People involved in architecture need to be familiar with construction methods in order to be in control of their designs. New technical requirements impact on our buildings and call for up-to-date specialist knowledge, which leads to new forms of architecture. This handbook uses clearly comprehensible 3D isometric diagrams to introduce the world of contemporary construction, from concept through to the detail; photographs are used to illustrate the content. The three main chapters deal with the structure, the building envelope, and the fit-out, starting with a clear introduction to the construction principles of modern building methods. Using drawings of selected built examples at scales of 1:10 and 1:20, a deeper examination of details is possible.

The short intermezzo between the Great War and World War II and especially the “roaring twenties� with their a thrill of speed were a period of radical social change and artistic development, and of vibrant metropolitan life and. Born into a merchant family in the Swiss mountain canton of Glarus, Lill Tschudi (1911–2004) moved to London in 1929 to educate herself at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art. She flourished in the imperial capital and soon gained wide recognition for her bold and often colourful modernist linocuts. In the Anglo-Saxon world her reputation as an accomplished printmaker has lasted and her works continue to fetch good prices at auctions in Britain and Australia. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art holds some 120 of her prints in its permanent collection, while she has until to date never been distinguished with a solo exhibition in a public museum in her native Switzerland. This book, published to coincide with the first such display at Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, features some 50 of her unique linocuts. Designed as a proper picture book, it shows her refined and expressive compositions with their captivating narrative in full-page plates, which are supplemented by informative essays. Text in English and German.

This publication impressively summarises the underlying research on the theme of energy by the Chair of Gion A. Caminada. Structured into 12 sections, it investigates the fundamentals of shaping space: form, geometry, material and construction – based on prominent examples in architectural history and a number of buildings by Caminada. Countless phenomena and rules of structural physics are also described in simple, clear terms.

This third and final volume in the Indicia book series presents the results of the Future Cities Laboratory research program in the form of "actions" for sustainable city-making. It complements the first and second volumes of the series that respec- tively documented the research challenges and approaches that prefigured these results. Read together, the three volumes chart the full arc and many productive eddies of the five-year programme and its mission to shape sustainable future cities. Research results are presented as condensed actions that take the form of general principles, recommendations, practical guidelines, and rules of thumb. The actions are neither technical standards nor prescriptive check-lists but invitations to explore, test and refine research insights within the context in which the reader lives, works and acts. The credibility, salience and legitimacy of each action is underpinned by scientific publications (journal articles, books and exhibitions) presented in extensive footnotes and suggestions for further reading.

Sorted into 12 themes, the elementary principles of creating space - form, geometry, material and construction - and their physical effects are studied and documented using prominent examples in architectural history and a number of buildings by Gion A. Caminada. The practical book describes countless physical construction phenomena and rules in a simple and clear way.

Am 9. und 10. November 1976 findet das Forschungskolloquium des Deutschen Ausschusses fur Stahlbeton erstmals in der Schweiz statt. Die Professoren und Mitarbeiter des Institutes fur Baustatik und Konstruktion betrachten es als eine grosse Ehre, ihre deutschen Fachkollegen an der ETH Zurich zu Gast haben zu durfen. Die vorliegende Tagungsautographie enthalt die Zusammenfassungen der 19 Kurz- vortrage des Kolloquiums. Die Vortrage sollen einen Ueberblick vermitteln uber Zielsetzung und Stand wichtiger Forschungsprojekte der beteiligten In- stitute: Institut de statique des constructions, EPF Lausanne Centre d'etude de beton arme et precontraint, EPF Lausanne Institut fur Baustoffe, Werkstoffchemie und Korrosion, ETH Zurich Institut fur Baustatik und Konstruktion, ETH Zurich Im allgemeinen werden die Assistenten und wissenschaftlichen Mitarbeiter, welche die Forschungsarbeiten durchfuhren, selbst daruber berichten. Wo dies aus sprachlichen oder andern Grunden nicht moeglich ist, wird der Bericht durch die Professoren, welche die Forschungsarbeiten leiten, erstattet. Der Unterzeichnete dankt Herrn R. Caflisch, administrativer Institutsleiter, fur die umsichtige Vorbereitung und Organisation des Forschungskolloquiums. Im weiteren sei den bei der Erstellung der Tagungsautographie Beteiligten der beste Dank ausgesprochen.

Franziska Wittmann researches at the Chair of Gion A. Caminada on approaches to natural physical laws and physiological factors in architecture. Instead of focusing on the creation of physical constellations through architecture, her work investigates the effects of these conditions on people. The publication presents collected physiological effects in a way that makes them applicable, with the aim of enhancing architecture. The collection presents physiological phenomena, architectural parallels and prominent examples in architectural history. Text in German.

People involved in architecture need to be familiar with construction methods in order to be in control of their designs. New technical requirements impact on our buildings and call for up-to-date specialist knowledge, which leads to new forms of architecture. This handbook uses clearly comprehensible 3D isometric diagrams to introduce the world of contemporary construction, from concept through to the detail; photographs are used to illustrate the content. The three main chapters deal with the structure, the building envelope, and the fit-out, starting with a clear introduction to the construction principles of modern building methods. Using drawings of selected built examples at scales of 1:10 and 1:20, a deeper examination of details is possible.