Chair of the History and Theory of Architecture
Prof. Dr. Maarten Delbeke
About Us
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Seminar Week to Greece (FS22): Visit to the Latomos monastery in the upper-city of Thessaloniki. -
Visit to the "Orientalischer Rauchsalon" of Schloss Oberhofen, as part of our Fachsemester "Exotic Architecture in Switzerland" (FS 22). -
eminar Week to Greece (FS22): At the Rotunda of Thessaloniki. -
Visit to the "Oriental" rooms of Henri Moser at the Bernisches Historisches Museum, as part of our Fachsemester "Exotic Architecture in Switzerland" (FS 22). -
Visit to the archives of the Bernisches Historisches Museum, to see the drawings of Henri Moser's "Oriental Fumoir" designed by Henri Saladin (as part of our Fachsemester "Exotic Architecture in Switzerland" FS 22). -
Seminar Week to Greece (FS22): Discovering a view of Frankfurt on the walls of the Maliongas mansion in Siatista. -
Visit to the Zentralbibliothek collection of Old Maps ans Panoramas, led by Dr. Ylva Gasser (for our Fachsemester "Exotic Architecture in Switzerland", FS 22). -
Guided tour of Zurich by "ZH Kolonial" - Visit to the Villa Patumbah (for our Fachsemester "Exotic Architecture in Switzerland", FS 22). -
Seminar week FS22: «Rūm millet - A road trip through two empires and a nation-state in Greece.», 19.-26. März 2022 -
Fachsemester FS22: «'Exotic' Art and Architecture in Switzerland» -
Upcoming: Conference "Architecture and Real Estate: Historical Perspectives", organised by the chairs of Maarten Delbeke and Laurent Stalder, 10-11 June 2022 -
issue of gta papers 6: «The Cornice», edited by Maarten Delbeke and Erik Wegerhoff -
A 'sensory repertoire' of villas in Zurich Enge, produced by students of the seminar "Small Narratives", October 2021 -
Seminarwoche HS21: «Cutting Across Imperial Spain: Affinities and Ruptures After 1492», Oktober 2021 -
Seminar week HS21: "Cutting Across Imperial Spain: Affinities and Ruptures after 1492", October 2021 -
Seminar week HS21: "Cutting Across Imperial Spain: Affinities and Ruptures after 1492", October 2021 -
Book Launch Werk, Bauen + Wohnen: «Gesims. Von der Fläche zum Raum», September 2021 -
Exhibition: "The Hidden Horizontal: Cornices in Art and Architecture", 25 August-14 November 2021 -
Jacques-François Blondel's "Cours d’architecture" (1771-1777) acquired by the chair, here depicted in restoration for the cornice exhibition at Graphische Sammlung ETH Zürich, August 2021 -
Preparations for the "Cornice Exhibition" in Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, August 2021 -
Summer School: «On the Threshold. Guidebooks and Visions of Rome», August 2021 -
Summer School: «On the Threshold. Guidebooks and Visions of Rome», August 2021 -
Summer School: «On the Threshold. Guidebooks and Visions of Rome», August 2021 -
Barbecue of the chair Delbeke at Katzensee, August 2021 -
Seminar Week to Greece (FS22): Pic-nic lunch on top of the Meteora mountains in Thessaly.
The chair is responsible for teaching and research in the history and theory of art and architecture c.1400–1850, in close concert with the other chairs of the gta. We understand this as examining and testing the relevance of this history in the context of a department of architecture – not with the aim of sustaining a narrowly defined operative view of history, but instead in terms of understanding the complexity of architecture, its meaning, agency, and legitimacy, by means of an intricate reading of its past.
Historical architecture inspires enthusiasm precisely when historical distance is at once recognized and overcome in a close encounter with the various artifacts that populate our present. In that sense, we aim at making history graspable in our teaching and events – on field trips, visits to libraries and encounters with books both as physical objects and in our Xenotheka, in discussions with contemporary architects, historians, and other guests.
The images above give an impression of what we, together with our students, have been up to recently. Have a look – and do join us for upcoming events.
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