ETH Zurich Faculty of Architecture
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Founded in 1854, the Faculty of Architecture (D-ARCH) at ETH Zurich
is an architecture school of worldwide reputation, providing education in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design. It has around 1,900 students and 350 staff, and an annual budget of CHF 40 Millions.
ETH Zurich
The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich or ETH Zürich is an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university in the City of Zurich, Switzerland....
is an architecture school of worldwide reputation, providing education in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design. It has around 1,900 students and 350 staff, and an annual budget of CHF 40 Millions.
History
The ETH was founded in 1854 by the Swiss Confederation and opened its doors in 1855 as a polytechnic institute (Eidgenössische Polytechnische Schule). It comprised in the beginning six departments: architecture, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, forestry, and a catch-all department for mathematics, natural sciences, literature, and social and political sciences. Classes exclusively devoted to architecture began at ETH in 1855 with Prof. Gottfried SemperGottfried Semper
Gottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. Semper fled first to Zürich and later...
Distinguished graduates
- Gottfried SemperGottfried SemperGottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. Semper fled first to Zürich and later...
, architect (Professor at the ETH) - Hendrik Petrus BerlageHendrik Petrus Berlagethumb|120px|left|BerlageHendrik Petrus Berlage, Amsterdam, 21 February 1856 — The Hague 12 August 1934, was a prominent Dutch architect.-Overview:...
, architect (student of the ETH) - Aldo van EyckAldo van EyckAldo van Eyck or van Eijk was an architect from the Netherlands.-Family:...
(student of the ETH) - Santiago CalatravaSantiago CalatravaSantiago Calatrava Valls is a Spanish architect, sculptor and structural engineer whose principal office is in Zürich, Switzerland. Classed now among the elite designers of the world, he has offices in Zürich, Paris, Valencia, and New York City....
, architect (student of the ETH) - Max FrischMax FrischMax Rudolf Frisch was a Swiss playwright and novelist, regarded as highly representative of German-language literature after World War II. In his creative works Frisch paid particular attention to issues relating to problems of human identity, individuality, responsibility, morality and political...
, architect (student of the ETH) - Jacques Herzog (student of the ETH, professor at the ETH, Pritzker PrizePritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
in 2001) - Pierre de Meuron (student of the ETH, professor at the ETH, Pritzker PrizePritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
in 2001) - Aldo RossiAldo RossiAldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.-Early life:...
, architect (Professor at the ETH, Pritzker PrizePritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built...
in 1990) - Bernard TschumiBernard TschumiBernard Tschumi is an architect, writer, and educator, commonly associated with deconstructivism. Born of French and Swiss parentage, he works and lives in New York and Paris. He studied in Paris and at ETH in Zurich, where he received his degree in architecture in 1969...
, architect (student of the ETH) - Peter Märkli (student and professor of the ETH)
- Justus DahindenJustus DahindenJustus Dahinden is a notable Swiss architect, teacher and writer about architecture.- Life :From 1945 to 1949, he studied architecture at ETH Zürich , graduating in 1956 with his Ph.D. In 1955 he started his own architecture office in Zürich...
(student of the ETH) - Konstantin JovanovićKonstantin JovanovićKonstantin Jovanović was a prolific Serbian, Bulgarian and Austro–Hungarian architect known for providing the original designs of the National Assembly of Bulgaria and National Assembly of Serbia buildings.Jovanović was born in Vienna, the capital of the Austrian Empire, to a...
(student of the ETH) - Schak BullSchak BullSchak August Steenberg Bull was a Norwegian architect.-Personal life:He was born in Årstad as the son of Colonel Jens Munthe Bull and his wife Johanne Margrethe Hagerup . His brother Edvard Hagerup Bull was a judge and politician, and his maternal grandfather was politician Edvard Hagerup...
, Norwegian architect (Student at the ETH) - John EnghJohn EnghJohn Engh was a Norwegian architect, most known for his innovative work in stone and concrete....
, Norwegian architect (Student at the ETH) - Othmar AmmannOthmar AmmannOthmar Hermann Ammann was a American structural engineer whose designs include the George Washington Bridge, Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, and Bayonne Bridge.-Biography:...
, Swiss-american structural engineer(Student at the ETH) - Karl MoserKarl MoserKarl Moser was an architect from Switzerland.1887–1915 he worked together with Robert Curjel in Karlsruhe.Some of their works:* Kunsthaus Zurich* University of Zurich* Basel Badischer Bahnhof...
(student of the ETH) - Miroslav Šik (student and professor of the ETH)
- Hans Benno BernoulliHans Benno BernoulliHans Benno Bernoulli was a famous Swiss architect.- Biography :Bernoulli was born in Basel, the son of an office clerk, Theodor Bernoulli...
(student of the ETH) - Bernhard HoesliBernhard HoesliBernhard Hoesli was a Swiss architect and collage artist.-Early age:Hoesli was born in Glarus, Switzerland from a German-Swiss father and a French mother. He later moved at an early age with his family to live in Zürich...
(student of the ETH, professor at the ETH) - William LescazeWilliam LescazeWilliam Edmond Lescaze was a Swiss-born American architect, and is one of the pioneers of modernism in American architecture....
(student of the ETH) - Christian Kerez (student and professor of the ETH)
- Marc Angelil (student and professor of the ETH)
- Werner M. MoserWerner M. MoserWerner Max Moser was a Swiss architect whose most famous work is the modern campus of the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur....
(student of the ETH, professor at the ETH) - Hans AuerHans AuerHans Wilhelm Auer was a Swiss-Austrian architect best known for his design of the Swiss Bundeshaus in Bern.Auer was born in Wädenswil...
(student of the ETH) - Alfred Friedrich BluntschliAlfred Friedrich BluntschliAlfred Friedrich Bluntschli was a Swiss Architect and Educator.Son of a distinguished legal scholar, Johann Caspar Bluntschli, A. F...
(student of the ETH) - Livio VacchiniLivio VacchiniLivio Vacchini was a Swiss architect from Ticino.- Life :Livio Vacchini was born in Locarno. From 1953 to 1958 he studied architecture at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich...
(student of the ETH, professor at the ETH) - Roger Diener, Diener & DienerDiener & DienerDiener & Diener is an architectural firm based in Basel, Switzerland. It was founded by Marcus Diener in 1942 and became Marcus Diener Architekt in 1948...
(student of the ETH, professor at the ETH) - Mike Guyer, Gigon/Guyer (student of the ETH)
- Annette Gigon, Gigon/Guyer (student of the ETH)
- Luigi SnozziLuigi SnozziLuigi Snozzi is a Swiss architect from Ticino. He is currently working in Locarno and Lugano.He studied at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. From 1962 to 1971, Snozzi worked in association with architect Livio Vacchini...
, Swiss architect, (student of the ETH)
Notable current or former lecturers
- Gottfried SemperGottfried SemperGottfried Semper was a German architect, art critic, and professor of architecture, who designed and built the Semper Opera House in Dresden between 1838 and 1841. In 1849 he took part in the May Uprising in Dresden and was put on the government's wanted list. Semper fled first to Zürich and later...
, German architect (Professor at the ETH and Founder of the ETH) - Aldo RossiAldo RossiAldo Rossi was an Italian architect and designer who accomplished the unusual feat of achieving international recognition in four distinct areas: theory, drawing, architecture and product design.-Early life:...
, Italian architect, (Professor at the ETH) Pritzker PrizePritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built... - Kazuyo SejimaKazuyo Sejimais a Japanese architect. After studying at Japan Women's University and working in the office of Toyo Ito, in 1987 she founded Kazuyo Sejima and Associates. In 1995 she founded the Tokyo-based firm SANAA together with her former employee Ryue Nishizawa...
, Japanese architect, (Design Studio at ETH) SANAA Pritzker PrizePritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built... - Eduardo Souto de MouraEduardo Souto de Moura-Life and career:Souto de Moura was born in Porto, and studied sculpture before switching to architecture at the School of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, the current FAUP - Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, and receiving his degree in 1980. From 1974 to 1979 he worked with...
, Portuguese architect, (Guest Professor at the ETH) Pritzker PrizePritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built... - Peter EisenmanPeter EisenmanPeter Eisenman is an American architect. Eisenman's professional work is often referred to as formalist, deconstructive, late avant-garde, late or high modernist, etc...
, American architect, (Design Studio at ETH) - Frank GehryFrank GehryFrank Owen Gehry, is a Canadian American Pritzker Prize-winning architect based in Los Angeles, California.His buildings, including his private residence, have become tourist attractions...
, American architect, (Design Studio at ETH), Pritzker PrizePritzker PrizeThe Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built... - Dominique PerraultDominique PerraultDominique Perrault is a French architect. He became world known for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996....
, French architect, (Design Studio at ETH) - Daniel LibeskindDaniel LibeskindDaniel Libeskind, is an American architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. Libeskind founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect...
, American architect, (Design Studio at ETH) - Kees ChristiaanseKees ChristiaanseKees Christiaanse is an architect and urban planner from the Netherlands. After working with Rem Koolhaas, he started two firms, Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners in 1989 and Architects and Planners in 1990, where he was a partner till 2002...
, Dutch architect, (Professor at the ETH) - Jacob BurckhardtJacob BurckhardtCarl Jacob Christoph Burckhardt was a historian of art and culture, and an influential figure in the historiography of each field. He is known as one of the major progenitors of cultural history, albeit in a form very different from how cultural history is conceived and studied in academia today...
, Swiss historian of art and culture (Professor at the ETH) - Paul FeyerabendPaul FeyerabendPaul Karl Feyerabend was an Austrian-born philosopher of science best known for his work as a professor of philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked for three decades . He lived a peripatetic life, living at various times in England, the United States, New Zealand,...
, Austrian philosopher of science (Professor at the ETH) - Christian MennChristian MennChristian Menn is a bridge designer from Switzerland. He owned his own Engineering Company in Chur, Switzerland from 1957-1971. From 1971 until his retirement in 1992 he became a professor of Structural Engineering at ETH Zurich specializing in Bridge design...
, Swiss bridge designer (Professor at the ETH) - Valerio OlgiatiValerio OlgiatiValerio Olgiati is an internationally active Swiss architect.- Biography :Valerio Olgiati studied architecture until 1986 at ETH Zürich. Having lived and worked first in Zurich and later in Los Angeles for some years, in 1996 he opened his own practice in Zurich and in 2008 in Flims...
, Swiss architect, (Design Studio at ETH) - Greg LynnGreg LynnGreg Lynn is owner of the Greg Lynn FORM office, an o. Univ. Professor of architecture at University of Applied Arts Vienna, a studio professor at the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture, and the Davenport Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture. He was the winner of the Golden...
, American architect, (Design Studio at ETH) - Giorgio GrassiGiorgio GrassiGiorgio Grassi , is one of Italy's most important architects. Much influenced by Ludwig Hilberseimer, Heinrich Tessenow and Adolf Loos, his extremely formal work is predicated on absolute simplicity, clarity, and honesty without ingratiation, rhetoric, or spectacular shape-making; it refers to...
, Italian architect, (Design Studio at ETH) - Elia ZenghelisElia ZenghelisElia Zenghelis is a Greek architect and teacher. He studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, completing his studies in 1961. From 1961 to 1971 he worked for architects Douglas Stephen and Partners, London, while also teaching at the Architectural...
, Greek architect, (Design Studio at ETH) - Hani Rashid, American architect AsymptoteAsymptoteIn analytic geometry, an asymptote of a curve is a line such that the distance between the curve and the line approaches zero as they tend to infinity. Some sources include the requirement that the curve may not cross the line infinitely often, but this is unusual for modern authors...
, (Design Studio) - Hans KollhoffHans KollhoffHans Kollhoff is a German architect and professor.He studied architecture from 1968 to 1973 at the University of Karlsruhe with Egon Eiermann and studied abroad in 1974 at the Vienna University of Technology in Austria. He received his diploma in 1975 in Karlsruhe...
, German architect, (Professor at the ETH) - Günther Vogt, landscape architect (Professor at the ETH)
- Josep Lluis MateoJosep Lluis MateoJosep Lluís Mateo is a Spanish architect. Graduated in Architecture in 1974 from the ETSAB and gained his doctorate at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia in 1994....
, Spanish architect (Professor at the ETH) - Dietmar Eberle, Austrian architect Baumschlager Eberle, (Professor at the ETH)
- Tony FrettonTony FrettonTony Fretton is a British architect known for his residential and public gallery buildings, as well as other British and international design work. He graduated from the Architectural Association and worked for various practices including Arup, Neyland and Ungless, and Chapman Taylor, before...
, British architect, (Professor at the ETH) - Philippe RahmPhilippe RahmPhilippe Rahm Dipl. EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland 1993 is architect, principal in the office of Philippe Rahm architects, based in Paris, France...
, Swiss architect, (Design Studio at ETH) - Karin Sander, German artist, (Professor at the ETH)
- Vittorio Magnago LampugnaniVittorio Magnago LampugnaniVittorio Magnago Lampugnani is an Italian architect and architectural theoretician. He is professor for the History of Urban Design at the ETH Zurich Faculty of Architecture and has architectural practices in Milan and Zurich....
, Italian architect, (Professor at the ETH) - Adam Caruso, British architect, Caruso St JohnCaruso St JohnCaruso St John is an architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John.They have gained an international reputation for excellence in designing contemporary projects in the public realm. The practice came to public attention with the New Art Gallery in Walsall, a commission...
, (Professor at the ETH) - Dieter Kienast, Swiss landscape architect,(Professor at the ETH)
Institutes
- ITA - Institute of Technology in Architecture
- gta - Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture
- NSL - Network City and Landscape
- Institute for Landscape Architecture
- Institute for Urban Design
- Contemporary City Institute - Studio Basel,
- IDB - Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation
- FCL - Future Cities Laboratory
Degrees
The D-ARCH (German: Departement Architektur), offers the following degrees:- Bachelor of Science ETH in Architecture (BSc ETH Arch.)
- Master of Science ETH in Architecture (MSc ETH Arch.)
- Doctor of Sciences (Dr. sc. ETH Zürich)
- Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Landscape Architecture (MAS ETH LA)
- Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Urban Design (MAS ETH UD)
- Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Competence and Responsibility - Building Process (MAS ETH CRBP)
- Master of Advanced Studies ETH in Architecture:
- with specialisation in Computer Aided Architectural Design (MAS ETH ARCH/CAAD)
- with specialisation in City Building Typology (MAS ETH ARCH/CBT)
- with specialisation in Conservation Sciences (MAS ETH ARCH/CS)
- with specialisation in History and Theory of Architecture (MAS ETH ARCH/HTA)
- with specialisation in Sustainable Management of Man-made Resources (MAS ETH ARCH/SUMA)
- with specialisation in Tectonical Construction Systematics (MAS ETH ARCH/TCS)
- with specialisation in Housing (MAS ETH ARCH/Housing)