Students in studio Adam Caruso at ETH Zurich will spend their Spring semester exploring the protestant churches of Zurich; spiritual, social and spatial public resources that are underused in the city.
Over the course they will look at the historically and architecturally rich fabric of these churches, closely surveying the physical at the same time as speculating how the tangible and the spiritual co-exist. They will equally engage with the church's current social programmes.
Emilie Appercé, Tibor Bielicky, Adam Caruso, Claudio Schneider and Barbara Thüler will teach on the course.
Main image, Portal, Thomas Demand, 2018
Below images, Werktags in der Kirche St. Peter, 2019, Redaktion Tagesanzeiger (Ressort Zürich)
and Paul visiting Peter in prison, Masolino / Masaccio, circa 1485, S. Maria del Carmine, Cappella Brancacci, Florence
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ETH Zurich
Final Crits: Making Plans for Living
Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zurich
15–16 December 2020
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Lecture
Gleaning
Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Munich
Thursday 26 November 2026, 19:00
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Adam's talk, titled Gleaning, will address the role of reuse, existing fabric, and material resources in contemporary practice.
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Adam Caruso will be speaking during the opening TALKS session on Monday 12 October at the Oradea Regina Maria Theatres.
In the middle of June, a symposium will be held at MICAS: Malta International Contemporary Art Space. This two-day research event brings together architects, architectural historians, curators, museologists, and sociologists to examine how contemporary art institutions emerge within historically layered environments. Adam Caruso will be one of the speakers.
Lecture
What’s next for our existing buildings?
RIBA and VitrA talks
Great Hall at Barts North Wing, St Bartholomew’s Hospital
12 May 2026
Our director Ben Speltz will give a talk as part of this year's RIBA x Vitra Talks series. He will discuss the practice's approach to working with existing buildings, drawing on a range of projects such as: Hospitalfield Arts, a complex amalgam of medieval buildings in Scotland; Düngerbau, an old chemical factory converted into workspace; and Royal Belge, a sixties office building transformed into a mixed-use program of restaurant, hotel and gym.