During the autumn semester 2025, the Architecture and Care design studio will address public care infrastructures through the lens of what is considered to be private, domestic, reproductive space. The studio aims to subvert the dichotomy between public and private, productive and reproductive spheres, and imagine what a “public domestic” could be. We will question normative constructs surrounding

During the spring semester 2026, the Architecture and Care design studio will address public care infrastructures through the lens of what is considered to be private, domestic, reproductive space. The studio aims to subvert the dichotomy between public and private, productive and reproductive spheres, and imagine what a “public domestic” could be.

We would like to examine the most important elements in creating a strong sense of place. We design architecture in selected locations in Quinten, aiming to create a house that both reflects today's knowledge and the features and conditions unique to its location.

This semester we will continue our return to the tangible. Working on underused industrial sites in Zurich we will reintroduce large scale programmes of production, care and agriculture, alongside places for working and living.

The rise of the consumer economy has resulted in a dramatic decline of free, publicly accessible interiors. The city’s churches provide shelter and care for society’s most vulnerable and the reform church works closely with the city and other social providers. A wider and more socially diverse use of this stock of publicly scaled interiors could transform the sense of ‘the public’ in Zurich.

Buildings are physical repositories of the history of their time and place. In the Alpine region, various buildings have lost their function and meaning in the course of their lifetime for different reasons of structural change.

In addition to the design and practice, knowledge on the topics of circular economy, CO2 balance, pollutants and component logistics will be imparted. Reuse projects that have already been implemented will be presented and visited.

This semester we will redesign the museum, making projects that test the capacity of architecture to address historic bias in the content of museums, and social exclusion in their buildings. Guided by past and present disruptors in the art world, we will make concrete proposals to ‘hack’ both the organisation as well as the architecture of three Zurich museums.

This semester will be an intentional return to the tangible. Working on a group of buildings around Helvetiaplatz in Zurich we will make projects for additions and transformations that substantially increase the capacity of these buildings and explicitly embrace making architecture.

The Architecture and Care design studio will address the spaces where human reproduction takes place. Gendered constructs around reproduction have been and still are central practices to the ways we structure social realities. Architecture and space have historically contributed to promoting and perpetuating sexist social models around reproductive labour and its associated care practices.

During the spring semester 2024, the Architecture and Care design studio will address the spaces where human reproduction takes place. Gendered constructs around reproduction have been and still are central to the ways we structure social realities.

The design process is turned upside down!In addition to the practical work, highly motivated speakers impart a wide range of knowledge on the topics of recycling management, CO2 balance, pollutants and component logistics. Reuse projects that have already been implemented will be presented and inspected.

Architecture is an act of world-building. This semester, we will become prophets of new worlds yet to come. We will learn from existing world-building practices, from science-fiction literature to architecture and game design, that is, radical imagination practices that venture into the utopian. From our newly created perspective, we will design alternative futures for the RIA Halle in Oerlikon.

In times where our homes have become the toys ofinternational real estate speculators, where profitis seen as the only value a building can bring andwhere the realisation of virtual potential shapes oureveryday lives - we have to become active to fight theongoing commodification of our own apartments andneighborhoods. If we don‘t act now we are risking a futurewhere housing becomes.

Architecture is not produced in isolation. It emerges from the long-term interaction between territory, material availability, construction cultures, and socio-economic change. In alpine regions, these relationships become particularly legible: resources are limited, landscapes are fragile, and architectural decisions tend to have lasting territorial consequences..

How can we design a Health Care Center for KIGALI / RWANDA between the informal city and agricultural wetlands, connecting neighborhoods with public health spaces and education infrastructures, in the context of rapid urban growth and the question of what constitutes an African city?

After the last few semesters with design locations in Zurich, we are moving to Rotterdam and trying to apply our findings with a focus on sustainability in the development of the Maashaven.

We engage with sandstone, its extraction and processing methods, and its role as a load-bearing material within structural and constructive systems. In the cities of Fribourg and St. Gallen, we develop residential floor plans and explore the architectural qualities and aesthetic potentials that emerge from an examination of material processes and temporal cycles.

How can urban and architectural prototypes inform design codes?How can we invent urban rules that address climate and environmental qualities?

What does it mean to practice architecture today?During the last decade we have seen many practices take shape which go beyond architecture as the design of buildings.The Newrope chair has explored process oriented methods, centered around the idea of "Design in Dialogue" – to design not only spatial proposals with the architect’s conventional tools, but to equally care for the way we develop