ETH Zurich is a public research university in Zurich,Switzerland. Founded in 1854 with the stated mission to educate engineers and scientists,the university focuses primarily on science,technology,engineering,and mathematics.
The Z4 was arguably the world's first commercial digital computer,and is the oldest surviving programmable computer. It was designed,and manufactured by early computer scientist Konrad Zuse's company Zuse Apparatebau,for an order placed by Henschel &Son,in 1942;though only partially assembled in Berlin,then completed in Göttingen in the Third Reich in April 1945,but not delivered before the defeat of Nazi Germany,in 1945. The Z4 was Zuse's final target for the Z3 design. Like the earlier Z2,it comprised a combination of mechanical memory and electromechanical logic.
Sigfried Giedion was a Bohemian-born Swiss historian and critic of architecture. His ideas and books,Space,Time and Architecture,and Mechanization Takes Command,had an important conceptual influence on the members of the Independent Group at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in the 1950s. Giedion was a pupil of Heinrich Wölfflin. He was the first secretary-general of the Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne,and taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Harvard University,and the ETH-Zurich.
Werner Max Moser was a Swiss architect and proponent of modernist architecture. His notable works include the Kongresshaus (Zurich),Cantonal Hospital (Zurich),and the campus of IIT Kharagpur (India). Moser founded the Haefeli Moser Steiger (HMS) office community for architectural design projects in Zurich and established the Wohnbedarf interior design studio.
Bernhard Hoesli (1923–1984) was a Swiss architect and collage artist.
Valerio Olgiati is a Swiss architect. He initially studied architecture at ETH Zurich,a public research university in Zurich,Switzerland.
Philippe Rahm Dipl. EPFL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Switzerland 1993 is a principal architect in the office of Philippe Rahm architectes,based in Paris,France. His work,which extends the field of architecture from the physiological scale of the body to the climatic scale of the city has received an international audience in the context of sustainability.
Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani is an architect,architectural theorist and architectural historian as well as a professor emeritus for the History of Urban Design at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. He practices and promotes a formally disciplined,timelessly classic,and aesthetically sustainable form of architecture,one without modernist or postmodernist extravagances. As an author and editor of several acclaimed works of architectural history and theory,his ideas are widely cited.
Karin Sander is a German conceptual artist. She lives and works in Berlin and Zurich.
E2A Architects is an architecture firm based in Zürich,Switzerland. The office is led by Piet Eckert and Wim Eckert who founded E2A Architects in 2001.
Sergison Bates architects is an architectural practice with an office in London and Zürich. It was founded by Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates in 1996 in London. In addition to the two founding partners,their long-standing collaborator Mark Tuff has been a partner of the practice. Sergison Bates architects are best known for their residential buildings but have also realised public and institutional projects in the UK,continental Europe and China. In addition to their work as practising architects both Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates have taught architecture at various universities. Jonathan Sergison is a professor at the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio,whilst Stephen Bates is Professor and joint head of the Department for Urban Planning and Housing at the Technical University of Munich together with Bruno Krucker. Both architects have written and lectured on a wide range of topics related to architectural design. In 2006 they were awarded the prestigious Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal and Erich Schelling Medal for their contribution to architecture.
The Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture is a teaching and research institute at the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich,situated on the ETH Zurich’s Hönggerberg Campus site.
Berta Rahm was a Swiss architect,writer,publisher,and feminist activist.
Ákos Moravánszky,is a Swiss-Hungarian architect,theorist,historian and Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Architectural Theory at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. Moravánszky is regarded as one of the world's leading architecture historians of Central European architecture.
La Colonie was an independent cultural venue located in a former textile factory in the 10th arrondissement of Paris,near the Gare du Nord train station. It was founded by French artist Kader Attia and restaurateur Zico Selloum in 2016. It closed in March 2020 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Gion Antoni Caminada is a Swiss architect and professor of architecture at the ETH Zurich. He is known for his works in and around the Swiss village of Vrin,including the Stiva da morts mortuary. Many of Caminada's projects are built of wood in a minimalist style mixing modern design with traditional Swiss methods and materials.
Silvia Gmür was a Swiss architect.
Christopher Roth is a German film director,artist and TV producer.
Roger Boltshauser is a Swiss architect and professor at the ETH Zurich.
Dieter Kienast was a Swiss landscape architect and professor.
