Posts by: Orkun Kasap
2 Projekte – 1 Fassade: Eine Spurensuche Students: Manuel Scherrer & Maximilian Bächli Supervisors: Robin Rehm & Matthias Brenner Between 1970 and 1977, two large-scale urban projects were built in Switzerland, the Immeubles administratifs et commerciaux place Chauderon in Lausanne by AAA and the Grossacker shopping center in St. Gallen by Heinrich Graf. Both are […]
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Justus Dahinden: Trigondorf Zürich Student: Eileen Welzel Supervisors: Robin Rehm & Matthias Brenner “The sensual qualities of architecture affect people’s emotions and thus indirectly their souls.” For Justus Dahinden, architecture has to be more than just useful. Using the expressive shape of the triangle and the bright colors orange, yellow, red or blue, in 1969 […]
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Justus Dahinden: Ferro-Haus Students: Florina Asfour and Raphael Hecht Supervisors: Robin Rehm & Matthias Brenner The Ferro-Haus or also known as the “Pyramid on the Lake” stands like a utopian icon at the forefront of lakeside buildings in Zurich. Justus Dahinden was commissioned for this building in 1967 as the company headquarters of the Swedish […]
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Farben im Hochschuhlkontext Student: Allegra Milesi Supervisors: Robin Rehm & Matthias Brenner In the context of the in-depth work, it is examined how the bright colors (yellow, red and green) are used in the interiors of the ETH and the University of Zurich. In particular, it is important to investigate how striking and also irritating […]
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SEMINAR WEEK FS23RAUMBUCH – Auseinandersetzung mit einem Objekt in Zürich Ältere Baudenkmäler besitzen in der Regel aufgrund von Reparaturen, Umbauten, Erweiterungen etc. mehrere Zeitschichten. Ist beispielsweise ein Gebäude in der Epoche der Klassischen Moderne entstanden, so zeichnet es sich durch rationale Gestaltungskriterien aus. Bei einer nachfolgenden Renovation, etwa in den 1970er Jahren, treten zwei Zeitschichten […]
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Othering Displayed: Racialized Spacemaking of German Exhibitions Lecture in the context of the lecture series “Designed Orders”, LOEWE Project Architectures of Order, Goethe University Frankfurt, Campus Westend, HZ 8, 2 February 2023, 6.00 pm, Dr. Regine Hess World and national exhibitions have been a phenomenon of modernity since the end of the 18th century, not […]
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Reparatur als Präparatur Lipp, Wilfried, in conversation with Florian Hertweck, Silke Langenberg, Alex Nehmer, and Markus Krieger. 2022. “Reparatur Als Präparatur.” Edited by Florian Hertweck, Christian Hiller, Markus Krieger, Alex Nehmer, Anh-Linh Ngo, and Milica Topalović. ARCH+, The Great Repair – Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft, 56 (250): 50–53. https://archplus.net/en/archiv/ausgabe/250/#article-6920. In the 1990s, Wilfried Lipp, then Regional […]
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Minor(s’) Heritage: Built Swiss Child Aid in Greece, 1944–1956 Doctoral Candidate: Maria KouvariCo-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete, Professorship for History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zurich This research explores the built environment for children living without parents due to war, poverty, discrimination, disability, and loss of family circle, looking at international and national childcare […]
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«A Conversation with Silke Langenberg» trans team, «A Conversation with Silke Langenberg», in: trans magazin, issue 41 – Fire, 2022, pp. 95–100. To the publication
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HOCHSCHULTAG DER ARCHITEKTUR Orkun Kasap. Presentation and input at the panel discussion “Researching for a New Practice” at the 5th BDA University Day of Architecture: For a New Practice. Teaching and Learning in Times of Climate Change. 7 October 2022, DAZ Berlin.
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System & Serie. Systembau in der Schweiz – Geschichte und Erhaltung Langenberg, Silke and Meier, Hans-Rudolf, «Herausforderung Systembau: Denkmaltheoretische Fragestellungen», in: System & Serie. Systembau in der Schweiz – Geschichte und Erhaltung, ed. by ICOMOS Suisse, Arbeitsgruppe Sytem & Serie, Zurich 2022, p. 135 Sarah M. Schlachetzki, «Vom Typenhaus zum ‘Prefab’ im grossen Stil. Architekturgeschichtliche […]
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