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.).

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 semester we will re-evaluate the qualities and uses of remoteness at the Klausenpass, where, at 1948 metres, the cantons of Glarus and Uri overlap. We will study and map the social and the historical, getting to know the walkers, bikers, soldiers, and maintenance crews that are its visitors today.

Cro-Magnons painting imaginary worlds in Ardeche caves, Elizabeth I displaced 400 years into the future to witness the chaos wrought by her class, bourgeois Parisians cooking their meals with the waste from restaurants, by choice. Scenarios from three films portraying societies removed from the mainstream and hinting at futures less dominated by consumption and fractured social contracts.

Do we need new museums? Instead of conveying narratives of power and of how things have always been, new museums could be places of exchange, where the old and the new are present and where different voices are invited to contribute to continuing stories about art and society.

Improvising and adapting have a long history in the built environment and now that the time for new building is coming to an end, perhaps architects need to more fully embrace the sensibility of the interim.

The consumer driven economy is not sustainable and the desires it claims to fill can never be satisfied. What should we be doing and how can we have fulfilling lives? We will start by looking at a range of life-practices. While we attempt to discern them, we will start to draw plans, plans that form a notation for these rituals, plans that describe existing spaces, plans for new ways of living.

We will make detailed plans for living together: Imagine ourselves freed from the false dogma of social Darwinism, in a place where essential tasks like caring for people, growing food and living in balance with our environment, are more important than non-essential activities like banking and academia. We will study models of mutual aid in the human, animal and vegetal worlds.

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.

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.

Cro-Magnons painting imaginary worlds in Ardeche caves, Elizabeth I displaced 400 years into the future to witness the chaos wrought by her class, bourgeois Parisians cooking their meals with the waste from restaurants, by choice. Scenarios from three films portraying societies removed from the mainstream and hinting at futures less dominated by consumption and fractured social contracts.

This semester we will work in the village of Ennenda, a place with a long history and a diverse legacy of buildings. While agriculture is very present in the village and its surroundings, factories that are part of supply chains within the Glarus valley, employ almost one thousand people.

The pressure of capital is consuming the open spaces that have provided the slack for the experimental uses of Zürich. This semester we will engage with the spirit of the second phase of modernism, and deploy some of its instruments to resist these forces, encouraging instead the conditions of openness and inclusion that were possible in the ruins of the 70s.

This semester we will work in the village of Ennenda, a place with a long history and a diverse legacy of buildings. While agriculture is very present in the village and its surroundings, factories that are part of supply chains within the Glarus valley, employ almost one thousand people.

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.).

This course intends to use different techniques of recording and research to capture a special and important time in the history of Zurich between the late 1970s and the early1980s. The documents that each student produces will be test of how to communicate and archiving specific topics of this time.