Angaben zur Professur

Lehrstuhl 

Professur T. Emerson

Typ 

Professur für Architektur und Entwurf

Standort 

HIL

Webseite 

www.emerson.arch.ethz.ch

Assistierende 

Lucio Crignola, Lorenza Donati, Raffaella Endrizzi, Sonja Flury, Michelle Geilinger, Julius Henkel

Kontakt E-Mail 

geilinger@arch.ethz.ch

Angaben zur Entwurfsklasse

Typ 

Entwurf V-IX

Thema 

The Importance of Being Ernst

Beschreibung
des Entwurfs-programmes 

Atelier Gisel is seeking applications from twenty-four early career architects to resume professional and creative activities of one of Zurich the most important architectural practices. Applicants should demonstrate an interest in documenting, re-imaging and extending the practice’s seminal architectural oeuvre built between the 1940’s and the 1990’s. Atelier Gisel is a three-storey building near Klusplatz, designed in 1974 for and by the office of Ernst Gisel. Following the closure of the office after six decades of professional practice, Gisel gifted the atelier, alongside his archive, to ETH on condition it remains a place where architecture is practised. In many ways, Gisel’s former office set the gold standard for the architectural and building culture of Zurich in the second half of the twentieth century. We shall use our direct experience of the studio and the archive as a starting point for translations of past exemplars into contemporary questions. What material strategies would one develop to achieve the same refinement, the same genus loci but in the era of climate emergency? The task may seem straight forward and modest at first, but it will require a rigorous and radical imagination to develop a contemporary architecture that is both specific and could become the standard for which architecture aspire. Low carbon, accessible, playful, sculptural, expressive or discreet; they can all work as long as you remember the importance of being Ernst.

Thematische und methodische Schwerpunkte 

Entwurf, Konstruktion, Landschaftsarchitektur, Handwerk, Archive

Lernziele 

Use drawing, photography and model-making to grasp and communicate your stance towards the built and natural surroundings. Work with archival material and your documentation of the existing to develop a design project. Develop a critical stance towards material culture, ecology and biodiversity, construction, densification and the transformation within the existing built and natural fabric. Develop and refine skills in making, thinking through one’s hands. Learn how to discuss and develop group projects, in groups of two and bigger.

LV-Nr. des Entwurfs 

052-1116-24

Zusätzliche integrierte Disziplin(en) 

063-0562-24

Unterrichts-sprache 

Englisch

Arbeitsweise 

Nur Gruppenarbeit

Daten Zwischenkritiken 

Datum Schlusskritik 

Einführungs-veranstaltung 

20. Februar 2024, 10:00 Uhr, Atelier Gisel, Streulistrasse 74a

Zusätzliche Kosten 

CHF 100 (Schätzung, ohne allfällige Kosten für Modellbau und Seminarwoche)

Verfügbare Plätze 

34

Plakat des Entwurfs-programmes 

Plakat ansehen (PDF Datei)

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