Seminar Week HS23Repair Schatzalp, Davos In the fall semester 2023, the seminar week will take place in Davos, on the Schatzalp as part of the new teaching project “Maintenance and Repair on Site” in collaboration with Studio Tom Emerson. The project integrates the teaching of heritage conservation, construction and sustainability with architectural design. A design […]
Keep Reading →Elements of High-Tech FS23 Lecture series in the spring semester 2023In Collaboration with the Professorship for the Theory of Architecture, Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder Teaching Team: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg & Matthias Brenner, Prof. Dr. Laurent Stalder & Dr. Davide Spina This course focuses on a specific part of the architecture of the 1970s and […]
Keep Reading →SEMINAR WEEK HS22IN:TANGIBLE ISTANBUL, 23. – 29.10.2022 A city is more than the sum of its buildings. As cultural norms, religious beliefs, technological advances prevail over one another, its buildings, its inhabitants, their daily lives and rituals evolve. New infrastructure expedites the city’s growth while fires, floods, earthquakes and pandemics lead to abrupt changes in […]
Keep Reading →HIGH-TECH HERITAGE: (IM)PERMANENCE OF INNOVATION Conference: 14.–16. September 2023, ETH ZurichContact Person: Matthias Brenner, Maria KouvariContact: high-tech@arch.ethz.chLocation: Arch_Tec_Lab, ITA, ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIB E 52 (Open Space 2) CONFERENCE REGISTRATION A conference collaboratively organized by the Professorship for Construction Heritage and Preservation, ETH Zurich (Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg) and the Professorship for Heritage Conservation and Architectural […]
Keep Reading →Bridging the gap Research activities of the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation focus on a wide variety of building stocks and technologies as well as design and manufacturing processes. Older and younger (as well as very young) objects along with structurally outstanding engineering structures are investigated. Their (potential) value as monuments as well as […]
Keep Reading →Schatzalp Balustrades The project deals with the design, planning and realisation of new balustrade elements for the Hotel Schatzalp in Davos, Switzerland. The hotel and former sanatorium is one of the early large-scale reinforced concrete buildings in Switzerland and is also internationally recognised. The existing wooden balustrade elements are in poor condition and no longer […]
Keep Reading →Elective Course Preservation: High-Tech (FS22) Elective course Spring Semester 2022 Teaching Team: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg & Matthias Brenner The task of heritage conservation is the inventory and preservation of objects worthy of protection. In doing so, it is confronted with a wide variety of challenges and issues, both constructive and social, such as ageing […]
Keep Reading →Implementation of life cycle thinking for the built environment Toward transitions across architectural education, building practice, and digital mediation Fabian KastnerCo-Supervision: Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert, Chair of Sustainable Construction, ETH ZurichJury: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert, Prof. Dr. Alexander Hollberg, Prof. Dr. Ming Shan Ng Completed The implementation of long-term-oriented practices in […]
Keep Reading →Shadow Territory and Secondary Infrastructures: The Hidden Landscapes of Temporary Labor at the Grande Dixence (1950—1965) Doctoral Thesis, 2023.Rune FrandsenSupervisors: Prof. Dr. Hollyamber Kennedy, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Silke Langenberg, Dr. Seraina Renz and Prof. Günther Vogt. This SNSF-funded research project is being led by the Institute for Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS), ETH Zurich. In 1945, The National Office for Water Management […]
Keep Reading →High-Tech for High-Tech: On the Potential of Digital Fabrication for the Repair of Architectural Innovation of the 1980s Doctoral Candidate: Matthias BrennerCo-Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Benjamin Dillenburger, Digital Building Technologies, ETH ZurichCollaboration: Prof. Dr. Markus Bambach, Advanced Manufacturing Lab, ETH Zurich Due to their relatively young age, buildings of the 1980s are rarely considered objects worth […]
Keep Reading →Digital Construction Archive funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) Project Proposal and Director: Prof. Dr. Silke Langenberg, Project Proposal: Dr. Tobias BüchiCo-Director and Contact: Dr. Adrian Pöllinger The radical turn from industrial to digital design and production has led to a paradigm shift in architecture, and it impacts the possibilities to preserve the […]
Keep Reading →ICOMOS Suisse Working Group: System & Series(2016–2023) Compared to other countries, Switzerland had a comparatively low demand for buildings that could be erected quickly and on a large scale in the first decades after the end of the Second World War. Nevertheless, pioneering construction systems and serial production techniques were developed here early on, and […]
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