Ileana Apostol: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2021

NameMs Ileana Apostol
Address
Schmid, Christian (Tit.-Prof.)
ETH Zürich, HIL E 61.2
Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5
8093 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
E-mailapostol@arch.ethz.ch
DepartmentCivil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering
RelationshipLecturer

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
052-0703-00LSociology I Information 2 credits2VC. Schmid, I. Apostol, N. Bathla, A. Hertzog-Fraser
AbstractSociology I investigates the relation between social developments and the production of the built environment from a macro-sociological point of view. It examines central aspects of social change, historical and contemporary forms of urbanization, and typical examples of models of urbanization.
ObjectiveThis series of lectures should enable students to comprehend architecture in its social context.
ContentSociology I deals with the macro-sociological point of view, and investigates the relation between social developments and the production of the built environment. In the first part central aspects of social change are examined, –in particular the transition from Fordism to Neoliberalism and the interlinked processes of globalization and regionalization. The second part deals with historical and current forms of urbanization. Among other aspects, it focuses on the changed significance of the urban-rural contradiction, the processes of suburbanization, periurbanization, and planetary urbanization; the formation of global cities and metropolitan regions; the development of new urban configurations in centres (gentrification) and in urban peripheries (edge city, exopolis, new urban intensity). In the third part these general processes are illustrated by typical models of urbanization: Manchester, Chicago, Los Angeles, Paris and Zürich.
LiteratureA detailed collection of original texts will be distributed.
063-0701-00LMethods of Urban Research Information
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2 credits2GC. Schmid, I. Apostol, N. Bathla, L. B. Howe, C. Ting
AbstractThis course conveys an introduction into methods of urban research in social sciences through lectures and accompanying exercises. It treats the basic principles of scientific research, literature research, different forms of participant observation, qualitative interviews (expert interviews and ethnographic interviews), and the analysis of urban qualities.
ObjectiveThis course aims at enabling students of architecture to use sociological analysis as basis for concrete projects in architecture and urban design. It is based on a specific set of methods that is applied in design studios (integrated disciplines) as well as in the master thesis (supplementary discipline sociology).