Institute for the History and Theory of the Architecture
Research
- SNSF-Research Project
Gottfried Semper: Style. Critical and Commented Edition
Project directors: Philip Ursprung (ETH Zurich), Sonja Hildebrand (USI, Mendrisio)
Project leader: Michael Gnehm (USI/ETH), Co-Project leader Digital Humanities: Elena Chestnova (USI)
2017-2024 - SNSF-Research Project
Switzerland. A Technological Pastoral
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
since October 2021 - 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
Cooperative Conditions: A Primer on Architecture, Finance, and Regulation
Anne Kockelkorn and Susanne Schindler with the students of the MAS
2020–2021 - Research Project
The Past in Print: Architecture, Print Culture, and the Uses of History in Modern Europe
Maarten Delbeke (principal investigator) with Mari Hvattum (The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, lead investigator), Barbara Penner (University College London), Caroline van Eck (Leiden University)
2016–2019 - 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 - Habilitation and Research Project
Collective Grounds: Housing Estates and the European City, 1865–1930
Irina Davidovici
2014–2019 - 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
gta Research Portal
Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, Thomas Hänsli, Bruno Maurer, et al.
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 - 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 - SNSF-Research Project and Doctoral Thesis
Design studios as research cultures
Kim Nørgaard Helmersen
