Zurich Atlas / Zurich Primer Format: Paperback

Zurich Atlas and Zurich Primer: two books about urban planning and city development. Fully illustrated with 350 images and 90 plans.

The Zurich Atlas is aimed at a broad audience interested in the dynamics of urban development and reveals the network of relationships between Zurich’s urban form and its urban codes. The Zurich Primer addresses urban growth and transformation in relation to urban codes and proposes densification scenarios for the city of Zurich in the context of the projected population increase.

Jonathan Sergison is a founding partner of Sergison Bates architects. Since 2012 he has been based in Switzerland and has been directing the Zurich studio. He graduated from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 1989 and worked for David Chipperfield and Tony Fretton. Jonathan has taught at many schools of architecture, including the Architectural Association in London, the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL), the Graduate School of Design (GSD) at Harvard, the Oslo School of Architecture and Design and the Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT) in Japan. Prof. dr. ir. Tom Avermaete is Professor at ETH Zürich, where he is Chair for the History and Theory of Urban Design. Avermaete has a special research interest in the post-war public realm and the architecture of the city in Western and non-Western contexts. He is the author of Another Modern: The Post-War Architecture and Urbanism of Candilis-Josic-Woods (2005) and Casablanca, Chandigarh: A Report on Modernization (2014, with Maristella Casciato). Giulia Scotto is an architect and urban researcher based at the Landscape and Urban Studies Institute (ISUP) of the Università della Svizzera Italiana. Giulia received her PhD in urban studies at the University of Basel in 2022 with a dissertation on the infrastructural expansion of ENI, the Italian national hydrocarbon agency, in post-independence sub-Saharan Africa. Giulia is currently coordinating the SNSF project "Codes and Conventions for Future Zurich: A Propositional Planning Approach to Qualitative Densification" and is a visiting postdoc at the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design at ETH Zurich.