HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability IThis course examines growth from various angles: economic growth, growth in the use of resources, need for growth, limits to growth, sustainable growth, population growth. Although grounded in economics, it takes up elements from many other disciplines. ...
ENV-501: Material flow analysis and resource managementThis course provides the basis to understand material and energy production and consumption processes. Students learn how to develop a material flow analysis and apply it to resource management cases. They analyze the implications of their models on resour ...
ENG-410: Energy supply, economics and transitionThis course examines energy systems from various angles: available resources, how they can be combined or substituted, their private and social costs, whether they can meet the energy demand, and how the transition to a renewable energy system can be foste ...
HUM-470: Economic growth and sustainability IIIn this seminar, students work in groups to prepare a report illustrating material taught in the first semester. Specifically, the groups will choose a significant environmental impact or resource use, and apply decomposition analysis to understand the rol ...
AR-597(a): Superstudio AThis Superstudio will study the history of the villa by focusing on 30 case studies, from antiquity to the last century. The aim of this study is to understand through the architecture of the villa the most quintessential tropes of architecture: form, poli ...
ENV-723: Models for applied environmental economicsMainly based on the discussion of peer reviewed academic papers, the course introduces non economists to the main types of applied models used in environmental economic analysis: linear programming, partial and general equilibrium, game theory, and agent b ...
ME-409: Energy conversion and renewable energyThis course presents an overview of (i) the current energy system and uses (ii) the main principles of conventional and renewable energy technologies and (iii) the most important parameters that define their efficiency, costs and environmental impacts. ...
AR-302(ah): Studio BA6 (Malterre-Barthes)How is architecture made? 'Revolutionize Construction' unpacks the political economy of construction, examining who commissions, finances, and builds, and interrogating architects' roles. It explores how these systems might be revolutionized to enable the ...
AR-154: Environmental history and theories ILe cours vise a familiariser les etudiants avec l'histoire de l'environnement et des paysages, et avec la maniere dont les preoccupations environnementales amenent a repenser aujourd'hui le sens et les principes de l'architecture et des disciplines de pr ...
AR-128: Building technology I, IIIntroduction à la technologie du bâti: défis environnementaux et sociétaux, exigences techniques et fonctionnelles du bâtiment dans la durée, équilibre statique des ossatures, matériaux de construction, détails d'assemblage et mise en oeuvre, stratégies de ...
AR-301(at): Studio BA5 (Gardelegui et Widmer)À travers une analyse cartographique des démolitions planifiées et des initiatives de densification dans la région de Genève, les étudiants remettront en question le statu quo en découvrant le potentiel des ressources existantes sur quatre échelles : régio ...
AR-301(b): Studio BA5 (Graf F.)Le projet de sauvegarde et le projet dans l'existant font partie d'une discipline culturelle constituée qui élargit le projet d'architecture contemporain. ...
AR-302(aq): Studio BA6 (Bedir)This studio aims for designing interventions, programs, spaces; and proposing modes of collectivity and instituting for the inhabitation of human and more than human agencies in sites across Switzerland, where water cycles entangle with post Anthropocene l ...
MSE-430: Life cycle engineering of polymersStudents understand what life cycle engineering is and apply this methodology to adapt and improve the durability of polymer-based products. They understand how to recycle these materials and are able to perform an environmental assessment, based on severa ...
AR-301(aj): Studio BA5 (Baumgartner et Camponovo)STAY A LITTLE LONGER étudie les potentialités du bâti existant. Les outils de représentation du projet de transformation -Existant/Noir, Démolition/Jaune, Nouveau/Rouge- structureront l'exploration architecturale et graphique. Le premier semestre investigu ...
PENS-218: Ephemeral cityL'enseignement consiste à sensibiliser les étudiant·e·s à la nature et au caractère d'un grand évènement public et à ses effets sur la ville. L'enseignement prévoit tant une approche historique que l'observation de l'actualité, représentée, en 2021, par la ...
