Doctoral Thesises completed 2021-2022

Giesecke, Rena Caroline 2022
Digital Materiality of Glass Architecture - Additive Manufacturing of Three-Dimensional Polychromatic Float Glass
Examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer und Koexaminator: Prof. Fabio Gramazio, D-ARCH
ETHZ E-Collection
Maia Avelino, Ricardo with distinction 2022
Thrust Network Optimisation for the Assessment of Vaulted Masonry Structure
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Dr. Andrew Liew, University of Sheffield
ETHZ E-Collection
Furter, Fabian 2022
Industriell bauen für die postindustrielle Gesellschaft - Massenwohnungsbau in der Nachkriegsschweiz 1945 bis 1975
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: sowie Zweitbetreuer: Dr. Angelus Eisinger (Direktor RZU Regionalplanung Zürich und Umgebung)
ETHZ E-Collection
Bhooshan, Shajay 2022
Shape design of 3d-concrete-printing masonry structures
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Dr. Tom Van Mele, Block Research Group, ITA; Koex: Dr. Patrik Schumacher, Principal, Zaha Hadid Architects;
ETHZ E-Collection
Cutellic, Pierre Gael 2022
Neurodesign - Modeling With Neural Potentials
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Ass.Prof. Philippe Morel, UCL Bartlett UK; Koex: Dr. Richardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, EPFL STI IBI-STI CNBI
ETHZ E-Collection
Anton, Ana-Maria 2022
Tectonics of Concrete Printed Architecture Design and 3D printing strategies for the column-slab building system
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Rob J. M. Wolfs, Eindhoven University of Technology Prof. Mark Burry, Swinburne University
ETHZ E-Collection
Boller, Giulia with distinction 2022
The model as a working method. Heinz Isler’s experimental approach to shell design - Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2022!
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Antoine Picon, Harvard GSD Prof. Dr. John Chilton, University of Nottingham Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, D-ARCH
ETHZ E-Collection
Ariza, Inés 2022
Adaptive Detailing: Design and Fabrication Methods for In Place Wire and Are Additive Manufacturing Connection Details - Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2022!
Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Caitlin Mueller, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Prof. Fabio Gramazio, D-ARCH
ETHZ E-Collection
Lykov, Egor 2022
Das „System Isler“. Der Schalenbau im schweizer Mittelland 1955 – 1985
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin: Prof. Dr. Gisela Hürlimann, TU Dresden
ETHZ E-Collection
Metz, Christopher André 2022
Architecture of Domesticity: Housing of the London County
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Koexaminator und Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. em. Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani
ETHZ E-Collection
Walker, Linus Gabriel 2022
Robust, Electric Future Building System
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Dr. Illias Hischier, D-ARCH; Prof. Dr. Pieter-Jan Hoes, TU Eindhoven
ETHZ E-Collection
Cramer-Greenbaum, Susannah 2022
Misplaced Fear: New Housing's Effect on Neighborhood Change in Zurich - Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2022!
Examiner: Prof. Sacha Menz
Co-examiner: Prof. Patrick Rérat, Université de Lausanne, UNIL
Jipa, Mihail-Andrei 2022
Free Formwork. 3D Printed Formwork for Concrete Building Components - Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2022!
Examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin: Stefana Parascho, EPFL; Prof. Dr. Skylar Tibbits, MIT;
Dell'Endice, Alessandro 2022
Structural Assessment and Design of Unreinforced Masonry Structures using Discrete Element Modelling
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Tom Van Mele, Block Research Group, ITA; Prof. Matthew DeJong, University of California, Berkeley
Lee, Jennifer Min 2022
Urban-Rural Dynamics on the Ruralopolitan Floodplains of Bangladesh
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Teresa Galí-Izard
Co-examiner: Prof. Ann Forsyth, Harvard Graduate School of Design;
ETHZ E-Collection
Gitai, Ben Ori 2022
Mapping Power. Landscape Transformation in the Jordan Valley Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2022!
Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Meldefrist: Januar 2020
ETHZ E-Collection
Gantner, Martin 2022
Ein Landkirchenschema für das Dach? Entwicklungen im Dachwerksbau über katholischen Saalkirchen der Zentral-, Nord- und Ostschweiz von 1600 bis 1850.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Carola Jäggi, Universität Zürich
ETHZ E-Collection
Diaz, Martina 2022
Le sovracupole lignee della Basilica di Sant'Antonio a Padova: Analisi costruttive e datazioni.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Co-examiner: Prof. Arch. Mario Piana, IUAV/Dip. di Culture del Progetto; Prof. Dr. Carola Jäggi, Kunsthistorisches Intitut Universität Zürich
ETHZ E-Collection
Lähteenmäki, Markus 2022
The History that is made in the Streets: Architecture and Images of Public Space in Revolutionary Russia
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Jean-Louis Cohen, New York University
ETHZ E-Collection
Ingold, Lukas Georg 2022
Form as the Unknown. Sergio Musmeci - Explorations in the Design of Structures.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder ETHZ; Prof. Dr. Aurelio Muttoni, EPFL;
Guo, Zifeng 2022
From Simulation to Synthesis: Architectural Modeling with Context-Based Encoding Using Data-Driven Computational Machines.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Biao Li, SEU, Singapore; Dr. Joao Paulo Leitão, EAWAG, Zurich;
ETHZ E-Collection
Saldaña Ochoa, Karla 2022
Event Protocols - Enhancing Disaster Response with Architectonic Capabilities by Leveraging Machine and Human Intelligence Interplay.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Dr. Tina Comes, Dept. of Engineering Systems, TU-Delft;
ETHZ E-Collection
Böhm, Bernhard 2021
Ruptures. Design Research and the Academisation of Architecture
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Dr. Monika Kurath, Privatdozentin Universität St. Gallen; Prof. Dr. Michael Hagner, D-GESS;
ETHZ E-Collection
Ma, Zhao 2021
Computational Re-Forming: Computational Strategies for Robotic Fabrication of Shaping Malleable Materials
Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio
Co-examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler, D-ARCH; Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros, D-INFK; Dr. Moritz Bächer, Disney Research Zurich
ETHZ E-Collection
Hofmann, Hannes 2021
The Coprofessional Practice of Design - An Exploratory Analysis on Teams of Architects and Structural Engineers in Swiss Architecture Competitions Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2022!
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Petra Badke-Schaub, TU Delft
ETHZ E-Collection
Bathla, Nitin 2021
Delhi without Borders: A Critique of Everyday Life under Extended Urbanisation Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2022!
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid
Co-examiner: Prof. Milica Topalovic; Prof. Dr. Marie-Hélène Zerah, IRD Paris; Prof. Dr. AbdouMaliq Simone, University of Shieffield;
ETHZ E-Collection
Briers, Stephanie 2021
Infrastructures of Freedom. Public Light and Everynight Life in "Informal Settlements" Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2022!
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Thomas Bernauer, D-GESS; Prof. Dr. Sophie Oldfield, Universities of Basel and Cape Town;
ETHZ E-Collection
Aejmelaeus-Lindström, Johan Julius Petrus 2021
Rock Printing. Robotic Fabrication of Jammed Architectural Structures from Bulk Materials.
Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler, Institut ITA, ETHZ
Co-examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Institut ITA, ETHZ; Ass.Prof. B. Dillenburger, ETHZ; Ass.Prof. Skylar Tibbits, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
ETHZ E-Collection
Spina, Davide with distinction 2021
Christian Democrats, Architecture and Capitalist Development in Post-War Italy: The Società Generale Immobiliare (SGI) 1945-75
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. em. Adrian Forty, UCL University College London; Prof. Dr. Mia Fuller, UC University of California, Berkeley
ETHZ E-Collection
Frei, Mario Rainer 2021
Data-Driven Building Retrofit Using a Wireless Sensor Network
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Zoltán Nagy, University of Texas, Austin US; Prof. Dr., Bacher, Peder, Technical University of Denmark
ETHZ E-Collection
Calvo Barentin, Cristian Javier 2021
Investigating the Environmental Opportunities of Arched Floor Systems.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert, D-BAUG ETHZ; Dr. D'Amico, Bernardino, Edinburgh Napier University, UK
ETHZ E-Collection
Schäfer, Jasmin 2021
Dachkonstruktionen: Die Entwicklung frühneuzeitlicher Holztragwerke zwischen 1650 und 1850 im reformierten Kirchenbau der Deutschschweiz Zur Auszeichnung 2021 vorgeschlagen!
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Ing. Manfred Schuller, TU München
ETHZ E-Collection
Kretzer, David Michael 2021
Incremental Light Space: Reducing Socio-technical Night-time Public Space Inequality in Bogotá through Lighting Technology and Design for Informal Settlements
Examiner: Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Andreas Wenger, D-GESS, ETHZ; Prof. Christian Werthmann, Leibniz Universität Hannover
ETHZ E-Collection
Fricker, Pia Christina 2021
The Relevance of Computational Design Thinking in Landscape Architecture. A Pedagogy of Data-Informed Design Processes across Scales
Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Mari Vaattovaara, University of Helsinki
ETHZ E-Collection
Pöllinger, Adrian Leander 2021
Jean Prouvé - Experimentelle Schulbauten 1931-1974 Zur Auszeichnung 2021 vorgeschlagen!
Examiner: Prof. Markus Peter
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. habil Anne-Marie Châtelet, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Strasbourg
ETHZ E-Collection
Urech, Philipp Rudolf Walter 2021
Shaping Physical Landscape: Point cloud modeling as a site-specific design method in landscape architecture applied to a case study in Singapore
Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. A. Grêt-Regamey, ETHZ; Prof. Brad Cantrell, University of Virginia;
ETHZ E-Collection
Potgeter, Wilko 2021
Backstein-Rohbau im Zeitalter der Industrialisierung. Bautechnik des Sichtbacksteins im deutschen Sprachraum von der Zeit Schinkels bis zum Backsteinexpressionismus
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Ing. Werner Lorenz, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg
ETHZ E-Collection
Alvarez Marin, Diana Milena 2021
Atlas of Indexical Cities: Articulating Personal City Models on Generic Infrastructural Ground
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Prof. David Grahame Shane, Columbia University GSAPP NY; Prof. Dr. Vera Bühlmann, TU Wien
ETHZ E-Collection
Zatric, Mejrema 2021
Geography of Architecture and "The Way to Modernity" - Juraj Neidhardt's Regionalism in Early Socialist Yugoslavia
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Eve Blau, Harvard University US; Prof. Dr. Vladimir Kulic, Florida Atlantic University
ETHZ E-Collection
Gandia, Augusto Francisco 2021
Robotic Fabrication Simulation. A Computational Method for the Design of Fabrication-aware Spatial Structures
Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler
Co-examiner: Ass.Prof. Wesley McGee, Taubmann College,Michigan USA; Prof. Fabio Gramazio;
ETHZ E-Collection
Chalvatzi, Aikaterina Maria 2021
Roofs over the Action. Theatre Construction in France from 1780 to 1862
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Ine Wouters, Universiteit Brussel VUB; Prof. Dr. Josef Schwartz;
ETHZ E-Collection
Szabo, Anna 2021
Design and Fabrication of Thin Folded Members with Digital Concrete Processes. Zur Auszeichnung 2021 vorgeschlagen!
Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Robert Flatt, D-BAUG; Prof. Raphael G. Pileggi Sao Paulo University; Dr. Nicolas Roussel, D-MAST, IFSTTAR; Prof. Fabio Gramazio
ETHZ E-Collection
Thiermann, Alfredo 2021
Radio-Activities. The Architecture of Broadcasting in Cold War Berlin Zur Auszeichnung 2021 vorgeschlagen!
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot; Dr. Prof. Cohen, Jean-Louis, New York University
ETHZ E-Collection
Gillet, Valentin Paul Marie Guillaume 2021
Conception et confection. Une histoire matérielle du revêtement céramique des immeubles parisiens (1900-1914)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Co-examiner: Dr. Estelle Thibault,ENSA, Paris-Belleville (F); Prof. Alberto Grimoldi, Politecnico di Milano (I)
ETHZ E-Collection
Lu, Hangxin 2021
Fairness-driven Urban Design and Planning
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Christoph Hölscher, D-GESS, ETHZ; Ass.Prof. Dr. Brian Lim, NUS
ETHZ E-Collection
Wang, Danhong 2021
Simulation and Optimization Methods to Design Distributed Energy Systems with Thermal Networks
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Dr. Kristina Orehounig, EMPA; Prof. Dr. Ruchi Choudhary, University of Cambridge UK
ETHZ E-Collection
Richter, Dunja with distinction 2021
Von der Rarität zur Alltagskultur. Der Botanische Garten Zürich und sein Beitrag zur Verbreitung neuer Pflanzen im 19. Jahrhundert.
Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Norbert Kühn, TU Berlin
ETHZ E-Collection
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