Current doctoral theses

Lislt, Tobias 2024
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Crouzet, Laurence 2024
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Rolf, Imseng 2024
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Zhenyuan, Liu 2024
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bernd Bickel
Eggler, Anna Maria 2024
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bernd Bickel
De Dardel, Marine Bénédicte Guylaine 2024
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Shen, Chen 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Jurczok-De Klerk, Khensani 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Macovei, Radu-Remus 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Hueppe, Robin Valentino 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Freek Persyn
Moisi, Alexandra 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Matthias Kohler
Ghiocia, Dragos Iulian 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Sacha Menz
Chew, Wen Die Jeremy 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Bernd Bickel
Pilot, Andreas 2023
Exploring the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Interdisciplinary Model-Based Building Design and Planning in Education Investigating the Potential for Enhanced Collaboration and Learning Through the Use of AI-Driven Design Tools
Examiner: Prof. Ludger Hovestadt
Farquet, Grégoire Antoine 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Momoyo Kaijima
Sacher, Carina 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Elli Mosayebi
Wang, Ming-Yang 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Villalon Hernando, Juan 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger
Eftekhar Olivo, Nik 2023
Hollow Core 3D printing for free-form Building Envelopes
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Pfister, Marius Marcel 2023
Romanesque Burgundy: The development of vaulting and masonry construction in the 11th and 12th centuries
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Milano, Francesco 2023
Design, Fabrication and Assessment of a 3D Printed Curtain Wall
Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio
Papanicolaou, Clearhos Eduardo 2023
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Examiner: Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Peca, Carla 2022
Risse, Einstürze und Zerfall: Narrative Strategien der Kontingenzerzeugung und -bewältigung (1947–1972)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Borah, Debasish Bipul 2022
lmagining the museum: Curating cultural contingencies from the Indian frontiers
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Kouvari, Maria 2022
Minor(s’) Heritages: Building Swiss Child Aid in Greece, 1944–1956
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Duran, Ayça 2022
Generative Design of BIPV Facades Integrating Energy Production and Urban Microclimates
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter;
Matthes, Tiago 2022
Struktur und Prozess - Technische Innovation im Skelettbau des ETH-Bereichs 1960-1980
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Laxness, Stefan Einar 2022
The Right to The Landscape: commoning through landscape restoration in Europe
Examiner: Prof. Freak Persyn
Zani, Jacopo 2022
Landscapes of Migration. On the plural ecologies of mining settlements in Limburg, Belgium
Examiner: Prof. Freak Persyn
Müller, Dominik Egon 2022
Re-orienting Gothic Architecture: Character, Medieval Belonging and Oriental Othering (1750-1850)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Reisach, Dominik 2022
Repurposing of Waste Marble Slabs for Architectural Finishes
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Harris, Luke Thomas 2022
Making Uneven Grounds Living Soil and the Formation of Urban Landscapes in New York City
Examiner: Prof. Galí-Izard Teresa D-ARCH ETHZ
Sun, Qiming 2022
Computational Design and Digital Fabrication for Upcycling: Cross Laminated Timber Reconfiguration
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Chen, Li 2022
Future Data Model For Digital Collaboration in AEC
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Neto Moura Veiga, Francisco 2022
Playful Reframing - A Conceptual Change Approach to Architectural Design Teaching
Examiner: Prof. Patrick Heiz
Besems, Julian 2022
Writing Images and Picturing Texts: A study of architectonic projections to mediate between domains of communication understood through algebraic structures
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt;
Irmert, Nina 2022
Vom Halbfabrikat zum fertig Bauteil - Metallpatente in der ETH-Hochschularchitektur 1930-1960
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Wu, Jiaqian 2022
Enactive Formulation: Sequence Modelling in Architecture via Reinforcement Learning
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Antorveza Paez, Karen Andrea 2022
3D Printing Sca?olds for Bio-cementation: Design and Computation of Living Materials
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Cione, Grazia 2022
The 'high' valley-crossing bridge during the Middle Ages Focus on France and Italy
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Carnelli, Elettra 2022
Collettivo di Architettura: Unpacking the Organizational Dimension of Communist Architectural Practice in Milan (1949 – 1988)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Häcki, Mathias 2022
Die Kathedtrale St. Pierre in Lisieux - Frühe französische Gotik in der Normandie
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Laura, Carmona Lopez 2022
The 'low' floodplain masonry bridge during the Middle Ages - Focus on France
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Rieger, Elena 2022
Situating the Frauen-Zimmer: Women's Writings on, in and outside of the Architectural lnterior, 1783-1876
Examiner: Privatdozentin Dr. Anne Hultzsch, gta;
Derme, Tiziano 2021
Mycelium bound-composites for in-situ self-assembly of architectural building elements
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Rezola de Vargas, Gonzalo 2021
The Role of Communication Contracts in Shaping Adaptive Boundaries and Territories
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt;
Zhang, Hang 2021
AI aided Interactive and Fabrication-Aware Design in Residential House
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Chapman, Thomas Patrick 2021
Between Apartheid and Urban Design: New Civic Centers in South Africa (1960- 1980)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Tischler, Daniel 2021
Late Medieval and Early Modern Architectural Drawing Techniques and Their Historical Entanglements
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Groen, Johannes Ludovicus 2021
The Architecture of Swiss Banking beforeand after 1968
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Galis, Chase Hunter 2021
Pastoral Chiaroscuro: Electric Light and the Swiss Nocturnal Landscape, 1870-1970
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
del Hierro Kennedy, Santiago 2021
Plurality in the Rainforest - Towards an expanded representation of Indigenous Territory in the Northern Andean Amazon
Examiner: Prof. Milica Topalovic, D-ARCH
Medina Novoa, Camila Andrea 2021
Araucaria araucana Transplantations Re-Defining the Modern Ornamental Tree from Contemporary Sciences
Examiner: Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard, D-ARCH ETHZ
Carbonell Guillon, Tatiana 2021
Climate Historiographies for a Pastoral Rhône Valley: Engineers, Scientists, and Travelers’ Reports on Nineteenth Century Environmental Knowledge
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder
Kattenbeck, Sanna 2021
City of Codes. A Historical Analysis of Urban Codes as ‘Urban Actives’ in the Production of the City of Zurich
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Du, Chaoyu 2021
Knit-restrained pneumatic formworks for tile-vaulted structures
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Bitting, Selina 2021
Scaling Up Mycelium - Applications of Mycelium-based Materials in the Building Construction Industry
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Nickl, Agostino 2021
Meta to Matter - A Metaversian Quest towards an Augmented World
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt;
El Moumni, Lahbib 2021
Urban Design between Nation-building and Worldmaking in Post-independence Morocco and Senegal 1956–1980
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Rasooli, Niloofar 2021
To Transgressing the Forbidden: Gender Boundaries and Their Counter-Narratives in Iran (1848-1936)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete;
Chadha, Kunaljit 2021
Impact Printed Structures: Full Scale On-Site Robotic Earth Construction
Examiner: Prof. Fabio Gramazio
Vandenbroeck, Philippe Irma Emiel 2021
Hermeneutic inquiry for collective learning in urban transformation - Making sense of the Winterslag coal mining spoil heap
Examiner: Prof. Freek Persyn, D-ARCH
McCarty, Justin Francis 2021
Solar energy in the City: Localised urban integrated photovoltaic Deployment
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter;
Kastner, Fabian 2021
Sustainability and Preservation: Didactic Strategies for Interdisciplinary Dissemination
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Bourrec-Van Daele, Galaad 2020
Geoarchitectural Histories: A Terrestrial Perspective on the Grotta Grande
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Ling, Andrea Shin 2020
Hylozoic by Design. Fabrication of Living Structures Using Carbon Sequestering Bio-Cementation Processes.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Göre, Damla 2020
Salon alla Franca: Modernity and domestic living in late Ottoman Istanbul (1860-1930s)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Andriussi Miguel, Ciro Luís 2020
The Architecture of Brasilia through the Lens of Photojournalism, 1957-1977
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Azzariti, Giorgio 2020
A Matter of Style Architecture and Modernization: The Work of Giuseppe Vaccaro, 1916–70
Examiner: Prof Dr. Laurent Stalder
Just, Johanna Franziska 2020
Extractive Ecologies - An Earthly Writing of Space. Exploring a more-than-human Perspective on the Upper Rhine Plain
Examiner: Prof. Teresa Galí-Izard, D-ARCH ETHZ
Frikech, Sara 2020
Tamed Waters: Ordering the City and Hinterland of Meknes, 1900-1956
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Brenner, Matthias Aquilin 2020
Digi-Tech for High-Tech: Zum Potential digitaler Fabrikationstechniken für die Instandsetzung architektonischer Innovationen der 1980er Jahre
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg
Gomes Natividade, Verónica 2020
Favelaness. Reading Favelas with Machine Learning.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Silvestri, Alberto 2020
Reinforcement Learning Control of Diverse Climatisation Systems for Energy Efficient Buildings
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Piccioni, Valeria 2020
A Multi-Scale Approach for Controlling the Flow of Solar Energy in AM facades.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Arno Schlüter
Zaugg, Maxime 2020
Exploring Urban Scale Models. The Projets Urbains and the Performance of the “Maquette”, 1960s – 1990s
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Kemper, Benjamin Norbert 2020
Bio-Formwork. Large-scale 3D Deposition of Thermoplastic Starch in Architecture
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Russnaik, Kylie Monee 2020
Dachwerkskonstruktionen in der Schweiz: Die Entwicklung von weitgespannten Holzkonstruktionen im 19. Jahrhundert
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Stefan Holzer
Sunderland, Sarem 2020
Landscape Architecture of Hydropower Material-Cultural Constructions of Landscape in Lake Sihl and the Etzelwerk Project (1897-1937)
Examiner: Prof. Günther Vogt, D-ARCH ETHZ
Van Parys, Jasper 2020
Catholicism and Historicism. The catacomb copies of A. Bonelli and P. Pfister and the religious rationale of historicist architecture (1837-1956)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Hortig, Hans 2020
Palm Oil Territories. The Operationalisation of Territory through Agro-Industrial Production. A Case Study of Oil Palm Plantations in Johor State, Malaysia.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Milica Topalovic
Lonergan, Hamish Daniel Pastellas 2020
Teaching the Tacit: Architectural design studios as communities of tacit knowledge
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete
Montresor, Marina 2020
Vanishing Lines. Exposing, Recording and Processing Verticality in Los Angeles
Examiner: Prof. François Charbonnet
Xynogala, Lydia 2019
Take Care: Mineralization, Hydrochemistry and the Environments of Greek Thermalism 1832-1967
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Scheder - Bieschin, Lotte Luise 2019
Bending-Active Formwork Systems for Concrete Shells.Exploring shape control and stiffening with tensile-restrained gridshells and curve-folded plates
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philippe Block
Valkanova, Ina Hristova 2019
Working Cities, Action Research on the Relationship between Production and Place - The case of Trakia Economic Zone, Plovdiv (Tentative title)
Examiner: Prof. Freek Persyn, D-ARCH
Mari, Faiq 2019
Alternative Spaces of Revolt: The Commons of the Palestinian Intifada.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
Kaushal, Mayank 2019
Urban Quality Framework: lnforming planning policies and design guidelines for Second-Tier Cities of Switzerland
Examiner: Meldefrist: Oktober 2022
Selimovic, Admir 2019
Technics of Distancing.
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Ludger Hovestadt
Markaki, Metaxia 2019
Arcadia. An urban portrait. Tracing Processes of Urbanisation on the Greek Mountains
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Milica Topalovic
Leschok, Matthias 2018
Performance Driven Microstructures for Additively Manufactured Facades
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Verhaeghe, Gerlinde Maria 2018
The Playful Cabinet. Role-Play and Self-Representation in Carlo Mollino’s Cabinet Interiors
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Bokhari, Syed Muhammad Adil 2018
Diorama as Digital Perspective
Examiner: Prof. Ludger Hovestadt
Odaglia, Pietro 2018
Meta-brick. Binder jetting for freeform components with recycled materials
Examiner: Ass.Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Protopappas, Alexandros Dimosthenis 2018
"Es waren schöne glänzende Zeiten" Medievalism as common ground between the German-speaking and Russian Avant-garde (1910-1930s)
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
Kakooee, Reza 2018
Reinforcement Learning for Interactive Spatial Layout Adaptation
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger
Fessel, Melanie 2018
Transformative Education for an Urbanizing Planet. Evolving Urban Design Studio as Responsive Teaching Framework in Four Architecture Schools, 2001-2021
Examiner: Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Koch, Suse Erna Klara 2017
Die Bühne als Raumlaboratorium? Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld und das dialogische Verhältnis zwischen Theater und Architektur
Examiner: Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung
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