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The renovation initiative, co-initiated by the chair of Arno Brandlhuber, is being honoured. The OBEL Award, endowed with €100,000, has been recognizing social and ecological projects in architecture since 2019.

Student projects of Arno Schlüter's chair are featured in the “Energy & Architecture” exhibition at the German Architecture Museum. In an interview, he explains the challenges and opportunities of climate-friendly design.

The technology allows for new shapes and was used for the Tor Alva in Mulegns, among others. And it makes construction more efficient, for example in prefabrication for the second Gotthard road tunnel. 

The revised Bachelor of Architecture at ETH Zurich starts in the autumn semester. In this interview, Elli Mosayebi, Vera Kaps and Steffen Hägele explain the revision, the goals and the process behind it.

The Architecture Biennale in Venice opened in May. More than a dozen projects have been created with the involvement of the Department of Architecture, from gta Archive to robot research at the institute ITA.

In her dissertation, architect Kylie Russnaik analysed the roofs of railway buildings, riding halls and theatres in Switzerland. Her findings will help to better understand and preserve the wide-span timber structures.

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.

In the committee, the co-founder of the architecture firm Lütjens Padmanabhan will be a member of the jury for the Swiss Art Awards.

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.

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.

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.

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.

With her practice Ensamble Studio, her research and the startup WoHo, the Spanish architect explores the possibilities of prefabrication to industrialize construction and make it more affordable.

The two architects focus on transformation, precise details and hands-on construction. Just seven years after founding their office in Zurich and Geneva, they work on projects from Neuchâtel to Paris.

The book "Towards Transformation" explains the 33.3% attitude of the design studio of Professor Jan De Vylder and 8000.agency, and presents 22 student projects in Zurich.

With the prize, the Association of Students at ETH Zurich (VSETH) honors particularly dedicated lecturers. The historian Samia Henni taught at the gta Institute from 2023 to 2024.

The publication “Made of Solar” was produced at the Lectureship for Building Technology and Construction BUK and combines artistic photographs of the buildings with detailed axonometric drawings of the constructions.

Alice Keller is responsible for Care & Conflict Management at the Department of Architecture. In the interview, she explains in which situations people can turn to her.

The Swiss architect and professor emeritus receives the award for his life's work. Three D-ARCH studios were nominated for the Next Generation Award.

Timo Bauer, Pauline Sauter and the team consisting of Maximilian Lewark, Josiane Schmidt and Alexander Throm were awarded a prize. Steven Malischke received a recognition.

Matyas Joseph Enz, Samuel Tobias Fuchs and Natalia Pieroni each received an ETH Medal for their Master's thesis at D-ARCH. Inès Rausis and Samuel Tobias Fuchs were honoured with the THEO Prize and Leslie Rahel Majer with the Willi Studer Prize.

The Caschlatsch installation consists of 2000 beams. The structure was designed and manufactured by students of the MAS in Architecture and Digital Fabrication with parametric tools and augmented reality.

In her studio in Nuglar, Bollinger cultivates the craftsmanship and does a lot of remodelling. She has been Co-President of the Association of Swiss Architects BSA since May.

The initiative was co-initiated by Professor Arno Brandlhuber's chair. An exhibition on the subject will open at ETH Zurich in December, and the collection of signatures will begin in January 2025.

In her doctoral research, Giulia Boller dived into the archive of the Swiss shell builder Heinz Isler. In the interview, she explains what links the engineer to the Renaissance and why he is still relevant today.

The Belgian architect and tech-entrepreneur wants to make sustainable housing accessible to everyone. His startup AUAR aims to reshape the design and manufacturing process of housing with robotic micro-factories.

The architectural practice Beer Merz from Basel has made a name for itself with transformations. It is currently working on the renovation and optimization of the Grossmünster church in Zurich.

Like the Zurich Working Group for Urban Design from the 1950s, the ZAS* aims to stimulate the urban planning discourse with alternatives – at the Triemli City Hospital or with their "Office for Urban Design" in Zurich.

A board of trustees has proposed three offices for this year's Schelling Architecture Prize, including the office of ETH professor Teresa Galí-Izard.

The International Congress on Construction History takes place at ETH from June 24 to 28. Professor Stefan Holzer explains how the congress has changed, why there is a focus on vaults and how he analyzes stones with AI.

At Gramazio Kohler's chair, the students plan and present an entire design semester in a 3D model. The interim review of the immersive studio takes place in the digital space using VR glasses.

The Federal Office of Culture is honoring the ETH postdoc researcher Paola De Martin with the Swiss Grand Prix Design. In October she is co-organizing an exhibition on Switzerland's migration history at the gta Institute.

Hubert Klumpner's chair designed the first AI-supported 4D model for Sarajevo. It takes spatial and temporal dimension into account in urban planning and was the basis for public hearings.

On Research Day on June 4, doctoral students at D-ARCH will present their work. Director of Research Silke Langenberg explains the motto of the day: "Listen to the Next Generation."

The master's theses of the Spring Semester 2024 will be presented on the Hönggerberg campus of ETH Zurich until the end of June. The exhibition features design projects on the topic “Enough/Genug”.

The Saxon Academy of the Arts awards this year's Semper Prize to the architect and ETH lecturer Roger Boltshauser.

The 2024 IASS Symposium takes place from August 25 to 30 at ETH and is hosted by the National Centre of Competence in Research Digital Fabrication. Get to know the conference chairs Philippe Block, Jacqueline Pauli, Catherine De Wolf and Walter Kaufmann in a video.

Bernd Bickel conducts research at the interface between the digital and real world. The ETH professor works with augmented reality, machine learning and interactive design tools. He has been awarded a technical Oscar for his work.

The Living Room Collective was selected amongst a group of five shortlisted candidates. The pavilion utilizes materials embedded with living cells to create a biological architecture.

The exhibition "Anatomy of Change" at i2a in Lugano features student works from the chair of Elli Mosayebi, that explored the temporal dimension in architecture in the canton of Ticino during the last three semesters.

Furer was a lecturer in architectural theory at ETH Zurich from 1968 to 1994. He has died at the age of 91.

Sociology Professor Christian Schmid will retire this year. In the interview, he looks back on his time at the ETH Studio Basel, which sparked discussions with the book “Switzerland: An Urban Portrait” and whose publications will be freely available online as Open Access from May.

Climate change leads to more landslides and flooding. ETH Professor Martina Voser is investigating how landscape architecture can respond to this in the sandbox, on the computer and in dialogue with the population.

In 1721 the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach published a book that brought together the architectures of different cultures from Egypt to Japan. Three centuries later ETH professor Maarten Delbeke has issued a re-print of the influential publication.

An exhibition at the ETH Materials Hub features eight 1:1 scale mockups that illustrate plantbased constructions. They were built by students from the guest studio of the architecture practice Material Cultures.

A university building in St. Gallen is enlivened with a wooden shelf and a kiosk. The project by the Professor Momoyo Kaijima and the sociologist Niklaus Reichle combines analysis, design and self-construction. And brings together architecture and economics students from ETH and HSG.

ETH PhD researcher Tiziano Derme and ETH sound architect Nadine Schütz receive the ArTS Production Grant 2024, which is awarded by Ars Electronica together with Pro Helvetia. Their installation combines sound and fungal growth and will be on displayed in Linz in September.

Newspaper articles accuse the Department of Architecture of fomenting antisemitism. Dean Matthias Kohler comments on the allegations on behalf of the department board.

ETH visiting professor Samia Henni has curated an exhibition at the Department of Architecture in which she presents materials from the archives of the French nuclear program in Algeria in the 1960s. The multimedia installation runs until April 2nd.

The 44th issue of the “trans magazine”, the student magazine at the Department of Architecture, revolves around the English term “lore”, which describes the collective knowledge about a topic. A call for contributions is looking for ideas for the next edition reflecting upon the word “dirty”.

Ricardo Maia Avelino and Giulia Boller were honored for their doctoral theses. Both deal with arched structures.

Silke Langenberg, Professor of Construction Heritage and Preservation, was elected to the Federal Commission for Monument Preservation as well as the Federal Commission for the Protection of Cultural Property by the Federal Council at the end of the year.

Giulia Boller’s Doctoral Dissertation, supervised by Prof. em. Dr. Joseph Schwartz and Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, has been awarded the 2023 Lino Gentilini Dissertation Award.