Institute for the History and Theory of the Architecture
Research
- SNSF-Research Project and Doctoral Thesis
Historiographies of Climate for a Pastoral Rhône Valley: Engineers, Scientists, and Travelers’ Reports on Nineteenth Century Environmental Knowledge
Tatiana Carbonell
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
since 2022 - SNSF-Research Project and Doctoral Thesis
Pastoral Chiaroscuro: Electric Light, Dark Landscapes, and Swiss Infrastructure Development after 1950
Chase Galis
since 2022 - Research Project
Building Identity: Character in Architectural Debate and Design, 1750-1850
Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke, Dr. Sigrid De Jong, Dr. des. Nikos Magouliotis, Dominik Müller
2022-2026 - SNSF-Research Project
Gottfried Semper: Style. Digital Edition
Project responsibility: Philip Ursprung (ETH Zurich), Sonja Hildebrand (USI, Mendrisio)
Project lead: Michael Gnehm (USI / ETH), co-project lead Digital Humanities: Elena Chestnova (USI)
2017–2024 - Research Project
gta Research Portal
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, Thomas Hänsli, Bruno Maurer, et al.
2018–2019 - Research Project
Beyond the Visual: Towards an Inclusive Architectural History
Anna Myjak-Pycia
seit 2022 - SNSF-Research Project
Switzerland. A Technological Pastoral
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
since October 2021 - Research Project
Codes and Conventions for Future Zurich: A Propositional Planning Approach to Qualitative Densification
Prof. Tom Avermaete (ETH Zurich) and Prof. Jonathan Sergison (AAM) - Research Project
Tracing the Virus: The Balcony
Tom Avermaete, Fatina, Abreek-Zubiedat, Marianna Charitonidou, Irina Davidovici, Nicole de Lalouvière, Janina Gosseye, Hamish Lonergan, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Hans Teerds, Maxime Zaugg - Research Project
The Travelling Architect’s Eye: Photography and Automobile Vision
Marianna Charitonidou
2019-2021 - Research Project
Urban Design as Cross-Cultural Practice: The Work of Michel Ecochard
Tom Avermaete
Since 2017 - Research Project
Architects Negotiating Domesticity: Cross-Cultural Explorations of “House” and “Home”
Cathelijne Nuijsink, Tom Avermaete
Since 2012 - Research Project
Things of Modernity
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Since 2019 - Research Project
Zürich in Section
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Since 2019 - Research Project
Communities of Practice: Swiss Architecture as Shared Knowledge
Irina Davidovici
2018–2019 - SNSF-Research Project
Experimental Design in the Post-War Period: Heinz Isler‘s (1926–2009) Contribution in the Perspective of the History of Engineering and Culture
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Since 2018 - SNSF-Research Project
Experimental Design Research Portal
2018–2021 - Research Project
Konrad von Meyenburg: Zwischen Landwirtschaft und Siedlungsbau
Gregory Grämiger
2018–2019 - Research Project
Architecture and the Automobile
Erik Wegerhoff
Since 2017 - Research Project
Windowology
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Since 2016 - SNSF-Research Project
Ideology and Experiment: Mass Housing in the Welfare States and Planned Economies of the 1960s and 1970s
Kathrin Siebert, Fabian Furter, Susanne Schindler - SNSF-Research Project
Conflicting Identities
Prof Dr. Philip Ursprung, Marija Marić, Seraina Renz, and Dubravka Sekulić - Research Project
Architecture/Machine
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Since 2012 - SNSF-Research Project
Organising Modernism: The Case of Post-War CIAM
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Since 2012 - Research Project
The Appliance House
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Since 2010 - Research Project
Karl Egender
Dorothee Huber
Since 2018 - Research Project
“Protorenaissance” und Leon Battista Alberti zur Halbzeit der Moderne
Hub, Berthold
2017 - Research Project
PRIVACY – Centre for Privacy Studies
Maarten Delbeke - Research Project
Die Schweizer Avantgarde und das Bauhaus
Rezeption, Wechselwirkungen, Transferprozesse
Ita Heinze-Greenberg, Gregory Grämiger, Lothar Schmitt - Research Project
Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and Its Ways of Knowing
Tom Avermaete, Janina Gosseye, Klaske Havik, Helena Mattsson, Tim Anstey, Christoph Grafe, Gennaro Postiglione, Angelika Schnell, Lara Schrijver, Barbara Penner, Margitta Buchert
Since 2016 - Research Project
Between Macro and Micro: Architecture, Urban Design, and the Ideals of Political Democracy
Tom Avermaete, Hans Teerds
2016–2019 - Research Project
Building the Commons: An Alternative Architectural History of the European City
Tom Avermaete, Irina Davidovici
2020– - Research Project
Tendenzen 1975: Between Constructed Sites and Autonomous Theory
Irina Davidovici
2016–2020 - Research Project
Faith in the City: Reading Twentieth Century Urbanism and Urbanisation through the Lens of Religion
Janina Gosseye
Since 2019 - Research Project
Speaking of Buildings: Oral History in Architectural Research
Janina Gosseye, Naomi Stead, Deborah van der Plaat
2013–2020 - Research Project
Aesthetics of Resistance
Isabelle Doucet, Janina Gosseye
Since 2017 - Research Project
Agadir: The Commons and the Modern Afropolis
Tom Avermaete, Irina Davidovici, Janina Gosseye, Cathelijne Nuijsink, Hans Teerds
Since 2019 - Research Project
The Architecture Competition as “Contact Zone”: The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, 1965–2018
Cathelijne Nuijsink
Supervisors: Tom Avermaete, Joan Ockman, Mary McLeod, Esra Akcan, Mark Jarzombek, Hilde Heynen, Kathleen James-Chakraborty
2018–2020 - Research Project
The Global Turn: A New Architectural History of the Post-War Period (1945–1989)
Tom Avermaete, Michelangelo Sabatino
Since 2017 - Research Project
Reading the City: Urban Design and Its Epistemes
Tom Avermaete, Hans Teerds
Since 2019 - Research Project
Towards a New Approach of Urban History in Conflict Zones: The Case Study of Khan Younis in Gaza Strip
Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat
2019–2021 - Research Project
Cold Transfer. Architecture, Politics, Culture. Germany – Austria – Switzerland after 1945
Since 2017 - SNSF-Research Project and Doctoral Thesis
Design studios as research cultures
Kim Nørgaard Helmersen
