The "Integrated Discipline History of Art and Architecture" requires an independent demonstration of achievement within the History of Art and Architecture as an integral part of the Architectural Design project. The assignment must be completed in writing and/or in the form of creative work. Choice of subject, form and scope of the assignment must be defined in accordance with the Chair.

What does today's dynamic context with its complex challenges demand of future architects? A rapidly changing world in the wake of climate change needs environmentally conscious, sustainable design and construction more than ever before. Studio Foundations addresses the increasing complexity with a collective of eight professors (chairs).

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This seminar draws architectural history's attention to textual sources from advice literature that formulate the normative and gendered standards of interior design, decoration and homemaking. Through a critical examination of advice ranging from Ottoman adab books to Western etiquette manuals, we will examine the various regimes and expressions of gender embedded in the skin of architecture.

We often think of buildings as fixed in their locations, but many buildings have been physically moved from their original sites for reasons as diverse as economic development, aesthetic imperatives or environmental necessity. This course investigates building relocation case-studies from the 20th c. up to now, from the translocation of giant Egyptian temples to mobile home schemes.

This seminar will study the material, cultural, and social parameters that conditioned drawing practices in Europe from the 15th through 19th centuries. We will examine drawings firsthand, and compile critical perspectives to grasp the varied roles drawings performed in artistic and architectural practices as well as the production of knowledge, and the constitution of power structures.

This seminar draws architectural history's attention to textual sources from advice literature that formulate the normative and gendered standards of interior design, decoration and homemaking. Through a critical examination of advice ranging from Ottoman adab books to Western etiquette manuals, we will examine the various regimes and expressions of gender embedded in the skin of architecture.

Before we design buildings, we travel: as a source of education, imagination or visual appropriation. This course examines the relationship of travel with architecture when it was institutionalised as a crucial part of the professional competence; confronting different historical modes of encounters with today’s practice.

How can our writing be different if we write with the toolkits of queer feminism? How can this practice of writing help us to imagine an otherwise for the spaces we inhabit, draw, invade, or leave behind? This course will critically approach these questions, centering the practice of collective and creative writing, focusing on the radical writings of queer feminists of color.

What does today's dynamic context with its complex challenges demand of future architects? A rapidly changing world in the wake of climate change needs environmentally conscious, sustainable design and construction more than ever before. Studio Foundations addresses the increasing complexity with a collective of eight professors (chairs).

Theme for this History Research Studio is ‘The Ways of the Architect’. The Studio aims at exploring the artistic, social and cultural paradigms through which the figure of the early modern architect became institutionalized and canonized or, conversely, was questioned and challenged, through professional practices, craftsmanship, discourse, iconography, education, politics and so on.

Cities have always been places of common resources and practices. While designing and constructing the architecture of the city, architects, urban designers, builders, inhabitants have had to engage with a pool of common resources: inherited common-pool resources (water, nature, air); material common-pool resources (clay, brick, stone, wood) and immaterial common-pool resources (craft, knowledge).

In this subject semester titled ‘Building Local - Printing Global 1450-1850’ we examine the role locality plays in architecture and architectural theory in this period. Focussing on the relationship between books and architecture, we explore both local architecture in Switzerland and locality in buildings in major cities as Rome, Paris and London vs. the globality of early-modern print culture.