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Philippe Block heads the Institute for Technology in Architecture (ITA) at ETH Zurich. Together with the Professors Catherine De Wolf, Jacqueline Pauli and Walter Kaufmann, he has organised the IASS Symposium 2024, which is taking place at ETH Campus Hönggerberg. Philippe Block spoke with...
Christ Luebkeman is an engineer, educator, and futurist who leads the Strategic Foresight Hub in the Office of the President at ETH Zurich and is founder of Your2040, a yearly gathering aimed at accelerating change. World-Architects editor John Hill spoke with Luebkeman about these roles and...
Fluid Forms is an architectural project carried out by researchers at ETH Zurich's Digital Building Technologies that explores a new and innovative means of robotically 3D-printing doubly curved thin shells. A short film distills the three-week fabrication and assembly down to three minutes.
Swiss-born architectural historian Kurt Forster, who held positions at the CCA, Getty Center, and ETH Zurich, among other institutions, died at his home in New York City on January 6 at the age of 89.
Catherine De Wolf has been Assistant Professor and Director of the Chair of Circular Engineering for Architecture at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering at ETH Zurich since September 2021. She spoke with us about the challenges of circular construction.
Concrete's high carbon footprint has led to many calls for alternative materials. It might also be possible to keep using concrete, but do more with less. Researchers at ETH Zürich are exploring a significant reduction of the material through optimized shapes, as illustrated by a new...
Seven professorships at ETH Zurich under the banner of NCCR Digital Fabrication came together to take digital planning and construction methods out of the lab. Matthias Kohler and Konrad Graser answer our questions about the DFAB HOUSE.
How to Build a House, a traveling exhibition about the DFAB House in Dübendorf, Switzerland, is on display at The Cooper Union in New York City. World-Architects attended the exhibition opening and related panel discussion last week, learning everything we ever wanted to know about the...
The Block Research Group (BRG) at ETH Zurich recently erected KnitCandela, a flexibly formed thin concrete shell, at Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City after carrying the knitted formwork from Switzerland to Mexico in a few small suitcases.
On February 8th at Empa in Dübendorf, Switzerland, the "Urban Mining & Recycling" residential unit (UMAR) was inaugurated inside NEST. Designed by Werner Sobek with Dirk E. Hebel and Felix Heisel, the unit aims "to advance the construction industry's transition to a...
MycoTree is a spatial branching structure made out of load-bearing mycelium components. Its geometry was designed using 3D graphic statics, keeping the weak material in compression only. Its complex nodes were grown in digitally fabricated moulds.
The first installment in an interview series that explores the philosophical concerns of architects exhibiting at "TIME - SPACE - EXISTENCE," a collateral event at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale, features Dirk Hebel of ETH Zürich.
Rock Print, a collaborative installation of Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, and MIT's Self-Assembly Lab, was one of the highlights of the inaugural Chicago Architecture Beinnial. A short film presents its dusty deinstallation.
Next year, from 11 June to 18 September, Zurich will host Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. As part of the event, the Department of Architecture at ETH is contributing a floating pavilion with cinema and swimming pool.
The contribution of Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich, and the Self-Assembly Lab, MIT, to the Chicago Architectural Biennial is an installation they call "the first architectural construction built by robotic machines using only rocks and thread, without any adhesive and mortar."
The ETH Zurich Pavilion at the IDEAS CITY Festival in New York City (28-30 May 2015) is built of boards made from discarded beverage cartons, an example of turning waste into a resource, the "matter from which to construct or configure new cities."