Tom Avermaete: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2024 |  |
| Name | Herr Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete |
| Lehrgebiet | Geschichte und Theorie des Städtebaus |
| Adresse | Geschichte u.Theorie d. Städtebaus ETH Zürich, HIL D 70.7 Stefano-Franscini-Platz 5 8093 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telefon | +41 44 633 73 09 |
| tom.avermaete@gta.arch.ethz.ch | |
| Departement | Architektur |
| Beziehung | Ordentlicher Professor |
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| 052-0801-00L | Global History of Urban Design I  | 2 KP | 2G | T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This course focuses on the history of the design of cities, as well as on the ideas, processes and actors that engender and lead their development and transformation. The history of urban design will be approached as a cross-cultural field of knowledge that integrates scientific, economic and technical innovation as well as social and cultural advances. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | The lectures deal mainly with the definition of urban design as an independent discipline, which maintains connections with other disciplines (politics, sociology, geography) that are concerned with the transformation of the city. The aim is to make students conversant with the multiple theories, concepts and approaches of urban design as they were articulated throughout time in a variety of cultural contexts, thus offering a theoretical framework for students' future design work. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | In the first semester the genesis of the objects of study, the city, urban culture and urban design, are introduced and situated within their intellectual, cultural and political contexts: 01. The History and Theory of the City as Project 02. Of Rituals, Water and Mud: The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia and the Indus 03: The Idea of the Polis: Rome, Greece and Beyond 04: The Long Middle Ages and their Counterparts: From the Towns of Tuscany to Delhi 05: Between Ideal and Laboratory: Of Middle Eastern Grids and European Renaissance Principles 06: Of Absolutism and Enlightenment: Baroque, Defense and Colonization 07: The City of Labor: Company Towns as Cross-Cultural Phenomenon 08: Garden Cities of Tomorrow: From the Global North to the Global South and Back Again 09: Civilized Wilderness and City Beautiful: The Park Movement of Olmsted and The Urban Plans of Burnham 10: The Extension of the European City: From the Viennese Ringstrasse to Amsterdam Zuid | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Prior to each lecture a chapter of the reader (Skript) will be made available through the webpage of the Chair. These chapters will provide an introduction to the lecture, the basic visual references of each lecture, key dates and events, as well as references to the compulsory and additional reading. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | There are three books that will function as main reference literature throughout the course: -Ching, Francis D. K, Mark Jarzombek, and Vikramditya Prakash. A Global History of Architecture. Hoboken: Wiley, 2017. -Ingersoll, Richard. World Architecture: A Cross-Cultural History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018. -James-Chakraborty, Kathleen. Architecture Since 1400. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2014. These books will be reserved for consultation in the ETH Baubibliothek, and will not be available for individual loans. A list of further recommended literature will be found within each chapter of the reader (Skript). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Students are required to familiarize themselves with the conventions of architectural drawing (reading and analyzing plans at various scales). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-0803-00L | Architekturgeschichte und -theorie I | 2 KP | 2V + 2U | T. Avermaete, C. Rachele, L. Stalder, P. Ursprung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | Grundlegende Einführung und Übersicht der Theorie der Architektur der Renaissance bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Die Vorlesung behandelt Schlüsselbegriffe, Protagonisten und den Diskurs über frühmoderne Europäische Architektur Grundlagen der Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur I-II bietet eine praxisorientierte Einführung in die Methoden und Instrumente der Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | 1. Aneignung eines grundsätzlichen Wissens über die Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur der frühmodernen Epoche, ihrer Hauptprotagonisten und der Methoden und Instrumente der Architekturforschung. 2. Identifizieren der wichtigsten Themen der Architektur, der zeitgenössische Debatten der Epoche und das Erkennen der in der Vorlesung behandelten Orte und Bauwerke. 3. Aneignung grundsätzlicher Werkzeuge um eine historische Sichtweise auf die gebaute Umwelt zu etablieren, Erkennen von Stilen, Konzepten und Problemen welche die Produktion von Architektonischem Wissen befördern. 4. Entwickeln von Werkezeugen, um sich mit historischer, theoretischer und kritischer Forschung auseinanderzusetzen, um so die eigene Architektonischen Kultur besser verstehen zu können. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Die Vorlesung Architekturgeschichte und -theorie I-II bietet einen chronologischen und thematischen Überblick über die Praxis und Theorie der europäischen Architektur vom 15. bis ins 19. Jahrhundert. Thematische Vorlesungen über zentrale Fragen einer jeweiligen Epoche werden vertieft mit detaillierten Analysen von historischen Bauten, Texten und Ikonographien. Die Themen umfassen das Aufkommen und die Entwicklung des Vitruvianismus in Architektur und -theorie bis ins 19. Jahrhundert und damit verbundene Themen wie die Herausbildung des Architektenberufs, die Entwicklung zeitgenössischer Entwurfsmethoden und voneinander divergierender architektonisch-kompositorischer Prinzipien, Medien architektonischen Entwerfens und Bauens (Zeichnungen, Modelle, Baumaterialien), Formen und Medien der Verbreitung und Einflussnahme (Bücher, Bildmedien, Klein-Architekturen), Bautypen (wie Palazzo und Villa), Fragen von Schönheit und Ornamentik, Fragen der Auftraggeberschaft (wie der Päpste in Rom) und der Formierung religiöser und politischer Symbolik durch Architektur, das Verhältnis von Bauten zur Stadt (beispielsweise die Entwicklung europäischer Hauptstädte), Positionen gegenüber der Geschichte (Ursprungsmythen, Historismus), und das Problem des Monuments. Die Uebungen Grundlagen der Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur I-II haben zum Ziel, die grundsätzlichen Methoden und Strategien der Kunst- und Architekturgeschichte zu erforschen und anzuwenden. Sie bestehen aus vier Teilen, wobei jeder einzelne von einem anderen der vier gta-Lehrstühle organsiert wird und sich mit jeweils spezifischen Forschungsbereichen im Feld der Architektur- und Kunstgeschichte auseinandersetzt. (1) Historiographie der Architektur (M. Delbeke) (2) Medien der Architektur (L. Stalder) (3) Architektur und Kunst (P. Ursprung) (4) Städtebau und die Commons (T. Avermaete) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | Ein Skript zum Kurs, die Power Point Folien und die Videoaufzeichnungen von Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur I-II stehen zur Verfügung. Zusätzlich stehen gedruckte Skripts zur Verfügung, welche beim Lehrstuhl erworben werden können. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Für die Lehrveranstaltung Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur I-II wird von den Studierenden eine eigenständige Arbeitsweise erwartet, um sich ein grundsätzliches Wissen über die Europäische Architekturgeschichte anzueignen. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-0817-24L | Theory of Architecture: Desert Modernism(s)  Findet dieses Semester nicht statt. | 2 KP | 2S | T. Avermaete, Noch nicht bekannt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | Worlds’ major deserts—both hot and cold—have often served to search, extract, and transport the deserts’ various natural resources, such as oil and gas, as well as to design and build new cities, infrastructures, residential architecture, tourist complexes, farming systems, solar power plants, climate and aerospace research centers, chemical weapons testing complexes, nuclear weapon research cente | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 052-0827-24L | Seminar History and Theory of Urban Design: 'Sites-and-Services' For students from the 3rd semester | 4 KP | 2S | T. Avermaete, S. Loosen | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | ‘Sites-and-services’ was an important housing paradigm that was mobilized in the context of development aid to provide cost-efficient housing for the global poor. As these were essentially unfinished projects that relied on their future inhabitants to complete their dwellings, in this seminar we discuss what we can learn from the histories of such atypical housing projects. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | By focusing on the history of sites-and-services projects, this seminar course aims to develop, on the one hand, a historical understanding of urban design in the postcolonial context of development aid, and, on the other, a theoretical understanding of the centrality of the act of inhabitation to architecture and its history. Upon completion of the course, students will have: (1) acquired a general knowledge of the role of architecture and urban planning in the historical context of development aid, the main actors involved, and strategies adopted (2) acquired an in-depth knowledge on the specific housing paradigm of ‘sites-and-services’ (3) developed a critical attitude in engaging with the history of postcolonial urban design (4) developed a theoretical understanding of the act of inhabitation as central to architecture and its history (5) developed a reflective attitude on the modes of writing architectural history and the role of inhabitation in it (6) strengthened their analytical skills by engaging in text- and project-based discussions, their collaborative skills through team-based project analyses, and their communication skills through presenting the outcomes of their work to their peers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | The City Lived: 'Sites-and-Services' In our seminar series ‘The City Lived’ we focus on the history of urban design, with a particular emphasis on the lived experiences in the city. This semester’s seminar will focus on ‘sites-and-services’, an important housing paradigm that was mobilized in the context of development aid to provide cost-efficient housing for the global poor. This housing strategy consisted of providing ‘sites’ – plots of land to construct dwellings on – in combination with a set of ‘services’, ranging from infrastructural features, such as sewerage and waste disposal, to market-based interventions that aimed to make cheap building material more easily accessible, or financial loan schemes that offered inhabitants the means to invest in their homes. It often operated on a large scale, and targeted thousands of households in a single project. For several decades from the 1970s, it was heavily endorsed by major actors such as the World Bank and the United Nations as a cost-efficient way to meet the most basic housing needs of a high number of people, whilst simultaneously offering authorities the means to direct the enormous growth of spontaneous settlements in the urban peripheries as part of their broader urban development plans. As such, these sites-and-services schemes have left a major imprint on many cities in the Global South. Despite this impact, however, their histories are not well documented. Whereas sites-and-services were promoted as a cost-efficient solution to ‘the housing problem’ of the global urban poor, the housing paradigm attracted severe criticism from its inception. One line of critique considered such programs as formalizing the state’s disinvestment in its poorest citizens, symptomatic of neoliberal policies that erode structures of state support, while another line of critique considered them as instruments of a globalizing debt economy, incorporating the global poor in an expanding, profit-oriented capitalist market. Beyond its praise and criticism, in this seminar course we study sites-and-services projects in the first place as material artefacts: as man- and woman-made built environments that have shaped the lives of thousands of people, whose history for that very reason deserves to be studied. In doing so, we will discuss two broader themes. On the one hand, sites-and-services projects allow us to problematize the notion of housing expertise and how it was mobilized in the Global South. Therefore, we will discuss them against the background of housing policy in the Global South more generally. Which housing paradigms were relied upon in the context of the Global South? And what were the logics underlying them? On the other hand, since these were essentially unfinished projects that relied on their future inhabitants to complete their dwellings, in this seminar we not only intend to dig up the histories of such projects, but also to discuss what we can learn from the histories of such atypical housing projects. Inhabitants have drastically expanded and transformed the initial minimal design to often unrecognizable degrees according to their needs and resources, and many sites are now integrated into wider urban patterns. How do we write the history of ‘unfinished’ projects? How do we acknowledge the act of appropriation and inhabitation as an integral part of such projects? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | This course is based on weekly two-hour seminars, in combination with a case study analysis in small groups. After introducing the main context, the seminars are structured around the themes of ‘housing expertise’ and ‘lived architecture’, and gradually shift from tutor-led input sessions to student-led text discussions and project presentations. After the first class, students will be asked to form balanced groups of 3 students to work on one sites-and-services project (from a pre-selected list) over the course of the semester. The semester-long case study analysis will culminate in a final presentation and an exhibition entry that will be included in a collaborative online exhibition. Three main feedback opportunities are provided within the contact hours: short ‘Flash Presentations’ during Seminar 3, ‘Mid-Term Presentations’ during Seminar 6, and a final in-class workshop focused on students’ writing and exhibition entry during Seminar 9. Students are expected to actively attend and participate in each session. During the input phase, each week students are required to read 1–3 texts (‘Compulsory Reading’) and actively engage with other students and tutors on a pre-assigned digital canvas sheet (via Padlet). An online exhibition based on earlier student work can be consulted here: https://repository.avermaete.ethz.ch/exhibitions/sites-and-services/ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 063-0859-24L | Subject Semester HS24 (Fachsemester) in the Field of History and Theory of Urban Design (Avermaete) Findet dieses Semester nicht statt. A student can only register once for a "Fachsemester" during the Master studies! The application deadline for this "Fachsemester" 4.9.2024, 8 p.m. You will receive a message about acceptance or rejection for the subject semester by 5.9.2024, 2 p.m. at the latest. Students who have been rejected have the opportunity to choose a design class (enrollment ends on 5.9.2024, at 6 p.m.).“ | 14 KP | 29A | T. Avermaete | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | This Research Studio focuses on the entanglements of the architectural and urban histories of Switzerland and the history of global colonialism. Through architecture-specific research methods, it investigates how centuries of colonialism have historically influenced the aesthetic, construction and craft cultures of Swiss cities, and explores ways to engage with these contested legacies today. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | The Research Studio has two main objectives: 1. Archaeology of Swiss Coloniality. First, students will develop an ‘archaeology’ of the historical entanglements of Swiss industry with global colonialism. In this part, the studio work is understood as an archaeological venture, digging up traces of the past. Students will systematically probe the built environment of Switzerland for traces and influences of global colonialism and its aftermath. The result will be a catalogue of colonial entanglements, illustrating how they are inscribed into architectural and urban figures and how they continue to impact the urban fabric of Switzerland and its industry. 2. Processing Swiss Coloniality. In a second step, students will attempt to ‘process’ the enduring impact of Swiss Coloniality. Based on the 'Archaeology,’ students will explore the inherent logics of global colonialism in relation to Swiss industry as it impacts the present. The central idea is to avoid considering the past as a closed chapter, but as an ongoing process and condition of coloniality that still structures our present and future, which needs acknowledgement and dialogue. Students will be asked, using the tools of the architect, to explore strategies to represent these entanglements and suggest openings for repair where needed. Based on these main objectives, this course will: - offer students an overview of the most important historical and contemporary contributions to debates on postcolonial and decolonial theory and the entanglement of Switzerland’s industry with global colonialism; - equip students to reflect critically upon the manifestations of Swiss Coloniality in the built environment with the help of both theoretical and historical perspectives; - make students aware that the production of the city is not a neutral given but is always shaped by cultural values, assumptions, and expectations, which impact the everyday environment and, as such, condition inhabitants and users; - help students to position themselves within current debates on cities, urban development, and urban life in relation to broader challenges such as sustainability and social inequality. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Inhalt | Swiss Coloniality Cities have never been isolated entities and have always existed by grace of the myriad connections with their hinterland. Throughout the past centuries, and especially since the 15th century onwards, these connections have become increasingly far-reaching across the globe, and the history of urban development in areas such as Europe has been intricately entwined with conditions and realities elsewhere. As such, urban history cannot be seen as entirely separate from global colonialism and its aftermath. While designing and constructing the architecture of the city, architects, urban designers, builders, and inhabitants also inevitably take part in the wider ecologies of material and immaterial flows that are shaped by and contribute to a global system of inequality. Not uncoincidentally, the metropole – a key term of colonial history – finds its roots in the political urban figure of the polis and identifies the center-periphery relationship between the ‘motherland’ and its hinterland. The metropole is the place from where power is exercised over foreign territories and the place that reaps the fruits of this exercising of power. While Switzerland never had colonies of its own, it was nevertheless in many ways involved in and contributed to the history of global colonialism: by taking part in the economy sustained by colonialism, by financing and securing slave trade, by contributing to race-based science practices, etc. So, despite being a country without colonies, what if we consider Switzerland and its position in the world from the perspective of the colonial metropole? What would be the specific architectural and urban dimension of this figure of Metropole Switzerland? In raising such questions, in this Research Studio, we aim to focus on the entanglements of the architectural and urban histories of Switzerland and the history of global colonialism. Starting to answer such questions requires a widened understanding of colonialism and its impact, which has been grasped with the notion of coloniality in recent debates. While colonialism refers to the historically specific phenomenon of one area of the world colonizing another, settling on foreign land, extracting its resources, and violently disciplining its inhabitants, the term coloniality refers to the more long-lasting processes and indirect effects that are the result of centuries of colonialism, and that mark a landscape of global inequality, even after the ‘official’ reign of colonialism has ended. In this sense, the disparity between the so-called ‘Global North’ and ‘Global South’, and the way in which a country such as Switzerland is still profiting from an advantageous position in this globally unequal world, can be considered the result of centuries of colonialism, and to be still part of a condition of coloniality. As this condition is a two-sided and mutually inflictive phenomenon, to unravel the knot of Swiss coloniality, we not only aim to investigate how Switzerland was implicated in activities abroad but also, conversely, how these activities have impacted Switzerland. While in the fields of political, social and economic history, a revisionist effort is underway to reconsider/correct the image of Switzerland as a neutral country without colonies, in the field of architecture and urban history, however, we are yet to unravel the impact of this entanglement on the built environment, and, more widely, on the aesthetic, material and craft cultures of Swiss cities. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Methodology The overarching hypothesis of this Research Studio is that historical and theoretical research can profit profoundly from the use of the tools and knowledge of architects. On the one hand, the spatial, formal, material, and constructive knowledge gained throughout architectural studies will guide the historical research in the archives, in the library, and/or in the city itself and will allow students to articulate specifically architectural interpretations of the materials they find. On the other hand, the Studio explicitly asks students to employ specific architectural tools such as drawing, writing and model-making to explore the historical and theoretical realities that are being investigated. By actively reflecting on the composition of a varied set of analytical and interpretative drawings, texts, and models, students will probe the capacity of these media to act as tools for historical and theoretical research. Within the general theme of Swiss Coloniality, students will be guided to identify their own subtheme, which will require exploring their own specific research methodologies. These architecture-specific methodologies will be strategically chosen to discuss specific aspects of society: political, economic, social, cultural, or otherwise. Thus, conjoining these ‘autonomous’ and ‘heteronomous’ dimensions of architecture, a new understanding of the city and our built environment is developed that allows us to answer (some of) the research questions mentioned previously. Research process Students will be guided through three phases with different emphases: Definitions, Logics and Reinterpretations of Swiss Coloniality. The first phase, Definitions, is focused on developing an understanding of what the notion of Swiss Coloniality can entail and how it relates specifically to industry and the production of the city. This phase will allow students to become familiar with the historical and current entanglements of Switzerland with global colonialism and, by closely examining its main actors, practices, and materials, will set the stage for students to develop their own, individual research project. The second phase, Logics, is about understanding and demonstrating the inner workings and mechanisms of Swiss Coloniality. Each of the students will focus on one specific case – a material, a site, an actor, a practice, etc. – and will examine it closely through targeted archival and library research, as well as through drawing, writing, and model-making. In the third phase, Reinterpretations, students will formulate and investigate a hypothesis regarding the entanglements of Swiss industry with global colonialism. Based on this hypothesis, students will position themselves in relation to Swiss Coloniality, its history and its enduring impact. The position statement can take the form of a written text, architectural drawings and/or models and will be presented in the form of a student-curated studio exhibition and an online adaptation of it. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Literatur | Course syllabus and reader will be made available during the course's first week. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Students can register only once for a "Fachsemester" during the Master studies. Enrollment will not take place through the D-ARCH website. To enroll for this Fachsemester please send an e-mail to sebastiaan.loosen@gta.arch.ethz.ch by Wednesday 6 September 2023, 8PM. If necessary, available places will be allocated firstly conform the A-B-C-studio priority system, and secondly, randomly. You will receive a confirmation by Thursday 7 September 2023, 12AM (noon). In case of over-applications, students who are not selected have the opportunity to choose a regular design studio through the D-ARCH website (enrollment ends on September 7, at 6 p.m.). The Research Studio is self-dependent work and tutoring takes place on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Further course information on https://avermaete.arch.ethz.ch/researchstudio | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 064-0005-24L | Advanced Topics in History and Theory of Architecture | 1 KP | 1K | T. Avermaete, M. Delbeke, L. Stalder, P. Ursprung | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Kurzbeschreibung | The seminar will consist of a series of collective readings of selected texts. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lernziel | Knowledge of relevant texts in contemporary theory. Capacity to critically discuss methods and discourses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Skript | Scans of selected texts for discussion and exercises will be provided at the beginning of the semester on the course website: https://doctoral-program.gta.arch.ethz.ch/courses | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | The seminar addresses the fellows of the Doctoral Program in History and Theory of Architecture. All other doctoral students of the Faculty of Architecture are welcome. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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