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Exhibition on the architecture of openness
A traveling exhibition at D-ARCH presents the research on open access carried out by ETH graduates Oliver Burch, Jakob Junghanss and Lukas Ryffel as part of the BSA scholarship.
Students design alternative plans for the Campus Hönggerberg of ETH Zurich
The Chair of Affective Architectures of Professor An Fonteyne has collaborated during several semesters with ETH Real Estate. The design studio is rethinking the use of the existing buildings on the campuses.
Visiting lecturer Oliver Lütjens joins the Swiss Federal Art Commission
In the committee, the co-founder of the architecture firm Lütjens Padmanabhan will be a member of the jury for the Swiss Art Awards.
D-ARCH Department Lectures welcome architects from five continents in the Spring Semester 2025
Xu Tiantian from China, Al Borde from Ecuador, Heinrich Wolff and Ilze Wolff from South Africa, Valerio Olgiati from Switzerland and the studio Dogspike from Australia will talk about the topic “When matters become form”.
The adaptive solar façade of the startup Zurich Soft Robotics combines photovoltaics and dynamic solar shading
The Solskin façade system has been integrated in two research buildings and a house in the Alps. In Winterthur, architects are using the technology of the ETH Zurich spin-off in their designs for two new building projects.
ETH Zurich Professor emeritus Miroslav Šik receives the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2025
At the ETH Zurich in the 1980s, the architect developed the consequential movement of "Analogue Architecture". Over almost 20 years lecturing at the ETH, Šik influenced a further generation of architects.
Three doctoral theses from D-ARCH honored with ETH Medal
During the doctoral awards ceremony on 24 January 2025, Matthew Critchley, Rune Frandsen and Kam-Ming Mark Tam received a Silver Medal for outstanding doctoral theses.
“Architecture is primarily a social act”: TEN is leading a visiting studio at D-ARCH
The architecture, design and research association works in various locations and constellations. The Avala House near Belgrade was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award.
Zigzags for greener construction
An architecture PhD student at ETH Zurich has developed a simple solution for building concrete floors in a more climate-friendly way. Significant amounts of concrete and steel can be saved thanks to a lightweight formwork design.
A digital edition presents Gottfried Semper's writing “Style” for the first time in a critical version
Architects and historians can examine the architect's main theoretical work in detail on a website. The SNSF research project will enter its third phase in 2025.