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.

SPRING SEMESTER 2024
FRÜHJAHRSSEMESTER 2024

At the End of this World: Museums

SPRING SEMESTER 2023
FRÜHJAHRSSEMESTER 2023

The End of Youth

MASTER THESIS
MASTERARBEIT

Heritage is both material and immaterial. We do inherit the material world in which we live, in all its facets. We inherit the built and the unbuilt environment, materials and their assemblages, the molecules that composes them, urban tissues, seas, borders, forests, pollution, and other environmental ills. But we do also inherit the practices and cultures that produce the built and unbuilt environment, toxic as well as virtuous practices, productive as well as destructive, and the vulnerabilities derived from them. Within this multiplicity of heritage and inheritance, what is most unambiguously considered as heritage is however not so vast. History, historical narrative, ideologies, memory politics and archival practices are some of the forces shaping what is considered as worth to be preserved–as heritage–, and what can be ignored, transformed or destroyed. In this field of forces, architectural heritage encompasses our built environment—the materials, their assemblages, the artifacts, the buildings that compose urban and territorial tissues— and the practices and knowledge that lead to its construction. Architects, as well as other spatial practitioners do have the responsibility to understand what they inherit, what they perpetuate, why, and how they shape it in return.

SPRING SEMESTER 2024
FRÜHJAHRSSEMESTER 2024

Enough of this World: Museums

PROF. MARIAM ISSOUFOU
ARCHITECTURE HERITAGE & SUSTAINABILITY

ETH Zürich
Department of Architecture
Stefano–Franscini–Platz 5
CH–8093 Zürich

HIL E 47.1
issoufou-all@arch.ethz.ch