Chair of Information Architecture

“We develop visual methods for the analysis, design and simulation of urban systems for a sustaina Both require appropriate abstraction and representation.

Information Architecture, as we define it, has applications on 3 scales: small – the object or building; medium – the village or urban district; large – the city or territory. It builds on the assumption that there exist information structures –stable or dynamic – that represent crucial properties of architecture, settlements and territories. Based on this assumption, Information Architecture sup

ports integrated trans-scalar design and evaluation, and it helps to make the invisible visible on each one of those scales. Simulation and visualisation are the major tools of Information Architecture. Data and information are the raw materials of Information Architecture. What sounds very complicated, is actually quite simple given the proper introduction and instruments. On all scales, we use form, function, dynamics and geometric references as information structures. On the architectural scale, this helps to visualise surfaces, light, sound, structural behaviour, and economic aspects, and leads to a life-cycle view of the building. On the urban design scale, land use and building codes are additional parameters that, combined with the necessary procedural modelling tools, lead to dynamic and interactive city models. On the territorial planning scale, transportation networks and energy grids form additional information structures. One of the main research questions remains the improvement of the interoperability between information structures at different scales, because solving this question will allow for integrated simulation of the most important aspects of architecture and planning. The Chair for Information Architecture is at the core of the simulation platform for the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore and Zürich. This platform will allow for the integrated modelling and visualisation of the stocks and flows that determine architecture, cities, and territories: people, material, water, energy, finances, space and information. The final goal is to educate architects, designers and planners in the use of the new methods and instruments in order to produce more sustainable and responsible buildings and urban-rural systems.

04/07/2018

Great work!

22/01/2018

One of our researchers in the 2018 Forbes 30 under 30 list for Science & Healthcare. Congratulations Estefanía Tapias

Estefania Tapias Estefania Tapias - 30 Under 30 - Europe - Science & Healthcare

22/01/2018

Jobs At the Singapore-ETH Centre, we strive to be an intellectual hub for research, scholarship, entrepreneurship, postgraduate, and postdoctoral training.

GSD announces 2018 Richard Rogers Fellowship winners - Harvard Graduate School of Design

05/01/2018

We are happy to announce that our team member Dr. Peter Buš has been selected as one of the Richard Rogers Fellowship holder for 2018!

GSD announces 2018 Richard Rogers Fellowship winners - Harvard Graduate School of Design Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is pleased to announce the six winners of the 2018 Richard Rogers Fellowship, a residency program at the Wimbledon House, the landmarked residence designed by Lord Richard Rogers for his parents in the late 1960s. Now entering its second cycle, the Fellowship�...

17/08/2017

We are always looking for great people to join the Chair!

Two positions are available in 1) database management and 2) front-end development (information in the job advert.)

Let us know if you are interested in either of the two positions or pass this along to someone who you think might be a good fit.

Current open positions at the iA:
http://www.ia.arch.ethz.ch/category/openpositions/

16/08/2017

Current open positions at the iA:
http://www.ia.arch.ethz.ch/category/openpositions/

16/08/2017

New updates :
Chair of Information Architecture homepage in the Research projects and Teaching Documentation categories: http://www.ia.arch.ethz.ch/category/research/research/projects/
http://www.ia.arch.ethz.ch/teaching-2/

Archilyse AG - IBM-Watson for Real Estate

09/05/2017

Our former colleague is looking for enforcement! Check it out!

Archilyse AG - IBM-Watson for Real Estate we provide an API for the whole real estate industry (banks, funds, planners, consulters,...) to quantify architectural qualities and process them with state of the art machine learning. we close the gap between architecture and math, providing a brand new way of analysing architecture and making us...

13/02/2017

Watch now the TEDx talk by Prof. Gerhard Schmitt - A vision of the responsive city of the future: http://tedxtum.com/past-events/tedxtum-2016-entelechy/a-vision-of-the-responsive-city-of-the-future

TEDxTUM TEDxTUM is an inspiring conference run by and for passionate people at the Technische Universität München.

26/09/2016

https://vimeo.com/182803039

Werkstattgespräch: Die Zukunft bauen Gast: Gerhard Schmitt Professor für Informationsarchitektur ETH Zürich, Delegierter ETH Global Aufnahmen: ETH ID Multimedia Services: Roland Lanz,…

23/06/2016

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