«Die schönsten deutschen Bücher 2013»
The publication «Typology : Hong Kong, Rome, New York, Buenos Aires. Review No. II», edited by Emanuel Christ, Christoph Gantenbein and Victoria Easton was awarded a prize as part of the competition "The most beautiful German books 2013" by the Frankfurt Book Art Foundation.

«Ein Haus für den Kanton Basel»
A contribution on Manuel Herz, Visting Professor at the D-ARCH, referring to his teaching with students, «TagesWoche», May 02, 2013

‹trans 22›
The new edition of «trans» focusing on ‹stance› is out now.

«Cingapura: Cities in Circulation»
Marc Angélil recently published an essay entitled «Cingapura: Cities in Circulation» dealing with the effects of large-scale housing projects in Sao Paulo adopting Singaporean HDB-model planning practices ‹putting a clean, green, and rationalized island utopia of sorts on par with a rough, tough, and sprawling megalopolis,› in the spring 2013 issue of the magazine «Log»

«Experimenteller Regionalismus in Slowenien 1920–70»,«Sakrale Sachlichkeit. Rudolf Schwarz und seine Zeitgenossen»
The two publications document two seminar weeks of the chair of Àkos Moravánszky where the work of Joze Plecnik, Edvard Ravnikar, Danilo Fürst and other Slovenian architects and sacred bulidings of the interwar and post-war years in the industrial centers of West Germany were investigated.

Rudolf Manz (1932 – 2013)
Rudolf Manz, former lecturer at ETH Zurich for many years, died on April 29, 2013 at the age of 80. He held lectures of video at the Department of Architecture.

«Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror – The City in Theory, Photography, and Film»
The publication «Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror – The City in Theory, Photography, and Film» which examines the discourse of architecture and urban planning against a wider historico-cultural background is now published in English. Edited by Martino Stierli, former lecturer at the D-ARCH

«InduCity Summer School»
Organized by the chair of Architecture & Sustainable Building Technologies, Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter and the chair of Architecture and Urbanism, Prof. Kees Christiaanse the «InduCity Summer School» invites students of architecture and urbanism from both the ETH Zürich and EPF Lausanne to participate in a 10-day design studio to envision a sustainable urban transformation of an Industrial Area in Zug. The application period is open for potential participants until May 19, 2013.

«Le Corbusiers Pavillon für Zürich: Modell und Prototyp eines idealen Ausstellungsraums»
A publication on the origins and development of the exhibition pavilion LCZH in Zurich, the today's Heidi Weber Museum – Centre Le Corbusier, edited by the Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation

«Der spektakuläre Messe-Neubau in Basel»
An interview with Philip Ursprung on the new exhibition centre in Basel, designed by Herzog & de Meuron on the SRF 2 broadcast «Reflexe», on April 25, 2013

«Atelier Bow-Wow. A Primer»
The publication «Atelier Bow-Wow. A Primer», edited by Laurent Stalder, analyses profoundly Atelier Bow-Wow's architectural and theoretical work

«Flight Assembled Architecture. Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D'Andrea»
The book Flight Assembled Architecture is an in-depth catalogue of the exhibition project of the same name which was developed by Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea and showed at the Fonds régional d'art contemporain (Frac) Centre in Orléans, France. It presents a close exploration of the particular, and fascinating, positions of the authors and their research on architecture, system design and autonomous robotic technologies. In this, the book reveals a detailed insight into the realization of this spectacular exhibition and further equips the reader with a historical contextualization of the project.

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