COURSE SYLLABUS - SPRING 2023
Seminar 01 - 23.02.2023 - HIL.E5 - INTRODUCTION - UNMASKING SPACE
An introduction
…to talk about our values
… to identify our motivations
… to come together for the first time
Course material
>>Welcome to Unmasking Space
>>Tumblr Tutorial
…to talk about our values
… to identify our motivations
… to come together for the first time
Course material
>>Welcome to Unmasking Space
>>Tumblr Tutorial
Unmasking Space is a student-led course in the Department of Architecture in ETH Zurich. It aims to reflect critically on the current knowledge production in architecture education and bring attention to learning forms, voices, and methods that are currently under-acknowledged in the institution. Through multidirectional knowledge exchange and immersive activities, it experiments with other forms of learning, offering a critical lens on current pedagogies.
Seminar 02 - 02.03.2023 - HIL.E5 & ONLINE - LEARNING ARCHITECTURE - CARTHA
A seminar
…on processes of curating a magazine
…on questioning pedagogies
…investigating possible paths for shifting architectural education
Course material
>> “ The City as University”, Panta Rhei Collaborative
>> “Letter to Students”, Shen He and Juan Barcia Mas
>> “Global Tools: Dancing Alone, Clubbing Together”, Anna Moreno
>> “Course Evaluation: Considering Equitable Trajectories”, Suzanne Lettieri
>> “To Step Light on E/Earth”, Thiago Benucci
>> ‘New Rules”, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes & Zosia Dzierżawska
…on processes of curating a magazine
…on questioning pedagogies
…investigating possible paths for shifting architectural education
Course material
>> “ The City as University”, Panta Rhei Collaborative
>> “Letter to Students”, Shen He and Juan Barcia Mas
>> “Global Tools: Dancing Alone, Clubbing Together”, Anna Moreno
>> “Course Evaluation: Considering Equitable Trajectories”, Suzanne Lettieri
>> “To Step Light on E/Earth”, Thiago Benucci
>> ‘New Rules”, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes & Zosia Dzierżawska
CARTHA is a curated platform that focuses on sharing different forms of
critical thinking regarding architecture and society established in 2015.
Through opinions, experiences, and works, it aspires to map out the
contemporary architectural landscape. CARTHA aims to generate a collective
critical dialogue open to everybody. The Editorial Board comprises Pablo
Garrido Arnaiz, Holly Baker, Ainsley Johnston, Francisco Moura Veiga, Amy
Perkins, and Rubén Valdez.
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED - 08.03.2023 - GTA FOYER - DECONSTRUCTING THE INSTITUTION - IFA_DIASPORA, VOLTA, UNMASKING SPACE, GENDER TASKFORCE, DR.NAZLI TÜMERDEM
A walk through the campus
…to talk about power issues and student problems
…to exchange and connect across universities
…to learn from each other and find new ideas
…to talk about power issues and student problems
…to exchange and connect across universities
…to learn from each other and find new ideas
Seminar 03 - 09.03.2023 - HIL.E5 - DECONSTRUCTING THE INSTITUTION - IFA_DIASPORA, UNMASKING SPACE, VOLTA, GENDER TASKFORCE
An open and inclusive platform
…to unmask structural problems and forms of discrimination in institutions
…to exchange and connect across universities
…to learn from each other and find new ideas
Course material
>> Lets Talk About Race (open text)
>>"The postcolonial studies reader" (edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin)
>>"Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen" by Marie-Louise
Richards
>>"Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice" by bell hooks in "Art on My Mind"
>>"Race and Modern Architecture" by Cheng, Davis, Wilson
>>"When statues fall" article by Paul B. Preciad>> Monumental Shadows – Koloniales Erbe neu denken by Savy Contemporary
>> The Race & Podcast
>> Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 2000.
>> Richards, M. (2022, October 28). Pedagogies of Power: Education within and without the Institution
…to unmask structural problems and forms of discrimination in institutions
…to exchange and connect across universities
…to learn from each other and find new ideas
Course material
>> Lets Talk About Race (open text)
>>"The postcolonial studies reader" (edited by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin)
>>"Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen" by Marie-Louise
Richards
>>"Black Vernacular: Architecture as Cultural Practice" by bell hooks in "Art on My Mind"
>>"Race and Modern Architecture" by Cheng, Davis, Wilson
>>"When statues fall" article by Paul B. Preciad>> Monumental Shadows – Koloniales Erbe neu denken by Savy Contemporary
>> The Race & Podcast
>> Freire, Paulo. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. New York: Continuum, 2000.
>> Richards, M. (2022, October 28). Pedagogies of Power: Education within and without the Institution
ifa_diaspora is a student initiative, platform, and safer-space of architects, planners and
urban researchers at TU Berlin’s Institute of Architecture (IfA), consisting
mainly of post-migrant and PoC students. Our overarching goal is to expose
structural and institutional racism in the fields of architecture and the
broader built environment. Starting at the IfA, we are primarily concerned with
highlighting, questioning, and actively dismantling racialized hegemony in
architectural teaching. We advocate for a more critical planning environment
through sustainable and multi-perspective knowledge production within the
industry.
Volta is a space for collective critical thinking within the academic and professional environment of architecture, born through the acknowledgment of gender disparity and persistent deficiency of female and non-binary representation among teachers and role models at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio.
Volta is a space for collective critical thinking within the academic and professional environment of architecture, born through the acknowledgment of gender disparity and persistent deficiency of female and non-binary representation among teachers and role models at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio.
Seminar 04 - 16.03.2023 - HIL.E5 - CLIMATE LEXICON - CLIMATE WORDS
A workshop
…on intersections between architecture, climate, activism and language,
…on possible paths as an architect in an age of climate crisis
…on the meanings of the words we use
Course material
>> Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, The Future We Choose, 2020 (book)
>> Earthrise Studio, The Breakdown, 2021 (docuseries)
>> Alex Pritz, The Territory, 2022 (film)
…on intersections between architecture, climate, activism and language,
…on possible paths as an architect in an age of climate crisis
…on the meanings of the words we use
Course material
>> Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, The Future We Choose, 2020 (book)
>> Earthrise Studio, The Breakdown, 2021 (docuseries)
>> Alex Pritz, The Territory, 2022 (film)
Valentin
Abend, Co-Founder and Director at Climate Words
Architect (MSc AAM), University Teacher and Climate Advocate. Valentin studied architecture at the University of Kent (BA) and the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (MSc). He has worked for Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and SO – IL in Brooklyn. He teaches Sustainable Systems at Parsons School of Design in New York. He has been a coordinator for various groups in the climate movement, including Extinction Rebellion, Polluters Out and Greenpeace International, leading campaigns at prominent universities in the USA and at the UNFCCC COP 26.
Architect (MSc AAM), University Teacher and Climate Advocate. Valentin studied architecture at the University of Kent (BA) and the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio (MSc). He has worked for Herzog & de Meuron in Basel and SO – IL in Brooklyn. He teaches Sustainable Systems at Parsons School of Design in New York. He has been a coordinator for various groups in the climate movement, including Extinction Rebellion, Polluters Out and Greenpeace International, leading campaigns at prominent universities in the USA and at the UNFCCC COP 26.
Seminar 05 - 30.03.2023 - HIL.E5 - SOUTHERN URBANISM - JHONO BENNETT
A dialogue
…on urban design through a southern lens
…reflecting meanings of the word southern
…between students of different backgrounds
Course material
>>Miro Board
>> Bhan, Gautam. “Notes on a Southern Urban Practice.” Environment and Urbanization 31, no. 2 (January 2019): 639–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247818815792
>> Bruns, Antje, and Jennifer Gerend. “In Search of a Decolonial Urban Transformation.” Gaia 27, no. 3 (2018): 293–97. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.27.3.9.
>> Caldeira, Teresa Pires do Rio. City of Walls : Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo / Teresa P.R. Caldeira. Berkeley: Berkeley, 2000.
>> Caldeira, Teresa P.R. “Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35, no. 1 (2017): 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816658479.
…on urban design through a southern lens
…reflecting meanings of the word southern
…between students of different backgrounds
Course material
>>Miro Board
>> Bhan, Gautam. “Notes on a Southern Urban Practice.” Environment and Urbanization 31, no. 2 (January 2019): 639–54. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956247818815792
>> Bruns, Antje, and Jennifer Gerend. “In Search of a Decolonial Urban Transformation.” Gaia 27, no. 3 (2018): 293–97. https://doi.org/10.14512/gaia.27.3.9.
>> Caldeira, Teresa Pires do Rio. City of Walls : Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo / Teresa P.R. Caldeira. Berkeley: Berkeley, 2000.
>> Caldeira, Teresa P.R. “Peripheral Urbanization: Autoconstruction, Transversal Logics, and Politics in Cities of the Global South.” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 35, no. 1 (2017): 3–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816658479.
Jhono Bennett is Jhono Bennett is the co-founder of 1to1 – Agency of Engagement, a design-led social enterprise based in Johannesburg.
1to1 was initiated in 2010 in support of the multi-scalar work being done to re-develop post-Apartheid South African cities in the face of systemic spatial inequality.
Jhono is currently a Unit Tutor in the BSc Architecture Programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture and enrolled at the Bartlett School of Architecture as a doctoral candidate in the TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing network. His practice-led research interests are driven by issues of inclusive design approaches, spatial justice, critical positionality, and urban planning in South African cities.
Jhono is currently a Unit Tutor in the BSc Architecture Programme at the Bartlett School of Architecture and enrolled at the Bartlett School of Architecture as a doctoral candidate in the TACK / Communities of Tacit Knowledge: Architecture and its Ways of Knowing network. His practice-led research interests are driven by issues of inclusive design approaches, spatial justice, critical positionality, and urban planning in South African cities.
Seminar 06 - 06.04.2023 - D&D KITCHEN (TBA) - RECONSTRUCTING THE INSTITUTION - IFA_DIASPORA, VOLTA, UNMASKING SPACE
An intervention
…based on observations from the first session
…created collectively
…opening up space for critical action
A hands-on cooking workshop
...to circulate information, inputs and tools from the everyday
...to build a common ground and establish a participatory relationship within different institutions
...to create a didactic input, to reflect on teaching methods and tools for knowledge building
Course material
>> Rosler, Martha. The Art of Cooking: A Dialogue between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne
>> Rosler, Martha. Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975
>> Symon, Michael. Simmel’s Gastronomic Sociology: An Overlooked Essay, in: Food and
Foodways, January 1994, p.333–351
>> Wigglesworth, Sarah and Jeremy Till. The Dining Table, in: Architectural Design, Vol.68, N.7-8, July/August 1998, p.32
…based on observations from the first session
…created collectively
…opening up space for critical action
A hands-on cooking workshop
...to circulate information, inputs and tools from the everyday
...to build a common ground and establish a participatory relationship within different institutions
...to create a didactic input, to reflect on teaching methods and tools for knowledge building
Course material
>> Rosler, Martha. The Art of Cooking: A Dialogue between Julia Child and Craig Claiborne
>> Rosler, Martha. Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975
>> Symon, Michael. Simmel’s Gastronomic Sociology: An Overlooked Essay, in: Food and
Foodways, January 1994, p.333–351
>> Wigglesworth, Sarah and Jeremy Till. The Dining Table, in: Architectural Design, Vol.68, N.7-8, July/August 1998, p.32
Volta is a space for collective critical thinking within the
academic and professional environment of architecture, born through the
acknowledgment of gender disparity and persistent deficiency of female and
non-binary representation among teachers and role models at the Accademia di
Architettura, Mendrisio.
ifa_diaspora is a student initiative, platform, and safer-space of architects, planners and urban researchers at TU Berlin’s Institute of Architecture (IfA), consisting mainly of post-migrant and PoC students. Our overarching goal is to expose structural and institutional racism in the fields of architecture and the broader built environment. Starting at the IfA, we are primarily concerned with highlighting, questioning, and actively dismantling racialized hegemony in architectural teaching. We advocate for a more critical planning environment through sustainable and multi-perspective knowledge production within the industry.
ifa_diaspora is a student initiative, platform, and safer-space of architects, planners and urban researchers at TU Berlin’s Institute of Architecture (IfA), consisting mainly of post-migrant and PoC students. Our overarching goal is to expose structural and institutional racism in the fields of architecture and the broader built environment. Starting at the IfA, we are primarily concerned with highlighting, questioning, and actively dismantling racialized hegemony in architectural teaching. We advocate for a more critical planning environment through sustainable and multi-perspective knowledge production within the industry.
Seminar 07 - 21.04.2023 - D&D LAB (EVENING) - GTA FOYER (MORNING) - INFORMAL LEARNING - OFFICE PARTY
A night to party and a morning for recovery
…as a place to generate critical discourse and
…as a method for valuing the exchange of informal knowledge
…to learn through collective gathering
Course material
>> madison moore, “DARK ROOM. Sleaze and the Queer Archive,” Contemporary Theatre Review 31, no. 1-2: Outing Archives, Archives Outing (May 19, 2021): 191–96
>> Ivan L. Munuera, “An Organism of Hedonistic Pleasures: The Palladium,” Log, no. 41 (2017): 102–12.
>> McKenzie Wark, “Daytripping: The Collective Catharsis of Ravespace,” Document Journal, December 20, 2022
…as a place to generate critical discourse and
…as a method for valuing the exchange of informal knowledge
…to learn through collective gathering
Course material
>> madison moore, “DARK ROOM. Sleaze and the Queer Archive,” Contemporary Theatre Review 31, no. 1-2: Outing Archives, Archives Outing (May 19, 2021): 191–96
>> Ivan L. Munuera, “An Organism of Hedonistic Pleasures: The Palladium,” Log, no. 41 (2017): 102–12.
>> McKenzie Wark, “Daytripping: The Collective Catharsis of Ravespace,” Document Journal, December 20, 2022
Office Party is an international research and
design collective specializing in the production of temporary events,
installations, and exhibitions. With attention to sustainable material
systems and community resource-pooling, the office critically examines the role
of parties and similar ephemeral spaces as the origin of complex social and
material networks with urban, political, and environmental effects. Office
Party further investigates the ways that parties provide insight into the
development of architecture as a temporary and responsive mode of space-making
through written and editorial work. The second volume of the office’s annual
publication, Party Planner, is available now. Workshop directed by Chase Galis, Christina
Moushoul, and Sonia Sobrino Ralston.
Seminar 08 - 27.04.2023 - DREISPITZ
Seminar 09 - 04.05.2023 - GTA FOYER - HOME MAKING - KEVIN LAI, KATHERINE WONG
Two home-making sessions
…on displacement and diaspora
…in domestic and institutional interiors
…on the fluid, impermanent and empathetic view of the home as „displaced selves“
Course material
>> Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledge, The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988)
>> Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (1974) p.26-39. “The Apartment”, p. 24-25. Section 3
>> Guillermo Lopez & Anna Puigjaner, Everyday Life in the Diffuse House (2021), a chapter from “Everyday Matters”, edited by Vanessa Grossman & Ciro Miguel
…on displacement and diaspora
…in domestic and institutional interiors
…on the fluid, impermanent and empathetic view of the home as „displaced selves“
Course material
>> Donna Haraway, Situated Knowledge, The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective (1988)
>> Georges Perec, Species of Spaces and Other Pieces (1974) p.26-39. “The Apartment”, p. 24-25. Section 3
>> Guillermo Lopez & Anna Puigjaner, Everyday Life in the Diffuse House (2021), a chapter from “Everyday Matters”, edited by Vanessa Grossman & Ciro Miguel
Kevin Lai (HK > NL) , and Katherine
Wong (HK > LDN) were born and raised in Hong Kong and completed
their Bachelor’s degree in architecture together. They then went on to their own
exploration in other contexts in Zurich and Tokyo. Now, they are furthering their education in the
TU Delft (Netherlands) and the AA (London). Both are writing a graduation thesis that
reflects upon the construct of the home
through critical translations of research and design.
Seminar 10 - 11.05.2023 - HIL.E5 - MORPHOLOGY OF IDENTITIES - SEKUNDOS
A sonic walk
…of reimagining and recreating institutional spaces
…sharing sounds and thoughts on identities and differences
…exploring the impact of sound on the perception of space
Course material >> Férdia J. Stone-Davis (2015) Sense Making and Place Making Through Music, Contemporary Music Review, 34:1, 1-4, DOI: 10.1080/07494467.2015.1077561
>> Campos, Ricardo, and João Sardinha. Understanding acoustic peformativitives, youth Subjectivities and mobile identities. Transglobal Sounds : Music, Youth and Migration. Paperback edition. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018. Print.
>> Edna Martinez, Champeta: A Colombian Caribbean Cultural Resistance, Music and the Revolution. 18-21 Paris: The Funambulist, 2021
>> Music Picnic Workshop, Parity Talk 2022
…of reimagining and recreating institutional spaces
…sharing sounds and thoughts on identities and differences
…exploring the impact of sound on the perception of space
Course material >> Férdia J. Stone-Davis (2015) Sense Making and Place Making Through Music, Contemporary Music Review, 34:1, 1-4, DOI: 10.1080/07494467.2015.1077561
>> Campos, Ricardo, and João Sardinha. Understanding acoustic peformativitives, youth Subjectivities and mobile identities. Transglobal Sounds : Music, Youth and Migration. Paperback edition. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2018. Print.
>> Edna Martinez, Champeta: A Colombian Caribbean Cultural Resistance, Music and the Revolution. 18-21 Paris: The Funambulist, 2021
>> Music Picnic Workshop, Parity Talk 2022
SEKUNDOS is a student initiative that aims to recognize background identities in public spaces and to upkeep differences in the DARCH ETH in the form of a musical podcast and live events.
Seminar 11 - 18.05.2023 - IN THE CITY (TBA) - APPROPRIATE PUBLIC SPACE - MIKE ZWEIDLER, SOPHIA TRUMPP
An experiment
…on living in the city
…on the functionality of public spaces as living spaces
…reflecting on accessibility and appropriation
Course Material
>> Der Mann unter der Brücke, SRF RE Reportage
>> "La riappropriazione della città" by Ugo La Pietra
>> “Outside Again” by Adrian Heathfield, Hugo Glendinning
…on living in the city
…on the functionality of public spaces as living spaces
…reflecting on accessibility and appropriation
Course Material
>> Der Mann unter der Brücke, SRF RE Reportage
>> "La riappropriazione della città" by Ugo La Pietra
>> “Outside Again” by Adrian Heathfield, Hugo Glendinning
Mike Zweidler:
12 years ago I started my architectural
education. 10 years later I enrolled at ETH to spice up my practical knowledge
with some intellect, let's see how successful this attempt is
Sophia Trumpp studied architecture at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and the ETH Zurich. She completed a BSc degree in Sinology at the Hamburg University in 2016 and spent many years living in Hong Kong and across China. Today she works as an architect based in Zurich and Germany.
Sophia Trumpp studied architecture at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio and the ETH Zurich. She completed a BSc degree in Sinology at the Hamburg University in 2016 and spent many years living in Hong Kong and across China. Today she works as an architect based in Zurich and Germany.