DESIGN STUDIO
ENTWURFSKLASSE
This studio strives against modern processes of erasure. The celebration of the industrial world, frequently termed as development, is in many ways unsustainable and by no means a universal measure of progress. Unacknowledged exploitations and appropriations promoted by modernism participated (and participate) in the erasure of indigenous and localized identities in the name of capitalist, extractivist and neocolonial values hidden under the guise of universalism.
In our studio, we embark on a process of exploring layered legacies and sustainability through a "Decolonization from/of the Global Minority". Sustainability, as we understand it, requires a decolonization of processes, materials and working practices. The studio is an opportunity for students to design architectural projects, while integrating a critical approach and the invention of new typologies.
AUTUMN SEMESTER 2024
HERBSTSEMESTER 2024
HS24
SPRING SEMESTER 2024
FRÜHJAHRSSEMESTER 2024
SPRING SEMESTER 2023
FRÜHJAHRSSEMESTER 2023
MASTER THESIS
MASTERARBEIT
Heritage is both material and immaterial. We inherit the material world in which we live in all its facetsᅳthe built and unbuilt environment, materials and their assemblages, the molecules composing them, urban tissues, seas, borders, forests, pollution, and other environmental issues. We also inherit the practices and cultures that produce these environments, including both toxic and virtuous practices, productive and destructive actions, and the resulting vulnerabilities. Despite this wide range of inheritances, what is most clearly recognized as heritage is more limited. History, historical narratives, ideologies, memory politics, and archival practices influence what is deemed worth preserving as heritage and what can be ignored, transformed, or destroyed.
Within this dynamic, architectural heritage encompasses our built environmentᅳthe materials, assemblages, artifacts, and buildings that make up urban and territorial tissuesᅳas well as the practices and knowledge that lead to its construction. Architects and other spatial practitioners have the responsibility to understand what they inherit, what they perpetuate, why, and how they shape it in return.
AUTUMN SEMESTER 2024
HERBSTSEMESTER 2024
HS24
SPRING SEMESTER 2024
FRÜHJAHRSSEMESTER 2024
ELECTIVE COURSE
WAHLFACH
intro
AUTUMN SEMESTER 2024
HERBSTSEMESTER 2024
PROF. MARIAM ISSOUFOU
ARCHITECTURE HERITAGE & SUSTAINABILITY
ETH Zürich
Department of Architecture
Stefano–Franscini–Platz 5
CH–8093 Zürich
HIL E 47.1
INSTAGRAM
@studio.atavism