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The Living Room Collective was selected amongst a group of five shortlisted candidates. The pavilion utilizes materials embedded with living cells to create a biological architecture.

The exhibition "Anatomy of Change" at i2a in Lugano features student works from the chair of Elli Mosayebi, that explored the temporal dimension in architecture in the canton of Ticino during the last three semesters.

Furer was a lecturer in architectural theory at ETH Zurich from 1968 to 1994. He has died at the age of 91.

Sociology professor Christian Schmid will retire this year. In the interview, he looks back on his time at the ETH Studio Basel, which sparked discussions with the book “Switzerland: An Urban Portrait” and whose publications will be freely available online as Open Access from May.

Climate change leads to more landslides and flooding. ETH professor Martina Voser is investigating how landscape architecture can respond to this in the sandbox, on the computer and in dialogue with the population.

In 1721 the architect Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach published a book that brought together the architectures of different cultures from Egypt to Japan. Three centuries later ETH professor Maarten Delbeke has issued a re-print of the influential publication.

An exhibition at the ETH Materials Hub features eight 1:1 scale mockups that illustrate plantbased constructions. They were built by students from the guest studio of the architecture practice Material Cultures.

A university building in St. Gallen is enlivened with a wooden shelf and a kiosk. The project by the professor Momoyo Kaijima and the sociologist Niklaus Reichle combines analysis, design and self-construction. And brings together architecture and economics students from ETH and HSG.

ETH PhD researcher Tiziano Derme and ETH sound architect Nadine Schütz receive the ArTS Production Grant 2024, which is awarded by Ars Electronica together with Pro Helvetia. Their installation combines sound and fungal growth and will be on displayed in Linz in September.

Newspaper articles accuse the Department of Architecture of fomenting antisemitism. Dean Matthias Kohler comments on the allegations on behalf of the department board.

ETH visiting professor Samia Henni has curated an exhibition at the Department of Architecture in which she presents materials from the archives of the French nuclear program in Algeria in the 1960s. The multimedia installation runs until April 2nd.

The 44th issue of the “trans magazine”, the student magazine at the Department of Architecture, revolves around the English term “lore”, which describes the collective knowledge about a topic. A call for contributions is looking for ideas for the next edition reflecting upon the word “dirty”.

Ricardo Maia Avelino and Giulia Boller were honored for their doctoral theses. Both deal with arched structures.

Silke Langenberg, Professor of Construction Heritage and Preservation, was elected to the Federal Commission for Monument Preservation as well as the Federal Commission for the Protection of Cultural Property by the Federal Council at the end of the year.

Giulia Boller’s Doctoral Dissertation, supervised by Prof. em. Dr. Joseph Schwartz and Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder, has been awarded the 2023 Lino Gentilini Dissertation Award.