The spring semester 2021 will certainly take place online until Easter. Exceptions: Courses that can only be carried out with on-site presence. Please note the information provided by the lecturers.
Students from the Bachelor course of Architecture BSc will have unlimited admission. Other students will kindly check all corresponding information given (also on the chairs' websites) regarding admission/examination/test practice: http://www.staedtebau.arch.ethz.ch/.
Only for Architecture BSc, Programme Regulations 2011.
Catalogue data
Abstract
The means and potentials in the field of urban planning and design are pointed out from different perspectives in order to shape the city in the sense of a future-proof and humane environment. To this end, the basic principles are explained and concrete methods of urban design are presented.
Objective
The goal is to provide students with a broad systemic basic knowledge, that enables them to synthesize and evaluate complex urban design and planning problems.
Content
The lecture series imparts basic knowledge in urban planning and design. Pressing questions and main topics of contemporary urban design practice and theory will be addressed. The focus is on illustrating the richness of relationships as well as the potential of the discipline and its handling in everyday urban planning and design practice.
Lecture notes
There is no script to the lecture series. The lectures are recorded on video and made available online on http://www.video.ethz.ch/lectures.html a few days after each lecture.
Literature
At the end of the year course a reader with secondary literature will be made available for download via moodle.
The performance assessment is only offered at the end after the course unit. Repetition only possible after re-enrolling.
Additional information on mode of examination
Die Semesterendprüfung findet zwischen dem 20. Mai 2019 und 14. Juni 2019 statt. Das genaue Prüfungsdatum wird vom Dozenten bekanntgegeben.
If the course unit is part of an examination block, the credits are allocated for the successful completion of the whole block. This information can be updated until the beginning of the semester; information on the examination timetable is binding.
Performance assessment as a two-semester course together with 051-0615-00L Design and Strategies in Urban Space I