Stefan Kurath

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Stefan Kurath (born January 29, 1976 in Thusis ) is a Swiss architect and urbanist . He lives and works in Zurich and Graubünden.

Career

Stefan Kurath studied architecture at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences in Winterthur (ZHAW) and at the Academie van Bouwkunst Amsterdam. This was followed by a degree in landscape architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ). He received his doctorate in urban planning from the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU) with the distinction summa cum laude. He researched and taught as a research assistant at the ETHZ, as a research assistant at the ZHAW and the University of Liechtenstein, as a lecturer at the HTW Chur and the University of Lucerne. Since 2012, Stefan Kurath has been teaching and researching as a professor of architecture and design in the architecture course at the ZHAW in Winterthur. Together with Peter Jenni, he is the winner of the CHF 10,000 CS-ZHAW award for outstanding teaching (2013 teaching award). In February 2014, Stefan Kurath and Regula Iseli took over the management of the ZHAW's Urban Landscape Institute from Max Bosshard . At the same time, Stefan Kurath works as a freelance architect and urban planner in Zurich and in an office community with Ivano Iseppi in Graubünden. He is the author of numerous articles on architecture, town planning and spatial research. He also gives guest lectures at universities in Switzerland and abroad and works as a guest critic.

The construction of the Viamala service station Thusis, the joinery hall Mani in Pignia, the visitor center of the Viamala gorge, as well as other smaller buildings were published internationally. Together with Ivano Iseppi, he is one of the young architects in Graubünden who are beginning to emancipate themselves from the important Swiss architects from the Canton of Graubünden such as Peter Zumthor , Bearth + Deplazes or Valerio Olgiati . In this regard, influences from stays abroad in the Netherlands and the examination of urban planning issues also reveal a distinct architectural language. In his research, Stefan Kurath focuses on the limits and opportunities of planning, the role of architects and urban planning practice. Among other things, his empirical work on the urban landscapes of today has been recognized by Thomas Sieverts , Hartmut Leser and Köbi Gantenbein . At the ZHAW's Urban Landscape Institute, Stefan Kurath deals in teaching and research with questions relating to the densification of urban landscapes and the development of inner cities. The institute focuses on three questions: How do architecture and the city actually come about? How can architecture be designed and the city planned? What is the role of architects in this? He also campaigns for the concerns of architects and urban planners in Switzerland in the digital media and the daily press and is a board member of the Zurich section of the Swiss Association of Engineers and Architects (SIA) and the Zurich Study Society for Construction and Transport Issues. It takes the political architect , summarizes his concern in this regard.

As part of the exhibition When Attitude Forms Space, curated by Daniel A. Walser and shown in Chur and Zurich . Young architecture from Graubünden , Stefan Kurath and Ivano Iseppi have their professional positioning with the text work Architecture does not exist! Captured for a political architecture . They call for a new approach to the issue of "architecture autonomy" with the aim of giving today's everyday landscapes a new contour. The focus is on working on the cultural expansion of the existing building, expressiveness in structure, form and shape, as well as direct and archaic materiality.

Publications

  • Condense urban landscapes. Strategies for the renewal of the architectural heritage of the post-war period Triest Verlag, Zurich 2018. ISBN 978-3-03863-025-8 . (with Anke Domschky, Simon Mühlebach, Urs Primas)
  • The Schaffhausen house. Value creation and building culture in the Schaffhausen workshop. Edition Hochparterre, Zurich 2017. ISBN 978-3-90992-845-3 . (with Philippe Koch, Andreas Jud)
  • Methods manual for design in architecture and town planning. Triest Verlag, Zurich 2017. ISBN 978-3-03863-020-3 . (with Andri Gerber, Holger Schurk, Roland Züger)
  • City does not exist! Indefiniteness as a program in architecture and urban planning! DOM publishers, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-86922-461-9 . (with Andri Gerber)
  • Develop spatial models. A vademecum in 6 phases and with 26 questions. Triest Verlag, Zurich 2016. ISBN 978-3-03863-016-6 . (with Moana Heussler and Peter Jenni)
  • From compulsory exercise to spatial culture. Participation in the city replaces participation in planning. In: archithese . Issue 5/2015, 70–76. (with Moana Heussler, Regula Iseli, Peter Jenni)
  • Towards a political ruralism , in: Pieter Versteegh, Sophia Meeres, (Ed.), 'Alter rurality, exploring representations and repeasantations', Arena, Friborg, 2014, pp. 118-131.
  • Designing Integral Urban Landscapes. On the End of Nature and the Beginning of Cultures In: Revising Green Infrastructure. Concepts between Nature and Design , CRC Press, Florida 2014, pp. 209-223.
  • Future single family home? / Detached Houses - The Future? Niggli Verlag , Sulgen 2014. ISBN 978-3-7212-0830-6 . (with Max Bosshard , Christoph Luchsinger , Urs Primas, Tom Weiss)
  • There is no such thing as architecture! For a political architecture In: werk, build + Wohnen , 7/8, 2012, pp. 53–54.
  • Planning and Reality. On the necessity of the planning participation in social negotiation processes In: Metropole 6, civil society, IBA Hamburg. jovis Verlag, Berlin 2012, pp. 286–289. ISBN 978-3-86859-220-7
  • Let there be a city! The manifesto for a city in the process of becoming in the Glatttal In: work, build + live. 11/2012, pp. 63-65.
  • Adding Realism to Architecture In: Trans Relevance. 20/2012, pp. 154-157.
  • The crux of spatial planning using the example of a single-family house In: Modulor, architecture, real estate, law. Zurich 2012, pp. 38–42.
  • Master plan for hikers - The Ruinaulta is gearing up for sustainable tourism In: Werk ,bau + Wohnen. 9/2011, pp. 30-35.
  • Urban Multiplicities - James Residential Complex, Zurich. In: Oris . Zagreb 2010.
  • Designing cityscapes? Limits and opportunities of planning as reflected in urban planning practice. Transcript Verlag , Bielefeld 2011. ISBN 978-3-8376-1823-5 (dissertation)
  • Perspectives for the Alpine Rhine Valley - The Alpine Rhine Valley as a study area for interdisciplinary, regionally anchored research work. In: GAIA . 18/2 (2009), pp. 176-181. (with Hans-Martin Neumann, Catarina Proidl)
  • Complex unit - the single-family house in a peri-urban environment. In: archithese . Issue 3/2007, 22-27.
  • Landscape and Urbanism. In: Oris. No. 31, Zagreb, March 2005.
  • Power conflict as a space concept. In: Trans. No. 13 transIfy, November 2004.
  • Landscape as new urban typology. In: The European City, Architectural Intervention and Urban Transformations. Conference Book, Faculty of Architecture, Delft University of Technology, 2004.
  • Strengthen the stubborn. The public space in the agglomeration In: FreeLounge, specialist magazine for communal open spaces. No. 4, 2012, pp. 37-39. (with Anke Domschky)
  • Sustainability in the practice of urban planning. In: Werk, build + Wohnen. 12/2009, pp. 35-41. (with Max Bosshard and Tom Weiss)
  • The emergent role of architects. In: Grazer Architektur Magazin . Graz 2007, pp. 154-175. (with Angelus Eisinger )
  • Now the future - enrollment processes in socio-technical urban landscapes. In: Grazer Architektur Magazin. Graz 2008, pp. 80–91. (with Angelus Eisinger )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ZHAW: ZHAW teaching award 2013 to architecture lecturers , accessed on April 24, 2014
  2. ^ Viamala Raststätte Thusis, in: 1000 x European Architecture, Braun Publishing, Salenstein, 2011
  3. ^ Viamala Raststätte Thusis, in: Automobil Architektur, Braun Publishing, Salenstein, 2011.
  4. ^ Architecture in motion, in: Architektur mobil, HOME, February 2011, pp. 111–112
  5. ↑ Katharina Marchal (2008), Thusis motorway service station, in: Mark-Magazine, Another Architecture, Amsterdam
  6. ↑ Ivo Bösch (2014), Terrace Experience, Viamala Gorge Visitor Center , in: Hochparterre 08/2014, Zurich
  7. ↑ Hubertus Adam (2014), permanent ticket booth , in: Deutsche Bauzeitung 10/2014, Berlin
  8. ↑ Yvonne Michel (2015), Quiet prelude to the natural spectacle , in: Archithese Swiss Performance 1/2015, Zurich
  9. ↑ Alexander Hosch (2015), Architecture Guide Switzerland. The best buildings of the 21st century. , in: Callwey Verlag 2014, Munich
  10. ↑ Emeline Curien (2015), Iseppi & Kurath, Pour une architecture politique , in: d'Architectures November / 2014, Paris
  11. ↑ Generation Gray Zone, in: Fourth Door Review, Number 8, 2009, pp. 66-67
  12. ↑ Thomas Sieverts, Designing Urban Landscapes? Book review on Stefan Kurath's doctoral thesis, in: Garten + Landschaft, Zeitschrift für Landschaftsarchitektur, May 2012, pp. 34–37
  13. ↑ Köbi Gantenbein, In: Hochparterre 4/2012, p. 62
  14. ↑ Hartmut Leser, In: Geographica Helvetica, 67 / 1–2 (2012)
  15. ↑ Interview with Stefan Kurath, Car-free - this is not a global recipe , in: Neue Luzerner Zeitung, March 2, 2015, p. 15
  16. ↑ Interview with Stefan Kurath, Chur West - the city is like a car buyer who buys the first car he comes across in: Südostschweiz, February 13, 2015
  17. ↑ Interview with Stefan Kurath, In Basel there is a risk of becoming a museum , in: Basler Zeitung, January 30, 2015
  18. ↑ Interview with Stefan Kurath, “This way there is no future city”, in: Yves Häberli, Vision 2035, Biel
  19. ↑ Interview with Stefan Kurath, in: Alberto Alessi, Andri Gerber, Peter Staub (Eds.), Raumkultur und Identity, Positions 6, University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz 2013
  20. ↑ Interview with Stefan Kurath, “It takes the political architect”, in: Hochparterre, No. 9, 2013
  21. ↑ There is no such thing as architecture !, in: werk, build + Wohnen, No. 7/8, 2013, pp. 53–54
personal data
SURNAME Kurath, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss architect and urban planner
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Thusis