The Department of Architecture (D-ARCH) at ETH Zurich, in Zurich, Switzerland, was founded in 1854 and provides education and research in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and urban design. It has approximately 2,100 students, 350 staff members and an annual budget of about 40 million Swiss francs, and houses research institutes including the Institute for Local, Regional and National Planning, founded in 1961, the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture, founded in 1967, and the Institute for Building Technology and the Institute of Historic Building Research and Conservation, both founded in 1972.
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Semper was the first director of the Building School of the Polytechnic, the ancestor of this department.
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Calatrava earned a doctorate in architecture from ETH Zurich in 1981 and opened his first office in Zurich that year.
Source Santiago Calatrava (Wikipedia)
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Founded in 1854, the Department of Architecture (D-ARCH) at ETH Zurich in Switzerland is an architecture school in Zürich, providing education in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design.
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an architecture school in Zürich, providing education in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and urban design
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In 1975, he enrolled in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland for a second degree in civil engineering.
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On 7 February 1855, the Swiss Federal Council granted Semper a lifelong professorship. He moved to Zurich and took up his position as Director of the Building School.
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