A History Research Studio fostering in-depth research where each student will propose and then develop their own individual project.

The theme of this History Research Studio is "'Exotic' Art and Architecture in Switzerland": We will discuss issues of exoticism, orientalism and other forms of “othering”, race and national stereotypes, colonial heritages and other related topics. The Studio aims at mapping different forms of Exoticism in buildings, but also material objects or ephemeral events of the early-modern period.

The theme of this History Research Studio is "'Exotic' Art and Architecture in Switzerland": We will discuss issues of exoticism, orientalism and other forms of “othering”, race and national stereotypes, colonial heritages and other related topics. The Studio aims at mapping different forms of Exoticism in buildings, but also material objects or ephemeral events of the early-modern period.

A History Research Studio fostering in-depth research where each student will propose and then develop their own individual project.

A History Research Studio fostering in-depth research where each student will propose and then develop their own individual project.

The subject semester (to choose out of two topics) includes the individual, independent processing of a specific task, whereby the relevance of the respective discipline is examined with regard to the specific architectural and design aspects of the task.

"Who Cares?" Architecture and Care: A collective ManifestoWhat is care? Therapy, prevention, maintenance, affection, empathy, monitoring, paying attention?Who takes care? Nurses, doctors, family members, scientists, shamans, architects?What is cared for? Children, melting glaciers, birds, decaying houses?Students are invited to give answers to these questions.

Housing Commons and the City: ZurichFocuses on the housing commons of Zurich, namely collectively owned, non-profit forms of housing ownership (e.g. cooperatives). In the ways that they have been produced, managed, used, maintained, and appropriated, housing commons offer new perspectives to think about contemporary urban challenges such as densification, housing demand, and sustainability.

The theme of this History Research Studio is ‘Female Agency in Architecture before 1850’. The Studio aims at exploring the crucial role women played in the birth, life and afterlife of buildings in the early modern period. We will study female patronage, authorship, and criticism in architecture.

The subject semester (to choose out of two topics) includes the individual, independent processing of a specific task, whereby the relevance of the respective discipline is examined with regard to the specific architectural and design aspects of the task.

Paying Attention: A Collective Manifesto.Attention is a rare commodity. How do we deal with attention? How is it manipulated? Who pays?Students produce autonomous texts.

A History Research Studio fostering in-depth research. We will be working together on a specific theme of the early-modern period, with each student developing an individual project.

A History Research Studio fostering in-depth research where each student will propose and then develop their own individual project.

A History Research Studio fostering in-depth research where each student will propose and then develop their own individual project.

The summer school explores the mediated territories between the city, its guidebook and the traveller. By adopting a selection of itineraries established by past and present guidebooks, students investigate the thresholds of Rome, between the built city and its tourists.

How do we use the past to read today? According to the doomsday clock, extinction has never been closer. Yet deep time, with its myths of origin, formation, and extinction, is rarely used to question our present.We will explore Swiss places of deep time, such as paleontological, geological, or natural sites, and study how their current uses are activated by different narratives of history.

We all live in different Switzerlands; what part does architecture play in this complexity? Through the e-periodicaplatform, Swiss journals online, the course aims to explore the Swiss media environment and to understand howit has instigated different ideas of architecture, cities, landscapes, and interiors that inform national ideas ofSwissness.

Images govern our understandings of reality, transcending their purposes, media, support, and going beyond disciplinary borders. It is only by scrutinizing and contextualizing them that we understand the fragility of ideas they bear and the fundamental role architecture plays in this narrative construction.

The term “vernacular architecture” is a recent invention, but the idea is as old as architecture itself: From the moment someone defined and legislated what is the art of building and who is allowed to practice it, an “other” and an “outside” was born. This course will trace the different definitions of this other and their implications, from contemporary architecture back to the middle ages.