Prof. em. Roger Diener / Prof. Marcel Meili | Architecture and Urban Design
Roger Diener has been teaching at the Swiss Federal Polytechnic (ETH Zurich), ETH Studio Basel: Contemporary City Institute, since 1999. Internationally known works include a block for athletes at the Olympic Village in Turin, Italy (2006), the Teachers’ Training Centre at the University of Malmö, Sweden (2005), the Forum 3 Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland (2005), the Swiss Embassy in Berlin, Germany (2000), residential buildings on Java Island Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2000), Hotel Schweizerhof and Migros in Lucerne, Switzerland (2000), CentrePasquArt, an art museum in Bienne, Switzerland, (1999), and the Warteck Brewery residential buildings in Basel, Switzerland (1996).
Marcel Meili has been teaching at the ETH Zurich since 1999. He served as a visiting professor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and founded Meili, Peter Architekten in 1987. Their recent built work includes the RiffRaff cinema in Zurich, the Zurich Central Station extension, the Swiss Re Center for Global Dialogue in Rüschlikon, and the Hyatt Hotel in Zurich. Major current projects include the Zurich Football Stadium, the Helvetia Insurance Headquarters Italy in Milan, and the «Mitten in München» complex, a large passage in the old town of Munich.
Florida
This semester Central Florida was investigated, a territory that has changed radically in the last century; in a relatively short period, a multi-layered urban topography has covered the near-tropical wilderness. The area's
Hong Kong
The Asian city of Hong Kong is a place of extraordinary economic and demographic dynamics. Formerly under British rule, it has undergone a radical change in orientation since the 1997 handover. The
Casablanca
Similar to Hong Kong, because of its strategic situation on the coast of the Atlantic, Casablanca is one of the oldest Global Cities. From the beginning of the last century, first under
Thurgau – Project for the Quiet Zones
Since June 2006, a project team of ETH Studio Basel has been elaborating concrete projects for the “quiet zones” in the Canton of Thurgau on behalf of the Thurgau Think Tank, a
Belgrade
Continuously inhabited since the Neolithic age, Belgrade is one of the oldest cities in Europe, but its development is based on frequent ruptures and breaks instead of continuity and cumulative growth. The
Nile Valley
The Nile Valley covers merely 5% of Egypt’s territory, while providing a living environment for 95% of the country’s population. This thousand kilometer long and fertile strip of land embedded in smooth