About the Institute
The Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies at the Department of Architecture addresses contemporary issues of social equity and environmental transformation. Research spans the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, urban and regional design, civil engineering, territorial planning and social sciences. The institutes focus is on the production of landscape and human settlements through a range of different scales, from the local to the global, including studies in landscape and designed ecologies, design strategies, energy and food production, material stocks and flows, health and socio-economic development. The Institute seeks to promote a critical discourse, qualitatively and quantitatively addressing pressing environmental and social challenges, and cultivating independent, inventive, and proactive positions engaging with present and future processes of environmental transformation.
Teaching Programmes
Participating Chairs
- Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design
Prof. Dr. Tom Avermaete - Chair of Landscape Architecture
Prof. Dr. Teresa Galí Izard (deputy LUS director) - Chair of Landscape Architecture
Prof. Christophe Girot - Chair of Architecture and Urban Design
Prof. Hubert Klumpner - Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation
Prof. Freek Persyn (LUS director) - Titular Professor of Sociology
Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid - Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning
Prof. Milica Topalovic - Chair of Landscape Architecture
Prof. em Dr. h.c. Günther Vogt - ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE Centre for Research on Architecture, Society & the Built Environment
Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein
Prof. Hubert Klumpner
Prof. Dr. Christian Schmid