Doctoral Thesises completed 2019-2020
| Schildberger, David Heinrich | 2020 |
| On Food Zur Auszeichnung 2021 vorgeschlagen! | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Tilo Hühn, ZHAW Wädenswil
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Türtscher, Michaela Hildegard | 2020 |
| Le Technicien Plasticien. Fernand Pouillon. Bauen für Algier 1953-1958. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Elli Mosayebi; PD Dr. Lothar Schmitt;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| De Martin Altorfer, Paola | 2020 |
| Give us a Break! Lebenslauf, Lebensstil und Werkanalyse von Gestaltern mit bildungsferner Herkunft in Zürich (1970-2010). Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2021! | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Ueli Mäder, Uni Basel; Prof. Dr. Franz Schultheis, Uni St. Gallen
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Maric, Marija | 2020 |
| Real Estate Fiction. Branding Industries and the Construction of Global Urban Imaginaries | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Vladimir Kulic, Florida Atlantic University
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Sekulic, Dubravka | 2020 |
| Constructing Non-Alignment: The Case of Construction Enterprise Energoprojekt, 1961-1989, Architecture, Construction Industry and Yugoslavia in the World. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. Keller Easterling, Yale University, CT/USA; Prof. Dr. Adrian Lahoud, Royal College of Art, London UK
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Ohlbrock, Patrick Ole | with distinction 2020 |
| Combinatorial Equilibrium Modelling: A computational framework for equilibrium-based structural design. Mit der ETH-Medaille 2020 ausgezeichnet! | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr., Fivet, Corentin, EPFL; M.Sc., Verbeeck, Kenny, Bollinger + Grohmann Ingenieure, Bruxelles BEL
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Miao, Yufan | 2020 |
| Data Representation and for Evoluationary Synthesis of Urban Geometries | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt
Co-examiner: Jun.Prof. Dr. Reinhard Koenig, Bauhaus-University Weimar
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Hertzog-Fraser, Alice Mercia Louise | 2020 |
| The Lagos-Abidjan Corridor - Migration Driven Urbanisation in West Africa. Vorschlag zur Auszeichnung 2021! | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid
Co-examiner: Prof. Milica Topalovic; Dr. Pius Krütli, D-USYS, TdLab, ETHZ; Dr. Armelle Choplin, Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Shi, Zhongming | 2020 |
| Energy-driven Urban Design at the District Scale for Tropical High-Density Cities. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Professor Dr, Oliveira, Vítor, University of Porto, Auxiliar and Principal Researcher
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Happle, Gabriel | 2020 |
| Data-driven Occupant Presence Models for Urban Building Energy Simulation. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Prof., Saelens, Dirk, KU Leuven, Department of Civil Engineering, Building Physics Section; Prof. Dr. Adam Rysanek, University of British Columbia, CAN
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Mosteiro Romero, Martin Alejandro | 2020 |
| Stochastic Sources of Uncertainity in Urban Energy Systems: Occupancy and Microclimate. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Dr. Jerôme Kämpf, Idiap Research Institute
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Maissen, Manuel | 2020 |
| Gewölbebau der Spätgotik in Graubünden. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Ing. David Wendland, BTU Cottbus
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Hurkxkens, Ilmar Uriël | 2020 |
| Robotic Landscapes: Topological Approaches to Terrain, Design and Fabrication. Zur Auszeichnung 2021 vorgeschlagen! | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler, D-ARCH, Institute of Technology in Architecture; Prof. Marco Hutter, D-MAVT, Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Maheshwari, Tanvi | 2020 |
| An Urban Design Response to the Technological Shift in Transportation: How to conduct urban design with vehicle automation, sharing and connectivity. Zur Auszeichnung 2020 vorgeschlagen! | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stephen Cairns
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Kay W. Axhausen, D-BAUG, ETHZ; Dr. Andres Sevtsuk, Associate Professor, MIT
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Nichols, Sarah Elly | with distinction 2020 |
| Opération Béton: Constructing Concrete in Switzerland Mit der ETH-Medaille 2020 ausgezeichnet. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. em. Dr. Adrian Forty, The Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London; Prof. Dr. Amy Slaton, Drexel University
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Griego, Danielle Marie | 2020 |
| Implementing community-scale PV systems as a sustainable and governable urban common | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Gregor Henze, University of Colorado, Boulder US; Prof. Dr. em. Gerhard Schmitt, SEC Singapore
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Adel, Arash | 2020 |
| Computational Design for Cooperative Robotic Assembly of Nonstandard Timber Frame Buildings | |
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Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Institut ITA, ETHZ
Co-examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler, Institut ITA, ETHZ; Prof. Nader Tehrani, The Cooper Union, USA; Prof. Dr. Jan Willmann, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (D)
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Mikoleit, Anne Maria | 2020 |
| Das andere der Ordnung oder wie der Städtebau seine Ungewissheit in ein Geschick verwandelt. Eine Diagnose der Gegenwart städtebaulicher Praktiken in der Deutschschweiz. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Kees Christiaanse
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. E. Mosayebi, ETHZ; Dr. J. Van Wezemael (Prof. Uni Fribourg, PD ETHZ)
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Piplas, Haris | 2020 |
| Non-Aligned City: Urban Laboratory of the New Sarajevo | |
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Examiner: Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Co-examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Tigran Haas, KTH Stockholm; Prof. Vedran Mimica, IIT-Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; Dipl.ecc. Gordana Memisevic, Head of Research and Planning, Sarajevo Planning Institute
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Kasioumi, Eirini | 2020 |
| Evolving Planning Rationales in Urban Airport Areas. The Case of the Paris Airports. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Nathalie Roseau, (LATTS), ENCP Paris; Prof. em. Kees Christiaanse ETHZ;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Schmalfeldt, Thomas | 2020 |
| Adaptive Klanggestaltung in der Architektur | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Dr. Alex Arteaga, UDK Berlin
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Cao, Ting | 2020 |
| Smooth Poly-Hypar Surface Structures: A new Approach to Design Freeform Surfaces by Combining Hyperbolic Paraboloids. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Toni Kotnik, Aalto University FIN;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Boulic, Léa Caroline Célestine | 2020 |
| Form-driven Design of Bending-active Tensile Structures in Architecture. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Joseph Schwartz
Co-examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Juan José Castellón, Rice University, Houston TX
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Rusenova, Gergana | 2020 |
| Material- and Fabrication-informed Design of Structurally-sound Jammed Architectural Structures | |
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Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Institut ITA, ETHZ
Co-examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler, Institut ITA, ETHZ; Prof. Dr. Heinrich Jaeger, The University of Chicago;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Ahn, Susann Valerie | 2020 |
| Cultural Laboratory Seoul. Emergence, Narrative and Impact of Culturally Related Landscape Meanings. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Christophe Girot
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Kim, Sung Hong, University of Seoul, Department of Architecture
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| López López, David | 2019 |
| Tile vaults as integrated formwork for concrete shells. Construction, experimental testing, structural analysis and design | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. P. Roca Fabregat, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, UPC
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Popescu, Mariana-Adriana | 2019 |
| KnitCrete. Stay-in-place knitted formworks for complex concrete structures. Zur Auszeichnung 2020 vorgeschlagen | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Ing. Jan Knippers, Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) Stuttgart; Prof. Dr. Ing. Chokri Cherif, ITM, TU Dresden
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Hanackova, Marcela | 2019 |
| CIAM and the Cold War. Helena Syrkus between Modernism and Socialist Realism | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Àkos Moravànszky, Institut gta, ETHZ
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Bernhard, Mathias Peter | 2019 |
| Domain Transforms in Architecture. Encoding and Decoding of Cultural Artefacts. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Olga Sorkine Hornung, ETHZ
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Siebert, Kathrin | 2019 |
| Theorie als Praxis. Hans Schmidt und die rationale Architektur 1918-1969 | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. em. Dr. Stanislaus von Moos, Uni Zürich; Prof. Dr. Sonja Hildebrand, USI Mendrisio
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Seewang, Margaret Laila | 2019 |
| The Scale of Water. Networked Infrastructure and the Making of Municipal Berlin 1872-1900. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Sarah Whiting, Dean Rice University, Houston, Texas; Prof. Dr. Barry Bergdoll, Columbia University, New York;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Du, Juan | 2019 |
| Demystifying Shenzhen - The Informal in a Planned City | |
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Examiner: Prof. Kees Christiaanse
Co-examiner: Prof. Hubert Klumpner
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Böer, Wulf Ingo | 2019 |
| Air-Conditioning, Architecture and Modernism. On the History of the Controlled Environment, 1911-1952 | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Michael Osman (University of California, Los Angeles)
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Peng, Yuzhen | 2019 |
| Learning-Based Demand-Driven Controls for Energy-Efficient Buildings | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Adam Rysanek, University of British Columbia, CAN; Prof. Dr. Zoltan Nagy, The University of Texas at Austin (USA); Prof. Dr. Andreas Wagner, TU Karlsruhe
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Chirkin, Artem | 2019 |
| Evaluating Symmetry and Order in Urban Design: A computational Approach to predicting Perception of Order based on Analysis of Design Geometry. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Yanxi Liu, Pennsylvania State University
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Parascho, Stefana | 2019 |
| Cooperative Robotic Assembly. Computational Design and Robotic Fabrication of Spatial Metal Structures | |
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Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Stelian Coros, ETHZ; Prof. Matthias Kohler;
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Roman, Miro | 2019 |
| Play Among Books. A Symposium on Architecture and Information Spelled in Atom-Letters | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke; Prof. Dr. Vera Bühlmann, TU Wien
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Lydon, Gearóid Patrick | 2019 |
| High-Resolution Analysis for the Coupling of Thermal Systems with Lightweight Structures | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Co-examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Donal Finn, University College Dublin, Ireland
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Da Cruz Ribeiro da Silva, Luis Henrique | 2019 |
| The Breakdown of the Promenade: Plot and Temporality in James Stirling's Architecture, 1959-1979. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Co-examiner: Prof. Yehuda E. Safran, GSAPP, Columbia University New York
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Kretz, Simon | 2019 |
| Der Kosmos des Entwerfens - Eine Erforschung entwerferischer Gedanken- und Erkenntnisprozesse | |
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Examiner: Prof. Kees Christiaanse
Co-examiner: Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Sauerbruch, Sauerbruch Hutton, Berlin
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Mardell, Joshua | 2019 |
| The Buckler Dynasty (1796-1901): The Continuity of an Antiquarian-Minded Approach to Design. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Co-examiner: Prof. Martin Bressani, McGill University; Dr. Geoffrey Tyack, Oxford University
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Pandjaitan, Poltak Adhian | 2019 |
| Architectonics of Crystal Space - The Mediating and Joining of Spatialities. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Co-examiner: Prof. Dr. Vera Bühlmann, TU Wien; Prof. Dr. Walter Steurer, ETH Zürich
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| ETHZ E-Collection | |
| Lee, Juney | with distinction 2019 |
| Computational Design Framework for 3D Graphic Statics Zur Auszeichnung 2019 vorgeschlagen. | |
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Co-examiner: Hon.D.Sc. William Baker, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP, Chigago IL; Prof. Allan McRobie, University of Cambridge
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