Prof. Dr. Marc Angélil | Architecture and Urban Design
Morphology of Periphery Cities
The Chair of Marc Angélil is mainly focussed on the sustainable development of contemporary urban territories. In what way do the various strengths influence each other in determining the city’s future? How are their morphogenetic processes planned? A discourse is begun on the relationship between genesis and form, between operational sequences and urban organisation. Different parameters affect one another and form a differential field, within which development takes place, contributing the crystalisation of formal constructs in each individual phase of the process. The urban morphology manifests itself as an organisation of interwoven, dynamic structures. Based on this viewpoint, designs are not based on an understanding of architecture as a closed system, but are rather much more the results from a network of oscillating relationships.
The Normal City
Norms and standards determine our living space. The spaces in which we work, shop, move and enjoy ourselves are based on them. They help define the organisational spatial principles that should contribute
Housing the Co-Op
The bilateral research project Cooperative Production of Low-Cost Housing – Socio-Technological Innovation for the Provision of Housing for Low-Income Populations investigates previous and current practices of affordable housing production in order to
Housing Cairo
Focussing on the metropolitan region of Cairo, this research project aims to identify the forces at work – both formal and informal, and combinations thereof – in the production of territory. Over
Massenwohnungsbau in Brasilien
Die Forschungsarbeit zur Entwicklung von Cidade de Deus, einer Siedlung für Massenwohnungsbau aus den 1960er Jahren in Rio de Janeiro, untersucht die Transformation eines damals isolierten Randgebiets in ein heute funktionierendes städtisches
Urbanism of the New Third Age
This research addresses the intersection of two of the most important socio-demographic transformations occurring in our contemporary world: population ageing and urbanization. It reacts to these parallel shifts by identifying and conceptualizing
Mirroring Effects: Tales of Territory
Each of the case studies comprising Mirroring Effects: Tales of Territory unfolds as an all too real-life tale chronicling the ramifications of urbanization under the influence of integrated world capitalism. Taken together,
Urban Development and Poverty – Addis Ababa
This research project investigates forms of formal and informal urbanization processes against the background of both high-end development projects promoted by foreign and local actors and a context marked by prevalent urban
Urban Quality
The game plan was as follows: five colleagues from the Department of Architecture of ETH Zurich, whose positions could not be further apart, accepted the challenge of the Swiss National Research Programme
Urban Tools – Case Study: Canton Schwyz
The foundation of this research project lies primarily in the development of a future-capable method for handling complex urban planning and design tasks. The basis for an interdisciplinary collection of instruments, methods