Prof. Dr. Maxime Zaugg

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

ORCID ID: 0009-0009-3717-6660

Projects

• 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

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  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.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4000/lha.9582

• Avermaete, Tom; Zaugg, Maxime, eds.,

  2022.

  Agadir : building the modern Afropolis.

  1st edition.

  Zürich:

  Park Books.

  ISBN 978-3-03860-276-7.

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  2024.

  In the eye of the beholder : new techniques of representation for public urban scale models.

  In:

  Meister, Anna-Maria; Fankhänel, Teresa; Beißwanger, Lisa; Dähne, Chris; Fülscher, Christiane; Schubert, Anna Luise, eds.,

  Are You a Model? On an Architectural Medium of Spatial Exploration.

  Berlin:

  JOVIS.

  pp. 64-67.

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  2023.

  Scaling up public participation in urban design : lessons from the ZAC Mont Hermé case study and the role of physical urban scale models[paper].

  In:

  Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory, Delft, The Netherlands, 1-3 November 2023.

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  2022.

  In the eye of the beholder : new techniques of representation for public urban scale models[paper].

  In:

  Internationale Konferenz "Are You a Model?", Technische Universität Darmstadt, Deutschland, 2.-4. November 2022.

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  2022.

  ‘Stadtplanung geht uns alle an’ (urban planning concerns us all) and Berlin’s Vitrinen from 1957-1960[paper].

  In:

  Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 75th International Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, 27 April - 1 May 2022.

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  2021.

  The Projet Urbain of Euralille : urban scale models and the public[paper].

  In:

  ‘Histories of Urban Design: Global Trajectories and Local Realities’ Conference, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, 15-17 November 2021.

• Gosseye, Janina; Zaugg, Maxime,

  2021.

  The emergence of urban design and the public agency of the maquette[paper].

  In:

  Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) 74th International Conference, online, 13-17 April 2021.

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  2024.

  Gespielter Dialog : play the city mit Ekim Tan.

  Werk, Bauen + Wohnen.

  2024(5).

  Available from: https://www.wbw.ch/de/online/artikel/52024-gespielter-dialog.html

• Can, Luca; Zaugg, Maxime,

  2022.

  Die Werkzeuge einer neuen Wirklichkeit.

  Du - das Kulturmagazin.

  (910), pp. 54-63.

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  2021.

  Le Corbusier’s cornice.

  gta papers.

  (6), pp. 85-91.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.54872/gta-pap-6

• Zaugg, Maxime,

  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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