Professor
Gerhard Schmitt is professor at the Chair for Information Architecture at the Department of Architecture since December 2005. From 1998 until 2008 he was Vice President for Planning and Logistics at the ETH Zurich. Since November 2008 he is Senior Vice President for International Institutional Relations at the ETH Zurich. Previously he was professor of CAAD, where his teaching included CAAD, CAAD Programming, CAAD Practice and post graduate seminars. His research focuses on the development of intelligent design support systems and the architectural design of the information territory. His main books are Architektur mit dem Computer (Vieweg, 1996), Architectura et Machina (Vieweg, 1993) and Information Architecture (Testo & Immagine). Between 1984-88 he was on the Faculty of Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh.
gerhard.schmitt@sl.ethz.ch | +41 44 633 78 43 | Presence: HIT H 31.8 (Zurich) and SEC (Singapore)