ETH Zurich – Institute for Urban Design
HIL H44.1 – Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 – 8093 Zurich
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Design and Strategy in urban space I / Urban Design I
Means and potentials of urban design are depicted from different perspectives to illustrate how the city can be designed as a sustainable and humane environment. For this purpose, general basic principles and specific methods of urban design are going to be presented. The lectures will be given by members of the chair and invited speakers.
Learning objectives
This lecture series imparts advanced expertise in urban planning. The main focus is to illustrate the complex manner in which various themes are embedded in the everyday practice of planning and design by addressing pressing questions of contemporary urban design practice and theory. The goal is to communicate a broad-based systemic knowledge base, which helps enable students to synthesize and evaluate complex urban design and planning problems.
The fall semester introduces the notion of strategic design and imparts further knowledge about the structure and models of the contemporary city. It is structured in two parts:
PART 1: STRATEGIC DESIGN
The first part of the lecture series imparts general basics to understand the city and the field of urban design. Different approaches and methods of analysis are presented, the dealing with uncertainty in planning is addressed and practical methods of urban design are identified.
21.09. Städtebau im Wandel
Michael Wagner
28.09. Entwerfen und Unsicherheit: Szenarien in Städtebau und Raumplanung
Dr. Christian Salewski
05.10. Urbane Raumproduktion in der Gegenwart
Prof. Kees Christiaanse
12.10. Werkzeuge der Stadtanalyse
Michael Wagner
19.10. Strategisches Entwerfen
Dr. Daniel Kiss
TEIL 2: STRUCTURES AND MODELS
Urban space is shaped on different levels. The city ground plan, the relationship between public and private space, the infrastructure and mobility needs as well as various spatially relevant stakeholders offer the basic means to steer the development. The second part of the lecture series is dedicated to these structures of the city and to the models describing them.
02.11. Strukturen und Modelle
Prof. Kees Christiaanse
09.11. Governance und Akteure
Michael Wagner
16.11. Öffentlicher Raum
Simon Kretz
23.11. Stadtgrundriss
Dr. Christian Salewski
30.11. Mobilität und Infrastruktur
Dr. Benedikt Boucsein
07.12. Zusammenfassung und Prüfungskolloquium HS17
Michael Wagner
Notes regarding exams
The course will be tested as a year course in the session exam. There is no script for this lecture series. The lectures are recorded on video and will be made available a couple of days after each lecture on http://www.video.ethz.ch/lectures.html. At the end of the years course a reader with secondary literature will also be available for download on moodle. The reader doesn't replace the attendance of the lecture series. To be well prepared for the exam we suggest to take your own notes during the lectures! For exchange students and students from other departements we offer oral semester end examination in summer and winter.
Lecturers
Prof. Kees Christiaanse and Michael Wagner
Location and time
ETH Hönggerberg, HPH G1, Thursdays from 8:00 to 9:30
Downloads
information leaflet (in german)
Kontakt: Michael Wagner
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