ETH Zurich – Institute for Urban Design
HIL H44.1 – Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 – 8093 Zurich
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Daniel Kiss (D.Sc. ETH Zurich and M.Arch. Harvard University) is lecturer in the Network City Landscape, ETH Zurich. Beforehand, he had longtime been senior assistant at the Chair for Architecture and Urban Design, Prof. Kees Christiaanse. His field of expertise comprises theories of urban form, strategic design, as well as the history of urban planning. Besides his research activities, he teaches urban design studios, conceptualized and teaches the reading seminar ‘Texts for Urban Design’, and lectures on strategic design. He also organizes and moderates the Network City Landscape Institute's (NSL) Doctoral Colloquia.
Daniel has been researching the post-socialist transition in Hungary and finished his doctoral dissertation with the title ‘Modeling Post-Socialist Urbanization: The Case of Budapest’ in 2017, supported by a research grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation.
Between 2012 and 2018 he also led the research platform ‘Urban Made’, whereby the research team studies the reciprocal relationship between locally embedded economies and urban space with the goal of integrating its potentials into strategic design schemes for Zurich's fringes.
Prior to joining ETH Zurich, Daniel had worked as project architect with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel, Switzerland (2006-2008), and is founding partner of the Basel-based architecture practice XM Architekten (since 2016).
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Daniel Kiss
ETH Zürich – Institut für Städtebau
HIL H 44.1, Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5, 8093 Zürich
phone: +41 76 205 24 31
email: kiss @ arch.ethz.ch
Education
2017 Doctor of Sciences, ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture
2006 Master of Architecture, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
2003 Diploma in Architecture, Budapest University of Technology
Scholarships
2014–2018
Research grant of the Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF) for the project ‘Urban Made Zürich’
2010–2013
Research grant of the Swiss National Research Foundation (SNF) for the project ‘Pathways of Post-Socialist Urban Development’
2004–2006
Fulbright Scholar, Harvard University, Cambridge MA
Teaching
Since 2018
Lecturer for Urban Design, MAS Spatial Planning, NSL, ETH Zürich
Since 2016
Lecturer: Conceptualized and teaches the elective reading seminar ‘Texts for Urban Design’, NSL, DARCH, ETH Zurich
– Places for People (fall 2017)
– Architecture and Politics of Urban Form (spring 2017, with Gyler Mydyti)
– Utopia, Pragmatism, and the Search for Good City Form
(fall 2016, with Eirini Kasioumi)
– Theories of Urban Form (spring 2016, with Simon Kretz)
Since 2015
Organization and moderation of the Network City Landscape Institute's Doctoral Colloquia ‘Methods in Urban Studies’, DARCH, ETH Zurich
– The Relationship Between the Single Case and the General Theses (fall 2017)
– From Hypothesis Through Data to Thesis (fall 2015)
Since 2013
Lectures on strategic design in the course ‘Design and Strategy in Urban Space’, Chair Kees Christiaanse, NSL, DARCH, ETH Zurich
Since 2009
Junior faculty, teaches Urban Design Studios, Chair Kees Christiaanse, NSL, DARCH, ETH Zurich
– Urban Made Zürich (fall 2014)
– Savamala, Belgrade (fall 2012)
– Zernez – Energia 2020? (spring 2012)
– Zürich Seedamm (fall 2011)
– Mehr als Zürich (fall 2010)
– Rochor, Singapore (spring 2010)
– Patterns of Continuity, Cluj (fall 2009)
Since 2008
Leads international student workshops of urban design
– Die Stadt des Wissens (IBA Heidelberg, 2014)
– Strategies for Nadodrze (OSSA Wrocław, 2013)
– City Regions in the Making (Galați, 2011)
– Learning from Zaspa (CCA Łaźnia Gdansk, 2010)
– Secondary Romanian Cities (Technical University Cluj, 2009)
– Extra-medium Cluj (Galeria Plan B Cluj, 2008)
Research
2016-2020
Research and book publication on ‘Relational Theories of Urban Form’ (with Simon Kretz), NSL, DARCH, ETH Zurich
2012-2017
Doctoral Dissertation with the title ‘Modeling Post-Socialist Urbanization: The Case of Budapest’, NSL, DARCH, ETH Zurich
Since 2015
Senior Assistant, Chair Kees Christiaanse, NSL, DARCH, ETH Zurich
Since 2012
Leads the research platform ‘Urban Made’, Chair Kees Christiaanse, NSL, DARCH, ETH Zurich
Since 2009
Scientific Assistant, Chair Kees Christiaanse, NSL, DARCH, ETH Zurich
2006
Reasarch Assistant, Harvard University, Graduate School of Design
Practice
Since 2016
Founder and Partner, XM Architekten GmbH, Basel
2006–2008
Architect, project leader, Herzog & de Meuron, Basel
Selected Publications
Kiss, Daniel, Kretz, Simon, Relational Theories of Urban Form. An Anthology (Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2021).
Kiss, Daniel, ‘New Norms – Old Modus. Socialist Planning Surviving the Regime Change in Hungary’, peer-reviewed article in Urban Studies and Practices, vol. 3, no 4, 2018, 18-32. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17323/usp34201818-32.
Kiss, Daniel, Modeling Post-Socialist Urbanization. The Case of Budapest
(Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2018).
Kiss, Daniel (ed.), Places for People, Texts for Urban Design, Vol. 4.
(Zurich: NSL, ETH Zurich, 2017).
Kiss, Daniel, ‘From the Hungarian Tulip Dispute to a Post-Socialist Kulturkampf’, in Re-Framing Identities, Architecture’s Turn to History, 1970-1990, eds. Moravánszky, Ákos; Lange, Torsten (Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, 2016), 105-118.
Kiss, Daniel; Mydyti, Gyler (eds.), Architecture and Politics of Urban Form,
Texts for Urban Design, Vol. 3. (Zurich: NSL, ETH Zurich, 2017).
Kiss, Daniel; Kasioumi, Eirini (eds.), Utopia, Pragmatism, and the Search for Good City Form, Texts for Urban Design, Vol. 2. (Zurich: NSL, ETH Zurich, 2016).
Kiss, Daniel; Kretz, Simon (eds.), Theories of Urban Form, Texts for Urban Design, Vol. 1. (Zurich: NSL, ETH Zurich, 2016).
Kiss, Daniel, ‘Valorization. Planning of Urban Value Constellations’,
in The City as Resource, eds. Kees Christiaanse et.al. (Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2014), 125-133.
Kiss, Daniel, ‘Designing Resilience’, in The City as Resource,
eds. Kees Christiaanse et.al. (Berlin: Jovis Verlag, 2014), 135-144.
Christiaanse, Kees; Kiss, Daniel, et.al. (eds.), Urban Made Zürich
(Zurich: Chair for Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich, 2014).
Kiss, Daniel, ‘Why Should Troubled Economy be Seen as Potential for Cities?’,
in Orasul Posíbil – The Would-Be City, eds. Calciu, Daniela, Stoian, Ina
(Bucharest: Plus-minus, 2012).
Christiaanse, Kees; Kiss, Daniel, et.al., Zürich Seedamm
(Zurich: Chair for Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich, 2011).
Christiaanse, Kees; Kiss, Daniel, et.al. Mehr als Zürich
(Zurich: Chair for Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich, 2010).
Kiss, Daniel, ‘Learning from Zaspa’, Intertekst 4 (Gdansk, 2010), http://intertekst.com/207_artykul.html
Christiaanse, Kees; Kiss, Daniel, et.al. (eds.), Patterns of Continuity Cluj
(Zurich: Chair for Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich, 2009).
Kiss, Daniel, ‘Normal Architecture’, in Iconoclastia, News From a Post-Iconic World, Architectural Papers IV, eds. Mateo, Josep Lluís; Sauter, Florian
(Barcelona: Actar, 2009), 46-49.
Kiss, Daniel, ‘Secondary Romanian Cities’, in Arhitext 16, no. 4 (Bucharest, 2009), 26-29.
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