This course offers a brief introduction to contemporary urban problems and challenges. Based on a thematic approach, the course explores how these issues pose a challenge to the fields of architecture, urban design and planning.

This course offers a brief introduction to the city and its challenges, questioning the role of architectural and urban design facing these challenges. In a series of thematic lectures, the course explores how architectural and urban design has addressed and can address societal and urban questions.

This course examines how pressing societal challenges – including segregation, migration, gender inequality, extraction, waste, food systems, and digitalisation – are redefining urban discourse. It invites students to question their preconceptions about cities and urban design and to critically reflect on their role as socially engaged city-makers.

How can we tell the stories of distant things that influence each other? This seminar discusses and creates (hi)stories in architecture and urbanism that take into account the cross-site and interdependent relations of dominant and dependent duos. It looks at and creates new representations of north-south and south-south productions of space.

This lecture course begins with the premise that architecture’s “color,” or its not-quite-so-whiteness, is difficult to see.

This course foregrounds non-Eurocentric paradigms and perspectives in the history and theory of urban design. By highlighting different urban logics and experiences, the course aims to broaden our understanding of the heterogeneity of urbanisms around the world.

This course foregrounds non-Eurocentric paradigms and perspectives in the history and theory of urban design. By highlighting different urban logics and experiences, the course aims to broaden our understanding of the heterogeneity of urbanisms around the world.

This course is a quest for non-Eurocentric paradigms and perspectives in urban theory developed in the Global South. By highlighting different urban logics and experiences, the course aims to broaden our understanding of the heterogeneity of urbanisms around the world.

This course is a quest for non-Eurocentric paradigms and perspectives in urban theory developed in the South. By highlighting different urban logics and experiences, the course aims to broaden our understanding of the heterogeneity of urbanisms around the world.

This course will aim to explore the Mediterranean, a region of great importance to trade, culture and politics over many centuries that continues to defy conventional academic and geographic categories. The course will aim to expand the existing discussion towards the inclusion of the built environment and cultural artifacts, and contemporary reverberations of the region’s history.

Within three elective courses the students need to fulfill an elective work (seminar work). Elective works serve the independent way of dealing with the contents of the according elective course.

Within three elective courses the students need to fulfill an elective work (seminar work). Elective works serve the independent way of dealing with the contents of the according elective course.

Within three elective courses the students need to fulfill an elective work (seminar work). Elective works serve the independent way of dealing with the contents of the according elective course.

Within three elective courses the students need to fulfill an elective work (seminar work). Elective works serve the independent way of dealing with the contents of the according elective course.

This part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).

This part of the curriculum addresses design work in different areas of architecture and urbanism and integrates the knowledge acquired in previous years. It involves the active participation of specialists from related disciplines (e.g. building structures, landscape architecture, history of art and architecture, monuments conservation etc.).

Students interested in this course are required to enroll via mystudies.ethz.ch and apply via e-mail at the chair until end of the first week of the semester. Students are asked to indicate the theme of the design and the chair they are working with. The work is handed in at the same time as the design assignment.

What about diversity in the historiography of architecture? This course applies concepts such as equality, diversity, or inclusivity to the construction of the past. It explores texts written by marginalised authors of the 18th and 19th centuries. What kind of histories will we write based on the testimonies of those commonly excluded from the canon due to their gender, race, class, or sexuality?