Sascha Roesler — ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN CLIMATES

Sascha Roesler in conversation with Alice Hertzog CONCEPT AND REALISATION Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning Prof. Milica Topalovic & Prof. Marc Angélil, ETH Zürich Department of Architecture The event is part of the lecture series SESSIONS ON TERRITORY—URBANISM AND THE ANTHROPOCENE SESSION ON TERRITORY is a series of public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory. Focusing on how the epoch of the Anthropocene reframes our conceptions of the urban and shapes new ecologies, the seminar’s objective is to unravel contemporary forces at work in the formation of the built and natural environment. Every intervention by a guest speaker is followed by a panel discussion with invited respondents. The Sessions on Territory are a collaboration between the professorships of Marc Angelil and Milica Topalovic. Please find all lectures here: https://topalovic.arch.ethz.ch/projec... 15.04.2019 ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN CLIMATES Sascha Roesler in conversation with Alice Hertzog While 20th-century architecture learned to “control” the climate of a building, the architecture of the 21st century needs to learn to “cope” with the climate of cities. There is an imperative for new forms of thermal “governance” (on other scales). In this lecture, important historical pioneers of such new architectural thinking will be highlighted. Urban climatology as science evolved in the early 20th century along with the genesis of new energy landscapes and new modern principles of planning. City climate research raised the novel question of the impact of the city on the local weather conditions; “the manner in which these great concentrations of human beings influence their climate” as climatologist Albert Kratzer stated in 1937.