ETH Zürich, November 5 – 07, 2015
Recoding the City
International Conference, ETH Zurich, Nov. 5th – 7th 2015
Programme
Thursday, November 5th 2015
18:00 Welcome: Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, ETH Zurich
18:15-19:30 Keynote Lecture: Sarah Whiting, Rice University, Houston/USA
Short Sighted Long Division:
Codifying the Scale of Urban Design
19:30 Apéro
Friday, November 6th 2015
09:00 Britta Hentschel and Harald R. Stühlinger, ETH Zurich
Recoding the City:
An Introduction
Recoding Urban Design, 9:30-11:00
Chair: Eliana Perotti, ETH Zurich
09:30 Dragan Damjanović, Zagreb University
Shaping Zagreb into Croatian National Capital:
Aestheticization and Croatisation of the Historical City Core in the
Long 19th Century
09:55 Gerlinde Gehrig, University of Frankfurt
The Residenz as a Picturesque City Image:
Darmstadt between Haussmannization and Civic Art
10:20 Peter Volgger, University of Innsbruck
The DNA of the Modern City:
Cerdà’s Plan for the extension of Barcelona
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Systematization of Urban Knowledge, 11:30-12:30
Chair: Christopher Metz, ETH Zurich
11:30 Katrin Albrecht and Lukas Zurfluh, ETH Zurich
Between Decoding and Recoding:
Rudolf Eberstadt’s Handbuch des Wohnungswesens and Raymond Unwin’s
manual Town Planning in Practice as means of reflection and regulation
12:30-14:00 Lunch Break
Urban Infrastructure, 14:00-15:30
Chair: Markus Tubbesing, ETH Zurich
14:00 Cristóbal Amunátegui, Princeton University School of Architecture
Circles, Circuits, Cycles:
Spectacle and the Interior in Fin-de-Siècle Paris
14:25 Florian Hutterer, Technical University of Berlin
Plan & Works:
The Berlin’s Master Plan of 1862
14:50 Laila Seewang, ETH Zurich
Re-training the public:
Housing urban toilette in 19th century Berlin
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
Recoding in the New Worlds, 16:00-17:30
Chair: Gregory Grämiger, ETH Zurich
16:00 Beate Löffler, FH Duisburg Essen
The other City:
Japan in the Western Urban Design discourses in the 19th Century
16:25 Philip Goldswain, University of Western Australia
Urban Industrial Hybrids:
An investigation into the development of a boomtown in a 19th century
Neo-Europe
16:50 Anna Minta, University of Zurich
Civic Beauty and Patriotism:
Public Spaces and Social Concepts in US Town Planning Debates
19:00 Speaker’s Dinner
Saturday, November 7th 2015
Agents in the City, 9:00-11:00
Chair: Niklas Naehrig, ETH Zurich
09:00 Adri Gerber, ETH Zurich
Exciting City:
The Architect and the “saine horreur de la monotonie”
09:25 Richard Kurdiovsky, Austrian Academy of Sciences
New Actors and Old Structures:
The Imperial Hofburg and the Ringstraße in Vienna
09:50 Jan Lubitz, University of Stuttgart
Stuttgart:
A Pioneer City during the Gründerzeit
10:15 Irina Davidovici, ETH Zurich
Recoding Reform:
Peabody Housing Estate, London 1864-1885
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
Imagery and the City, 11:30-12:30
Chair: Ita Heinze-Greenberg, ETH Zurich
11:30 Bradley Fratello, St. Louis Community College Meramec
Rome or Babylon?
Cosmopolitics in Second Empire Paris
11:55 Ágnes Anna Sebestyén, Budapest
A View back on Budapest:
Recoding Modern Architecture in the Framework of the 19th Century
12:20 Britta Hentschel and Harald R. Stühlinger, ETH Zurich
Closing Comments
EAHN Executive Committee as of June 2026
Photograph by Katharina Ya. As unanimously agreed at the Annual Business Meeting and announced during the EAHN 2026 Biennial Conference in Aarhus in June 2026, Léa-Catherine Szacka of The University of Manchester became the new President of the EAHN, alongside Maarten...