HUM-249: Competing with ChinaLe cours sensibilise les étudiant·e·s aux implications de l'émergence de la Chine comme puissance économique et technologique en portant une réflexion critique sur les défis posés par cette transition. ...
MGT-494: Economics for challenging timesThis course analyzes socio-economic issues related to poverty, inequalities, climate change, globalization, migration, AI, etc. We teach students how to analyze data using quantitative methods in economics and develop solutions compatible with the function ...
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. ...
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 ...
MGT-454: Principles of microeconomicsThe course allows students to get familiarized with the basic tools and concepts of modern microeconomic analysis. Based on graphical reasoning and analytical calculus, it constantly links to real economic issues. ...
HUM-462: History of globalization IIGlobalization is the linguistic omnivore of our times. This course addresses the long history of worldwide encounters and goes behind the rosy vision of a global village. It gives particular attention to inequalities and to the men and women who fought for ...
HUM-427: History of globalization IGlobalization is the linguistic omnivore of our times. This course addresses the long history of worldwide encounters and goes behind the rosy vision of a global village. It gives particular attention to inequalities and to the men and women who fought for ...
AR-301(ah): Studio BA5 (Malterre-Barthes)"To be useful, helpful, of assistance to someone:" The "In Service of: Berre" studio
reflects on the architectural and territorial project as a form of public service. It explores how architecture and design tools can engage in spatial struggles in the con ...
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-302(ao): Studio BA6 (Nagel and Theissen)In the design studio, we take a critical look at aesthetically neglected and mono-functional industrial zones. For these places, we develop new types of mixed-use hybrid buildings that enrich and transform these sites with functions such as housing and lei ...
MGT-493: Information security & digital trustTechnology and information play a crucial role in today's societies and economies. The security and privacy aspects of
information technologies are paramount to build digital trust. In this course, we address these aspects for prominent
information technol ...
AR-671: The Fifth TypologyA PhD workshop and symposium on the issue of type and its use in the study, critique and practice of architecture. ...
HUM-440: Global perspectives, local realities ICet enseignement aborde des problématiques actuelles en privilégiant des éclairages d'ordre historique, économique, technologique ou géopolitique. Il permet aux étudiants de développer une réflexion critique sur le processus de mondialisation en intégrant ...
AR-472: Swiss cooperative housing: a critical overviewThis course provides a critical and historical examination of cooperative housing in Zurich and Geneva, since the late 19th century to today. Maintaining an architectural focus, it highlights connections between context, underlining ideologies, the living ...
