Finally, this Overview

Finally, this Overview
Introduction 15 September 2026, 10 am

Studio Caruso Archive, Various Authors, 2011-2026

In this last year of the Chair, we will look back with fresh eyes at fifteen years of research and design work. We will reflect on our archive, the collective endeavour of around a thousand students, and see what happens when the Palais Royal meets Sophie Calle, and when the Bank of England meets Theaster Gates. With invited collaborators and using new tools, this year we will take full advantage of finally having this overview.

This semester we will work on a large site in Zurich that while part of the city’s public infrastructure has always been a territory with limited public access. A place where the slaughter of animals and the distribution of meat will soon end, and public conversations within the local neighbourhood have already begun about imagining the future of this place. The city is assessing the heritage values of the site, and its economic and programmatic potential. For us, the future of the Schlachthof is an opportunity to heal the difficult karma of the site and to imagine what the civic could mean in a future when different actors, and not just humans, are given agency, where diverse ideas of programme and not just those of production, are allowed to flourish. We are interested in arranging the site in looser and more iterative ways so that new uses and constituencies can be accommodated as they emerge as part of an ongoing process. The mosque, the hospice, the caravanserai were places of care and exchange where society would both arrange and represent itself, where space became civic. Can we imagine the grand hall, the access yards, and the warehouses of the Schlachthof becoming locations for pleasure, care, propinquity and for the enactment of new kinds of civic life in Zurich.

Construction and writing as integrated disciplines are included in this course.

11 September 2026, 11:00 am, Pierre Huyghe Exhibition, Fondation Beyeler
15 September 2026, 10:00 am, Studio Introduction, ONA E30

HS 2026, ETH Zürich, Studio Caruso
Emilie Appercé, Tibor Bielicky, Adam Caruso, Anna Clocchiatti, Florian Kilian Jaritz

The City in the City
Seminar Week: October 19–23, 2026

İstanbul, Matrakçı Nasuh, 1537 

Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul… all cities whose complex histories can still palpably be felt as part of the present. An ever-expanding settlement, this was the capital for three empires, both trade route and centre. For much of its history this has also been a place of diversity and tolerance, a place with many languages that welcomed foreigners to become part of its heady demographic mix.

We will travel to these cities on the Bosphorus to visit both the sites of empire and the fleeting places of everyday life. With the guidance of local colleagues, we will engage with narratives that span the social, the political and the material, looking beyond the surface to understand how the present and the future are inextricably bound up with the residues of history.

Cost category C (501–750 CHF), 16 students. The fee includes accommodation, local transportation, two dinners, entrances and the reader. Travel to and from Istanbul is not included and must be arranged individually.

HS 2026, ETH Zürich, Studio Caruso
Emilie Appercé, Tibor Bielicky, Adam Caruso, Anna Clocchiatti, Florian Kilian Jaritz

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Zurich Monuments

Final Discussions & Exhibition
May 27, 2026

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Franck Ducotterd, Matteo Rezzonico, Nien-Hsin Lu

Wednesday, May 27th, Exhibition & Discussions, ETH Zürich, ONA E30, 09:00 – 18:00

Guests: Marianne Burkhalter, Susan Hefuna, Sam Porritt

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The Pleasure in Small Things

Final Discussions & Exhibition
December 16, 2025

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Tuesday, December 16th, Exhibition & Discussions, ETH Zürich, ONA E30, 08:00 – 19:00

Guests: Monster Chetwynd, Pierre Chèvremont, Tuukka Laurila, Nora Walter

Restaging – Reimagining: Exhibition and Discussions
October 15, 2025

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Group A

Wednesday, October 15th, Exhibition & Discussions, ETH Zürich, ONA E30, 10:00 – 17:00

 

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Diploma FS 2026

Architecture School

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Dance Deck, Kentfield California, Anna Halprin 1954

The FAU (1969) designed by Vilanova Artigas was an expression of the radical Paulista architecture school of the 1960s, and Gund Hall (1972) designed by John Andrews had similar grand ambitions. The HIL building tells a very different story, accidentally becoming the department of architecture when the ETH administration decided it was best to remove architecture students from the city centre where they had become too involved in the youth protests of the 1970s. The ugly brown building has never been much of an expression of our school’s desires. 
 
This semester we will use the diploma project to explore how the HIL building can be re-structured to be a base for the department, and a more hospitable and sustainable place to meet and work. Since it is unlikely that the present labyrinth could be improved by enlargement, our efforts will be to concentrate the existing, making it lighter, clearer and more flexible. 

We will also study examples of more dispersed and non-institutional learning, like Anna Halprin’s Dance Deck and Thomas Hirschhorn’s Gramsci Monument, places that demonstrate how learning can be more flexible and responsive to both its students and to ever changing educational contexts. We will combine the idea of a central base with mutable cells, spaces in and around the city that can more closely engage with the diverse people and situations of Zurich and beyond. By working both with the centre and the non-centre, perhaps we can start to imagine an architecture school fit for the 21st century. 

We will continue to collaborate with Newrope in three ‘rooms of entanglement’, workshops where content, process and place are considered in an expanded forum.
 
Preparation phase:  
-study of alternative places of education and the preparation of journals that compile the sites, programmes and central qualities of these open and more flexible schools.
-preparation of glossaries of learning.
-preparation of atlas of the HIL building and of possible non-central sites for the future department of architecture.
 
Elaboration phase: 
-development of specific design proposals that incorporate new programmes and ideas of learning for the new department of architecture. 

Diploma, FS 2026, ETH Zürich
Chair Caruso
Emilie Appercé, Tibor Bielicky, Adam Caruso
Newrope
Ellena Ehrl, Freek Persyn 

The Village

Natascha  Brühwiler / Alessandro  Tempini / Angela  Thomas
FS  2025  The Village

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Mike Kelley / Salem,  Ennenda

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Diploma FS 2025

Living and Working at Kosthaus
Wenyan Li
FS  2025  Un-City

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Dwelling is an activity—a dynamic process shaped by the flow of people. Linthal, in the canton of Glarus, once flourished through the textile industry but declined with its disappearance. Amid underused buildings in this quiet town, Kosthaus stands on a broad meadow in the valley.

Originating in the 19th century, the Kosthaus was a pragmatic housing model for industrial workers—marked by rationality, repetition, and minimal material use. Typically built as row houses, they prioritized efficiency over comfort.

This thesis explores the adaptive reuse of a former Kosthaus into a flexible housing model that accommodates short-, mid-, and long-term stays within one architectural framework. It aims to show how rural contexts can offer socially integrated, adaptable alternatives to urban housing—responding to contemporary shifts in labor, mobility, and community.

The Linthal Kosthaus includes four distinct units under one roof. Its original spatial logic—a sequence of compact, interconnected rooms—offers surprising potential. Rather than erasing these historical features, the project reclaims them as assets for reimagined collective living.

A new timber extension adds modular rooms divided by curtains, allowing residents to reconfigure spaces and mediate privacy and shared use. Openings in the original façade connect old and new; dismantled bricks were reused in the garden as thermal masses—absorbing heat by day, releasing it by night.

As visitor and resident flows change throughout the year, the project supports varied occupancy modes, household configurations, and rhythms of use. In doing so, it reactivates a forgotten typology—transforming it from a relic of industrial austerity into a model for inclusive, future-oriented rural life.

Remoteness and Identity

Livio Giuliani / Gian-Luca Muheim / Danny Sahan
HS  2024  Remoteness and Identity

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People of the Pass

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Diploma HS 2024

Switzerland at a Crossroads
Keivan Haghighat
HS  2024  Switzerland at a Crossroads

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 The Klausenpass, where the project is located, is very strongly impacted by the different seasons. Indeed, the road closure due to the winter snow covering of the 1948m asl pass makes the place very different depending on the seasons.

The project then seeks to create two different uses, interweaving the different conditions of the surroundings and answering challenges both in winter and summer. In summer, the main focus is to provide a platform dwelling people high up around the pass, providing cheap manpower for the local farmers working in the nearby alps.

In winter, the project otherwise very close to the road become completely isolated. The people that stayed and worked there during summer can stay in the same building, but in a very different environment. As a counterpart -and retribution- to the work accomplished during summer, guided skitouring outings are organized. This way of being compensated for the summer work allows a more economically accessible way to learn mountain sports.

In a more practical way, the building is dimensioned according the the workforce need of the farmers during the summer season. In winter, the building shifts in hibernation mode: since there is less need of rooms, the groups staying there are smaller. The bottom floor is then covered in snow, and is only used again the next spring.

IEA Lecture

All buildings are beautiful
October 9, 2024, 18:00

Adam Caruso
IEA Lecture Series HS 24
Practice What We Teach?
ETH Zürich, ONA, Fokushalle

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A New Museum

Eva Meier / Maurus Wirth
FS  2024  A New Museum

1/16

ABM Altstetten, Group Material

1/9
Edited by Pauline Gähwiler, Sacha Toupance, Jakob Schaefermayer, Franziska Gödicke, Eva Meier, Maurus Wirth
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Memories of the House
Lara Graf
FS  2024  When Content Becomes Form

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The Memories of the House Museum is devoted to the domestic spaces of textile industry related housing in Ennenda, Kanton Glarus. This museum spreads all over the village, like a fabric of spaces, each giving a specific impression of a domestic space.

The main exhibition is located in the former industrial site of the Jenny factory in Ennenda. It is situated on the ground floor of a Hängeturm, a reconstruction of a historical local building typology, specifically created to dry freshly printed fabrics. The exhibition consists of 1:1 reconstructions of 19th century domestic spaces from Ennenda. Copying, relocating and rearranging the rooms allows to compare the conditions of dwelling between different social classes that were all involved in the textile industry. It is an attempt to revise the way the local history has been written and to counterbalance the inequality of documentation and preservation of local buildings and stories. The reconstructions are built in timber, each with one section as a plaster cast of the original space. The exhibition of physical spaces is accompanied by pieces of local oral history in the form of specific stories told over speakers.

The Museum spreads into the village and the interventions at Kirchweg are the most direct extension of the museum programme. The row of houses at Kirchweg is under heritage protection and despite having survived for almost two hundred years, some of the houses have started to decay after losing the uses of the ground floor spaces. Previously some of those spaces were used for commercial functions. The houses had stayed relevant because they had the necessary room for adaptation: physically in the form of extensions on the northern side, legally in the form the law. Today this adaptation is partly hindered by heritage protection. With my interventions I aim to find a method to adapt three of those ground floor spaces and to restore their former use, whilst providing a programme that is needed by the museum whilst also becoming a cultural and public space for residents of Ennenda.

Redesigning Museums

Kristina Lehtinen / Nora Schären
HS  2023  Redesigning Museums

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Kunsthaus Zürich

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Edited by Qingyuan Wu, Xingyu Bai, Jingling Ding, Zhishuang Liu, Isaac Martinez, Charlotte Arn
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Diploma HS 2023

Kunsthaus Glarus
Marius Muszynski
HS  2023  Unschöne Museen

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Re (Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat)

Paula Kiener / Samuel Giblin
FS  2023  Re (Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat)

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Robert Smithson

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Edited by Alan von Arx, Clara He, Weichen Wang, Carolina Cerchiai, Chaoyi Yu
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Diploma FS 2023

FROM SELLING PRODUCTS TO PRODUCING SALES TO LIVING PRODUCTION
Cedric Leneveu
FS  2023  Labour Reframed

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Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat

Delia Matthys / Nick Baumann
HS  2022  Reframe, Rearrange, Repeat

1/18

Louise Lawler

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Diploma HS 2022

THE COPY WITHIN ITS FRAME
Ludwig Hänssler
HS  2022  Copies

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The office building at Gartenhofstrasse 17 was built in 1966 by Sigmund Feigel (1921 - 2004). While the adjacent Zweierstrasse is lined by a row of office buildings constructed around the same time, Gartenhofstrasse 17 is slightly set back into the street, reaching into the realm of residential buildings and neo-classicist factory buildings.

 


Throughout its lifespan the building had been renovated several times. The roof and the party walls on both sides have been isolated, the canopy renewed, and in 2011 the old facade panels were exchanged. The new facade, designed by Rolf Schaffner, led to a drastic decrease in energy consumption. The different construction periods result in a „bricolage des temps“.

 


Currently three of the building’s six stories are empty due to the relocation of municipal police offices, making the future of Gartenhofstrasse 17 uncertain.

 


Only few interventions are necessary to fundamentally change the organization of the building. 

On the inside a new form of living takes place where domestic spaces and the workplace fade into each other. From the outside the additions reinterpret the appearance of the building within its urban setting. While keeping the integrity of Schaffner´s facade intact, the side facades are opened with large pivoting windows that create a vis-à-vis to the adjacent neo-classicist buildings. In the courtyard one of the three parking garages has been opened, creating an alley way between the former office building and a new atelier building. On the front side an extension of the canopy allows a glimpse into the hidden world of the backyard. 

 


The ways in which particular elements, spaces and structures are transformed remind us of the „rococoization“ of gothic churches.  By introducing a new grammar, given things change the way we perceive them. Despite the obvious friction between building periodes and languages there derives a new unity.

Re form

Julius Schwartz / Xingyu He
FS  2022  Re form

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Bullingerkirche

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You cannot take risks without failing
March 15, 2022, 18:00

Adam Caruso
IEA Lecture Series FS 22
One Building, Failure Is an Option

ETH Zürich, ONA, Fokushalle

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Interim, forever

Ines Branet / Nina Tschuppert
HS  2021  Interim, forever

1/16

Raumbörse Sihlquai

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Edited by Lucia Bernini, Jonas Heller, Jeremy Waterfield, Caspar Bultmann, Sofia Gloor, Florian Reisner, Ann Sophia Kirchhofer, Emanuel Pulfer
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Diploma HS 2021

Familiar Strangers
Grégoire Bridel
HS  2021  Light touch, Marriott

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Familiar strangers proposes a scenario that slowly transforms the hotel and its management style, learning from the daily disruptions and misuses. Alterations spread over time are accumulated on top of each other, creating and discovering other uses of the building. After all, embracing change is one of the core values of Marriott.

Like stage sets, hotels and their lobbies catch attention and provide a backdrop for human interactions. Rather than forcing contact between guests, a new model is put into place by letting visible traces of usage: objects are slowly put on display, voluntarily or not, and become screens onto which imaginative stories of lives past and present can be projected. Temporary kinships are created, and the building and its users become familiar strangers. Gradually, the rooms are transformed into something that can be different and the building is reconnected to the city, fulfilling Marriott’s global vision for the hotel to be “Zurich’s inspiring place, where brilliance connects people.”

Women Writing Architecture

Website Launch
June 30, 2021

The website womenwritingarchitecture.org was launched this week on June 30th. The new resource, an annotated bibliography of writing by women about architecture, is now publicly accessible to discover, browse and contribute to.

Making Plans for Living Together

Xuehan Li
FS  2021  Making Plans for Living Together

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Cohabitation

City as one living organism provides habitat for human and non-human being, they influence their abiotic environment and the environment in turn as well influence the biota.

Due to the urbanisation and monoculture soil usage, city becomes a refuge for wild animal. City should co-evolve with its environment, empower the nonhuman actors and define new typology for cohabitation.

Triemlifussweg is characterized as a „Siedlung Biotop“ connected Uetliberg and Cemetery Sihlfeld.

The these is an interdisciplinary research of sysnanthrope species and aim to develop a strategy of cross-species cohabitation.

cohabitation.cargo.site

Fiona Kuang / Linda Sjøqvist
FS  2021  Making Plans for Living Together, Zürich

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Abbaye Notre-Dame de Sénanque

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Making Plans for Living

Daniela Burki / Ramona Köchli
HS  2020  Making Plans for Living, Zürich

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Ragamala, Indian Miniatures

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Re-​Use Ciba

Flurina Leuchter
FS  2020  Re-​Use Ciba, Basel

1/17

The task of re-using Ciba triggered two main questions in me: Firstly, what meaning the term re-use could signify and comport and secondly, what constitutes the identity of a place.
The concept of circular economy possesses a high potential regarding the problems and questions of the CIBA areal. It is about thinking the economy in circular processes, i.e. sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, reconditioning, and finally recycling products and materials. The average demolition of ten houses in Switzerland per day and construction waste’s share of four-fifths of the total Swiss waste proves how vital circular thinking is to future architecture.
By designing the component catalogue, we can give the materials used in the Ciba Buildings an identity and therefore seeing them as a resource. However, in addition to recognising the material value, the value of the work needed to produce the component must also be considered. A building component can be looked at as an accumulation of materials, working processes, assembling operations and production design steps.
The goal of the intervention is to turn the Bau610, the former canteen of CIBA, with minimal interventions in an accessible productive space. The main task of the building is the circulation, i.e. the access for city residents and the movement of the building components.
The building components of dismantled structures are delivered, stored, processed, and distributed again. For this purpose the roof and the basement are connected by a crane in the north and a stair tower with a goods lift facing south.
The new structures are „dressed“ by the ever-changing components stored in the building and display the material accumulation and continuous process.
In this project there isn’t a finished designed building but a proposal for a way of thinking about architecture and the built environment. Instead of production- and consumption-oriented architecture we should advocate circular processes in the architecture and the building industry.
To conclude with a quote of Thomas Hirschhorn, a contemporary artist that greatly inspired this design process : “It is not about re-using, it is about working with what is there”.

What is it worth?

Giuseppe Allegri / Michael Nelson / Frederik Möst
FS  2020  What is it worth?, Zürich

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Martha Rosler

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Welche Heimat?

Petra Steinegger
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Society and the Image

Wessel Kruidenier / Dominic Steigmeier
HS  2019  Society and the Image, Zürich

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Taryn Simon

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Edited by Noel Frozza, Luca Meyer, Sascha Gsell, Thierry Vuattoux

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Public Building

Andrea Brechbühl / Christoph Stahel
FS  2019  Public Building, Zürich

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Half Moon Theatre, Florian Beigel
London, 1985

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Edited by Laia Bonet Filella, Anna Kaertner, Kaoru Nosaka Lovett, Trang Phan
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Hidden Interiors

Mathieu Bulliard / Charly Jolliet
HS  2018  Hidden Interiors, Zürich

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Palais Stoclet, Josef Hoffmann
Brüssel, 1911

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Edited by Andrea Waldburger Diaz, Xingjian Lia, Magnus Lidman, Simon Würgler
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The Ideal City

Livia Notarangelo / Talissa Weder
FS  2018  The Ideal City, Spreitenbach

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Linear City, Arturo Soria y Mata / Ivan Leonidov
Madrid / Magnitogorsk, 1897/1930

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Describing Beauty

Still Life with Lobster, Cornelis De Heem
1655

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Structure and Society

Valentin Buchwalder / Philipp Frisch / Sebastian Oswald
FS  2017  Structure and Society, Zürich

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Starret-LeHigh, Cory & Cory
New York City, 1932

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Social Structure

Thomas Toffel / Achille Patà
HS  2016  Social Structure, Graubünden

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History & People
Graubünden

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Edited by Alix Gasser, Dennis Häusler, Jan Westerheide, Josephine Eigner, Laura Favre-Bully, Vanessa Danuser
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