gta re-vue

In the 50th anniversary year of the Institute of History and Theory of Architecture (gta), the doctoral program of the gta celebrates its 5th jubilee. It further strengthened one of the Institute’s founding pillars, namely scientific research that results in a dissertation.
Within the context of a doctoral seminar, a small group has chosen to examine 50 years of dissertations at the gta Institute. The 108 PhD theses completed up to the key date of 23 June 2017 have been sifted according to various criteria, including a statistical evaluation. The interesting insights that have emerged are combined with excerpts from interviews and strategy papers, notebook entries by gta Institute founder Adolf Max Vogt and a list of all the doctoral candidates since 23 June 1967, and here issued in a gta re-vue – derived from the idea and the phenomenon of the student flyers and newspapers of the 1968 movement.
The revue is accompanied by an exhibition in the Baubibliothek, which along with a number of surprising exhibits from the Adolf Max Vogt archival holdings assembles and presents all of the dissertations completed at the gta Institute as well as those by its teaching professors.



Round-Table and Book Launch "The Building"
Project by José Aragüez
2 November 2017, 19.00
HIL, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg


Round-Table "Tendenzen 1975: The Autonomy of Theory"
Project by Irina Davidovici with a contribution in the exhibition „Phantom Theory“
Mario Botta, Marco De Michelis, Ludovica Molo, Bruno Reichlin, Martin Steinmann, moderated by Irina Davidovici
7 November 2017, 18.00
HIL E 4, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg


Guided tour "Collecting, Research and Teaching: The gta Archives as a Linchpin of Teaching and Research"
gta Archives
14 November 2017, 18.15
gta Archives, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg


Theft Is Vision
With Cosima von Bonin, Maurizio Cattelan, Maria Eichhorn, Marie-Louise Ekman, Sylvie Fleury, Isa Genzken, Richard Hamilton, Charline von Heyl, Pierre Joseph, Valentina Liernur, Dan Mitchell, Mathieu Malouf, Malcolm Morley, Albert Oehlen, Betty Tompkins and Gili Tal
Exhibition Architecture by Petra Blaisse / Inside Outside
18 November 2017 – 4 February 2018
Opening Friday 17 November 2017, 18.00
LUMA Westbau, Löwenbräukunst


Conference "The Architecture of the Architecture Book"
Project by André Tavares
21–22 November 2017
Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Paris
1 December 2017
HIL, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg


Exhibition "Davos Reinvents Itself. Ernst Gisel and the Cultural and Sports Centre Davos"
Project by Martina Koll-Schretzenmayr and Simona Casaulta-Meyer
At two venues in Davos and with a contribution in the exhibition „Phantom Theory“
26 November 2017–5 February 2018
Opening 25 November 2017 (open to public on this day only)
Kongresszentrum Davos Klosters
Informationsbüro Destination Davos Klosters


Debate „Welche Geschichte?“
Werner Oechslin, Hans Kollhoff and Bruno Reichlin in conversation with Martin Tschanz and Laurent Stalder
29 November 2017, 18.00
HIL, ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg