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Augmented Carpentry

As humanity grapples with the escalating challenges of climate change, the discipline of architecture finds itself at a critical juncture. The urgency of the situation demands that schools of architecture not only contribute to envisioning more serene futu ...

Lars Müller Publishers2024

Let the wind take care of everything

Dieter Dietz, Teresa Sze Wing Cheung, Claire Ana Logoz, Daniel Zamarbide Elizondo

Over a period of five years, photography students from the advanced training in photography at the Centre d’Enseignement Professionnel de Vevey (CEPV) engaged in parallel exploration with students from the Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace (ALICE) in th ...

Mörel Books2023

Conceptualizing Passage-Paysage

Dieter Dietz, Lucia-Nieves Garcia de Jalon Oyarzun, Ruben Alberto Valdez Juarez, Aurèle Pulfer

In this article, we consider the role of landscape as support for an alternative urban mobility scheme and how architecture can help foster a transition towards a low-carbon system. From that point of departure, we trace the genealogical origins of the ter ...

EPFL Press2023

An experiential learning approach to educational development: Responses to teaching architecture through the lenses of reflective practice

Dieter Dietz, Patricia Guaita, Ingrid Le Duc

This paper tells the story of a decade-long relationship between a teaching team (TT) and an educational developer (EDP). They have been using an experiential learning approach to monitor improvements to teaching Architecture to first year students. We exp ...

ETH2020

Imagining with and in Space: Structural support as a cognitive device in architectural education

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Aurélie Dupuis, Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

In this paper, we will argue that the structure of the spatio-temporal pedagogical set-up and the elaboration of an evolutionary support for operations of cognition and imagination are powerful in transforming learning cultures. We develop this argument in ...

2020

The (Real) Book

Dieter Dietz, Teresa Sze Wing Cheung, Daniel Zamarbide Elizondo

EPFL2020

The Canopy Pavilion: A lightweight shading structure using a deployable auxetic linkage membrane

Mark Pauly, Dieter Dietz, Florin Isvoranu, Arthur François Blanc, Tian Chen, Etienne Bouleau

We present the Canopy Pavilion, a lightweight shading structure for a social gathering space. The shading surface is realized as a tensioned auxetic linkage membrane, composed of two double-curved anticlastic layers separated by a compression pole. The mem ...

2020

A Performative Threshold Between Teaching Research and Practice. Atlas Poliphilo as Scaffold

Dieter Dietz, Julien Lafontaine Carboni, Aurélie Dupuis, Darío Negueruela Del Castillo

Hunches allow us to navigate in a trans-scalar world. Without them, teachers, researchers and practitioners would be left aimless. Hunches relate to the embodied and synthetic nature of the knowledge we produce, but also to its unfolding. Instead of denyin ...

2020