Prof. Dr. Maxime Zaugg

Work at ZHAW

Position

Professor of Urban Design

Focus

• Theory and Reception History of Urban Design
• Tools of urban planning and their public use
• Physical and digital models in urban planning
• Participation and dialogue in urban planning
• Interdisciplinary urban research on urban renewal
• Cultural and social landscape on the German–French Language Border in Switzerland

Teaching

• History of Urban Design I–IV (Bachelor Core Course)
• Theory of Urban Design (Master Core Course)
• Digital City in Dialogue (Master Elective Course)

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Dr. sc. ETH Zurich / History and Theory of Urban Design, gta
  ETH Zurich
  2020 - 2024
• MSc. ETHZ / Architektur
  ETH Zurich
  2016 - 2019
• BA / Architecture
  FHNW
  2012 - 2015

Continuing Education

Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher & Professional Education
ZHAW
06 / 2025

Network

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0009-0009-3717-6660

Projects

• Espaces Croisés: Building Culture Contact Zones along the Swiss Language Border since 1960 / Co-project leader / Start imminent
• Shared Practices – Architecture between Switzerland and Morocco (1930–1990) / Co-project leader / ongoing
• Sustainability as a Transversal Task: An Interdepartmental Collaboration / Co-project leader / ongoing
• Building Bridges: The Swiss Language Border through the Lens / Project leader / ongoing
• A look into the future: urban planning for all with the public digital 3D city model of Winterthur / Project leader / completed

Publications

Articles in scientific journal, peer-reviewed

Zaugg, M. (2023) 'Talking urban scale models : Les Halles redevelopment project in Paris and its public exhibitions (1968-1982)', Livraisons d'Histoire de l'Architecture: Exposer l'architecture I. doi: 10.4000/lha.9582.

Books, peer-reviewed

Avermaete, T. and Zaugg, M. (eds) (2022) Agadir : building the modern Afropolis. 1st edition. Zürich: Park Books.

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

• Zaugg, M. (2025) 'City in dialogue : engaging architects in public discourses and societal interaction', in Johannes Käferstein et al. (eds) Teaching Urbanism. Zürich: Park Books, pp. 188–190.
• Zaugg, M. (2024) 'In the eye of the beholder : new techniques of representation for public urban scale models', in Meister, A.-M. et al. (eds) Are You a Model? On an Architectural Medium of Spatial Exploration. Berlin: JOVIS, pp. 64–67.

Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed

• Zaugg, M. (2023) 'Scaling up public participation in urban design : lessons from the ZAC Mont Hermé case study and the role of physical urban scale models', in Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, Delft, The Netherlands, 1-3 November 2023.
• Zaugg, M. (2022) 'In the eye of the beholder : new techniques of representation for public urban scale models', in Internationale Konferenz 'Are You a Model?', Technische Universität Darmstadt, Deutschland, 2.-4. November 2022.
• Zaugg, M. (2022) ''Stadtplanung geht uns alle an' (urban planning concerns us all) and Berlin's Vitrinen from 1957-1960', in Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 75th International Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, 27 April - 1 May 2022.
• Zaugg, M. (2021) 'The Projet Urbain of Euralille : urban scale models and the public', in 'Histories of Urban Design: Global Trajectories and Local Realities' Conference, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 15-17 November 2021.
• Gosseye, J. and Zaugg, M. (2021) 'The emergence of urban design and the public agency of the maquette', in Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 74th International Conference, online, 13-17 April 2021.

Other publications

• Zaugg, M. (2024) 'Gespielter Dialog : play the city mit Ekim Tan', Werk, Bauen + Wohnen, 2024(5). Available at: https://www.wbw.ch/de/online/artikel/52024-gespielter-dialog.html.
• Can, L. and Zaugg, M. (2022) 'Die Werkzeuge einer neuen Wirklichkeit', Du - das Kulturmagazin, (910), pp. 54–63.
• Zaugg, M. (2021) 'Le Corbusier's cornice', gta papers, (6), pp. 85–91. doi: 10.54872/gta-pap-6.

Oral conference contributions and abstracts

Zaugg, M. (2023) 'Arteplagemodell Swiss National Expo 02', in Exhibition "Unausgesprochenes Wissen / Unspoken Knowledge / Le (savoir) non-dit", Communities of Tacit Knowledge Architecture and its Ways of Knowing, ETH Zürich, Schweiz, 19.-21. Juni 2023.

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