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.
In den 1990er-Jahren holte Kurt W. Forster die weite Welt an die ETH und löste einen Richtungsstreit aus. Anfang dieses Jahres ist der brillante Kunsthistoriker gestorben. Der Versuch einer Einordnung.
An der ETH Zürich wird Architektur nicht bloss gelehrt, sondern auch archiviert und ausgestellt. Ein Spannungsfeld zwischen historischem Erbe und zeitgenössischer Kunst.