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NSL Colloquium: Beyond Maintenance: Responsive Practices for Changing Landscapes
February 26 – 28, 2025, ETH Zürich: The colloquium will investigate the relationship between the design and maintenance of living systems, seeking to cultivate practices, terminology, and theoretical insights into approaches that attempt to maintain otherwise.
MScLA 2025 – Online Event “Master your Master”
ETH MSc in LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2025: ONLINE INFO EVENT WITH “MASTER YOUR MASTER”
Teresa Galí-Izard nominated for Schelling Architecture Prize
A board of trustees has proposed three offices for this year's Schelling Architecture Prize, including the office of ETH professor Teresa Galí-Izard.
“The image of Heidi's Switzerland will change and there will be new natures”
Climate change leads to more landslides and flooding. ETH professor Martina Voser is investigating how landscape architecture can respond to this in the sandbox, on the computer and in dialogue with the population.
Ramification. Eine Ausstellung zur zeitgenössischen Landschaftsarchitektur
Vernissage: 20 April 2024 from 17:00 / Exhibition: 21 April to 07 July 2024
2+2+1 — A Collective Discussion on the Role of Landscape Architecture
16.04.2024, 18:30 L200 - Langstrasse 200, 8005 Zürich With Violeta Burckhardt, Dylan Torri, Chiara Geroldi Organized by Studio Voser
2+2+1 — A collective discussion on the role of Landscape Architecutre
26.03.2024, 18:30 L200 - Langstrasse 200, 8005 Zürich
Martina Voser Appointed Full Professor of Landscape Architecture
Martina Voser, currently owner and member of the Executive Board of mavo Landschaften gmbh and Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, is now Full Professor of Landscape Architecture in the Department of Architecture.
MScLA 2024 – Online Event “Master your Master”
ETH MSc in LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE 2024: ONLINE INFO EVENT WITH “MASTER YOUR MASTER”
The Garden of the XXI Century. Exhibition at ZAZ Bellerive Zürich
The Garden of the XXI Century: Complex Resurgences, Productive Partnerships is the contribution of the Chair of Being Alive to the exhibition ‘Landschaftstadt’ at ZAZ Bellerive Zürich, curated by Meritxell Vaquer and Daniel Bosshard with the collaboration of Fabian Ruppanner.
More Than Human Cinema – Autumn Semester 2022
From Monday 03 October until Monday 14 November 2022 Langstrasse 200, Zürich
FIELDWORK WEEK in Cima Città
An open invitation to join the Chair of Being Alive for a week of getting their hands dirty:
More Than Human Cinema – Spring Semester 2022
We are happy to share the programme of the film series More Than Human Cinema Spring Semester 2022.
ROBOTIC LANDSCAPES — Designing the Unfinished
Robotic earthmoving equipment is dramatically changing the way landscapes can be formed and maintained. Landscapes evolve through constantly changing conditions, and a dynamic response to natural environments can never be considered final. Autonomous systems can enable this adaptive and continuous transformation of terrain instead of simply creating predefined and static earthworks.
Book launch: Solid, Fluid, Biotic. Changing Alpine Landscapes
Neue Publikation der Professur Günther Vogt 3. November, ab 17:00 | Case Studio VOGT, Stampfenbachstrasse 59, 8006 Zürich.
Designing the future
From autumn, ETH Zurich will offer a Master’s programme in Landscape Architecture – a first for a Swiss university. The demand for landscape architects is greater than ever, say professors Christoph Girot and Teresa Galí-Izard.
Design as an Answer to Value and Ethics Interview
Prof. Teresa Gali-Izard shares her vision for the future of the profession, the direction of the new MscLA program at ETH Zurich and her position that “design as an answer to values and ethics” in an interview with the Network City and Landscape (NSL) Newsletter.
Lost in Paradise, A Journey Through the Persian Landscape
Throughout history, gardens have elicited intangible fascination. Mystical beauty and a poetic sense for eternal yearning are intrinsic to the long Persian Garden tradition. These values formed the foundation for Western gardens that followed, even giving us the word ‘paradise’, the setting for the biblical Garden of Eden.
Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture: «The Imprint of the Landscape»
Please join us for the Frederick Law Olmsted Lecture delivered by landscape architect Günther Vogt