From India to Chile and Britain to Senegal, women have influenced architecture for centuries by exerting power over space through their writing. By exploring ...
Thin structures of reinforced concrete are the trademark of Heinz Isler (1926-2009). The Swiss engineer's experimental approach and entrepreneurial attitude enabled his enduring success ...
In a plea for more speculative, experimental, and performative historiography, Philip Ursprung draws upon historical and contemporary cases to show how architecture, art, and ...
In May 1954, Ise Gropius (1897-1983) embarked on a three-month trip to Japan together with the famous architect Walter Gropius. Their tightly timed tour, ...
Lisbeth Sachs (1914-2002) caused a sensation at the very beginning of her professional career: freshly graduated, she won the 1939 competition for the Kurtheater ...
How can landscape and urban studies more effectively engage in transdisciplinary dialogue, sensuousness and affect, and pluriversal worlds? 'Researching Otherwise' presents sensory, collaborative, and ...
Following the exhibition Tendenzen'Neuere Architektur im Tessin in Zurich in 1975, contemporaneous architecture in Ticino became the subject of fervent coverage in Swiss and ...
In the Soviet Union in the 1920s, the term 'social condenser' came to signify architecture's agency in shaping individual behaviours and reforming society at ...
Architectural models made nineteenth-century London. As the city grew it became the global centre of finance, industrial capitalism, and the British Empire. New buildings, ...
The articulation of transitional space forms a key element in Japanese architecture and its relationship to landscape. Climate and cultural history have shaped myriad ...
Vitruvius's De architectura, written in the first century BCE, is revered as the first treatise on architectural theory. Since its resurrection during the Renaissance, ...
Gottfried Semper's years in exile in London (1850-1855) were a time of highly inspirational experiences. The London of the first World Expo offered the ...
Shopping is history, in both senses of the word. As shopping shifts online and the economic shocks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic push bankruptcies ...
Dieter Kienast (1945-1998) is a key Swiss figure in European landscape architecture. Amidst a striking change in societal understandings of nature, he sought a ...
Edited by the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies, ETH Zurich Contributions by Siamak Anvari, Annemarie Bucher, Fujan Fahmi, Janic Fotsch, Christophe Girot, Javad ...
