The elective course ‘Information Architecture of Cities’ opens a holistic view on existing and new cities, with focus on Asia. The goal is to better understand the city by going beyond the physical appearance and by focusing on different representations, properties and impact factors of the urban system. On the one hand, we explore the city as the most complex human-made organism with a metabolism that can be modeled in terms of stocks and flows. On the other hand, we investigate data-driven approaches for the development of the future city, based on crowd sourcing. In the course ‘Information Architecture of Cities’ you will learn to see the consequences when information space and physical architecture merge. The first part of the course describes origins, state-of-the-art, and applications of information architecture and simulation. Both rapidly gain importance in the design of buildings, cities and territories. In the second part, we will interactively apply the findings to case studies in Europe and Asia. As course requirement, there will be three short exercises.

Where: HIT F22
When: Mondays 11:00 – 12:00
2 ECTS 

Supervision:

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schmitt    gerhard.schmitt@sl.ethz.ch
Denise Weber                      denise.weber@arch.ethz.ch
Dongyoun Shin                   shin@arch.ethz.ch

Flyer_pdf

HS 13 Information Architectur of Cities – IBook

Interview Prof. Gerhard Schmitt Hochparterre Magzine for Architecture and Design – November 2012

Hochparterre, Magazine for Architecture and Design, November 2012Cover Hochparterre

Article in the blue Magazine
BLUE – Vontobel Private Banking – the magazine for private clients
Autumn Edition 2012

Prof. Gerhard Schmitt, Director Singapore-ETH Centre during his talk “FUTURE CITIES LIFE CYCLE SIMULATION – FROM DESIGN TO MANAGEMENT” at the 2^nd  FUTURE CITIES LABORATORY conference TERRITORIAL ENCOUNTERS. The conference focused on the development, the evolution of concepts and strategies for new urban qualities for future cities (ETH Zurich, 10 and 11 September 2012).