EMANUEL CHRIST & CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN
NEWS
SYMPOSIUM “SPACE OF ACCUMULATION”
FEBRUARY 22 – 23, 10AM. ETHZ, HIL F41.4
with
Dr. Catharina Bening ETH Group SusTec
Boris Buzek UZH Deutsches Seminar
Prof. Dr. Francesco Corman ETH IVT
Prof. Dr. Lucas Bretschger ETH MTEC
Nicole Lachenmeier SuperdotFINAL REVIEWS “STORAGE”
DECEMBER 21 – 22, 9.30AM – 7PM. ETHZ, HIL F41
with Barbara Berger, Ambra Fabi, Stephan Lando, Corinna Menn, Marina Montresor, Alfredo Thiermann, Lydia Xynogala, Andrea Zanderigo
LECTURE AT HARVARD GSD
CAMBRIDGE, MA – OCTOBER 20, 2021. Emanuel Christ & Christoph Gantenbein, Kenzo Tange Design Critics at Harvard GSD, will join the school's public program together with OFFICE Kersten Geers and David Van Severen in an event hosted by Jeannette Kuo on October 20, 2021. 12:00PM – 01:30PM Eastern Time.Sign up for the webinar here and join the live stream here. Christ & Gantenbein's 2021 course at Harvard, "The Primitive Hut", investigates the human-nature relationship, under pressure of climate change, scarcity of resources, and the global pandemic.
AUDIO-VISUAL PIECE BY CHRIST & GANTENBEIN AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY IN LONDON
LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM – September 23, 2021. The Royal Academy's 2021 Summer Exhibition has opened its doors. The architecture show is curated by David Adjaye and focuses on the topic of climate and geography. Christ & Gantenbein is represented with an audio-visual piece based on point-cloud data from its research studio's work for Mahalla: Urban Rural Living. The artwork is on display in the Large Weston Room.
RA Summer Exhibition 2021, September 22, 2021 – January 2, 2022, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London
MAHALLA STORIES: AUGUST 24 - 31
VENICE, ITALY - August 24, 2021. Mahalla Stories is a series of talks and concerts that will run from August 24 to 31 at the Uzbek Pavilion, framed by the installation "Mahalla: Urban Rural Living" by Christ & Gantenbein with works by Carlos Casas and Bas Princen. Within this open-ended three-dimensional collage inviting us to consider new possibilities for living together, "Mahalla Stories" will present insights on Uzbek local music and sound ecology; on how the mahallas have influenced the work of artists, on the process of creation behind the exhibition; and of course architecture.
Christ & Gantenbein will participate in the following events:
August 27: The Image of Architecture
August 26: Architecture of the commons
August 28: Shifting the Gaze
Find the full program here and further details on mahallavenice.uz.FINAL REVIEWS “WORKSPACE”
JUNE 1 – 2, 9.30AM – 6PM. ETHZ
The reviews will take place physically at Sihlquai 274
or on zoom:
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EXHIBITION-BLOG
D-ARCH FINAL REVIEWSNOW OPEN: "MAHALLA: URBAN RURAL LIVING"
Within the Renaissance-era industrial architecture of the Quarta Tesa, the multi-disciplinary team of architects, researchers, visual and sound artists has recreated a Tashkent courtyard house on a 1:1 scale as a life-sized tubular steel silhouette.Visitors enter the exhibition through a passage and are welcomed into an example of the courtyard typology that populates Tashkent. The abstract architecture of the house is complemented by twelve of Bas Princen’s photographs, by a series of soundscapes created by Carlos Casas, and by contributions from CCALab students and Munis Juraeva.
A special edition boxed compilation of the research material is available at Humboldt books.
Check the Mahalla: Urban Rural Living website for updates.
Photograph by Studio Gerda
LIVE STREAM OF EXHIBITION OPENING - MAHALLA: URBAN RURAL LIVING
VENICE, ITALY - May 18, 2021. Join the opening of the Republic of Uzbekistan first pavilion at the International Venice Architecture Biennale via live stream on E-Flux Video on Thursday, May 20.
E-FLUX
MAHALLA: URBAN RURAL LIVINGLECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST:
«ON TYPOLOGY III» MAY 12, 8.15AM.
CONSTRUCTION III, SPRING SEMESTER 21. ETHZ
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURELECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST:
«ON TYPOLOGY II»MAY 5, 8.15AM.
CONSTRUCTION III, SPRING SEMESTER 21. ETHZ
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURELECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST:
«ON TYPOLOGY I» APRIL 28, 8.15AM.
CONSTRUCTION III, SPRING SEMESTER 21. ETHZ
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTUREGUEST LECTURE EVA FRANCH I GILABERT:
«THE ARCHITECTS»
MAR 30, 5 PM. DESIGN STUDIO IV: WORKSPACE, SPRING SEMESTER 21. ETHZ
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTUREE-FLUX – MAHALLA: URBAN RURAL LIVING
VENICE – March 29, 2021. "Mahalla is a social, cultural, and urban phenomenon. It is not necessarily an answer to the question asked by Hashim Sarkis, but it could be a very rich and interesting hint and indication to where a global contemporary society could find a vision, information, inspiration."
Emanuel Christ, e-flux, March 29, 2020.
MAHALLA: RURAL URBAN LIVING
MAHALLA VENICETYPOLOGY II & III ARE BACK IN STOCK
BASEL, SWITZERLAND – February 15, 2021. Our typological investigation of structures in Hong Kong, Rome, New York, and Buenos Aires (Typology II), and Paris, Delhi, São Paulo, and Athens
(Typology III) are back in stock.For further context, read John Hill's recent reviews of the two books on
"A Daily Dose of Architecture Books."© BERND & HILLA BECHER
LECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST: “TYPES“
MAR 3, 8.15AM. HIL E1, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
MORE INFORMATIONCURATING THE FIRST UZBEK PAVILION
@17TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE EXHIBITION IN VENICE
SNEAK PEEK© FOTO: DSL STUDIO
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
LINK TO RECORDING© JUDITH GENIESER / CAROLINA PALOS MAS, STUDIO CHRIST & GANTENBEIN
FINAL REVIEWS “TO MAIN STREET”
MAY 27 – 28, 9.30AM – 6PM. ETHZ
EXHIBITION-BLOG
D-ARCH FINAL REVIEWSPUBLICATION "MILANO" & "BASEL KLYBECK"
PUBLISHED BY CHAIR CHRIST & GANTENBEIN
MORE INFORMATIONPUBLICATION “TYPOLOGY APPS”
THE DIGITAL GUIDES TO EIGHT CITIES ARE ONLINE AGAIN
MORE INFORMATION© ILEANA DAN, STUDIO CHRIST & GANTENBEIN
MASTER'S THESIS “RE-USE CIBA”
SPRING SEMESTER 20
MASTER THESIS C BY CHRIST & GANTENBEIN
LINK TO EXHIBITION-BLOGSEMINAR TRIP CHAIR CHRIST & GANTENBEIN
UZBEKISTAN: MAHALLA REPORT
MAR 14 – 22. SPRING SEMESTER 20
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STUDIO REVIEW SZENARIO
MAR 10 – 11. HIL F41. HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
MORE INFORMATIONEXHIBITION CHRIST & GANTENBEIN: “RETAIL APOCALYPSE”
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
MORE INFORMATION© FOTO: DSL STUDIO
BOOK LAUNCH
“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
MORE INFORMATIONBOOK LAUNCH “ARQUIVO DIOGO SEIXAS LOPES”
WITH VICTORIA EASTON & CHRISTOPH GANTENBEIN
NOV 22, 7PM. SPIEGELGASSE 18, ZURICH
NEVER STOP READINGSTUDIO REVIEW “TYPE”
NOV 19 – 20. HIL F41. HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
MORE INFORMATIONLECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST
NOV 19, 7PM. THE GREAT HALL, THE COOPER UNION
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEAGUE OF NEW YORK
MORE INFORMATIONLECTURE EMANUEL CHRIST
NOV 18, 6.30PM, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK CITY
COLUMBIA GSAPP
MORE INFORMATION© HERZOG & DE MEURON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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
MORE INFORMATIONSTUDIO REVIEW “BODY”
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
MORE INFORMATIONSTUDIO REVIEW “PORTRAIT”
OCT 8. HIL F41, HÖNGGERBERG, ETHZ
MORE INFORMATIONEXHIBITIONS CHRIST & GANTENBEIN: “ECONOMY OF MEANS” & “WHAT IS ORNAMENT”
OCT 10 – DEC 12. LISBON ARCHITECTURE TRIENNALE
MORE INFORMATIONSTUDIO TRIP CHRIST & GANTENBEIN: GENOVA
SEPT 23 – 25. DESIGN STUDIO FALL 19, “FROM STRADA NUOVA”
MORE INFORMATIONLECTURE VALTER SCELSI: “UNVARNISHED QUEEN”
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
MORE INFORMATIONLECTURE CHRIST & GANTENBEIN: “TYPOLOGY”
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
MORE INFORMATIONDESIGN STUDIO
STORAGE
IDEAL ARCHITECTURE
STORAGE
We understand the issue of storage space as a urgent and constant problematic for all human societies in all historical periods. Form the prehistoric caves and jars to the city of Delphi where the ancient greeks stored for the first time in history of Europe written documents and personal belongings. From the primitive caves to the Knossos palazzo, from the roman corn warehouses to the Nevada desert, where the hidden side of our cloud society lies with his enormous amount of space used for data storage.
The act of storing something has to do with the issue of the “standard” measure. Every epoch and every society culturally defines what their standards are, based on the very necessity of their historical time, and so the architecture of the storage space adapts itself to the ever-changing standards and thus evolves. For many periods the most important conventions about storing were derived from the human body. From the weight a healthy person can lift to the way a hand reaches for an object, the body condtions storage. The rise of standards like the european norm for palletts EPAL, changed storage fundamentally. It‘s no longer possbile to perceive what is inside a container nore does it matter for the person who maneuvers a logistical vehcile. From the disconnection from the good and its vessel follows a intensely generic space like a container stock, which serves well for chases in movies but lost it‘s hospitality to humans.
Categorizing the things that our society stores, is as vast as the society itself. Along most swiss train tracks, one can observe shapes designed to hold materials in different consistencies. From liquid to aeriform to solids, from bulldozed bulk freight to stacked blocks, the physical forces demonstrate movement and storing. Figurative big scale storing is the object of many photographic oeuvres, a more familiar and personal storing happens in our portmonaies, our boxes, pockets and furnitures, designed to keep our belongings. Usually things that belong together, or are identical, are stored together. Raw materials like metals or crude oil are processed to sheets, rolled to foils, cut to strips, assembled to components and further assembled to products. In each step, storing and moving the objects defines the shape of the good, as well as the space they are stored in.
In this semester we want to look closely at the architecture of storage in Switzerland. By means of fieldwork, drawing, reading, discussion and designing we will search for the ideal in storage and propose a collection of the most interesting storage buildings. We believe that these buildings, in addition to being a crucial part of any functioning of society, possess an underappreciated beauty, and that through typological mapping have the potential to shed light on the mechanism of the built world.
STUDIO
Fall semester
2021
Introduction
21.09.21, 10.00
HIL F 41Peter Fischli and David Weiss, A collection of objects, Spruet Magersm Berlin (2014)
Sami storehouse, Sweden
Dematic Storage, China (2019)
A. Rosengarten, W. Collett-Sandars: Great Pyramid of Giza, Cross Section (1895)
Bernhard Tschumi: Media Center Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing (1997)
Ed Ruscha, The Old Tech-Chem Buildin,g 2003
Greg White: Nuclear waste storage system (2011)
Franco Purini: Classification according to spatial sections (1968)
Canaletto: Entrance of Arsenale, Venice (ca. 1732)
Barrage de la Grande Dixence, canton Valais (1950)
Johann Nussbiegel: Studies on the character of buildings (1788)
Granaries of Soajo, Portugal (1782)
John Ruskin: Stones of Venice (1853) Bundle pillar plans
Wim Wenders: Entrance, Houston, Texas (1983)
Bernd Hilla Becher: Spheric gas tanks (1988)
Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi: BASCO Showroom, Philadelphia (1976)
Harald Szeemann in the “Fabbrica Rosa,” his office and archive in Maggia, Switzerland (ca. 1990s)
Granary No. 5, Montreal (1903) From Le Corbusier: Vers une architecture (1923)
Drawings of houses and towers in Minos, Knossos, Crete from Rafael Moneo: On Typology, Oppositions (1978)
Candida Höfer: British Library London (1994)
Henrik Spohler: Warehouse in Vilarreal, Spain (2017)
Sir John Soane: Section of John Soane’s House, London (1827)
Mario Botta: BSI Bank Caveau, Lugano (ca. 1980)
SPACE OF ACCUMULATION
REAL ARCHITECTURE
SPACE OF ACCUMULATION
Accumulation describes the gradual gathering of elements. It is the law by which many great things operate, such as civilization, history, economy and not least the formation of planets. Architecture is also subject to the law of accumulation, as buildings do not appear in an instant, but are gradually put together on the building site. What are the pyramids if not an accumulation of stones? One possible answer would be to say that they are storage; an architectural response to accumulation as old as time itself. Is the traditional storage still valid today? What can spaces of accumulation mean for architecture?
With the increased focus on accumulation of capital, goods and data in today’s society, you’d think that spaces of accumulation would be an essential part of our daily lives. Instead it is suspiciously missing from the public imagination, hidden away as something necessary but unsightly. It’s true that the complexity and scale of accumulation can be unnerving and as the saying goes: you don’t want to know how the sausage is made. Nevertheless, could it be necessary to understand the sausage for a sustainable future?
If given the ability to store their accumulations, a person can live differently than someone without traces. You get a physical memory of your past as well as the possibility for planning ahead and save for later. In this way accumulation can actually lead to both minimal consumption and recycling, which are important steps towards sustainability. How can recycling influence our work on architectural form and space?
In our studio, using the knowledge from the previous semester on the ideal storage, we will combine the ideal and the real in order to speculate about how recycling meets tomorrow’s space of accumulation, because we believe that answering the question about the accumulation of the future means implicitly linking architecture to the necessities and urgencies of the world to come.
STUDIO
Spring semester
2022Introduction
22.2.22Hideyuki Oka: Traditional Japanese Packaging (1975)
Andreas Gursky: Amazon (2016)
Carlo Ponti: Recycled Pillars of Acre, San Marco Venice (1860)
Charles-Joseph Minard: Transport of mineral fuels in France (1856)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi: La Via Appia, Ricostruzione Ideale (1756)
Air freight storage, London (1969)
Harddisk (1970)
Rudolf Olgiati: Bautteillager
Richard Buckminster Fuller: Dome over Manhattan (1961)
Amazon Drone Patent (2017)
Containership Evergiven
OMA: The City of the Captive Globe Project (1972)
Coat Shop Denmark (1955)
St.Peters groundplan showing materials of spoliate column shafts (ca. 325-50)
Dwight Eschliman: How to Survive Societal Collapse in Suburbia (2012)
Dimitris Pikionis: Landscaping of the Acropolis Surounding (1958)
Alexander von Humboldt: Osteology of the sirenom (1806)
Étienne-Louis Boullée: Project for the National Library in Paris (1785)
Hans Dieter Schal: Boulevard of the history of architecture (1970s)
Wolfgang Tillmanns: Obstspeicher
Xanti Schawinsky: Untitled (1926)
Plan of a Data Center
Alexander Brodsky: Vodka Pavilion (2003)
SPRING 21
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, 10.00Paul Dillier / Nico Gevecke
Bardh Jashari / Robin Rohner
Lida Freudenreich / Isabel Suter
Laurin Kessler / Fiona Hatz
Manon Schaffner / Jan-Niklas Spörri
Leon Weissheimer / Anic Hollinger
Tamara Zecevic / Lou Schmid
Alexander Bruderer / Liam Connolly
Deniz Demian Esen / Josias Regli
Anna Balmer / Pauline Gähwiler / Ronja Zehnder
Peter Reutlinger / Jérôme Strebel
Manuel Büchel / Leon Kallert
Flavio Carigiet / David Ragonesi
Vivian Chen / Alessia Venezia
Lara David / Lara Krieger
Elena Hauenstein / Michelle Krebs
Mona Lecoultre / Chiara Marchegiani
Nadine Fankhauser / Viviane Hug
Alina Lustenberger / Anouk Bohnenblust
Antoine Liechti / Simon Köppel
Vinzenz Leuppi / Adrian Hug
Dominik Stoll / Mauritz von Kardoff
Leonie Calzana / Jonas Odermat
Matteo Mazzotta / Janne Perini
FALL 20
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, 10.00Alexander Bruderer / Liam Connoly
Alina Lustenberger / Rachel Bohnenblust
Anja
Antoine Liechti / Simon Köppel
Antoine Liechti / Simon Köppel
Bardh Jashari / Robin RohnerBigler Rachel / Domke Joel
Alexander Bruderer / Liam Connoly
Calzana Leonie / Odermatt Jonas
Calzana Leonie / Odermatt Jonas
Carmen Franc / Noëlle Hutmacher
Carmen Franc / Noëlle Hutmacher
Carmen Franc / Noëlle Hutmacher
Chiara Marchegiani / Mona Lecoultre
Chidi Speranza / William Tice
Christoph Schuppisser / Philipp Stäheli
Jérôme Strebel / Peter Reutlinger
Kornelia Fehnle / Lucas Steurer
Lara David / Lara Krieger
Laurin Kessler / Fiona Hatz
Manuel Büchel / Leon Kallert
Nadine Fankhauser / Viviane Hug
Paul Dillier / Nico Gevecke
Janne PerriniSchaffner / Spoerri
Sofia Uribe / Julian Volken
SperriVictoria Balmer / Pauline Gähwiler / Ronja Zehnder
Vivian Chen / Michelle Krebs
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
MASTER THESIS
NOSTALGIA ECOLOGY
NOSTALGIA ECOLOGY
How durable is the Bürgerhaus?
In this Master's thesis, we would like to examine the Bürgerhaus in the Zurich area. The foundation of our research is the comprehensive work "Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz" published by the Bürgerhaus-Kommission of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects in the 1920s, which documents representative residential buildings from different time periods, most of which still exist today. The collection shows an impressive variety of formally and stylistically self-confident buildings portrayed with marvelous attention to detail. The reproduced plans include meticulously drawn elevations and interiors, from ceiling to floor, from tiled stove to door handle.
Considering their great age and well-preserved condition, these buildings seem to be particularly durable. We would like to critically question this hypothesis and try to precisely understand the durability of the Bürgerhaus not only on a technical and constructive level, but also from a typological, social and cultural perspective. We will re-examine the portrayed buildings in our own way one hundred years after they were documented by the Bürgerhaus-Kommission. In doing so, digital tools will allow us to directly and quickly record today's building fabric and to take a contemporary look at the Bürgerhaus.
"Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz" was published in the interwar period, and bears witness to a time and place specific view of the history of architecture. In addition to re-examining the buildings portrayed, we are also interested in the question: How can we take an inspired and critical look at architectural history in a consistent and durable way today? The work of the Bürgerhaus-Kommission will therefore also provide us with a case study through which we can examine questions of cultural reception and appropriation.
In the project phase, we will try to identify thematic fields that are characteristic for the phenomenon of the Bürgerhaus on the basis of the findings from our typological study and our research into the history of reception. Based on these thematic fields, we will develop design scenarios for the representative residential house of tomorrow. Can the Bürgerhaus be rethought, adapted, recycled, expanded, reprogrammed, altered so that it can continue to exist?
MASTER THESIS
Fall semester
2022
For application please follow the instructions of D-ARCH, ETHZ
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 28-29
Point cloud scan visualised in Twinmotion, VDE AG, 2021
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 16-17
Eduard Neuenschwander, Einfamilienhaus, Gockhausen, 1964-69
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 8-9
Point cloud trees, DBT, 2022
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 44-45
Carlo Scarpa, Haus Zentner, Aurorastrasse, 1964-66
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 58-59
Point cloud scan of Centre Block Project, HOK, 2021
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 78-79
Hans Demarmels, Wohnhäuser, Rebbergsteig, 1963-66
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 92-93
swissSURFACE3D point cloud of Hönggerberg, DBT, 2022
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 108-109
Justus Dahinden, Haus Dahinden, Kienastenwiesweg, 1970-71
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 9, Stadt Zürich, 1921, pp. 114-115
Rudolf Steiger, Flora Steiger-Crawford, Haus Steiger, Bergstrasse, 1958-59
Das Bürgerhaus in der Schweiz, Band 18, Kanton Zürich, 1927, pp. 42-43
The Garden City
URBAN RURAL LIVING: REVISITING THE GARDEN CITY
THE SUBURBAN HOUSE TOMORROW
How durable are the housing forms of the Swiss suburbs?
With this Master‘s thesis, we would like to examine the suburbs in Switzerland and, in particular, their forms of housing. The foundation of our research is the idea of the garden city. Visions of settlements that are free of congestion and combine the advantages of both the city and the countryside seem again more relevant today in times of lockdowns and home office. Concurrently, the garden city, with its dependence on the car, its low building density and mono-functionality, also stands for a fundamentally questioned way of life. We want to rediscover the gigantic potential of the garden city as a way of dwelling and use the means of digital analysis to gain insights.
Our work is a typological investigation. In a collective observation, we try to understand the architectural, cultural, social, climatic and economic conditions of the suburbs and thus the unconscious logic behind the emergence of the „suburban house“. Considered as a type, the suburban house stands in the field of tension between the rural and the urban. While the urban condition depends on the coherent arrangement of houses within city blocks and streets, the rural is based on the house‘s relationship to the earth and sky, the unspoiled view of hills and trees, and the isolated event of a house in the landscape.
But what was the suburbs yesterday is no longer necessarily so today. So at the same time, the question arises as to whether the reality of the urban city is actually still opposed to the reality of the suburban city, or whether the two are not rather simulated manifestations of the same urban reality that is spreading worldwide: «Is the suburban city being urbanized? Are the architectural ambiguity and life forms of the city encroaching on suburban cities? Has this process possibly set in long ago and merely been disguised by the style of suburban housing that has been stagnant for generations?».
We ask ourselves what it means to live in suburbs today. What forms of housing are there and how durable are they? Can the garden city, and thus the suburban house, be rethought, adapted, recycled, expanded, reprogrammed, altered so that it can live on?
MASTER THESIS
Spring semester
2022
For application please follow the instructions of D-ARCH, ETHZDan Graham, Alteration to a Suburban House, 1978
Hans Bernoulli, Einfamilienhäuser Hardturmstrasse, 1923-30
Dan Graham, Row of New Tract Houses, Bayonne, New Jersey, 1966
Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Siedlungen, Agglomerationen, 1993
Hans Bernoulli, Bebauung des Rex-Lüben‘schen Geländes, Frankfurt an der Oder, 1910–1913
Berkeley Environmental Simulation Laboratory, Optic probe, 1972
Hannes Meyer, Bebauungsplan Siedlung Freidorf, 1919
Categorisation of building types with the help of Machine Learning
Peter Fischli, David Weiss, Siedlungen, Agglomerationen, 1993
Raymond Depardon, Le Touquet, Nord-Pas de Calais
Example of a Bottom-up computer-generated urban structure
Lauretta Vinciarelli, Project for a Productive Garden in an Urban Center in South West Texas, 1979
Josef Frank, Sketch for residential area in a town with 20'000 inhabitants
MAHALLA
URBAN RURAL LIVING
How durable are the traditional quarters of Tashkent in a time of political and social changes?
With this master thesis project we want to investigate the potential of further development of historic neighborhoods in Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, and develop concrete projects for this purpose. These area-wide neighborhoods, mahallas (Arabic for quarter) have grown over centuries and are closely linked to geography and seismic threat, climate and agricultural production, Islamic traditions, crafts and available resources, and different political systems. They are based primarily on the endless variation of the one to two story courtyard house type. Today, these quarters are either museumized or destroyed on a large scale to make way for often generic new construction projects at central locations in the city. According to our thesis, a lively further development of the historic quarters is not even envisaged due to a lack of possible strategies. The question of "Durability" seems to be solved: Tabula rasa is the urbanistic strategy systematically applied today. The coming semester should provide approaches to point out an alternative strategy that allows the built quarters a greater "Durability". Can traditional architecture establish a use, especially contemporary forms of living, emancipated from the traditional lifestyle? How can the necessary infrastructure develop to ensure this?
Parallel to the semester, the Architecture Biennale is taking place in Venice on the theme "How will we live together?". Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein are curating the official contribution of the Republic of Uzbekistan to the theme of MAHALLA. This exhibition contribution portrays traditional (and some Soviet) mahallas in different media and addresses this typical but little documented and discussed urban form. In this way, the discussion about the preservation and further development of these neighborhoods is to be initiated. A collaboration with the Biennale and a visit of the exhibition to Venice or the city of Tashkent is envisaged, depending on the development of the epidemiological situation.
MASTER THESIS
Fall semester
2021
For application please follow the instructions of D-ARCH, ETHZHanaka Muhammad Yaratalyk - the largest dome of old Bukhara, 1944–48
Tashkent, 1933
Fabric printing production
Plan of Tashkent with the oriental Old City and the Russian New City, 1890
Mahalla Koshtut, drone view
Mahalla Koshtut, drone view
Mahalla Khastimom, cadastre
Traditional Uzbek Houses
Courtyard Housing
Courtyard in Allon Mahalla, Point Cloud
Courtyard in Katta Bog Mahalla, Point CloudCourtyard in Khastimom Mahalla, Point Cloud
Interior in Koshtut Mahalla, Point Cloud
Interior in Matonat Mahalla, Point Cloud
Interior in Zangiota Mahalla, Point Cloud
SEMINAR WEEK
SPACES OF MEMORY
SPACES OF MEMORY
FUNERARY MONUMENTS IN ITALYWe want to experience architecture, that was intended to store the significance of a life against the erasing effect of time. This search will lead us into immersively crafted interiors, melancholic spaces of anonymity and humble signs of human existence embedded in nature.
Leaving Zurich on Sunday morning, we will travel by bus along the river Po, cross the Apennine with its renaissance cities, and approach the metropoles in the south, from where we return by train. On our trip we will visit mausoleums of emperors, the tempietti of Alberti and Bramante, Etruscan necropolis, labyrinthic Roman catacombs, piranesian tombs on the via Appia, the monumental cemeteries of the 19th century as well as their modern interpretations by Aldo Rossi and others. As Adolf Loos pointed out in his famous quote on graves, these artefacts oscillate in between architecture and art and seem liberated from a spatial function, because their main purpose is: to remind us. Taken as objects they tend towards being pure forms and images, yet they differ from classical sculptures as they remain connected to a life-story and are deeply rooted in a place. Taken as architecture, whether we enter an underground catacomb or hike on a field, the picturesque views and scenographic perspectives, are as much part of their narrative as the symbolic meaning. We will take our time on site, to occasionally catch these impressions with charcoal on paper.
For a better understanding of these strange witnesses of other times, which have left our city-centers in the course of the hygienic movements in the Age of Enlightenment, knowledge and empathy is required. With the help and expertise of our guests, the collective study of selected texts and our observations and analytical competences as practicing architects, we will start to involve ourselves with the topic. Travelling by train and bus leaves us some time to speculate on the relevance of funeral architecture in our contemporary urban condition:
How do we store immaterial values beyond our time?
How do we want to remember close ones?
Do we want to be remembered?(Image: Pyramid of Cestius, Cimitero Acattolico, built 12 BC, Rome)
SEMINAR WEEK
20. – 26.3.2022
Expense category D
(max. 1000 CHF)
15 – 22 Participants
rothenbuehler@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)
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 21
MAHALLA
TASHKENT – BUKHARA – SAMARKAND
Mahallas 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, Bukhara and Samarkand. 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.
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)
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
Kiev ZNIIEP Contstruction of a residential building, Tashkent (1967)
Plan of old city with major monuments, Bukhara
Koshtut Mahalla, Taskent
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
FALL 20
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
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
«DIE FEUERSTELLE»
Course Fall Semester 2021
Construction III
by Emanuel Christ
13.10.21
8:15
HIL E 4«DER SOCKEL»
Course Fall Semester 2021
Construction III
by Christoph Gantenbein
10.11.21
8:15
HIL E 4«ON TYPOLOGY III»
Course Spring Semester 2021
Construction III
by Emanuel Christ
MAY 12. 2021
8.15AM
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURE«ON TYPOLOGY II»
Course Spring Semester 2021
Construction III
by Emanuel Christ
MAY 5. 2021
8.15AM
ZOOM-LINK TO LECTURE«ON TYPOLOGY I»
Course Spring Semester 2021
Construction III
by Emanuel Christ
APRIL 28. 2021
8.15AM
ZOOM-LINK TO 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«POELZIG-ARTIG»
Eine dreiteilige Vorlesungsreihe über Hans Poelzig
Course Spring Semester 2019
Construction IV
by Emanuel Christ
3.4.19
HIL E 1«AFFINITY»
Christoph Gantenbein in discussion with Gion A. Caminada
Course Spring Semester 2019
Ringvorlesung IEA
9.4.19
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
MAHALLA
MAHALLA: URBAN RURAL LIVING
Curated by Emanuel Christ and Christoph Gantenbein as part of their research program, "MAHALLA: Urban Rural Living" was commissioned by the Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan. It was developed in collaboration with Tashkent’s CCA Lab and addresses the theme of the 17th International Architecture Biennial: “How will we live together?”.
Mahallas are a form of urban organisation that is simultaneously a housing solution, a powerful cultural center and a resilient self-governing body. There are currently over 9,000 mahallas in Uzbekistan, each with 150 to 9,000 inhabitants. Due to serious economic pressure, changing habits, and their lack of modern infrastructure, mahallas are slowly being replaced by new forms of housing, even though they remain popular among people seeking an urban-rural lifestyle.
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 these neighbourhoods and their various architectural formations as low-rise/high-density structures offer urbanity a sustainable and ecological model?
Drawing on this research, the exhibition offers a scientific investigation but also an artistic statement expressed through three different types of appropriation in a 1:1 scale: a model of a mahalla house occupying the whole space of the Quarta Tesa at the Tese Cinquecentesche in the Arsenale; an invisible appropriation of the space with sounds from the mahallas transmitted through ambisonic technology recorded by Spanish film-maker Carlos Casas; and extracts of mahalla houses as fragments of spaces represented by photographs by Dutch photographer Bas Princen.
The exhibition is completed by an app to experience the house structure suggested by the soundscapes, and a catalogue. Additional content is provided in a special edition published by Humboldt Books, a carefully designed folder that features a series of prints by Bas Princen and a record by Carlos Casas.
Bird’s-eye view of a traditional Mahalla
Point-cloud image gathered from field trips in preparation to the exhibition
EVENTS11.02.2021
“On Typology: Mahalla”
Lecture by Emanuel Christ
At the Berlage Institute
“Berlage Keynotes”13.07.2021
"Mahalla – Urban Rural Living"
Lecture by Victoria Easton
At the AA Summer School26.08.2021
“Architecture of the Commons”
Speakers: Tom Avermaete, Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, Artyom Kosmarsky, Anna Puigjaner, Alexey Ulko, Gayane Umerova
At the Uzbekistan National Participation at the Biennale di Venezia
“Mahalla Stories”27.08.2021
“The Image of Architecture”
Speakers: Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein, Kersten Geers, Ekaterina Golovatyuk, Saodat Ismailova, Chus Martinez, Bas Princen
At the Uzbekistan National Participation at the Biennale di Venezia
“Mahalla Stories”28.08.2021
“Shifting the Gaze”
Speakers: Milica Topalovic and the curators of Israeli, Polish and Uzbek Pavilion
At the Uzbekistan National Participation at the Biennale di Venezia
“Mahalla Stories”22.09.2021
“Mahalla”
Audio Visual Work
At the Royal Academy
“Summer Exhibition 2021”01.11.2021
"Mahalla: The Commons"
Lecture by Victoria Easton
At the University of Cambridge19.11.2021
“Mahalla: The perfect Sprawl”
Lecture by Christoph Gantenbein
At the Hochschule Düsseldorf and Peter Behrens School of Arts
“Civic Design Conference: The Compact City in the age of Sprawl”11.01.2022
“Mahalla: An Urban Rural Type”
Lecture by Victoria Easton
At the Domus Academy
“Our House is Burning Series”12.03.2022
"Living Heritage: Preservation and Development Practices"
Speakers: Noura Al-Sayeh, Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Abha Narain Lambah, Sumayya Vally
At the Dubai Art Fair
"Mahalla Unframed"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.
ELECTIVE
FORMALISTISCHE ANALYSE DER ARCHITEKTUR DER NEOLIBERALEN IDEOLOGIE
The elective course "Formalistische Analyse der neoliberalen Ideologie" analyses buildings. The analysis is based on what is built.This course is offered from spring semester 21 until end of fall semester 22.
In Spring Semester 21 we analysed the example of Europaalle in Zurich.
In Fall Semester 21 we analysed the example of the Richti-Areal in Wallisellen.
In Spring Semester 22 we will analyse the example of the Campus Hönggerberg in Zürich.The transformation of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich can be retraced through its constructions. The Semper-Belvedere of the industrial bourgeoisie before the turn of the century recalls a feudal type. The Hönggerberg satellite from the 1960s, as a rational production facility on a greenfiield site with functionally differentiated buildings, does not (or no longer) disguise its proximity to the industry. The corporate headquarters architecture of the laboratory and office complexes of the late 20th century coincide with the time when the university is finally reoriented from national to international. Under the title "Science city" - the inversion of the exodus of the contested inner city of the 68s - the Hönggerberg site has been "developed" since the early 2000s. The declared goal was and is to compete for the top positions in the global rankings and to live up to its own ambition of being a world-leading university. In order to realise the "ambitious development project", "alternative financing and participation models" were permitted on federally owned land (cf. ETH Zurich: Science City, 2006). Just completed, it exemplifies the self-understanding of what 'good planning' and 'good politics' are with regard to the development of a university campus.Instead of tracing the complex planning processes and accepting what has been built as a consequence of them, the elective turns the analysis 'from head to toe': what has been realised here? If objects cannot lie (cf. Bulle, Heinrich: Handbuch der Archäologie, Munich 1913), ideology can also be grasped from the architecture itself, provided it is questioned with methodological precision. For this purpose, the ”formalistische Analyse" leans on the scientific method of historical building recording: In a first step, aspects of this architecture are precisely examined and described on site, in order to work out formal-architectural principles of the project in a second step. The neighboring buildings of the first stage will be helpful to grasp the peculiarities of the Science-city-project. In a third step, the results of the formalistic analysis are summarised in the sense of a catalogue of neoliberal architecture.The elective course will take place weekly on Mondays from 15.45 to 18.30 in HCI F2, is led by Christian Portmann (portmann@arch.ethz.ch). The language of course is German. The number of participants is limited to 15. Therefore, enrollment in consultation with the lecturer: Please send a photo of an example of "neoliberal architecture" to portmann@arch.ethz.ch.
The introduction will take place on Monday, 21.2.22.
PUBLICATION
MAHALLA – THE SURVEY
MAHALLA — THE SURVEY
Mahalla – The Survey is a scientific investigation and an artistic statement which aims to offer a critical reading and a tentative exploration of a fascinating element of cultural heritage: the mahalla. Historically forged by family, ethnic and professional ties, the traditional mahalla is a neighbourhood which perpetuates an ancient form of ‘living together’ in many variations across large parts of Asia. This survey of ten mahallas in Tashkent, Uzbekistan was prompted by curiosity about the various low-rise / high-density architectural types in such neighbourhoods and the social structures in which they are rooted. The Mahalla – The Survey box contains drone imagery, contemporary street views, redrawn cadastral maps, floor plans and sections, point cloud imagery, explanatory texts, sound by Carlos Casas and exclusive art prints by Bas Princen, all combined in an exquisitely designed folder. On-site mapping was carried out in collaboration with the CCA Lab Tashkent. This special edition is published on the occasion of the first participation of the Republic of Uzbekistan at the International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2021.
CONTRIBUTORS
Carlos Casas, Bas Princen
CREDITS
Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton and Christoph Gantenbein
Commissioned by the Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Designed by Francesca Pellicciari, Francesca Biagiotti, pupilla grafik, Milan
Printed by Longo, Bolzano
Published by Humboldt Books
Box containing three folders, one vinyl, 12 art prints, 300 pages, 24 x 33 cm, English, Russian, Uzbek, 2021
ISBN 9791280336033
MAHALLA APP
MAHALLA APP
The iphone and android app MAHALLA allows users to browse authentic context in Tashkent via phone or tablet, providing a 3d experience of these intriguing domestic spaces.
Specially developed on the occasion of the first Uzbekistan Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021, the digital tool takes users into six different houses in six mahallas, via an elaborate point cloud model which can be explored thanks to VR. Background information on each of the houses as well as general insights into the phenomenon are provided by means of floor plans, maps, facts, figures and archive images. Local sounds specially sampled by the artist Carlos Casas provide an authentic acoustic environment.
CREDITS
Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton, Christoph Gantenbein, and Stefano Zeni
Commissioned by the Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Designed by Giga Design Studio, Milan
House of the Aksakal, Katta Bog, Tashkent, 2020
House of the Plov Chef, Khastimom, Tashkent, 2020
House with three trees, Katta Bog, Tashkent, 2020
House Under expansion, Koshtut, Tashkent, 2020
MAHALLA: URBAN RURAL LIVING
MAHALLA: URBAN RURAL LIVING
The catalogue Mahalla: Urban Rural Living provides in-depth insights into the research about mahallas and is a complementary reader to the first pavilion of Uzbekistan at the Venice Architecture Biennale and to the research documents compiled in Mahalla – The Survey.
CONTRIBUTORS
Prof. Shukur Askarov, Francesco Bergamo, Prof. Emanuel Christ, Boris Chukhovich, Victoria Easton, Prof. Christoph Gantenbein, Artyom Kosmarsky, Prof. Mukaram Nurmatova, Bas Princen, Alexey Ulko, Gayane Umerova, Prof. Mavlyuda Yusupova, Prof. Abdumannop ZiyaevCREDITS
Edited by Emanuel Christ, Victoria Easton and Christoph Gantenbein
Commissioned by the Art and Culture Development Foundation under the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Designed by Francesca Pellicciari, Francesca Biagiotti, pupilla grafik, Milan
Printed by Longo, Bolzano
142 pages, 24 x 33 cm, English, Russian, Uzbek, 2021
ISBN 978-3-907234-38-9REVIEW 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
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
Buy the book hereModels 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
Jonas Löland
MArch AHO
2021 – Teaching Assistant at the Chair of Emanuel Christ und Christoph Gantenbein at ETH Zurich
2019 – 2021 Architect at Christ & Gantenbein, Basel
2018 Teaching Assistant at the Oslo School of Architecture
2017 Architect at Christian Kerez, Berlin
2016 – Independent activity, Oslo
2016 Diploma of architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture with Prof. Neven Mikac Fuchs
2014 Internship at Malarchitecture, Oslo
2013 Master‘s studies in architecture at TU Munich (student exchange)
2010 Bachelor‘s studies in architecture at the Oslo School of Architecture
1991 Born in Bergen, Norway
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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