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PENS-222: The land of a thousand dances

Summary

Let's consider the act of maintenance as a potential for project making : let's observe uses and traces that result from it in order to develop and carry out interventions that will allow us to reinforce, adapt, remove or increase the dynamics identified. This sixth round is taking place on campus.

Lectures

Instructor

Dieter Dietz

Dieter Dietz has been educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and has studied at the Cooper Union in New York City with Diller/Scofidio. He has received his degree in architecture in 1991 at ETH Zurich. He has worked with Diane Lewis Architects in New York and with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. With partner architect Urs Egg he was a founding member of UNDEND Architecture in Zurich in 1997, an architectural practice with award winning entries in national and international competitions. Currently he is building up dieterdietz.org, a firm engaging in projects in urban design, media and architecture. From 1996 to 1999 Dieter Dietz has taught as Junior Faculty with Professor Marc Angélil at ETH Zurich. Since 2006 Dieter Dietz is Associate Professor for Architectural Design at EPFL in Lausanne and director of the ALICE laboratory in the ENAC faculty. He collaborates with the ALICE team on research projects at diverse scales with labs inside and outside EPFL. His teaching activities include the direction of the first year architectural design course as well as projects at master and thesis level.

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/the-land-of-a-thousand-dances-PENS-222

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/PENS-222