Landwirtschaft, Energie und Freizeitverhalten unterworfen. In der Summe führt dies zu einer tiefgreifenden Transformation von Landschaften, wobei der Wandel uneinheitlich, ungleich und teilweise diametral erfolgt. Die historische Koexistenz und räumliche Trennung von bis anhin in die Landschaft eingelagerten Nutzungen (z.B. Landwirtschaft, Verkehr, Militär, Tourismus oder Energieproduktion) löst sich zunehmend auf. An ihre Stelle tritt eine operationalisierte Landschaft, in die im metropolitanen Kontext oftmals auch informellen Erholungs- und Sportnutzungen eingeschrieben sind. Die neuen Formen von «Parks», die dadurch entstehen, sind nicht mehr klar fass- und einordnungsbar, sondern breiten sich temporär und räumlich diffus auf das urbane Territorium aus. Die treibenden Kräfte hinter dieser Entwicklung sind einerseits im Ausbau der Infrastrukturnetzwerke des öffentlichen Verkehrs, insbesondere der S-Bahn, und andererseits in der oftmals chronischen Übernutzung innerstädtischer Freiräume zu verorten. Die Erholungssuchenden weiten als Folge ihren Aktionsradius auf die schnell erreichbaren und unmittelbar verfügbaren Freizeitlandschaften aus. Dieser Prozess erfolgt oftmals informell und ungeplant; die Menschen nehmen sich den Raum für ihre Aktivitäten, wo und wie sie es für nötig halten. Die Überlagerung und Verflechtung von teilweise konträren Interessen, die sich oftmals ausschliessen, führt zu Reibungen und Konflikten, die durchwegs positiv und produktiv sein können: Landschaft wird nicht mehr länger nur als ökonomische-, sondern vermehrt auch als öffentliche Ressource begriffen, was eine zukünftige Debatte über die Art und Weise der (Be-)Nutzung der Landschaft und die Möglichkeit einer integralen, demokratischen Entwicklung der Landschaft als öffentlicher Raum notwendig macht.
Lecture notesA workbook with texts and background information is available for purchase (CHF 20.-). A digital version is also available for free.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe participation in the course is subject to the following three conditions:
1) The course is limited to 12 students. The restriction follows the time of the inscription according to the first-come-first-served-principle.
2) A two-days trip to Bern is mandatory for all students.
3) The contribution to expenses will be max. 250.- CHF per student. In case of short-notice cancellation, these costs will be charged to the student.
052-0724-21LSociology: Extended Urbanization - A Research Seminar Information W2 credits2SC. Schmid, I. Apostol, L. B. Howe
AbstractUrban research is confronted today urbanization processes that unfold far beyond the realm of agglomerations and urban regions. In this research seminar, we will present some of the most recent and cutting-edge research investigations into extended urbanization and discuss some of the most exciting articles in this fascinating new field of urban research.
ObjectiveThe goals of this course are:
a) to better understand contemporary urbanization processes across the planet,
b) to get insights into methods and procedures of urban research in architecture and social sciences,
c) to learn to read and discuss scientific articles.
ContentUrbanization has achieved a planetary reach. Novel patterns of extended urbanization are crystallizing across diverse environments, in agricultural areas, in the space of what may appear to be wilderness, and even in the oceans. They are challenging inherited conceptions of the urban as a bounded zone and a dense settlement type. Process of extended urbanization includes the formation of complex and multi-scalar relationships between centers and peripheries, the blurring and re-articulation of the urban fabric, the production of functionalized logistics spaces, and the progressive operationalization of landscapes around the world. These observations suggest a radical rethinking of inherited concepts and cartographies of the urban, at all spatial scales, encompassing both built and unbuilt spaces.

This elective course is organized as a research seminar. In each lecture, researchers will present and discuss with us their most recent results of their ongoing research in various parts of the globe, such as Delhi, Amazonia (Brazil), the North American corn belt, Malaysia, the West African Corridor, Johannesburg, Arcadia, the Atacama Desert (Chili) and the North Sea. Supplementary, we will read and discuss a selection of scientific articles on these topics.
Lecture notesNo script
LiteratureThe relevant texts will be distributed in the seminar. A very good overview the topic is provided in the following edited volume: Brenner, Neil (ed.): Implosions / Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. Jovis, Berlin, 2014.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe course will be held in English. Participants must be able to read and speak English.
052-0734-21LSummer School: Body - Wonder - Land Information
Limited number of participants.
W2 credits6SC. Girot
AbstractFluidity, sequence, choreography and composition are essential terms of both dance and architecture/landscape design. The two disciplines’ outcomes tend to be distinctly oppositional:
One works with the ephemeral, with movement. The other is considered relatively static and permanent: It offers movement a vessel, mostly as a background scenery, sometimes taking over as a conductor.
ObjectiveReflecting and rethinking the presence of the body within the discipline of architecture and landscape. Relying on our bodies' intelligence to be able to confront the spaces that surround us and to question the ideas that constitute them.
Learning new techniques and terms from the discipline of dance.
Gaining experience in physical building construction and on-site design strategies.
ContentSpace is (and always has been) created for the human body moving through it. Nevertheless, in the field of architectural education, the physicality of our own body and the attention we pay to its sensibility is a blind spot. With the minimal action of a mouse click we create “dynamic and vibrant” spaces, represented in images populated by motionless half-transparent figures. 

We feel that the subjectivity of the body as a vantage point enables us to critically address questions often neglected in the discourse of architecture, landscape and urban design: Which (mind-)bodies and communities are we building for? Which agencies and responsibilities are we entitled to as space- makers? And what can landscape, architecture and urban design actually afford? How fast / how slow do we want to move?
The body moves according to its surroundings. It incorporates the space. It feels temperatures, surface textures, the presence of others. It feels pain and excitement. Danger. Empathy. The body always responds to gravity. It remembers. It knows the sound of open air next to a concrete wall. It knows the sound of rain from behind a window. 


The body knows more than we think. Its intelligence is intuitive. The body's thinking is movement and the body's movement is thinking. The mind is a muscle. Asleep, the movement continues. In life, the human body gives space a meaning. 


Using the summer school as a research tool we will move through a field of unknown terms and practices to question and position our bodies in a familiar environment. We would like to pinpoint and disentangle the knots in our heads and bodies in search of new terms and practices.
Each day will start with modes of ephemeral space-making through the body guided by professional contemporary dancers Juliette Uzor and Marie Jeger.
As a counterpoint we will construct an outdoor stage as a collective endeavor throughout the course of the summer school. The stage will act as central playground for our thoughts, fantasies, discussions, lectures, and performances. As architects we see ourselves as bricoleurs, by starting design with what is at hand, by rearranging and finding the fine line between what we consider to be a formal “space” and where that zone of possibilites ends.
The process of construction work adds another layer of the physical and social to the experience.
The continuous, rhythmic repetition of bodily exercises in the morning and construction in the afternoon are punctuated through inputs and discussions with external guests.
The mixture of industrial, natural and even urban landscapes surrounding the site of Cima Norma pose an ideal foundation for the bodily explorations and architectural intervention. Being far from the hustle and bustle of the city is paramount to being able the concentrate on oneself as a group.
The goal is not a presentation on the stage (unless initiated by the participants), but the embodied experiences that come with the constant construction and deconstruction of space and bodies within this time frame.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe Summer School takes place from 5th to 16th July 2021.
Location: In and around the Cima Norma Factory, Val Blenio, Ticino.
No prior knowledge, dance experience or skills are required. Every body is welcome to subscribe.
The number of participants is limited to 12 students.
Detailed information on how to apply will follow by the 3rd week of the semester.
Cost: 300CHF. Travel fees are not included
052-0726-21LACTION! On the Real City: The Audiovisual Poetics of Circularity Information Restricted registration - show details W2 credits2UH. Klumpner, C. E. Papanicolaou
AbstractGiving audiovisual form to the concept of ‘circular economy’, we will encourage students to think about the socio-economic relations that constitute our cities, through the use of digital media. Students will develop new forms of urban literacy in the process, combining ethnographic social research methods with filmmaking (using smartphones and Adobe Premiere Pro) and other forms of digital media.
ObjectiveThrough a combination of practical exercises in video and audio techniques in parallel with the study of seminal observation-driven texts like, this course aims to equip students with the basic tools and core principles to create short but complex portraits of urban space.

This approach will be applied to the study of the concept of ‘circular economies’ in an era of social distancing. Students will reflect on and project visions of how production, consumption and trade can continue developing, based on ‘thick’ analyses of physical locations where such production and consumption takes place. Through repeat observation, students will collectively speculate on what the ‘circular economy’ actually means through mosaics of their impressions, manifested through film.

Using widely available recording tools and editing software, students will turn their fieldwork into short video or audio works of about 3-5 minutes.
ContentThe course will composed of lectures, practical crash courses in media use and storytelling, and fieldwork sessions. The course will be a laboratory in the creation of short media works that aim to inform the architectural design process, working between the city and the studio in ONA. Students will be expected to complete all required work within the hours that the elective meets, with few requirements outside of the class hours.
LiteratureSeminal texts include:

- ‘Cross-Cultural Filmmaking’ (Barbash, Castaing-Taylor)
- ‘Acoustic Territories’ (LaBelle)
- 'Ethnography: Principles in Practice' (Hammersley, Atkinson)
- 'Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture (Geertz)
Prerequisites / NoticeFor students from all disciplines.

Software required:

Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe After Effects
Cinema 4D (Free, available online)


We aim to cap the course at 20 students, giving priority to students who also sign up to the Klumpner Chair Architectural Design Studio. It is strongly recommended to take both courses in parallel.

Lecturers/contacts: Prof. Klumpner, Doz. Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou and Dr. Michael Walczak
063-1402-21LIntegrated Discipline Planning - Spring Semester 2021 Restricted registration - show details
Enrolment only possible after consultation with the lecturer.
W3 credits2ULecturers
AbstractThe integrated focal work has to accompany the design, though the focal work has to be an autonomous work. The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.

Work on a current or a passed design project in a large scale.
ObjectiveA case study with a clear topic and a clear formulation of a question. The findings and the discoveries shall be part of the base of the design.

Obtain competence in mastering complex questions relating to alternative strategies and methods in urban design.
051-1232-21LIntegrated Discipline Sociology Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UC. Schmid
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates sociological questions and research methods.
ObjectiveTo consider the social context in the design process.
ContentThe content is related to the design process and is defined accordingly to the individual project.
051-1236-21LIntegrated Discipline Landscape Architecture (G.Vogt) Information Restricted registration - show details
Does not take place this semester.
The integrated discipline of landscape architecture is aimed at entire design classes in consultation and coordination with the respective design chair.
W3 credits2UG. Vogt
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ObjectiveThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
051-1238-21LIntegrated Discipline Landscape Architecture (Ch. Girot) Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UC. Girot
AbstractDesign concepts ranging from architectural objects to urban planning are developed together with the discipline of landscape architecture. Dependent on the task at hand different themes are investigated. The goal of the integrated discipline is to develop design solutions of a specific topic in landscape architecture, which have to be incorporated into the overall design submission.
ObjectiveStudents gain an insight into the integrated disciplins of design in architecture together with landscape architecture.
Prerequisites / NoticeIn order to complete the subject Integrated Discipline it is necessary that students apply at the Chair of C. Girot within the first three weeks of the semester. Thereafter no applications will be processed.

Further information and required qualifications: Link
Technology in Architecture
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
101-0523-00LIndustrialized Construction Restricted registration - show details W4 credits3GD. Hall
AbstractThis course offers an introduction and overview to Industrialized Construction, a rapidly-emerging concept in the construction industry. The course will present the driving forces, concepts, technologies, and managerial aspects of Industrialized Construction, with an emphasis on current industry applications and future entrepreneurial opportunities in the field.
ObjectiveBy the end of the course, students should be able to:
1. Describe the characteristics of the nine integrated areas of industrialized construction: planning and control of processes; developed technical systems; prefabrication; long-term relations; logistics; use of ICT; re-use of experience and measurements; customer and market focus; continuous improvement.
2. Assess case studies on successful or failed industry implementations of industrialized construction in Europe, Japan and North America.
3. Propose a framework for a new industrialized construction company for a segment of the industrialized construction market (e.g. housing, commercial, schools) including the company’s business model, technical platform, and supply chain strategy.
4. Identify future trends in industrialized construction including the use of design automation, digital fabrication, and Industry 4.0.
ContentThe application of Industrialized Construction - also referred to as prefabrication, offsite building, or modular construction – is rapidly increasing in the industry. Although the promise of industrialized construction has long gone unrealized, several market indicators show that this method of construction is quickly growing around the world. Industrialized Construction offers potential for increased productivity, efficiency, innovation, and safety on the construction site. The course will present the driving forces, concepts, technologies, and managerial aspects of Industrialized Construction. The course unpacks project-orientated vs. product-oriented approaches while showcasing process and technology platforms used by companies in Europe, the UK, Japan, and North America. The course highlights future business models and entrepreneurial opportunities for new industrialized construction ventures.

The course is organized around a group project carried out in teams of 3-4. Each specific class will include some theory about industrialized construction from a strategic and/or technological perspective. There will be several external guest lectures as well. During the last hour of the course, students will work in project teams to propose a framework for a new industrialized construction venture. The teams will need to determine their new company’s product offering, business model, technical platform, technology solutions, and supply chain strategy.

It is intended to hold a group excursion to a factory for a 1/2 day visit. However in 2021, this will be determined pending the status of COVID-19 restrictions. planned course activities include a 1/2 day factory visit Students who are unable to attend the visit can make up participation through independent research and the writing of a short paper.
LiteratureA full list of required readings will be made available to the students via Moodle.
052-0568-00LRoom Acoustics (FS) Information
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2GK. Eggenschwiler
AbstractInfluence of form and material on speech and music within spaces. Special requirements of acoustically sensitive spaces such as school rooms, music rooms, theaters, concert halls, opera buildings and churches (historical and modern buildings). Scientific ways of calculating and assessing acoustics. Basic introduction to sound systems for speech.
ObjectiveThe students learn to recognise the importance of acoustic factors and to design spaces with appropriate acoustical properties.
ContentWe will begin by focusing on the acoustic dimension of space without excluding the other non-auditory senses. Following this, the influence of form and material on hearing and the characteristics of the spoken word and music within spaces will be explored by means of examples and with the aid of the special instruments of acoustic science. We will then discuss the special requirements of acoustically sensitive spaces such as school rooms, music rooms, theaters, concert halls, opera buildings, and churches. This study takes the form of both theory, and real examples of historical and modern buildings. Scientific ways of calculating and assessing acoustics is presented and a basic introduction to the sound system
design for speech is made.
Lecture notesScript in German
052-0616-00LBuilding Process: Realization (FS) Information Restricted registration - show details
More information at: Link;
The course is limited to 40 students.

This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.

ITA Pool information event: 10.2.20, 10-11 Uhr, HIB Open Space (s. auch Veranstaltungskalender ETH)
W2 credits2GM. Eglin
AbstractVisits to construction sites and interdisciplinary lectures on the topics of communication, complexity, landscape and investment are the main focus of the workshop. In addition, the term “process” is to be depicted by means of visits to manufacturers of construction components.
ObjectiveThe main focus of the diploma elective subject is in showing the building process by means of current examples of urban design with architectural relevance. The Chair views itself as the facilitator between those involved in construction and students. Active participation is a prerequisite.
ContentThe main focus of the diploma elective subject is in showing the building process by means of current examples of urban design with architectural relevance. Visits to construction sites and interdisciplinary lectures on the topics of communication, complexity, landscape and investment are the main focus of the workshop. In addition, the term “process” is to be depicted by means of visits to manufacturers of construction components. The Chair views itself as the facilitator between those involved in construction and students. Active participation is a prerequisite.
Lecture notesThe recordings of the lectures are available on the MAP under the link Link (book symbol at the top right).
LiteratureLink, Sacha Menz (Hrsg.), Drei Bücher über den Bauprozess, vdf Hochschulverlag an der ETH Zürich, 2009
Literaturempfehlungen unter Link
Prerequisites / NoticeThe number of participants is limited and enrolment is only possible in agreement with the chair!
052-0626-00LHistorical and Systematic Aspects of Acoustic Design in Architecture (FS)
Does not take place this semester.
This course is postponed to HS21 and it takes place the last time in HS21.
W2 credits2GF. Gramazio, J. Strauss
Abstract
Objective
052-0628-21LCAAD Theory: A House that Demands More From the Sunset (Hovestadt) Information Restricted registration - show details
ITA Pool information event on the offered courses:
10.2.2021, 10-11 h, ONLINE, VideoZoom Link: Link
W2 credits2GL. Hovestadt
Abstract“Perhaps the only difference between me and other people is that I've always demanded more from the sunset. More spectacular colors when the sun hit the horizon. That's perhaps my only sin.”
Joe, Nymphomaniac: Vol. I
ObjectiveIn this course you will select a building and create a persona that both is and is not yourself. Through writing a text with the help of a library (Xenotheka) and Machine Intelligence (Ask.Alice search engine), you will mobilise that persona and set it to work in a space.
From an ‘elsewhere’ to ‘anywhere’, we can animate spaces and make them talk; we can create a persona.
ContentSetting:
House, Library and Me

Play:
If the walls could speak . . . what would they demand?
We use space to create multiple personae, all with different tempers. A million chattering voices.
Avatars, yes, but what could they do?
The inside becomes the outside: the part becomes the whole. One little room becomes an everywhere. The creation of a space that is you.
But how do we get them to talk?
By mobilising multiple personae and setting them to work in a space. By creating an alter-ego from the perspective of an element.
Like Captain Planet?
Air - Earth - Fire - Water. A house characterised by four humours and four elements in balance.
What is a house but a coded balance that shifts?
‘Even Bergsonian duration is in need of a runner’. Deleuze and Guattari’s conceptual personae include the Socrates of Plato, the Dionysus of Nietzsche, the Idiot of Nicholas of Cusa. But what if the concept is yourself?
Lecture notesLink
LiteratureLink
Prerequisites / NoticeITA Pool information event on the offered courses:
10.2.2021, 10-11 h, ONLINE, VideoZoom Link: Link
052-0630-21LCAAD Practice: A Brief Introduction to Coding (L. Hovestadt) Information Restricted registration - show details
ITA Pool information event on the offered courses:
10.2.2021, 10-11 h, ONLINE, VideoZoom Link: Link
W2 credits2GL. Hovestadt
AbstractComputers are not machines, rather instruments to think the world with. Coding is not about submitting yourself to computer scientists' formalities and worldviews, but about the emancipation of writing itself in the digital age.
ObjectiveThis course aims to expose you to writing code (you will be writing a lot). Teaching will not be rigidly structured since we do not seek to solve any particular problem using code, nor offer certification. We want to learn to talk in a new way. We will let grammar fit into its place naturally, and let the ideas about what we can do with code cook slowly.
ContentComputers are not machines, rather instruments to think the world with. Coding is not about submitting yourself to computer scientists' formalities and worldviews, but about the emancipation of writing itself in the digital age. Even if you never end up using computer code in your architectural endeavours (highly unlikely), knowing what code does and how to write it will make you a literate person in a sense you cannot currently imagine. New perspectives will open to you in the world that is already there.
This course aims to expose you to writing code (you will be writing a lot). Teaching will not be rigidly structured since we do not seek to solve any particular problem using code, nor offer certification. We want to learn to talk in a new way. We will let grammar fit into its place naturally, and let the ideas about what we can do with code cook slowly.
We will be coding in Python programming language. Python is a very popular language that is easy to start with, but hard to master (just like English). But we are not here for the Python or any other language. We are interested in the talks that it allows us to articulate.
Lecture notesYou do not need any prerequisites to join this course. Python can be run in a web browser, and you do not need to install anything. Join the course via Zoom on the following link: Link
LiteratureLink
Prerequisites / NoticeITA Pool information event on the offered courses:
10.2.2021, 10-11 h, ONLINE, VideoZoom Link: Link
052-0634-21LForce, Material, Form: Exploring Interdisciplinary Design Information
ITA Pool information event on the offered courses:
10.2.2021, 10-11 h, ONLINE, VideoZoom Link: Link
W3 credits3GJ. Schwartz
AbstractThis course is aimed at students of architecture and civil engineering from the 5th semester Bachelor or higher, who wish to practice and explore the design of structures in interdisciplinary groups. In the interplay between application and theory, the students design small structural objects in interdisciplinary teams and then investigate group dynamics relevant to design.
ObjectiveStudents learn to work in an interdisciplinary group of architecture and civil engineering students on the basis of the design of small structural objects. Through observation, reflection and theoretical examination, characteristic group dynamics are to be identified and possible behavioural effects are to be investigated. The following questions are central: How can interdisciplinary groups develop high-quality innovative structures? What are the decisive processes in such cooperation? How are interdisciplinary ideas developed and decisions made? Which roles are occupied by whom and how does this distribution of roles affect the structural design?
ContentStructural design is connected with the interdisciplinary negotiation of technical-constructive framework conditions on the basis of creative-spatial ideas. This field of tension between strength, material and form requires a fruitful exchange between architects and civil engineers. The course prepares students for this interdisciplinary working environment by practising and analysing the ability to work creatively with people from different disciplines. Within the framework of the design of small structural objects, tools for observation, reflection and theoretical examination are imparted, with which students can explore design-relevant group dynamics as well as behaviour and thought patterns in interdisciplinary work processes. Three thematic areas will be focussed on: The process of designing, working out approaches to solutions and understanding the roles of the individual group members. Each of these topics is dealt with in three stages:
1. an introduction to the theoretical foundations of the respective topic through input from the lecturers, guest lectures from experts and/or an excursion.
2. design of small structural objects in interdisciplinary groups with self-observation or external observation of the group dynamics relevant to the design.
3. analysis and presentation of the findings from the group observation.
The methodology of the course aims to combine theory and practice in an instructive, practical and entertaining way. The personal experiences and interests of the students in exploring the interdisciplinary design and construction of structural objects are the focus of this course.
LiteratureLiterature with text extracts from specialist books relevant to the topics of the lecture will be presented and made available during the course.
Prerequisites / NoticeA regular and active participation in the lessons is assumed (maximum 2 absences). A repetition is only possible if the course unit is enrolled again. This course is aimed at students of the architecture and civil engineering departments from the 5th semester Bachelor or higher.

ITA Pool information event on the offered courses:
10.2.2021, 10-11 h, ONLINE, VideoZoom Link:
Link
052-0638-21LBuilding Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV) - Workshop Information Restricted registration - show details
Only for BSc students from 5th/6th semester and MSc students.
W2 credits3GA. Schlüter
AbstractThe weeklong workshop will focus on building integrated photovolatics (BiPV). Students will be introduced to theory, methods and tools to support them in developing demonstrator objects in teams in ITA's Robotic Fabrication Lab (RFL). The week program also includes an industry site visit and final presentations.
ObjectiveOn successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
1) explain the principles of BIPV and the relevant aspects of designing with solar materials (e.g. principles of the photovoltaic effect and solar glass properties);
2) assess the effects of the position of the sun, solar irradiance and design choices on PV system performance with basic calculations and tools;
3) fabricate PV demonstrator objects and demonstrate various PV designs
4) explain secondary functions of BIPV and how this relates to conventional construction; and
5) explain environmental benefits and market drivers of BIPV.
ContentProgram Overview
M / Session 1 / Welcome & Introduction
M / Session 2 / Input Lecture on Theory & Methods
M / Session 3 / Input Lecture on Tools
M / Session 4 / Demonstrator Object Group Work
Tu / Sessions 1-2 / Industry Site Visit
Tu / Session 3-4 / Demonstrator Object Group Work
W / Sessions 1 / Feedback Session
W / Session 2-4 / Demonstrator Object Group Work
Th / Sessions 1 / Feedback Session
Th / Session 2-4 / Demonstrator Object Group Work
F / Sessions 1-2 / Exhibit Installation
F / Session 3-4 / Presentation & Feedback Sessions with External Reviewers
Prerequisites / Notice1) Energy & Climate Systems 1&2, Building Systems 1&2
or equivalent coursework is prerequisite;

2) Apply with CV, concise motivation letter and your current
Transcript of Records BEFORE February 3, 2021, to:
Link.
Your participation in the workshop will be confirmed by February 10.

3) Material costs are included.
051-1218-21LIntegrated Discipline CAAD Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UL. Hovestadt
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ObjectiveToday architectural sketching without the employment of information technologies is only meaningful in exceptional cases. CAD plans, three-dimensional rendering, CNC model construction etc. are pervasive media for the development and presentation of architectural drafts. This elective course tries to follow questions on a new plateau: Which are the common traits of current design methods and modern information technologies and how can they symbiotically lead to a new architectural expressions in formal and constructional regard. Draft-accompanying, these questions are pursuit on a theoretical level, in order to be able to find its expression in the concrete draft. Ascertained technical applications are not ment to be of priority.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
Lecture notesLink
LiteratureLink
051-1220-21LIntegrated Discipline Building Systems Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UA. Schlüter
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines. In this case the focus lies on energy and exergy concepts and related technical infrastructure to achieve sustainable building concepts.
ObjectiveUnderstanding the building from an integrated view on form, material and technical systems. Focus on CO2 - neutral building design concepts, utilizing energy and exergy efficient sytems.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines. In this case the focus lies on energy and exergy concepts and related technical infrastructure to achieve sustainable building concepts.
Prerequisites / NoticePrerequisite is a successful exam of Energy and Climate Systems I+II
051-1222-21LIntegrated Discipline Architecture and Building Process Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2US. Menz
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines.
ObjectiveAlongside a discussion of the basic principles, trends and terminologies, a closer look will be taken at each topic.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines.
LiteratureLink,
Literature recommendations at Link
051-1224-21LIntegrated Discipline Structural Design Information Restricted registration - show details
Registration in mystudies and per email to the chair is compulsory by latest the end of the 3rd semester week.
W3 credits2UJ. Schwartz
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from building structur
ObjectiveUnderstanding of the importance of the structural system for architectural design and integration of structural thinking into the design process.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from building structur
Prerequisites / NoticeRegistration in mystudies and per email to the chair is compulsory by latest the end of the 3rd semester week.
051-1226-21LIntegrated Discipline Architecture and Digital Fabrication Information Restricted registration - show details
Enrolment only possible after consultation with the lecturer.
W3 credits2UF. Gramazio, M. Kohler
AbstractThe Integrated Discipline deals with the interrelation between material and algorithmic design. The direct control of production data opens up new possibilities for design strategies that are exempt from the limitations of standard CAD software. The Integration of process, function and design allows for a new approach to the production of architecture.
ObjectiveThe objective of this course is to develop a strategy for a surface structure that incorporates design ideas about space, material and light. The structure can be developed in any suitable scripting language. The procedural logics should be defined through the constructive potential and properties of the chosen material and transform it at the same time in order to achieve a new architectural expression.
ContentWe use the term digital materiality to describe an emergent transformation in the expression of architecture. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affect architecture’s physis. Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. The synthesis of two seemingly distinct worlds – the digital and the material – generates new, self-evident realities. Data and material, programming and construction are interwoven. This synthesis is enabled by the techniques of digital fabrication, which allows the architect to control the manufacturing process through design data. Material is thus enriched by information; material becomes “informed.” In the future, architects’ ideas will permeate the fabrication process in its entirety. This new situation transforms the possibilities and thus the professional scope of the architect.
051-1246-21LIntegrated Discipline Structural Construction (P. Block) Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UP. Block
AbstractStructural design will be an integral part of the semester design project in the area of architecture and urbanism, and integrates knowledge acquired in the first years of Structures.
ObjectiveUnderstanding of the importance of the structural system for architectural design and integration
of structural thinking into the design process.
ContentThe integrated academic performance is related to the design project and assisted by specialists from the field of structural engineering. The focus, format and extent of the work are to be consulted with the professorship.
Prerequisites / NoticeRegistration in mystudies and per email to the chair is compulsory by latest the end of the 3rd semester week.

The final presentation of the term's work will take place on the last Thursday of the semester.
Historic Building Archaeology and Conservation
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
063-0908-00LConversion History (FS) Information
This course (ends with «00L») can only be passed once! Please check this before signing up.
W2 credits2GC. M. Knobling
AbstractThe course addresses the challenging questions of the topic "Conversion" in terms of design, construction and urbanism from antiquity to the 20th century.
ObjectiveWe will regard the building history from late ancient times to the early 20th century by analysing transformations within two cities. In this way you can apply your knowledge of building history from the core subject to these highly focused examples.
You will learn to recognise, interpret and chronologically classify traces of changes in historical buildings. Thus, you will also gain an impression of the issues involved in building archaeology.
ContentBuilding history is also a history of constant change and adaptation. No city looks today as it did when it was founded. Only very few buildings have been preserved in their original state. Building in existing contexts is therefore not only a term of the current architectural discourse - rather, modernisation, adaptation to new uses, upgrading, repairs or the continued construction of existing buildings (up to the urban planning dimension) have always been core tasks of the architect.

We consider history of construction in time-lapse and in an extremely condensed form based on just two cities - Milan and Vienna. On the one hand, we will see that most of the buildings have been rebuilt several times in the course of their existence - even if they seem very uniform to us today. We will identify the conversion phases of these buildings, and also focus on the technical implementation of these measures.

On the other hand, we will see that every ambitious new construction in the past has also transformed the existing city - from medieval town fortifications to the construction of railway stations. Every new building is therefore also part of a conversion, either structurally or, e.g. by stylistic changes, aesthetically.

The course is not graded. As proof of achievement, participants produce a short photo essay on a historical conversion of their own choice.
052-0914-21LPreservation: Uncool & Unbeloved Information Restricted registration - show details
Number of participants limited to 40.
W2 credits2SS. Langenberg
AbstractThe elective course addresses current issues and challenges in the field of heritage conservation. Under the title "UNCOOL & UNBELOVED", the focus in the spring semester of 2021 is on the self-perception and image of heritage conservation as well as the public image of the discipline and its goals.
ObjectiveStudents will gain insight into the key principles and tasks of practical heritage conservation. By examining a self-chosen topic or object, students can explore questions in greater depth and discuss them within the group.
ContentThe task of heritage conservation is the inventory and preservation of objects worthy of protection. In doing so, it is confronted with a wide variety of challenges and issues, both constructive and social, such as ageing and decay, the desire for development, densification or change of use, changes in climate conditions and requirements, the appropriation and rejection of objects and stocks, amongst others.
In the spring semester of 2021, we will devote ourselves to the topic of the self-conception and image of heritage conservation as well as protected building stocks that are poorly recognised by society. We will analyse, discuss and question the public perception of the traditional heritage preservation. Based on this, students will develop and implement a fictional image campaign in groups. This could include posters and/or movies, a website, an app, games, among other options.
051-1204-21LIntegrated Discipline Building Research and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Information Restricted registration - show details
Does not take place this semester.
W3 credits2US. Holzer
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ObjectiveDeepen and widen the knowledge of the first years of study (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.)
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
Prerequisites / NoticeThe contents of the integrated discipline Building Research and Preservation of Cultural Heritage are defined in accordance to the subject of the respective lecturer.
Additional Electives of ETH Zurich
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
351-1138-00LPRISMA Capstone - Rethinking Sustainable Cities and Communities
Bachelor students get preferential access to this course. All interested students must apply through a separate application process at: Link

Participation is subject to successful selection through this sign-up process.
W4 credits4VA. Cabello Llamas, M. Augsburger
AbstractThe goal of this intense one-week course is to bring students from different backgrounds together to make connections between disciplines and to build bridges to society. Supported by student coaches and experts, our student teams will use hands-on Design Thinking methods to address relevant challenges based on the UN sustainable development goals.
ObjectiveIn this intense 7-day block course students will be able to acquire and practice essential cross-disciplinary competencies as well as gaining an understanding of a human-centered innovation process. More specifically students will learn to:
- Work and think in a problem-based way.
- Put their own field into a broader context.
- Engage in collaborative ideation with a multidisciplinary team.
- Identify challenges related to relevant societal issues.
- Develop, prototype and plan innovative solutions for a range of different contexts.
- Innovate in a human-centered way by observing and interacting with key stakeholders.

The acquired methods and skills are based on the ETH competence framework and can be applied to tackle a broad range of problems in academia and society. Moving beyond traditional teaching approaches, this course allows students to engage creatively in a process of rethinking and redesigning aspects and elements of current and future urban areas, actively contributing towards fulfilling the UN SDG 11.
ContentThe course is divided in to three stages:

Warm-up and framing: The goal of this first stage is to get familiar with current problems faced by cities and communities as well as with the Design Thinking process and mindset. The students will learn about the working process, the teaching spaces and resources, as well as their fellow students and the lecturers.

Identifying challenges: The objective is to get to know additional methods and tools to identify a specific challenge relevant for urban areas through fieldwork and direct engagement with relevant stakeholders, resulting in the definition of an actionable problem statement that will form the starting point for the development of innovative solutions.

Solving challenges within current and future context: During this phase, students will apply the learned methods and tools to solve the identified challenge in a multi-disciplinary group by creating, developing and testing high-potential ideas. The ideas are presented to relevant academic, industry and societal stakeholders on the last day of the week.

To facilitate the fast-paced innovation journey, the multidisciplinary teams are supported throughout the week by experienced student coaches.

This course is a capstone for the student-lead initiative PRISMA. (Link).
Prerequisites / NoticeBachelor students get preferential access to this course. All interested students must apply through a separate application process at: Link

Participation is subject to successful selection through this sign-up process.
101-0388-00LPlanning of Underground Space Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2GA. Cornaro
AbstractUrban underground space is the undiscovered or underutilised asset that can help shape the cities of the future. Planning the urban subsurface calls for multi disciplinary professionals to work together in shaping a new urban tissue beneath our cities. The need to plan the third dimension in the subsurface is critical in making our cities future proof, resilient and sustainable.
ObjectiveGain an appreciation and knowledge of what lies beneath our feet and what an asset the underground is for our cities. The need to plan this asset is more complex than on the surface, as it is invisible and in parts impenentrable. We look at methods and tools to gain an understanding of the subsurface and what issues and challenges are involved in planning it.
Contentweekly lectures on various topics involving cities and the subsurface.
-Major aspects of urban development
-The Subsurface as the final frontier
-Historical approaches to underground space development
-Urban sustainability aspects
-Modelling and mapping the underground
-Policy building and urban planning
-Design and architecture -creating a new urban tissue
-Future cities -resilient cities
-Governance and legal challenges
-Investment aspects and value capture
-Future proofing our infrastructure
-Best practice of underground space use
-Excursion to underground facility
Lecture notespresentation slides
book: Underground Spaces Unveiled: Planning and Creating the Cities of the Future, ICE Publishing, 2018, Admiraal, H., Cornaro, A., ISBN 978-0-7277-6145-3
Literaturevarious articles and books will be recommended during the course

please see also weblinks "learning materials"
Focus Works
» see Architecture MSc "Focus Work"
Bachelor Studies (Programme Regulations 2011)
Examination Blocks
Examination Block 4
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
051-0126-00LArchitecture VI Information
Only for Architecture BSc, Programme Regulations 2011.
O1 credit2VP. Ursprung
AbstractHistory of Art and Architecture since the 1970s
ObjectiveKnowledge of the history of art and architecture since the 1970s. Sensibility for historical processes and for the concepts in the realm of visual culture.
ContentThe 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 notesA video documentation of the lecture class is available.
LiteratureRequired reading will be announced in the class and on the website of the chair.
051-0156-00LArchitectural Technology VI Information
Only for Architecture BSc, Programme Regulations 2011.
O2 credits2GK. Z. Weber, A. Thuy
AbstractThe 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.
ObjectiveThe 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.
ContentThe 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 notesThe 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.
Literaturelist of literature per lecture
Prerequisites / NoticeGeneral 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.

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.
051-0616-00LDesign and Strategy in Urban Space II Information
Only for Architecture BSc, Programme Regulations 2011.

Students from the Bachelor course of Architecture BSc will have unlimited admission.
Other students will kindly check all corresponding information given (also on the chairs' websites) regarding admission/examination/test practice: Link.
O1 credit2VM. Wagner
AbstractThe 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.
ObjectiveThe goal is to provide students with a broad systemic basic knowledge, that enables them to synthesize and evaluate complex urban design and planning problems.
ContentThe 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 notesThere is no script to the lecture series. The lectures are recorded on video and made available online on Link a few days after each lecture.
LiteratureAt the end of the year course a reader with secondary literature will be made available for download.
Prerequisites / NoticeFurther Informations:
Link

Live stream from the lecture hall: Link

Live stream with chat: Link

Recordings: Link
Examination Block 5
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
051-0116-00LTheory of Architecture II
Only for Architecture BSc, Programme Regulations 2011.
O1 credit2VL. Stalder
AbstractThe lecture course offers an introduction to key themes and questions of modern architectural theory over two semesters. Part one addresses formative "figures of thought" and their materialization in built and spatial structures. Part two critically examines different forms of architectural practice through the work of exemplary protagonists.
ObjectiveUnderstanding of the historic development of architectural theory during modernity and critical discussion of its key terms and concepts from a transdisciplinary perspective.
ContentIn the second part of the lecture course our focus will be on factors of production in architecture as well as various approaches and forms of architectural practice from the twentieth century to the present. Different "work models" will be introduced and critically discussed through a series of exemplary case studies with a focus on actors and their agency. By doing so, we seek to highlight architects' varying fields of activity within their specific local and changing historical contexts. We encounter architects, who not only shaped environments that were increasingly characterized by an abundance of new industrially manufactured materials and products, but who also organized labour and production processes. In addition to that, we will study attempts to restructure the capitalist building sector through cooperation, and we will look at the work of salaried architects in municipal and state planning offices. Finally, we will turn to such strategies as field work, analysis of the everyday, and activism.
Lecture notesHandouts summarizing the content of weekly lectures will be available for download from the website of the Visiting Lectureship for the Theory of Architecture.
LiteratureAll required readings for the lectures will be available for download from the website of the Visiting Lectureship for the Theory of Architecture.

In addition to those key readings, the following monographs and anthologies are useful complementary sources for the lecture course:

- Adrian Forty, Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames & Hudson, 2000.

- Susanne Hauser, Christa Kamleithner, Roland Meyer, eds., Architekturwissen. Grundlagentexte aus den Kulturwissenschaften, Bielefeld: Transcript, 2013, 2 Vols.

- K. Michael Hays, ed., Architecture Theory since 1968, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1998.

- Harry Francis Mallgrave, ed., Architectural Theory, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006–2008, 2 Vols.

- Ákos Moravánszky, ed., Architekturtheorie im 20. Jahrhundert. Eine kritische Anthologie, Wien, New York: Springer, 2003.

- Joan Ockman, Architecture Culture, 1943–1968: A Documentary Anthology, New York: Rizzoli, 1993.
051-0758-00LBuilding Process II Information
Only for Architecture BSc, Programme Regulations 2011.
O2 credits2GS. Menz
AbstractThe building process is the main focus of this lecture series. The process is understood as a sequence of criteria in time.
Topics: Building legislation, building economics, the people involved and their work, construction and planning organization and facility management.
Process thinking, acquisition and a glance at our foreign neighbours complete the series.
ObjectiveAlongside 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.
ContentThe 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 building legislation, building economics, the people involved and their work, construction and planning organization and facility management. Process thinking, acquisition 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 notesLink; The recordings of the lectures are also available on the MAP under this link (book symbol at the top right).
LiteratureLiteraturempfehlungen unter Link
051-0162-00LLandscape Architecture II Information
Only for Architecture BSc, Programme Regulations 2011.
O1 credit2VC. Girot
AbstractThe lecture series gives an introduction to the field of contemporary landscape architecture. The course
provides a perspective on forthcoming landscape architecture in terms of the aspects site, soil, water and
vegetation.
ObjectiveOverview to contemporary and forthcoming tasks of landscape architecture. A critical reflection of the
present design practice and discussion of new approaches in landscape architecture.
ContentThe lecture series "Theory and Design in Contemporary Landscape Architecture" (Landscape Architecure
II) follows the lecture series "History and Theory of Garden Design and Landscape Architecture"
(Landscape Architecure I). Rather than concentrating only on questions of style, the series will also tackle
issues such as revitalisation, sustainability etc. The lectures review design approaches that critically
reflect our inherited perception of nature. The themes of site, soil, water and vegetation provide some
useful aspects for the design practice.
Lecture notesNo script. Handouts and learning material will be provided.
LiteratureA reading list will be provided for the exams.
Prerequisites / NoticeGeneral 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 tests knowledge from both semesters. It is necessary to attend the lectures throughout the course of the year.
The test themes 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.

Transfer students or students of other departments: Students attending one semester may opt to take only 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.
Architectural Design and integrated Disciplines
Architectural Design
Architectural Design (from 5. Semester on)
» see "Architectural Design (from 5. Semester on)", Programme Regulations 2017
Integrated Discipline Construction
The integrated Discipline Construction can also be completed as "additional integrated Discipline", but the integrated Discpline Construction must be chosen at least once.
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
051-1202-21LIntegrated Discipline Construction (D.Mettler/D.Studer) Information Restricted registration - show details
Presence on the first day (initial course event) to the integrated discipline construction is compulsory for participating in this course.
W3 credits2UD. Mettler, D. Studer
AbstractIn the context of the semester-long design projects, the reciprocity between design, construction and materiality is reinforced.
One focus is the coherence of design and construction.

In the process of developing a project's constructional aspects, design intentions become formulated in a more precise and binding way.
ObjectiveThe integration of knowledge gained in the basic courses lends the work an additional dimension and demands of the students an increasingly integrative ability to think and design.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
Prerequisites / NoticeFor your attention:
Your presence at the introduction lesson taking place at the beginning of the semester (date will be communicated in due time) is compulsory for all further work within the Integrated Discipline Construction.

The Integrated Discipline Construction at BUK consists of the obligatory introductory event, the central elements Exercise 1 + 2, Presentation and Interim Criticism, as well as the final submission.
051-1242-21LIntegrated Discipline Construction - Spring Semester 2021 Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2ULecturers
AbstractThe integrated focal work has to accompany the design, though the focal work has to be an autonomous work. The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.

Work on a current design project with focus on construction.
ObjectiveA case study with a clear topic and a clear formulation of a question. The findings and the discoveries shall be part of the base of the design.

Obtain competence in the field of construction and constructive design.
Prerequisites / NoticeFor students who attend the architectural design only.
Additional Integrated Disciplines
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
051-1204-21LIntegrated Discipline Building Research and Preservation of Cultural Heritage Information Restricted registration - show details
Does not take place this semester.
W3 credits2US. Holzer
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ObjectiveDeepen and widen the knowledge of the first years of study (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.)
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
Prerequisites / NoticeThe contents of the integrated discipline Building Research and Preservation of Cultural Heritage are defined in accordance to the subject of the respective lecturer.
051-1206-21LIntegrated Discipline History of Urban Design Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UT. Avermaete
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ObjectiveAim of this subject is to explain bacis principles of scientific methods to the students. This aim shall be obtained through the analysis of plans and texts of urban case stuies.
Prerequisites / NoticeBefore the registration to Integrated Discipline History of Urban Design the students have to make an appointment with one of the assistants of the chair.
051-1208-21LIntegrated Discipline History of Art and Architecture Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UM. Delbeke
AbstractThe "Integrated Discipline History of Art and Architecture" requires an independent demonstration of achievement within the History of Art and Architecture as an integral part of the Architectural Design project. The assignment must be completed in writing and/or in the form of creative work. Choice of subject, form and scope of the assignment must be defined in accordance with the Chair.
ObjectiveThe assignment objective is a detailed analysis within the area of the History of Architecture of a clearly defined monographic or thematic topic. The conclusions thus gained shall be integrated into the Architectural Design project.
Prerequisites / NoticeVoraussetzung ist die Anmeldung unter mystudies.ethz.ch und per e-mail an die Professur bis spätestens zum Ende der ersten Semesterwoche unter Angabe des Entwurfsthemas und der betreuenden Professur sowie die Teilnahme am Kolloquium in der zweiten Semesterwoche zur allgemeinen Einführung und konkreten Besprechung der Integrationsleistung (Ort und Uhrzeit des Kolloquiums werden auf der Homepage des Lehrstuhls Oechslin bekannt gegeben). Die Abgabe der Arbeit erfolgt gleichzeitig mit der Abgabe des Entwurfs.
051-1210-21LIntegrated Discipline History of Art and Architecture (P. Ursprung) Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UP. Ursprung
AbstractA brief assignment within the History of Architecture completed in writing and/or in the form of creative work is integrated into the Architectural Design project.
ObjectiveThe objective is a detailed analysis of a topic chosen within the
History of Architecture. The conclusions gained shall be integrated into the Architectural Design project.
ContentThe integrated study performance is associated with the draft, but a clearly recognizable independent performance in the form of a short written and / or creative work must be performed. The choice of topics is made in close consultation with the substitute professorship, the form and scope of the work are agreed in advance.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe prerequisite is registration at mystudies.ethz.ch and an e-mail to the chair by the end of the first week of the semester stating the design topic and the supervising chair, as well as participation in the colloquium in the second week of the semester for a general introduction and concrete discussion of the integration work . The place and time of the colloquium will be announced on the homepage of the Professorship in Hildebrand. The submission deadline is set analogously to that of the draft.
051-1214-21LIntegrated Discipline Theory of Architecture Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UL. Stalder
AbstractThis course is offered by the Chair of Architectural Theory as an integrated discipline in the Design Studio "Tourism Behaviorology in Switzerland" and can only be booked as a joint bundle. The general aim of the course is to trace possible genealogies of a building / neighborhood / place in the Bernese Oberland and its larger network, through a picture-essay.
ObjectiveThe task of the first part of the course will be a small research project on a specific building / neighborhood / place in Grindelwald or Interlaken. The work will consist of an analysis of its architectural, technological or cultural characteristics, in their historical and current forms, and situated in its larger environment. The research will be carried out using two different approaches: firstly, site visit, and secondly, a collection of visual documents compiled from historical sources, stories, films, paintings, historical texts, images from the advertising industry, etc. The research is composed of the phases "collecting", "constellating" and "representing", the intermediate products of which will be presented during the desk critiques and handed in as a picture essay.
In the foreground of the assignment in architectural theory, the picture essay fulfils two experimental functions at once: On the one hand, the picture essay as an intermediate product of this process is an experimental arrangement and thus testimony to critical thinking with and in images, or with and in the combination of image and text. On the other hand, the collected images and arguments are part of a preliminary study for the design of an actor network drawing. Thus, they are a means in the decision-making process for a product and part of an experimental praxis.
ContentIn the literary tradition, the essay refers to an experimental text form, not least due to the fact that 'essay' can be translated into German as 'Versuch'. In addition to the practice of writing, it is primarily a critical experiment in thought that finds its form in the written essay.

If the focus is on thought experimentation, this should also be able to take place via other media. 'Picture essay' can therefore refer to critical thinking with and in images, or with and in the combination of image and text. If the literary practice of the 'essay' is transferred to the visual realm as a 'picture essay', firstly a medial change from text to image takes place and secondly an intermedial structure of text and image emerges, whose units stand in relation to each other. The medialisation of thought in text or image, however, is subject to a different medial logic. This makes it clear that experimenting with thinking in language or in images cannot mean the same thing. While the reception of images allows for the simultaneous recognition of several objects, the reading of a text follows a temporally linear sequence along the syntax.

To create an image essay, the first step is to collect image material – images of sources, artworks, sketches and objects – make a selection and arrange them in a constellation. Constellated, the images show their subject as well as their relation to the image collection. The images thus fulfil a function of showing, whereby a meaningful overall picture can emerge from their constellation.

The constellation is followed in a second step by the text. If we look at picture essays from architectural history and architectural journals, it becomes clear that the text can take on different functions: As a commentary, it can highlight both the content of the picture and the connecting element between the pictures in a descriptive way. If there are references between the image and the text, an argument is usually developed on the basis of image and text modules. Furthermore, the essayistic text can also run parallel to the picture section as a separate narrative thread.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe integrated design is organized and operated by both chairs engaged in close cooperation.

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051-1218-21LIntegrated Discipline CAAD Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UL. Hovestadt
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ObjectiveToday architectural sketching without the employment of information technologies is only meaningful in exceptional cases. CAD plans, three-dimensional rendering, CNC model construction etc. are pervasive media for the development and presentation of architectural drafts. This elective course tries to follow questions on a new plateau: Which are the common traits of current design methods and modern information technologies and how can they symbiotically lead to a new architectural expressions in formal and constructional regard. Draft-accompanying, these questions are pursuit on a theoretical level, in order to be able to find its expression in the concrete draft. Ascertained technical applications are not ment to be of priority.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
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051-1220-21LIntegrated Discipline Building Systems Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UA. Schlüter
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines. In this case the focus lies on energy and exergy concepts and related technical infrastructure to achieve sustainable building concepts.
ObjectiveUnderstanding the building from an integrated view on form, material and technical systems. Focus on CO2 - neutral building design concepts, utilizing energy and exergy efficient sytems.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines. In this case the focus lies on energy and exergy concepts and related technical infrastructure to achieve sustainable building concepts.
Prerequisites / NoticePrerequisite is a successful exam of Energy and Climate Systems I+II
051-1222-21LIntegrated Discipline Architecture and Building Process Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2US. Menz
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines.
ObjectiveAlongside a discussion of the basic principles, trends and terminologies, a closer look will be taken at each topic.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines.
LiteratureLink,
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051-1224-21LIntegrated Discipline Structural Design Information Restricted registration - show details
Registration in mystudies and per email to the chair is compulsory by latest the end of the 3rd semester week.
W3 credits2UJ. Schwartz
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from building structur
ObjectiveUnderstanding of the importance of the structural system for architectural design and integration of structural thinking into the design process.
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from building structur
Prerequisites / NoticeRegistration in mystudies and per email to the chair is compulsory by latest the end of the 3rd semester week.
051-1226-21LIntegrated Discipline Architecture and Digital Fabrication Information Restricted registration - show details
Enrolment only possible after consultation with the lecturer.
W3 credits2UF. Gramazio, M. Kohler
AbstractThe Integrated Discipline deals with the interrelation between material and algorithmic design. The direct control of production data opens up new possibilities for design strategies that are exempt from the limitations of standard CAD software. The Integration of process, function and design allows for a new approach to the production of architecture.
ObjectiveThe objective of this course is to develop a strategy for a surface structure that incorporates design ideas about space, material and light. The structure can be developed in any suitable scripting language. The procedural logics should be defined through the constructive potential and properties of the chosen material and transform it at the same time in order to achieve a new architectural expression.
ContentWe use the term digital materiality to describe an emergent transformation in the expression of architecture. Materiality is increasingly being enriched with digital characteristics, which substantially affect architecture’s physis. Digital materiality evolves through the interplay between digital and material processes in design and construction. The synthesis of two seemingly distinct worlds – the digital and the material – generates new, self-evident realities. Data and material, programming and construction are interwoven. This synthesis is enabled by the techniques of digital fabrication, which allows the architect to control the manufacturing process through design data. Material is thus enriched by information; material becomes “informed.” In the future, architects’ ideas will permeate the fabrication process in its entirety. This new situation transforms the possibilities and thus the professional scope of the architect.
051-1232-21LIntegrated Discipline Sociology Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UC. Schmid
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates sociological questions and research methods.
ObjectiveTo consider the social context in the design process.
ContentThe content is related to the design process and is defined accordingly to the individual project.
051-1234-21LIntegrated Discipline Architecture and Urban Design (F. Persyn)W3 credits2UF. Persyn
AbstractThe integrated study performance has to accompany the design, though it has to be a clearly recognizable independent performance within the discipline of urban planning.The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.
ObjectiveAn urban design case study with a clear topic and a clear formulation of a question. The findings and the discoveries shall be part of the base of the design.
ContentThe integrated study performance has to accompany the design, though it has to be a clearly recognizable independent performance within the discipline of urban planning.The formal framework needs to be discussed with the assistants.
051-1236-21LIntegrated Discipline Landscape Architecture (G.Vogt) Information Restricted registration - show details
Does not take place this semester.
The integrated discipline of landscape architecture is aimed at entire design classes in consultation and coordination with the respective design chair.
W3 credits2UG. Vogt
AbstractThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ObjectiveThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
ContentThis part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).
051-1238-21LIntegrated Discipline Landscape Architecture (Ch. Girot) Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UC. Girot
AbstractDesign concepts ranging from architectural objects to urban planning are developed together with the discipline of landscape architecture. Dependent on the task at hand different themes are investigated. The goal of the integrated discipline is to develop design solutions of a specific topic in landscape architecture, which have to be incorporated into the overall design submission.
ObjectiveStudents gain an insight into the integrated disciplins of design in architecture together with landscape architecture.
Prerequisites / NoticeIn order to complete the subject Integrated Discipline it is necessary that students apply at the Chair of C. Girot within the first three weeks of the semester. Thereafter no applications will be processed.

Further information and required qualifications: Link
051-1246-21LIntegrated Discipline Structural Construction (P. Block) Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UP. Block
AbstractStructural design will be an integral part of the semester design project in the area of architecture and urbanism, and integrates knowledge acquired in the first years of Structures.
ObjectiveUnderstanding of the importance of the structural system for architectural design and integration
of structural thinking into the design process.
ContentThe integrated academic performance is related to the design project and assisted by specialists from the field of structural engineering. The focus, format and extent of the work are to be consulted with the professorship.
Prerequisites / NoticeRegistration in mystudies and per email to the chair is compulsory by latest the end of the 3rd semester week.

The final presentation of the term's work will take place on the last Thursday of the semester.
051-1248-21LIntegrated Diszipline Architecture and Art Information Restricted registration - show details W3 credits2UK. Sander, M. Wermke
AbstractIn the integrated discipline the architectural design will be juxtaposed by artistic thinking and working. The conceptional approach will in particular be rendered more precise in the dialogue between architectural and artistic methods. There is also a focus on the technique of describing the context precisely.
ObjectiveArt ist the discipline that is constantly creating new realities of terminology and perception. The purpose of the integrated discipline is to use this knowledge, that is produced by art, and to concern it by making design decisions.
ContentA systematic procedure for every step in the design is expected, from the generation of new ideas through to detailing and up to presentation. These can then be reflected in a variety of different ways in the outcome. Reflections on method flow into the design in an integrated manner. There will also be an emphasis on giving expression to the results of the design process using artistic means. In addition a publication should be compiled, presenting the conceptual steps developing the design.
Prerequisites / NoticeApplication to the chair.
Seminar Weeks
NumberTitleTypeECTSHoursLecturers
051-0912-21LSeminar Week Spring Semester 2021 Information Restricted registration - show details
Reservation required until 12.3.21! Further information see course description.
W2 credits3ALecturers
AbstractThe seminar week is obligatory for students of all semesters. There are many and varied study contents - the programs are listed at the beginning of each semester.
ObjectiveThe students will be enabled to discuss narrowly formulated factual questions in small groups and in direct contact with the professors.
ContentThe seminar week is obligatory for students of all semesters. There are many and varied study contents - the programs are listed at the beginning of each semester.
Prerequisites / NoticeThe seminar weeks FS21 are not taking place (Corona).
In order to receive the 2 ECTS, enrollment by 12.3.21 is required. Select the director of studies, Prof. Maarten Delbeke, as lecturer.
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