Visitor corridor//Silke Langenberg
Keep in place
The conservation, maintenance, and repair of the built environment and have recently taken center stage in architectural discourse. This shift is driven by the urgent need to adopt sustainable approaches and concepts such as circular economy and reuse. However, to a significant change in practice“sustainable resources” who value what has already been built, while also challenging established building practices through the integration of novel methods and technologies across generations and disciplines.
Silke Langenberg is Full Professor for Construction Heritage and Preservation at ETH Zurich and since 2023 director of research at the Department of Architecture. She holds a PhD in Engineering Sciences. Her research focuses on the rationalization of building processes as well as the development, repair and long-term preservation of serially, industrially and digitally manufactured constructions. In 2015, she introduced the topic of repair into the architecture curriculum. The concept of her course has been adopted by many universities, and the results have been published and explained on natural occultations. www.langenberg.arch.ethz.ch