EMANUEL CHRIST & CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN
NEWS
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FINAL REVIEWS “THE OFFICE”
DECEMBER 16 – 17, 9.30AM – 6PM. ETHZ
EXHIBITION-BLOG
D-ARCH FINAL REVIEWSLECTURE CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN:
«HERZOG & DE MEURON: ABSTRAKT UND KONKRET»
NOV 25, 8.15AM. CONSTRUCTION III, FALL SEMESTER 20. ETHZ
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURELECTURE CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN:
«ALEJANDRO DE LA SOTA: NO HACER ARQUITECTURA»
NOV 18, 8.15AM. CONSTRUCTION III, FALL SEMESTER 20. ETHZ
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURELECTURE CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN:
«CARLO MOLLINO: ARCHITETTURA METAFISICA»
NOV 11, 8.15AM. CONSTRUCTION III, FALL SEMESTER 20. ETHZ
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURELECTURE & DISCUSSION: "HEALTHCARE II"
ANNMARIE ADAMS & EMANUEL CHRIST
SEPT 23, 6PM. GTA INVITES, ETHZ
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FINAL REVIEWS “TO MAIN STREET”
MAY 27 – 28, 9.30AM – 6PM. ETHZ
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D-ARCH FINAL REVIEWSPUBLICATION "MILANO" & "BASEL KLYBECK"
PUBLISHED BY CHAIR CHRIST & GANTENBEIN
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THE DIGITAL GUIDES TO EIGHT CITIES ARE ONLINE AGAIN
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MASTER'S THESIS “RE-USE CIBA”
SPRING SEMESTER 20
MASTER THESIS C BY CHRIST & GANTENBEIN
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LECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST: “TYPES“
MAR 3, 8.15AM. HIL E1, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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UZBEKISTAN: MAHALLA REPORT
MAR 14 – 22. SPRING SEMESTER 20
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STUDIO REVIEW SZENARIO
MAR 10 – 11. HIL F41. HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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FEB 26 – MAY 15. GTA EXHIBITIONS, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
APR 1 – MAY 15. FRANCES LOEB LIBRARY, GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN, HARVARD UNIVERSITY
MORE INFORMATIONFINAL REVIEW “IDEAL ARCHITECTURE”
DEC 17 – 18. HIL F41, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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“IDEAL ARCHITECTURE MILANO”
“REAL ARCHITECTURE BASEL KLYBECK”
DEC 17, 6.30PM. HIL F41, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZLECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST: “IN CONVERSATION WITH STUDENTS”
NOV 26, 6PM. HIL E4, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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WITH VICTORIA EASTON & CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN
NOV 22, 7PM. SPIEGELGASSE 18, ZURICH
NEVER STOP READINGSTUDIO REVIEW “TYPE”
NOV 19 – 20. HIL F41. HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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NOV 19, 7PM. THE GREAT HALL, THE COOPER UNION
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
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NOV 18, 6.30PM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY
COLUMBIA GSAPP
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LECTURE CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN: “GEBAUTE NATUR”
NOV 6, 8.15AM. HIL E4, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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LECTURE CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN: “NO HACER ARQUITECTURA”
OCT 30, 8.15AM. HIL E4 HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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OCT 29 – 30. HIL F41, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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LECTURE CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN: “JENSEITS DER KONSTRUKTION”
OCT 16, 8.15AM. HIL E4, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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OCT 8. HIL F41, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
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OCT 10 – DEC 12. LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE
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SEPT 23 – 25. DESIGN STUDIO FALL 19, “FROM STRADA NUOVA”
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SEPT 18, 10AM. HIL F41, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
DESIGN STUDIO FALL 19, “FROM STRADA NUOVA”
(IMAGE: MARIA NORDMAN, GENOVA, 1976)EXHIBITION CHRIST & GANTENBEIN: “ALTERNATIVE HISTORIES”
SEPT 7 – 29. THE CIVA, BRUSSELS
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JUNE 11, 1:30PM
ECOLE D’ARCHITECTURE DE MARNE-LA-VALLÉE, PARISLECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST
JUNE 5, 7.30PM. SOMMER GALLERY, TEL AVIV
JUNE 6, 1:30PM, TECHNION, HAIFAFINAL REVIEW “REAL ARCHITECTURE”
WITH ANNE-JULCHEN BERNHARDT, MIA HÄGG AND ÉRIC LAPIERRE
MAY 28 – 29, 9 PM, ETH HÖNGGERBERG, ZURICH, HIL F41.4LECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST: “EX-LIBRIS”
DISCUSSION WITH PHILIP URSPRUNG
MAY 23, 7PM, UAA UNGERS ARCHIV FÜR ARCHITEKTUR¬WISSENSCHAFT, COLOGNE
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THE OFFICE
THE OFFICE
HS 2020
A TypologyUntil recently, the office was the most normal thing in the world. No other type of building has prevailed worldwide in the course of the 20th century with such power and in such almost frightening uniformity - even here in Switzerland. Desk work has long since become the dominant activity in our society. However, for some time, and especially since the Corona crisis hit us, everything has changed. The office is fundamentally questioned. Do we still need a workplace at all? Do we really still even need a desk?
The first step of the semester project is a large-scale expedition. Our territory is Switzerland. The main goal is to create a typology of the country’s most interesting office buildings. And that's where it starts: what is an office building anyway and since when has it existed? Reaching out to all regions of Switzerland, we will be investigating many different types of architecture: monasteries, castles, townhouses, factories, administrative buildings, research hubs, etc.
Which are the particularly good and interesting examples? Does the ideal office exist? Together we will develop criteria and arguments for architectural quality and thus take position. And so, the research and analysis are the first steps of the project. It deals with the basic principles of architecture and the essence of architectural form: body, space, type, structure and material. Our studio becomes a collective architectural laboratory, where individual work is embedded within joint critical discussions, archive research, excursions, modeling and 1:1 scale experiments (as the current situation perfectly lends itself to it!)
The following step is then the transformation of the selected (ideal?) office building. Through an architectural intervention the object is transferred into the present. The open and experimental but also analytical and critical examination of an existing example proves to be an extremely inspiring and instructive process. After all, architecture is learned primarily by studying existing buildings and designs and by translating them into one's own images. The first step is traveling and looking, and this is the crucial creative act. Invention arises from the contemplation. From criticism comes change.
STUDIO
Fall semester
2020
Introduction
15.09.20
HIL F41.4, 10.00Thomas Struth: Parking Lot, Dallas (2001)
SOM: Sears Tower, Bundled Tube, Chicago (1974)
Desktop Computer Olivetti, Programma 101 (1965)
Hendrik van Steenwijck: Saint Jerome in His Study (1624)
SOM: Inland Steel Building, Chicago (1958)
Quickborner Team: Diagrams (1968)
Jacques Tati: Playtime (1967)
Steven Holl: The Alphabetical City (1980)
Paul Strand: Wall Street, New York (1915)
Thomas Demand: Büro (1995)
Luigi Ghirri: Studio Aldo Rossi (1989)
Louis Kahn: British Castle Floor Plans
Transformation by Jože Plečnik: Prague Castle (1935)
Rafael Moneo: On Typology, Oppositions (1978)
Rudolf von Alt: Die Bibliothek im Palais Dumba (1877)
Transformation by Viollet-le-Duc: Flèche of Notre-Dame de Paris (1859)
Transformation by Hermann Czech: Wiener Staatsoper (1994)
François Jomard: Description de l'Égypte (1809-28)
John Winter: Drawings of Corner Solutions by Mies (1972)
Transformation by Herzog & de Meuron: SUVA House, Basel (1988-93)
Canaletto: Reception of the Ambassador in the Doge's Palace (1730)
Andreas Gursky: Hong Kong Stock Exchange II (1995)
Transformation by Andy Warhol: Silver Factory (1964)
WORKSPACE
WORKSPACE
FS 2021
The Workplace of the Future - a Project in WoodOur studio’s second semester is the conceptual counterpart of the first semester: research and examination of history is contrasted with a real project, in the here and now where the office of the past will become the workplace of the future.
The starting point of the design is a reflection on today's working environment. How and where is work performed and with what means? Is the much-cited "home office" really a desirable alternative to the office desk? And what role does the physical space play in this choice? Which are the spatial needs when it comes to being creative and productive? Texts, lectures, seminars, and discussions will help us to develop various theses on tomorrow’s working environment. Drawing on these inputs, the students will develop scenarios for their individual project at a specific location.
The here and now involves a confrontation with the challenges of our environment and calls for action. In our case, it also means to design responsibly. Thus, working with a renewable building material is one of the many contributions in reaction to climate change. As a sustainable material, wood offers unexpected possibilities, especially for contemporary urban architecture and it will become the compulsory material in all student projects. In the course of the semester we will visit historical as well as contemporary wooden buildings, and exchange ideas with experts.
Methodologically, "Workspace" directly draws on the previous semester "The Office": the typologies and principles studied during the first semester are further developed in the second semester’s project and linked to the specific aspects of scenario and location. The broad idea of an architectural form and type thus gets a concrete and specific formulation. And there, in its real application in a definite case, the architectural form also acquires its social, economic and ultimately political relevance. When ideal becomes real.
STUDIO
Spring semester
2021
Introduction
23.02.21
HIL F41.4, 10.00André Breton, Paul Eluard, Suzanne Muzard: Untitled (1931)
Ernst Neufert: Bauentwurfslehre (1961)
Archizoom: Non Stop City (1968–72)
Festival hall in Frauenfeld after assembly of wooden trusses (1922)
Steel connectors for timber construction
Hans Hollein: ‘Mit-sich-tragbare Haus’ (1969)
Team Quickborner: Design for an open plan office, Osram, München (1965)
Constant: New Babylon (1959)
Konrad Wachsmann: Project for a waterfront business center, Genua (1965)
Cedric Price: Fun Palace (1964)
Gable facade of a barn, Alpnach (1905)Raimund Abraham: Universal City (1966)
Japanese woodworking joinery: Cross joint
Kurt Kranz: Versinkende (1930)
W. J. Neutelings, A. Wall, X. de Geyter et F. Roodbeen: Habitatge i Ciutat, Quaderns, Barcelona (1990)
Herman Hertzberger: Office building, Centraal Beheer (1972)
Storehouse, Pimmersdorf
Wood-cuts and cross-sections
Kazimierz Podsadecki: Ohne Titel (1932)
Superstudio: Monumento Continuo (1969)
Mies van der Rohe: Design for a department store, Berlin (1928)
SPRING 20
TO MAIN STREET
The Spring semester of our studio is the conceptual counterpart to the first semester: The ideal form without place and time is contrasted with the real project in an actual environment - from the ”Prachtsstrasse” of Genova to the “Main Streets” of Basel.
The starting point for the semester is a selection of twelve contemporary news articles that describe phenomena of the globalized cities: mass tourism, climate change, transportation, smart city, urban gardening, decline of retails, etc. These phenomena are already visible, but they haven’t transformed the cities to a large extend. By speculating the conditions of a changing environment, we conceive a different architecture in terms of form, type or program.
By discussing the articles, the studio developed together six theses or themes, which were applied to six main streets of Basel. The inner-city becomes a laboratory: an ordinary, central European city of average size. Here we want to test how a reality of the future, which we have conceived, could look like. Starting with atmospheric collages, which try to relate the sphere of life with architectural objects in an abstract, playful way, then through perspective montages, where the specific site and the spatial intention suddenly meet. The principles and architectures that we brought with us from Genoa, as well as the executed and unexecuted utopian projects of the past, help us to translate the spatial idea into an architectural project. Through them, we develop a vision of space into a spatial structure, an architecture. Through continuous refinement, context, vision and architectural principles shape each other.
Even if architecture is closely related to its context, and often very precisely defined by it, architecture is autonomous in its form. No concrete condition can definitely define the proportions of a window, no social requirement can provide information about the shape of a building body. Architecture has its own principles. It is always ideal. This double identity - autonomy on the one hand and relying on a concrete context on the other - the ideal and real side of architecture is the central problem in every project. In this way our design will contribute to a possible city of tomorrow with a real and yet visionary architecture.
Felix Affolter / Jiuyuan Liu
Ramona Köchli / Laura Kölliker
Laura Berther / Paula Schaufelbühl
Zoe Struzina / Marcel Studer
Ramona Köchli / Laura Kölliker
Léa Jaccard / Tanja Reichmuth
Judith Genieser Pérez / Carolina Palos Mas
Pascal Mijnssen / Salim Umar
Elisaveta Kriman / Oluwasegun Ogunsola
Brandon Schwab Rodriguez / Tolga Tomel
Noelle Bächler / Elyas Lunardi
Chiara Chan / Ella Willemse
Ella Castellani / Haruhi Untersander
Laura Berther / Paula Schaufelbühl
Felix Affolter / Jiuyuan Liu
Lukas Felleisen / Oskar Haushofer
Sébastien Fischer / Noah Schweizer
Rosa Ammann / Lara Graf
Jérome Ammann / Remo Calonder
Laura Pfeiffer / Zoe Steurer
Héloise Dussault-Cloutier / Janine Henz
Philipp Gmür / Sandro Wegmüller
Robin Weber
FALL 19
FROM STRADA NUOVA
We start the semester with a three-day excursion to Genoa, where we will study the basic principles of a timeless, urban architecture on the basis of selected buildings. Genoa is a dense and varied port city with spectacular waterfront infrastructure and buildings high up in the steep hills above the sea. Genoa is also the city of the famous “Strada Nuova”, a Renaissance and Baroque street that is still praised today as an ideal of urban architecture.
This is where we begin our common journey of discovery, open and experimental, but also analytical and critical. The design process will follow three steps: First the documentation of the Genoese example, then the formulation of architectural principles and finally, building on these principles, a new design, the project for an ideal architecture. It is not about a place or a concrete program, but about the essence of the architectural form: body, space, type, structure and material.
Finding his or her own architectural language is the most important but also most difficult task for an architect. Because the lack of architectural vocabulary – or images, forms, structures and principles – leaves the architect speechless. This language, this repertoire of architectural forms and principles is what our studio is all about: All students develop their repertoire during the course of the semester to figure out their own notion of an ideal architecture. But ideal doesn’t only mean beautiful, perfect and aspirational, but also and foremost “based on an idea”. The students will develop individual architecture-ideas, which shall always be available and newly applicable while designing.
This process will be facilitated by references and examples – in this semester from Genoa – because architecture is learnt by studying other buildings and designs and translating them into one’s own images. The first step is to travel, go there and look. Thereby, it is crucial to understand “seeing” as the first creative act. Invention emerges from contemplation. Documenting becomes designing. And so we design new architecture by creatively and critically dealing with the forms which architectural history handed down to us.
Elias Aebi / Gabriel Eggenschwyler
Raphael Hecht / Luca Kiemen
Alexandra Stingaciu / Theo Mayer
Theresa Zuhr / Era Jashari
Theresa Zuhr / Era Jashari
Oskar Haushofer / Lukas Felleisen
Timon Rajmon / Felix Affolter
Elyass Lunardi / Dario Gysin
Nadia Rouèche / Chiara ChanSara Tomasini / Leonie Calzana
Amanda Pellizzari / Matteo Cadei
Janine Henz / Héloise Dussault-Cloutier
Pascal Mijnssen / Salim Umar
Era Jashari / Theresa Zuhr
Valentina Frei / Miro Frei
Judith Genieser / Carolina Palos Mas
Philipp Gmür / Sandro Wegmüller
Laura Koelliker / Ramona Koechli
Elisaveta Kriman / Oluwasegun Ogunsola
Luca Maibach / Fabian Müller
Tony Salem Musleh / Florian Reisner
Robin Weber / Alex Walter
Robin Weber / Alex Walter
Nadia Rouèche / Chiara Chan
Joanna Rubin / Alexandra Crum Lagos
Laura Berther / Paula Schaufelbühl
SPRING 19
REAL ARCHITECTURE
KLYBECK
Spring semester 2019
(Selection)Drawing on the principles identified in the previous semester in Milan, a new project is designed in a former industrial area on the outskirts of Basel. This confrontation with a real context here and now, allows tackling contemporary dilemmas such as how living, working and producing could be combined in an urban realm, and aims to project a potential urban future.
A collection of drawings will be published in autumn 2019.
Leo Graf / Manuel Lorz
Sereina Fritsche / Senga Grossmann
Leonie Huber / Rico Muth / Eileen Welzel
Natalie Carroll / Céline Ryffel
Meret Heeb / Zoé Rüttimann
Stephanie Nünlist / Besjana Ramadani
Dzulija Jakimovska / Julia Kobzar
Leon Beck / Vasco Medici
Sarah Rüegg / Pauline Sauter
Adrienne Enz / Hannah Kilian
Timothy Schärer / Lukas Schütz
Anita Cantieni/ Halima Hassan
FALL 18
IDEAL ARCHITECTURE
MILAN
Fall semester 2018
(Selection)40 exceptional Milanese architectures were selected and analysed, to extract basic principles of architecture. The fundamental means of architectural design picked out from each precedent, were rearranged into a new project with no functional needs and no particular location: ideal architecture. A particular attention is set on the graphical representation of both the existing and the new project by means of suggestive colours and strong shadows, in order to highlight physical and spatial qualities of each design.
A collection of drawings will be published in autumn 2019.
Sereina Fritsche / Senga Grossmann
Gjokë Daka
Daniel Epprecht / Timothy Schärer
Lorenz Strologo / Jierui Yu
Flavia Kläy / Marina Mezzasalma
Tobias Etter / Nicola Graf
Stephanie Nünlist / Besjana Ramadani
Gabriele Arba / Tobias Sandbichler
Jan Bauer / Mara Horváth
Milena Bojovic / Aleksandra Skop
Max Schubert / Marino Weber
Sandro Fritschi / Konrad Kramer
Aileen Geistlich / Anina Schmid
SEMINAR WEEK
TENDENZEN A RE–DISCOVERY
Giancarlo Durisch: Casa Atelier Durisch, Riva San Vitale (1972-1973)
TENDENZEN
A RE–DISCOVERYFrom the 1960s to the 1980s, Ticino was an architecture "hotspot", which strongly influenced building culture in German-speaking Switzerland and even gained international recognition. In the characteristic landscape south of the Alps where the historical centres, villages as well as agricultural structures were transformed by sprawl, a whole generation of architects dedicated their work to improve the quality of the built environment. And so, it even countered the postmodern critique of modernism with a constructive idea: What is this modernist legacy able to perform in respect of history, landscape and social structures?
The protagonists of this group, such as Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Dolf Schnebli, Luigi Snozzi, Aurelio Galfetti, Mario Botta or Livio Vacchini, have given concrete answers to this question as individuals or in various constellations and cooperation with their projects and built works: private detached houses, public buildings such as an open-air swimming pool and many schools, as well as large-scale planning of the territory.
In 1975, with the exhibition "Tendenzen - Neuere Architektur im Tessin", this heterogeneous and rich work was shown in German-speaking Switzerland in an exhibition curated by the gta, which spread the fame beyond the borders of Ticino and Switzerland. In the footsteps of the show’s legendary catalogue we will explore the phenomenon of this unique architectural scene: How could in a provincial region a whole group of people suddenly develop such a visionary idea of architecture and actually implement it in countless projects?
We will visit, study and discuss these buildings, but also hike to experience them in the landscape. Each evening we will meet various guests, including Mia Hägg and Kersten Geers – both teachers at the Accademia in Mendrisio – at the Villa of Virginia Tech in Riva San Vitale, where we are allowed to stay. The Italian photographer Stefano Graziani will accompany us and, almost half a century after the publication of the exhibition catalogue "Tendenzen", will seek a contemporary image of this now historical architecture.
SEMINAR WEEK
19. — 25.10.2020
Expense category B
(251 – 500 CHF)
5 – 15 Participants
zorzi@arch.ethz.chFlora Ruchat-Roncati, Aurelio Galfetti, Ivo Trümpy: Bagno di Bellinzona (1968-1970)
Flora Ruchat-Roncati: Bagno di Bellinzona Model (1968)
Mario Botta: Scuola Media, Morbio Inferiore (1972-1977)
SCI-Arch, Students Workshop in Ticino (1970‘s)
Mario Botta: Casa Bianchi, Riva San Vitale (1972-73)
Flora Ruchat-Roncati, Aurelio Galfetti, Ivo Trümpy: Casa Ruchat, Morbio Inferiore (1966-1967)
Villa Maderni in Riva San Vitale, the base of our Seminartrip
Giancarlo Durisch: Casa atelier Durisch, Riva San Vitale (1972-1973)
Luigi Snozzi: Casa Appartamenti Verdemonte, Monte Carasso (1974-1976)
Dolf Schnebli: Casa Castioli Campione (1959)
Livio Vacchini, Aurelio Galfetti: Scuola media, Losone (1973-1975)
Livio Vacchini, Aurelio Galfetti: Scuola Media, Losone (1973-1975)
Lago MaggioreAurelio Galfetti: Casa Rotalinti, Bellinzona (1960-1961)
Villa Maderni in Riva San Vitale, the base of our Seminartrip
Roberto Bianconi, Walter Ruprecht: Case d‘Appartamenti, Terenzio Bellinzona (1971-1972)
Roberto Bianconi, Walter Ruprecht: Casa d‘Appartamenti, Bellinzona (1971-1972)
Lugano
Dolf Schnebli: Casa Castioli Campione (1959)
Roberto Bianconi, Walter Ruprecht: Case d‘appartmenti Terenzio Bellinzona (1971-1972)
Via Panoramica, LocarnoLuigi Snozzi, Livio Vacchini: Casa Sinider, Verscio (1966)
Roberto Bianconi, Walter Ruprecht: Casa d‘Appartamenti, Bellinzona (1971-1972)
Flora Ruchat, Aurelio Galfetti, Ivo Trümpy: Centro Scolastico, Riva San Vitale (1963-1964)
Flora Ruchat-Roncati and colleagues at the Restaurant
SPRING 20
UZBEKISTAN
MAHALLA REPORTMahallas are an ancient form of „living together“, historically built around family ties and the daily life of the community. They are even integrated into the modern Uzbek constitution, which allows them to deal independently with all matters falling within their jurisdiction. Weddings, funerals, conflict resolution in the quarter and in the family, administrative activities and community celebrations take place in these neighbourhoods, which are still home to a large part of the Uzbek population. To date there are almost 10,000 Mahallas in Uzbekistan with an average of about 2,000 inhabitants. Depending of local culture, tradition, region and climate, various types of Mahallas developed over the centuries. But many Mahallas are disappearing due to high economic pressure, changed habits and lack of modern infrastructure.
A focus of our journey will therefore be the different types of Mahallas throughout Uzbekistan. On our journey along the Silk Road from Tashkent to the West we will not miss to visit important cultural sites and buildings in the cities of Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara and Khiva. From the monumental Koranic schools of the 15th century to the Soviet reconstruction of Tashkent after the 1966 earthquake.
The social organization of the Mahallas and their various architectural forms are of high interest because they represent alternative models of urban society. At a time when the anonymous megacity and its ecosystem are literally reaching their limits, the need for an alternative is greater than ever. The example of the Mahalla can make an important contribution to this.
With photography and film, we will capture our journey and especially the Mahallas. The internationally renowned Uzbek contemporary artist Saodat Ismailova, whose film work revolves around the ancestral traditions of Uzbek society, will accompany and support us through the trip. The photographer and publisher Giovanna Silva will also be part of the journey and help us to capture these communities and their fascinating habitat.
SEMINAR WEEK
14. – 22.03.2020
Expense category E
(max. CHF 1’200)
max. 16 participants
10.03.20Due to quarantine measures the Department of Architecture
has postponed all seminar trips traveling internationally!Courtyard of a large Bukharian house
Old city, Bukhara
Toqi Zargaron, Bukhara (15th century)
Samanid Mausoleum, Bukhara (10th century)
Archive Prokudin-Gorsky, Bukhara
Metro station “Kosmonavtlar”, Tashkent (1984)
Samanid Mausoleum, Bukhara (end of 10th century)
City wall, Khiva (18th century)
Genghis Khan addressing a congregation at the mosque in Bukhara (1397)
ZNIIEP schilischtscha, 2-storey residential buildings in microrajon Z-5,Tashkent (1967)
Street at night,Tashkent
A.W. Kosinskji, Serie 1T-SP, Bobur Kochasi (1974)
Madrasah of Tillia Kari, Inner Courtyard, Samarkand (1868)
Irrigation on Amu Darya Delta, Uzbekistan
KievZNIIEP, Construction of a residential building,Tashkent (1967)
Plan of old city with major monuments, Bukhara
Street in Samarkand
Map of mediaeval commerce in Asia
Courtyard houses, Bukhara
Courtyard houses, Tashkent
Nine-storey residential building, 1T-SP series,Tashkent (1973)
Suzani, Cotton with embroidered silk (19th century)
Cotton harvest
Filmstill Qo’rg’on Chiroq by Saodat Ismailova (2019)
Odetta Aidinova, 16-storey residential building,Tashkent (1985)
Lenin Square,Tashkent (reconstruction after 1966)
Kok Gumbaz Mosque, Shahrisabz (15th century)
FALL 19
GRAND TOUR
L’AZZURO DEL CIELO
FUNERARY MONUMENTS AND SPACES OF COMMEMORATION IN ITALY«Wenn wir im walde einen hügel finden, sechs schuh lang und drei schuh breit, mit der schaufel pyramidenförmig aufgerichtet, dann werden wir ernst und es sagt etwas in uns: Hier liegt jemand begraben. Das ist architektur.»
Adolf Loos, Architektur, 1910According to Adolf Loos, only a very specific realm of architecture belongs to the discipline of art: the monument, and the tombstone. Hereby he points to the latent a-functionality of these architectures, whose built form serves a merely representational function. The site and form of the final resting place has evolved throughout history from the pyramids to the rental of a tree for burial of ashes. To the variety of rituals enacted according to different religious customs, corresponds the great extent of architectural and urban translations of the funeral monument. From the tomb to the catacomb, from the tumulus to the mausoleum, from the catafalque to the crypt, from the cemetery to the necropolis, the typology of the architectures of Death essentially evokes the idea of shelter, while serving as a tribute to past greatness, emphasized by the suggestive and allegorical meaning of art.
As a basin of cultures and religions, Italy showcases the powerful and singular position death has always occupied within society and the city. This role is translated in a collection of funerary monuments, which are paramount to the understanding of Architecture, from the Etruscan obsession with death to the Rossian urbanism of melancholy. Re-enacting a possible Grand Tour through Italian cities – and landscapes – we will visit mausoleums of the great emperors, the vast and urban Etruscan necropolis, labyrinthine Neapolitan catacombs, the Piranesian tombs on the via Appia, family chapels of the Renaissance, 19th century monumental cemeteries as well as their contemporary interpretations, in search for the fields, spaces, and devices of commemoration.
SEMINAR WEEK
20. – 26.10.2019
Expense category D
12 – 22 Participants
zelger@arch.ethz.chNecropoli della Banditaccia, Cerveteri (IX secolo a.C.)
Monumento ai Martiri delle Fosse Ardeatine, Roma (1944-1949)
Mausoleo di Teodorico, Ravenna (520 d.C.)
Joel Sternfeld: Via Appia Nuova, Statuario, Roma (1989)
Piramide Cestia, Roma (I secolo a.C.)
Aldo Rossi: Cimitero di San Cataldo, Modena (1971)
Mausoleo di Monte del Grano, Roma (222-235 d.C.)
Raffaello, Bernini: Cappella Chigi, Roma (1507-1661)
Necropoli Vaticana, Roma (I secolo a.C.)
Via Cava Buia, Blera (IX secolo a.C.)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Via Appia Antica (1756)
Via Appia Antica, Roma
Raffaello, Bernini: Cappella Chigi, Roma (1507-1661)
Cimitero acattolico, Roma (1738)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Pianta della Piramide Cestia, Roma (I secolo a.C.)
Aldo Rossi: Cimitero di San Cataldo, Modena (1971)
Columbarium di Vigna Codini, Roma (I secolo a.C.)
Mausoleo dell’Imperatore Augusto, Roma (I secolo d.C.)
Mausoleo Galla Placidia, Ravenna (V secolo a.C.)
Parco Vergiliano, Tomba Virgilio, Napoli (1930)
Tropheo di Gaio, Roma (II secolo d.C.)
Sepolcro di Eurisace, Panarium, Roma (I secolo a.C.)
Catacombe di St. Callixtus, Roma (III secolo d.C.)
Leon Battista Alberti: Tempio Malatestiano, Rimini (1450)
Massimiliano Fuksas: Il cimitero nuovo di Civita Castellana (1985 -1992)
FALL 18
GRAND TOUR
LONDON / BATH
ITALY AND GREECE THROUGH THE EYES OF BRITISH ARCHITECTSAs travelling became a means of discovery accessible to a privileged few in the 17th century, touring acquired a new value for architects and artists.
Simultaneously with the start of archeological documentation, which allowed study of the seemingly inaccessible, the Grand Tour grew to be considered as an educational tool.
How did these travellers use the information gathered on their journeys, how did they make it available and implement them in their designs? In a series of Grand Tours we will first look at the interpretation in order to better look at the interpreted. This semester, we will start in England as the birthplace of so many Grand Tourists.
The chosen sites and visits in London and Bath will reflect upon two ways of interpretation. On the one hand we will look at the discoveries and sketches, the drawings and artifacts, as well as the museums and archives: the British Museum, the RIBA Drawing Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, as well as the Drawing Matter collection which will give us insights into the two-dimensional projects, the representation of architecture. On the other hand, we will appraise direct applications, where built interpretations are embedded in a contemporary context. Inigo Jones, John Nash, John Soane and Edwin Lutyens’ masterpieces will be confronted with James Stirling, Richard Rogers, and Venturi Scott-Brown’s modern translations.
SEMINAR WEEK
21. – 27.10.2018
Expense category D
(750 – 1000 CHF)
10 – 15 Participants
tina.kueng@arch.ethz.chJohn Nash: Cumberland Terrace, London (1826)
Victoria & Albert Museum’s Casting Collection Room, London
John Nash’s Metropolitan Improvements, London
Edwin Lutyens: Page Street, London (1930)
James Stirling: Clore Gallery, Tate Britain, London (1986)
Inigo Jones: Queen’s House, London (1638)
Joseph Michael Gandy: Preliminary Design by Sir John Soane for Dulwich Picture Gallery (1812)
Tony Fretton: Red House, London (2001)
Robert Adam: Syon House, London (1762)
John Soane: John Soane Museum, London (1834)
Richard Rogers: Lloyd’s Building, London (1986)
Lord Burlington: Chiswick House, London (1730)
Nicholas Hawksmoor: Christ Church, Spitalfields, London (1729)
James Stirling, Michael Wilford: No 1 Poultry, London (1994)
John Nash: Regent’s Park, London (1828)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Views of Paestum (1778) in British Museum, London
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown: Sainsbury Wing, National Gallery, London (1991)
Thomas Malton: Wood’s Royal Crescent, Bath (1777)
Aerial view of Royal Circus / Crescent, Bath
LECTURE
«CARLO MOLLINO: ARCHITETTURA METAFISICA»
Course Fall Semester 2020
Construction III
by Christoph Gantenbein
NOV 11.20
8.15AM
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURE«ALEJANDRO DE LA SOTA: NO HACER ARQUITECTURA»
Course Fall Semester 2020
Construction III
by Christoph Gantenbein
NOV 18.20
8.15AM
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURE«HERZOG & DE MEURON: ABSTRAKT UND KONKRET»
Course Fall Semester 2020
Construction III
by Christoph Gantenbein
NOV 25.20
8.15AM
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURE"HEALTHCARE II"
Emanuel Christ mit Annmarie Adams
gta invites
23.10
18:00
LINK TO RECORDING«OBJECTS»
Course Spring Semester 2020
Construction IV
by Emanuel Christ
1.4.20
15:00
THE LECTURE WAS LIVE STREAMED«CITIES»
Course Spring Semester 2020
Construction IV
by Emanuel Christ
25.3.20
15:00
THE LECTURE WAS LIFE STREAMED«TYPES»
Course Spring Semester 2020
Construction IV
by Emanuel Christ
11.3.20
8:15
HIL E 1
«HERZOG & DE MEURON: GEBAUTE NATUR»
Course Fall Semester 2019
Construction III
by Christoph Gantenbein
06.11.19
HIL E 3«ALEJANDRO DE LA SOTA: NO HACER ARQUITECTURA»
Course Fall Semester 2019
Construction III
by Christoph Gantenbein
30.10.19
HIL E 4«CARLO MOLLINO: JENSEITS DER KONSTRUKTION»
Course Fall Semester 2019
Construction III
by Christoph Gantenbein
16.10.19
HIL E 4«AFFINITY»
Christoph Gantenbein in discussion with Gion A. Caminada
Course Spring Semester 2019
Ringvorlesung IEA
9.4.19
HIL E 1«POELZIG-ARTIG»
Eine dreiteilige Vorlesungsreihe über Hans Poelzig
Course Spring Semester 2019
Construction IV
by Emanuel Christ
3.4.19
HIL E 1«OBERFLÄCHLICH»
Eine dreiteilige Vorlesungsreihe über Hans Poelzig
Course Spring Semester 2019
Construction IV
by Emanuel Christ
27.3.19
HIL E 1«HANS POELZIG»
Lecture series on Hans Poelzig
Course Spring Semester 2019
Construction IV
by Emanuel Christ
6.3.19
HIL E 1«SERENDIPITY»
Emanuel Christ in discussion with Markus Peter on Serendipity
Course Fall Semster 2019
Ringvorlesung IEA
27.11.18
HIL E 4RESEARCH
OPEN PLANS
Polykatoikia Type, Athens, from “Typology – Paris, Delhi, Sao Paulo, Athens”
RESEARCH
OPEN PLANS is an open architectural database of existing buildings. With its unique graphical search and analysis functions for form and structure of buildings, the platform will become an intuitive instrument for typological studies.
Working with built references is essential for architecture students. In other domains, where knowledge is mostly represented in text format, successful digital instruments like google scholar facilitate the management, inquiry and discovery of existing knowledge dramatically. In architecture, a large part of the knowledge is implicitly embedded into technical drawings or models for which there is no such research instrument yet.
The aim of OPEN PLANS is to enhance the possibilities for accessing and exchanging knowledge on existing buildings and their spatial organisation. Using state of the art digital retrieval and data processing methods, it allows complex, architecture-specific queries regarding the organization and form of building types.
OPEN PLANS repository is a format imagined by the Chair Dillenburger, in collaboration with Chair Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein.
MAHALLA
MAHALLA
Historically built around family ties and the daily life of the community, mahallas represent an ancient form of “living together”, many variations on which can be found across the globe. In Uzbekistan, where the tradition occurs mainly as a genuinely rural space embedded within an urban context, this indigenous cultural institution takes on a specific meaning.
The mahalla is not only an administrative, hence geographic, division of a town, but also the institution that acts as a mediator between the state and society. According to the modern Uzbek constitution, mahallas are empowered to deal independently with all matters falling within their jurisdiction and as such have developed into self-governing bodies. Weddings, funerals, conflict resolution in the neighbourhood and in the family, administrative activities, and community celebrations take place in these units, where a large part of the Uzbek population still lives. There are currently around 10,000 mahallas in Uzbekistan, each with 150 to 2,000 inhabitants.
Depending on the local culture, traditions, seismic conditions, region and climate, different types of mahalla have developed over the centuries. Aggregated in labyrinthine systems, the mahallas convey a sense of proximity and intimacy while creating precise spaces of assembly that the community puts to intensive use. The vernacular two-storey courtyard buildings made of clay walls were reinterpreted in a modernist manner during the Soviet era, or even converted into prefab slab housing. Today’s iterations of the mahalla are popular among people seeking an urban-rural lifestyle, but due to high economic pressure, changing habits, and their lack of modern infrastructure, many are at risk of disappearance.
At a time when the ecosystem of the anonymous megacity is literally reaching its limits, the need for alternatives is greater than ever. Can the social organization of the mahallas and their various architectural formations as low-rise / high-density structures offer urban society a sustainable and ecological model? At the least, the mahalla deserves a critical reading and a tentative exploration.
Ukchi-Almazar Sheikhantaur Mahalla, Tashkent, 1960
Tashkent, 1960
Pointcloud - Courtyard in Samarkand Darvoza
Pointcloud - Courtyard of Mikrorajon Z-5
PUBLICATION
REVIEW N°II TYPOLOGY
REVIEW N°II Typology
Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein, «Typology – Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires»
Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Christoph Gantenbein, ETH Zurich
With essays by Fernando Diez, Francesco Garofalo, Carol Herselle Krinsky and Hendrik TiebenOver two years of academic research as Assistant Professors at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein and their Research Team selectively analysed 160 buildings from Hong Kong, Rome, New York and Buenos Aires.
This inventory of 20th-century metropolitan and essentially ubiquitous building production represents a systematic yet subjective compilation of urban architecture.
Hardcover, 24.5 x 32.4 cm, 160 pages, English/German
Graphic design by Ludovic Balland Cabinet, Basel
Published by Park Books, Zurich
ISBN 978-3-906027-01-2
Out of Print
Buy the book here„Remaking Zurich“, motion picture based on the contents of „Typology“. Contribution to the IABR (International Architecturel Biennale Rotterdam) in 2012
„Remaking Zurich“, motion picture based on the contents of „Typology“. Contribution to the exhibition „Dichtelust“ at the Swiss Architecture Musuem Basel in 2019
REVIEW N°III TYPOLOGY
REVIEW N°III Typology
Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein, «Typology – Paris, Delhi, São Paulo, Athens»
Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Christoph Gantenbein, Cloé Gattigo, ETH Zurich
With essays by Anupam Bansal, Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, André Lortie, Thomas Maloutas, Rafael Moneo, and Nadia SomekhFollowing-up on the preceding “Typology: Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires” published in 2012, the chair expanded its research on building typology to four more metropolises, again in Europe, Latin America, and Asia.
180 buildings were analyzed and documented with an image, site and floor plans, axonometric projection, key data, and a brief description. An introduction and four essays on the interaction between various protagonists and in particular the effect of governing local building regulation show the potential for contemporary urban architecture. The result is a rich sourcebook of great practical value for students, lecturers and practitioners of architecture.
Hardcover, 24.5 x 32.4 cm, 160 pages, English/German
Graphic design by Ludovic Balland Cabinet, Basel
Published by Park Books, Zurich
ISBN 978-3-906027-01-2
Out of PrintModels and „Typology“ books featured in the 4th Architecture Triennale Lisbon, 2016
© Tiago Casanova„Typology“ poster featured in „Architectural Ethnography“, Japanese Pavilion, 16th Venice
Architecture Biennale, 2018
© Simona FerrariHONG KONG TYPOLOGY
HONG KONG TYPOLOGY:
AN ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH ON HONG KONG BUILDING TYPESBy Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, ETH Zurich
With essays by Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, Nele Dechmann and Hendrik TiebenPublished on the occasion of the exhibition “Hong Kong in Zurich: A Typological Transfer” at the Istituto Svizzero, Venice, part of the series Teaching Architecture: 3 Positions Made in Switzerland.
Nowhere do buildings express density better than in Hong Kong. Beyond the fascination with global urban phenomena or romantic patchwork-like images, it is by understanding its built fabric and analysing its architectural legacy that we can begin to grasp its manifest beauty. In Hong Kong, the immediacy of the need for both living and working environments produces pragmatic and radical answers to the lack of space, which all have a strong architectural consequence. This very precise development of new typologies hides a mannerist precision behind an unadorned bare aspect. Hong Kong Typology presents a thorough study and a precise selection of Hong Kong’s relevant building types of the 20th century. As an approach to its multifaceted collection of buildings, 36 case studies were classified in seven different categories and illustrated with photo, floor plan and axon.
150 x 210 x 10mm
Graphic design by Ludovic Balland Cabinet, Basel
Honorary Mention at Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2010
Published by gta Verlag, Zurich
ISBN 978-3-85676-287-2
Out of Print“Hong Kong in Zurich: A Typological Transfer” at the Istituto Svizzero, Venice, part of the series Teaching Architecture: 3 Positions Made in Switzerland, 2010
“Hong Kong in Zurich: A Typological Transfer” at the Istituto Svizzero, Venice, part of the series Teaching Architecture: 3 Positions Made in Switzerland, 2010
Poster “Hong Kong in Zurich: A Typological Transfer”, Venice, 2010
Models of Hong Kong buildings featured in the UABB, Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, 2015
Models of Hong Kong buildings featured in the UABB, Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, 2015
Models of Hong Kong buildings featured in the UABB, Bi-City Biennale Of Urbanism/Architecture, Shenzhen, 2015
TYPOLOGY APP
Typology City Guides are unique tools to discover the underlying rules of these fascinating cities. Developed by Christ & Gantenbein at the ETH Zürich, these Applications are free to download on the App Store and Google Play (only Hong Kong). In each App, more than 40 buildings are documented with floor plans, axonometric drawings, facts and located on google map.
This inventory of 20th century metropolitan and essentially ubiquitous architecture represents a systematic yet subjective compilation of urban architecture around the world. The buildings, many relatively unknown, were chosen in order to provide a basis for looking at metropolitan design in the twentieth century, comparing the patterns and differences in building styles found around the world.
App Features:
- Building Index
- Map of All Locations
- Favorite Building List
- Contact Info
Each Typology comes with:
- vital statistics: address, date of completion, architect, number of floors
- description of context & history
- floor plans & axonometric drawings
- photos
- map locator
- interesting buildings nearby
Developed by chair Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein
Graphic Design Ludovic Balland
Programming Balz Rittmeyer
Applications actualized in 2020IDEAL ARCHITECTURE MILANO
IDEAL ARCHITECTURE
MILANO
Ideal Architecture: Milano is a small collection of drawings produced by the students in the Fall Semester 2018. After a physical encounter with one of 40 selected buildings in Milano, the students were asked to represent the built project through drawings. Then, the existing building is isolated from its historical context to focus on its design intentions only. The urban form and typological lyout were worked out by strengthening, reducing, exaggerating and changing specific aspects of the building. Finally all identified principles were reassembled in a final step to form a whole, a pure architecture, an Architekton, a folly or even an ideal architecture; without any concrete program, or site.
Thanks to this experimental, analytical and critical appraisal, the student traces his or her own architectural language, builds up his or her own repertoire. By focussing on representation, the students were encouraged to trace synthetic drawings with suggestive colors and strong shadows to highlight body and space. This collection features drawings from all design steps. Put side by side the different projects, built as well as imagined, create a context of their own.
16.3 x 23.4cm, 96 pages,
Editors: Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein
Editorial Assistance: Francesco Zorzi
Copy Editing: Jil Denton
Graphic Design: Studio Marie Lusa
Printing: Musumeci S.p.a
Typeface: Univers LT Std
Paper: ProfibulkREAL ARCHITECTURE BASEL KLYBECK
REAL ARCHITECTURE
BASEL
KLYBECKReal Architecture: Klybeck is a collection of student projects produced in the Spring Semester 2019. It features 33 visionary projects in the existing context of Basel Klybeck, a former industrial area which is currently under transformation. The ideal form without any site or age from the previous semester was confronted with a real context here and now. Actual and controversial issues were tackled such as how living, working and producing shall be all combined in an urban realm. Throughout the year, the students were experiencing the making of architecture as a cultural medium as well as a visionary tool to address the future needs of urban society. Through the technique of collages and montages, the focus of the projects were developed in close distance to the found context. Finally the architectural drawings with colors and shadows were combined with suggestive perspectives, highlighting the imagined reality from a pedestrians point of view in this city to come.
16.3 x 23.4cm, 96 pages,
Editors: Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein
Editorial Assistance: Francesco Zorzi
Copy Editing: Jil Denton
Graphic Design: Studio Marie Lusa
Printing: Musumeci S.p.a
Typeface: Univers LT Std
Paper: Profibulk
CONTACT
ADDRESS
Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein
Professur für Architektur und Entwurf
ETH Zürich
Departement Architektur
HIL H 47
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
8093 Zürich HönggerbergTEAM
Emanuel Christ
Prof., dipl. Arch. ETH SIA BSA
2018 – Full Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zürich
2015 – 2017 Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD
2010 – 2015 Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich
2009/2006 Guest lecturer at Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio
2008 Guest lecturer at Oslo School of Architecture and Design
2005 Guest lecturer at Robert Gordon University Aberdeen
2000 – 2005 Head of Teaching at ETH Studio Basel
2002 – 2003 Guest lecturer at Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung (HGK), Basel
1999 Travel scholarship to Italy of the Schindler-Stiftung Zurich
1998 Architecture firm in joint partnership with Christoph Gantenbein
1998 Diploma of architecture at ETH Zurich with Prof. Hans Kollhoff
1991 – 1998 Student of architecture at ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne and at HdK Berlin
1970 Born in Basel, Switzerland
Christoph Gantenbein
Prof., dipl. Arch. ETH SIA BSA
2018 – Full Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zürich
2015 – 2017 Visiting Professor at Harvard GSD
2010 – 2015 Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich
2009/2006/2004 Guest lecturer at Accademia di Architettura Mendrisio
2008 Guest lecturer at Oslo School of Architecture and Design
2008 – Member of managing board SIA Basel
2002 – 2003 Guest lecturer at Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst (HGK), Basel
2000 – 2002 Assistant Designer to Axel Fickert at ETH Zurich
1999 Travel scholarship to Italy of the Schindler–Stiftung Zurich
1998 Architecture firm in joint partnership with Emanuel Christ
1998 Diploma of architecture at ETH Zurich with Prof. Hans Kollhoff
1991 – 1998 Student of architecture at ETH Zurich
1971 Born in St. Gallen, Switzerland
Julien Bellot
MSc. Arch. ETH
2018 – Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2018 – Independent activity as an architect, Zurich
2017 – 2018 Architect at Smolenicky & Partner Architektur, Zurich
2017 Master thesis with Prof. Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich
2015 Architect at Éric Lapierre Architecture, Paris
2014 Master‘s studies in architecture at ETH Zurich and ENSA Paris la Villette
2012 – 2013 Collaborator at Smolenicky & Partner Architektur, Zurich
2010 Bachelor‘s studies in architecture at ETH Zurich
1990 Born in Zurich, Switzerland
Victoria Easton
MSc. Arch. ETH
2018 – Scientific Collaborator at the Chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2017 – Member of the Swiss Federal Art Commission
2012 – Associate at Christ & Gantenbein, Basel
2010 – 2015 Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein, ETH Zurich
2008 – 2009 Scientific Assistant to visiting professor Jean-Paul Jaccaud, EPF Lausanne
2005 – 2008 Architect at Christ & Gantenbein, Basel
2005 Architect at Christian Penzel Architekt, Zurich
2005 Diploma of Architecture at ETH Zurich with Prof. Peter Märkli
1999 – 2005 Student of architecture at EPFL Lausanne and ETH Zurich
1981 Born in Lausanne, Switzerland
Tina Küng
MSc. Arch. ETH
2018 – Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ und Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2016 – Founder of DU STUDIO, Zurich with Steffen Hägele
2014 – Independent activity in Zurich
2013 Collaborator at Go Hasegawa & Associates, Tokyo
2013 Research stay in Sao Paulo/ Tokyo: „Repertoire of Public“
2012 Collaborator at pool Architekten, Zurich
2011 Master thesis with Prof. E.Christ und C.Gantenbein, ETH Zurich
2009 Master’s studies in architecture at ETH Zurich
2005 Bachelor‘s studies in architecture at ETH Zurich
1986 Born in Lucerne, Switzerland
Meng Li
MArch I AP GSD Harvard
2018 – Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ und Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2018 Founder of Studio Pararaum
2017 – 2018 Collaborator at Diener & Diener Architekten, Basel
2015 – 2017 Collaborator at Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin
2015 Collaborator at Prof. Hans Kollhoff Architekten, Berlin
2015 Master thesis with Prof. Mach Scogin at GSD Harvard 2014 Master‘s studies in architecture at ETH Zürich (student exchange)
2012 Master‘s studies in architecture st GSD Harvard
2011 Collaborator at Valerio Olgiati, Flims
2007 Bachelor‘s studies in architecture at McGill University, Montreal
1987 Born in Tianjin, China
Christian Portmann
MSc. Arch. ETH
2018 – Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ und Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2018 – Independent activity, Zurich
2016 – 2017 Architect at Christ & Gantenbein, Basel
2015 – 2016 Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ und Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2015 Master thesis with Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil at ETH Zurich
2014 Internship at Conen Sigl Architekten, Zurich
2011 Master‘s studies in architecture at ETH Zurich
2008 Bachelor‘s studies in architecture at ETH Zurich
1987 Born in Wettingen, Switzerland
Nicolas Rothenbühler
MSc. Arch. ETH
2018 – Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ und Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2018 Winner of Swiss Art Award, with TEN
2017 – MAS Fine Arts at ZHDK Zurich
2015 – 2018 Collaborator at Schneider Studer Primas, Zurich
2015 – Member of TEN, Zurich
2015 Collaborator at Christian Kerez, Zurich
2014 – 2016 Collaborator at Park Architekten, Zurich
2012 Master thesis with Prof. Peter Märkli at ETH Zurich
2009 – 2012 Student Assistant to chair for Theory of Architecture of Prof. Dr. Akos Moravanszky at ETH Zurich
2006 Bachelor‘s studies in architecture at ETH Zurich
1985 Born in Bern, Switzerland
Léonie Zelger
MSc. Arch. ETH
2018 – Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2016 – Independent activity, Zurich
2016 – 2017 Postgraduate in Sound Art, KASK Ghent and ENSATT Lyon
2009 – 2016 Architect at pool Architekten, Zurich
2009 Master thesis with Prof. Dr. Peter Märkli, ETH Zurich
2007 Internship at Conen Sigl Architekten, Zurich
2007 Master‘s exchange studies in architecture, KTH Stockholm
2006 Master‘s studies in architecture, ETH Zurich
2006 Internships at Metro arquitetos and Pedro Mendes da Rocha, Sao Paulo
2005 Internship at City Department for Architecture, Geneva
2003 Bachelor‘s studies in architecture, ETH Zurich
1984 Born in Geneva, Switzerland
Stefano Zeni
MSc. Arch. IUAV
2019 – Scientific Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ und Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2018 – Independent activity, Zurich
2016 – 2017 Architect at Jan Kinsbergen Architekt, Zürich
2016 Architect at De Vylder Vinck Taillieu, Ghent
2015 Architect at Baukunst, Brussels
2014 Overseas Program at Escola da Cidade São Paulo
2012 Master‘s studies in architecture at IUAV Venice
2012 Internship at 2a+p/a, Rome
2008 Bachelor‘s degree in architecture at IUAV Venice
1987 Born in Cavalese, Italy
Francesco Zorzi
MSc. Arch. Politecnico di Milano
2018 – Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ und Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2014 – Founder of Raumplan (raumplan.info), Milan
2017 Architect at Matei Manaila Architekten, Zurich
2016 Architect and Researcher at l’AUC, Paris
2015 Academic Assistant at the Chair of History of Architecture of Marco Biraghi at Politecnico di Milano
2014 Academic Assistant at the Chair of Architectural Design of Fabio Alessandro Fuscoat at Politecnico di Milano
2014 Researcher at OfficeUS, American Pavillion of the 14th Architectural Biennale
2011 – 2015 Architect at Salottobuono, Milan
2015 Master‘s degree in architecture at Politecnico di Milano
2011 – 2012 Collaborator at San Rocco Magazine, Milan
2011 Bachelor‘s degree in architecture at IUAV Venezia
1989 Born in Cavalese, ItalyWEBSITE
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