Doctoral Theses completed 2023-2024
| Valkanova, Ina Hristova | 2024 |
| To open up a box and find a whole new world : action research on the relationship between production and place in Kuklen, Bulgaria | |
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Examiner: Prof. Freek Persyn, D-ARCH
Co-examiner: Meldefrist: Oktober 2022, Zweitbetreuer offen
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| Kakooee, Reza | 2024 |
| Lucent Layouts: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Architectural Space Layout Design | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Dr. Anton Savov, D-BAUG
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| Groen, Johannes Ludovicus | 2024 |
| Mountains of Gold Architectures of Swiss Banking 1938-1971 | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Amy Thomas, Delft University of Technology; Prof. Dr. Monika Dommann, University of Zurich; Prof. Milica Topalovic, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Mari, Faiq | 2024 |
| Masha’ Of The Perihpery Collective Labor And Property in Palestinian Liberation Struggle | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. Christian Schmid, D-ARCH; Prof. Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti, University of Houston; Prof. Gillian Hart, UC Berkley
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Zaugg, Maxime | 2024 |
| Exploring Public Urban Scale Models - French Projets Urbains and the Performance of the Maquette from the 1960s to 1990s | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Co-examiner: Dr. Hans Teerds, D-ARCH; Prof. Dr. Janina Gosseye, TU Delft; Prof. Dr. Mari Lending, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Markaki, Metaxia | 2024 |
| ARCADIA—POLITICS OF LAND AND NATURE. From Peripheralisation to Extended Citizenship | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Milica Topalovic
Co-examiner: Prof. Christian Schmid, D-ARCH; Prof. Dr. Stavros Stavrides, National Technical University of Athens; Prof. Kenneth R. Olwig, The Swedish University of Agricultural Science, Alnarp, Sweden; Prof. Shubhra Gururani, York University Canada
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Lonergan, Hamish Daniel Pastellas | 2024 |
| (Re)encounters: Tacit Knowledge, Queer Experiences, and Architectural Education since the late Twentieth Century | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Janina Gosseye , TU, Darmstadt; Prof. Dr. Janina Gosseye, TU Delft; Dr. Hans Teerds, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Selimovic, Admir | 2024 |
| Geometric Quantity in Cell Complex Neural Networks | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Dr. Papakyriakopoulos, Technical University of Munich; Prof. Dr. Villar, Johns Hopkins University; Prof. Dr. Lutzeyer, Institut Polytechinque de Paris
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| Xynogala, Lydia | 2024 |
| Take Care: Mineralization, Hydrochemistry, and the Environments of Greek Thermalism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Michael Hampe, D-GESS
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Odaglia, Pietro | 2024 |
| 3D Printing Architecture - Open Framework for Binder Jetting in Construction | |
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Examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer und Koex: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert, D-BAUG; Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler, TU München; Prof. Ingrid Paoletti, Politecnico di Milano
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| Verhaeghe, Gerlinde Maria | 2024 |
| Carlo Mollino’s Male Cabinet - Staging Interior Masculinities (1935-1945) | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin und Koexaminatorin: Ass.-Prof. Dr. Bauer Dominique, KU Leuven.
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Silvestri, Alberto | 2024 |
| Reinforcement learning control for energy efficient buildings | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Melanie N. Zeilinger; Prof. Dr. Massimo Fiorentini, co-examiner
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Leschok, Matthias | 2024 |
| Hollow-Core 3D Printing for Facades | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Dr. Roland Snooks, RMIT, A & UD
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Piccioni, Valeria | 2024 |
| A Multi-Scale Approach to 3D-printed Facades: Energy, Daylight, Environmental impact | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Dr. Illias Hischier, D-ARCH; Mitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Christoph Reinhart, MIT, Building Technology
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Fessel, Melanie | 2024 |
| Method designtransformative Architecture Pedagogy for an Urban Age | |
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Examiner: Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin: Prof. Momoyo Kaijima, D-ARCH; Prof. Kate Orff, Columbia University NY, GSAPP, Director Urban Design Program;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Mitropoulou, Ionanna | 2024 |
| Nonplanar Layered Morphologies | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Ingrid Maria Paoletti; Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Kwon, Hyunchul | 2023 |
| Digital Composites: Robotic Add-on 3D Printing in Architecture | |
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Examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Roland Snooks, RMIT University Kokkugia, Australia
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Chandra, Tanya | 2023 |
| Negotiating Territorial Trajectories: Tandem developments of national roads and local housing transforming urban-rural system in Bengal | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stephen Cairns
Co-examiner: Koexaminatorin: Prof. Milica Topalovic, ETHZ; Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Simone AbdouMaliq, University of Sheffield
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Linsin, Sebastian Lucas | 2023 |
| Nervous Ecologies: Late Modernist Architecture, the Whole Earth Network, and the Postwar Overpopulation Discourse. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Michael Hagner, D-GESS; Prof. Dr. Simon Sadler, University of California, Davis, Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Michael Hagner, D-GESS
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Kladeftira, Marianthi Eirini | 2023 |
| Capsules of Complexity Additively Manufactured Connections for Non-standard Space Frames | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Antiopi Koronaki, University of Cambridge
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Hefti, Susanne | 2023 |
| Regressive Architektur - Rechtspopulismus und Architektur in der Schweiz seit 1960 | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Sigrid Adorf, ZHDK, Zürich
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Cheibas, Ina | 2023 |
| Additive Manufactured Facade: Integrative design of complex additive manufactured geometries informed by fabrication and multi-performative environmental parameters | |
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Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler, D-ARCH
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin: Ena Lloret-Fritschi, USI Mendrisio; Mitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Knaack, TU Delft
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Seshadri, Bharath | 2023 |
| Energy Paradigms in digitally fabricated Architecture: A Multi-scale approach | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Dr. Kunal Masania, TU Delft; Prof. Dr. Salmaan Craig, McGill University
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Mehling, Lara Elisabeth | 2023 |
| Red steppe, red court, red parterre: A floral history of landscape enclosures across eurasia | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Frandsen, Rune-Vincent | 2023 |
| Shadow Territory and Secondary Infrastructures: The Hidden Landscapes of Temporary Labor at the Grande Dixence (1950—1965) | |
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Examiner: Prof. Günther Vogt, D-ARCH ETHZ
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. h.c. Günther Vogt; Prof. Dr. Hollyamber Kennedy; Prof. Dr. Seraina Renz
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Düblin, Patrick Oliver | 2023 |
| Transformationen des Hier und Jetzt - Zwischenräume, Gegenpositionen und die Kunst des Überschreitens in der Praxis des Kollektivs Stalker | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Liu, Yiqiu | 2023 |
| Limits on Growth: Urbanization Processes in the Extended Beijing Region | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christian Kerez
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid; Prof. Dr. Fulong Wu
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Bedarf, Patrick | 2023 |
| Architected Porosity Foam 3D printing for leightweight and insulating building elements | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Co-examiner: Prof. Virginia San Fratello, San José State University; Koexaminatoren: Prof. V. San Fratello; Prof. Norman Hack, TU Braunschweig;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Tam, Kam-Ming Mark | 2023 |
| Learning Discrete Equilibrium Trans-topological Inverse Pattern and Force Design Using Machine Learning & Automatic Differentiation. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Dr. Tom Van Mele, D-ARCH; Prof. Dr. Andreas Krause, D-INFK; Prof. Dr. Nathan Brown, Pennsylvania State University; Robert Otani, Thornton Tomasetti CORE Studio
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| La Hausse de Lalouviere, Nicole | 2023 |
| Irrigation Systems of Canton Valais: A Resilient Landscape Common? | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Dr. Svava Riesto, University of Copenhagen
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Romakin, Helene | 2023 |
| Narrating the Anthropocene in Art, Architecture, and Film in Works by Lara Almarcegui, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Peter Zumthor | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Karen van den Berg, Zeppelin Universität, Friedrichshafen
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Ranaudo, Francesco | 2023 |
| Funicular Floor Design | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Dr. Tom Van Mele, Block Research Group, ITA; Dr. Hon. D.Sc. William Frazier Baker, Skidmore, Owings and Merrill (SOM)
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Vollmer, Matthias | 2023 |
| Die Tiefe der Landschaft - Untersuchungen zur Punktwolkenmodellierung des Zürcher Untergrundes | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. A. Grêt Regamey, D-BAUG; Koexaminator: Dr. Gerhard Schrotter, Geomatik und Vermessung, Stadt Zürich; Prof. Dr. Pia Fricker, Aalto Universität, Helsinki
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Vogt, Christa | 2023 |
| Ferienhäuser im Austausch mit der Landschaft – Rudolf Olgiatis Frühwerk | |
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Examiner: Prof. Markus Peter
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi, D-ARCH, Prof. em. Annette Spiro,
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Bertagna, Federico | 2023 |
| Explorations on space, energy, and structure for a holistic design of buildings - A geometry-based graphical approach | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Pierluigi D'Acunto, TU München
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Johns, Ryan Luke | 2023 |
| Autonomous Dry Stone - Mobile Robotic Construction with Naturally Nonstandard Materials | |
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Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer und Koex: Prof. Fabio Gramazio, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Thuy, Andreas Richard | 2023 |
| «UNTERZUGLOSE DECKEN»: Konstruktionskulturen des Eisenbetons anhand von «flat slabs» und Pilzdecken in den USA, der Schweiz und dem Deutschen Reich im Spannungsfeld der Triade aus Unternehmertum, Wissenschaft und Regulierung 1904 – 1929 | |
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Examiner: Prof. Markus Peter
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi, D-ARCH; Dr. Karl-Eugen Kurrer, VDI Berlin
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Müller, Christoph Daniel | 2023 |
| Urbane Transformation von Jakarta: Vertreibung, persönliche Zentralität und die Gestaltung des sozialen Raumes | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Heinzpeter Znoj, Universität Bern Prof. Hubert Klumpner, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Leung, Pok Yin | 2023 |
| DiRT: Distributed Robotic Tools for Spatial Timber Assembly with Integral Timber Joints | |
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Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler, D-ARCH
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Agathe Koller-Hodac, Ostschweizer Fachhochschule; Prof. Fabio Gramazio, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Critchley, Matthew Jonathan | 2023 |
| A Question of Method: Anthony Blunt and the Practice of Architectural History in Britain (1934-1974) | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer und Koexaminator: Prof. Dr. Anthony Vidler, The Cooper Union
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Fehlmann, Isabelle | 2023 |
| Der Berg auf der Strasse. Eine Untersuchung zur alpinen Strassenverkehrslandschaft der 1930er-Jahre | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Dr. Hans-Ulrich Schiedt, Hist. Seminar Universität Bern
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Stagni, Linda | 2023 |
| Joseph Gantner's "Sanierung" at Das Werk 1923–1927. Representing Architecture, Elucidating Art History, Building Swissness | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin und Koexaminatorin: Prof. Dr. Hélène Jannière, Université Rennes (F)
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Kowalewski, Benedikt Antonius | 2023 |
| Landschaftsentwurf vor Ort - Entwicklung von digitalen in-situ Modellierungswerkzeugen für robotische Landschaftsfabrikation | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin: Prof. Dr. Pia Fricker. Allto University (F); Koex: Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter, D-MAVT
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Haddadi, Roshanak | 2023 |
| An Industry in Transition - Early Glue-Laminated Timber in Switzerland, 1909-1939 | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Dr., Rinke, Mario, University of Antwerp,
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Mitterberger, Daniela | 2023 |
| Augmented human and extended machine: Adaptive digital fabrication and human-machine collaboration for architecture | |
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Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuung und Koex: Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler, TU München; Prof. Fabio Gramazio.
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Xydis, Achilleas | 2023 |
| Data driven acoustic design | |
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Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin: Dr. Romana Rust, D-ARCH; Koex: Prof. Matthias Kohler;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Kao, Ting-Chun Gene | 2023 |
| Assembly-Aware Design of Shell Structures | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer und Koexaminator: Prof. Dr., Stelian Coros, D-INFK; Koexaminator: Prof. Dr. Jan Knippers, Uni Stuttgart; Dr. Tom Van Mele, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Burger, Joris Jan | 2023 |
| Robotically 3D Printed Formwork for Concrete Structures | |
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Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin: Ass.Prof. Dr. Ena Lloret-Fritschi, USI Mendrisio
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Helmersen, Kim Norgaard | 2023 |
| Research-Teaching Cultures Ways of Coming to Know in the Contemporary Architectural Design Studio | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin und Koex: Dr. Marcelyn Gow, Southern California Institute of Architecture;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Ercan, Selen | 2023 |
| Robotic Plaster Spraying - Robotic Plaster Spraying Crafting Surfaces with AdaptiveThin-Layer Printing On-Site | |
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Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio
Co-examiner: D. Ena Lloret-Fritschi, USI, Accademia di architettura Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter, D-MAVT Prof. Matthias Kahler, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Zhao, Yue | 2023 |
| Zauberland des Sichtbaren. ArchiZauberland des Sichtbaren: August Endell’s Evolving Dissertation Between Architecture and Psychology, 1895–1925 | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuerin und Koex: Prof. Em. Dr. Ita Heinze-Greenberg, D-ARCH
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Wang, Shuaizhong | 2023 |
| Equilibrium as the Common Ground: Embodied perception-informed structural design | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Prof. Dr. Toni Kotnik, Aalto University, F
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Athari, Sahand | 2023 |
| A Hybrid acoustics simulation of 3D urban street canyon design scenarios with multiple reflections used for auralising a moving sound source. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer: Dr. Kurt Heutschi, EMPA Zürich;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Tanadini, Davide | 2023 |
| Limit analysis and timber plasticity | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Zweitbetreuer und Koex: Prof. Dr. Andrea Frangi, D-BAUG ETHZ
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |