Prof. Dr. Maxime Zaugg
Prof. Dr. Maxime Zaugg
ZHAW
School of Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering
Abteilung F&E, WB, DL
Work at ZHAW
Position
Professor of History and Theory 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
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. https://doi.org/10.4000/lha.9582
Books, peer-reviewed
Avermaete, T., & Zaugg, M. (2022). Agadir : building the modern Afropolis (1st edition). Park Books.
Book chapters, peer-reviewed
- Zaugg, M. (2025). City in dialogue : engaging architects in public discourses and societal interaction. In Johannes Käferstein, Stefan Kurath, Heike Biechteler, & Jonathan Sergison (Eds.), Teaching Urbanism (pp. 188–190). Park Books.
- Zaugg, M. (2024). In the eye of the beholder : new techniques of representation for public urban scale models. In A.-M. Meister, T. Fankhänel, L. Beißwanger, C. Dähne, C. Fülscher, & A. L. Schubert (Eds.), Are You a Model? On an Architectural Medium of Spatial Exploration (pp. 64–67). JOVIS.
Written conference contributions, peer-reviewed
- Zaugg, M. (2023, November). Scaling up public participation in urban design : lessons from the ZAC Mont Hermé case study and the role of physical urban scale models. Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, Delft, the Netherlands, 1-3 November 2023.
- Zaugg, M. (2022, November). In the eye of the beholder : new techniques of representation for public urban scale models. Internationale Konferenz “Are You a Model?”, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Deutschland, 2.-4. November 2022.
- Zaugg, M. (2022, May). ‘Stadtplanung geht uns alle an’ (urban planning concerns us all) and Berlin’s Vitrinen from 1957-1960. Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 75th International Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, 27 April - 1 May 2022.
- Zaugg, M. (2021, November). The Projet Urbain of Euralille : urban scale models and the public. ‘Histories of Urban Design: Global Trajectories and Local Realities’ Conference, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 15-17 November 2021.
- Gosseye, J., & Zaugg, M. (2021, April). The emergence of urban design and the public agency of the maquette. 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). https://www.wbw.ch/de/online/artikel/52024-gespielter-dialog.html
- Can, L., & Zaugg, M. (2022). Die Werkzeuge einer neuen Wirklichkeit. Du - das Kulturmagazin, 910, 54–63.
- Zaugg, M. (2021). Le Corbusier’s cornice. Gta Papers, 6, 85–91. https://doi.org/10.54872/gta-pap-6
Oral conference contributions and abstracts
Zaugg, M. (2023, June). Arteplagemodell Swiss National Expo 02. 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.