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056-0004-01L 4 Credits NDS D-ARCH
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Architecture and the City IV

Architektur und Stadt IV

Lecturers & Examiners: Dr. André Jean Bideau, Dr. Susanne Schindler Kilian
Only for MAS in History and Theory of Architecture.
VVZ CR n/a

Last Updated: 2026-02-05 16:08:38

Abstract

Students jointly develop the framework and content of an exhibition at the ZAZ/Zentrum für Architektur Zürich. The topic is the role of land in urban development in the city of Zurich and its surroundings. The intervention will discuss current concepts including “densification,” “improvement,” “identity,” or “resources” and contextualize these historically.

Objective

Through the analysis of land as a construct, students learn to understand the relationships between architecture, economics and politics and to articulate those relationships with the necessary precision and nuance. They learn to interrogate a series of architectural and urban projects, and to develop a verbal and visual format to present these in exhibition form.

Content

Analysis of exemplary current and historic projects and discourses with respect to the role of land as physical, legal and symbolic foundation of design, wealth and identity. Students draw on guest lectures, interviews, archival research, field studies and evaluation of data in this work.

Resources

Literature

Will be announced on the class platform.

Learning Materials (Links)

General Information

Language
German
Levels
NDS
Frequency
Yearly recurring

Examination

Type
ungraded semester performance

Registration & Places

Priority: Registration for the course unit is only possible for the primary target group

Course Components

Type Title Time & Place Hours
seminar Architektur und Stadt IV
Keine Lehrveranstaltungen am 25.3.22 (Seminarwoche), während den Osterferien und an Feiertagen. Individuelles Arbeiten in den letzten beiden Semesterwochen (s. Raumbelegungen!).
  • Fri 13:45-17:30 (HIT H 42)
  • 08.04 Date 12:45-17:30 (HIT H 42)
4 h weekly

Offered In

  • MAS in History and Theory of Architecture (GTA) (The MAS-programm in "History and Theory of Architecture" is a two-year half-time course and contains 60 CP. The course starts in the autumn semester. Attendance of classes supplemented by independent research; practical training periods and excursions; lectures/seminars on one to two days per week, in total 600 ca. contact hours, in addition private study ca. 600 hours (for each in-class day one day of work preparation), two individually tutored seminar papers on chosen subjects (200 hours) and credited Master's thesis (600 hours).)