Doctoral Fellowships in Architecture and Technology

We are looking for excellent people whose work demonstrates productive synergies between architecture and technology. We welcome architects with a solid technical, engineering or scientific background or interests, or engineers/scientists whose work relates to architecture. Applicants should choose one ITA professorship most suitable for realising their research proposal and explicitly indicate this in their application. Doctoral students defend their research plan before all ITA professors and researchers at the Aptitude Colloquium.

The Architecture & Technology (A&T) Doctoral Programme is ETH Zurich’s interdisciplinary educational platform committed to training scholars in research and teaching of technology in architecture. It is offered and managed collaboratively by the chairs of the Institute of Technology in Architecture (ITA). The ITA chairs’ work encompasses diverse aspects of employing science, technology and engineering in architecture, including computational design of buildings and structures, building processes and systems, and digital and robotic construction and fabrication. The programme has a group of 50+ international doctoral students and takes place in the Arch_Tec_Lab, a high-tech zero-emissions building designed and developed by ITA. Doctoral students join one of the participating professorships under the respective professor/mentor, with interdisciplinary involvement from other parties during their studies. ETH Zurich is one of the world’s leading universities specialising in science and technology, renowned for excellent education, cutting-edge fundamental research and direct transfer of new knowledge into society.

• Must hold a university-level Master’s degree in architecture, engineering or a related field (e.g., MSc, MEng or MArch).

• English is the official language, and applicants are assumed to be proficient in it. English language certificates are not formally required as part of the application package.

• Applicants should have work demonstrating productive synergies between architecture and technology; architects should have a solid technical, engineering or scientific background or interests, or engineers/scientists should have work related to architecture.

• Applicants are advised to consult the ITA professorships’ websites to ensure their research interests are compatible, and must indicate one suitable professorship in their application.

• Submit an online application consisting of four PDF documents: a cover letter (maximum 1 page), CV (maximum 3 pages), portfolio (maximum 12 pages), and research statement (maximum 3 pages).