{"title": "Translating the Rural. Wooden Churches, Open-Air Museums and Modern Architecture in Interwar East-Central Europe", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["history"], "description": "An exhibition at ETH Zurich presents the role of wooden churches, open-air museums and modern architecture in interwar East-Central Europe. It is organised by gta Ausstellungen. It suits people interested in architectural and cultural history. It shows how rural building forms were transferred into new national and urban contexts.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-wooden-churches-open-air-museums-and-m-122760/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7f552e5db6cf8da59deee2da175bed76a8cc049af7fbd77ef91ce8f41966700d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "tickets": ""}], "similar": [{"title": "Translating the Rural. Wooden Churches, Open-Air Museums and Modern Architecture in Interwar East-Central Europe", "start": "2026-11-07T00:00:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH Zürich", "address": "Sonneggstrasse 5, 8006 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "The exhibition \"Translating the Rural. Wooden Churches, Open-Air Museums and Modern Architecture in Interwar East-Central Europe\" is on show at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich. It is the work of Radu Remus Macovei, a doctoral researcher at the gta. It traces how three wooden churches from mountain villages were moved during the interwar period to Prague, Bucharest and Lviv as part of Czechoslovak, Romanian and Ukrainian national projects. It presents findings from his doctoral thesis \"Moving Churches, Making Nations\" and from the design research project \"Ligneous Worlds\".", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-wooden-churches-open-air-museums-and-m-59595/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/171c49c3e3ebc6f74222724e443a8e2385156e8304fa92f2bb960b7938cd5e46-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Translating the Rural", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "Eintritt frei", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history"], "description": "Translating the Rural is an exhibition on wooden churches, open-air museums and modern architecture in interwar East-Central Europe. It is curated by Radu Remus Macovei and gta Ausstellungen at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich. The show presents findings from Macovei's doctoral thesis „Moving Churches, Making Nations“ and the design research project „Ligneous Worlds“. At its core are three wooden churches moved from mountain villages to Prague, Bucharest and Lviv, together with three 1:5 scale wooden models exploring how the buildings might have evolved.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-8307/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d064c4d5e86899ee5641c7ddafb3cf677666fcf0736aafbdea40c5a215d0d5e5-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Translating the Rural", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-12-04T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg", "address": "8093 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history"], "description": "'Translating the Rural' is an exhibition about wooden churches, open-air museums and modern architecture in interwar East-Central Europe. It is curated by Radu Remus Macovei and gta exhibitions at ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg. It presents material from Macovei's ongoing doctoral research at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta), titled 'Moving Churches, Making Nations'. It also includes the design research project 'Ligneous Worlds', which he developed through the Harvard Graduate School of Design's Julia Amory Appleton Traveling Fellowship in Architecture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/translating-the-rural-68876/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a28ef09b557f73f867ec192295f70bbfb5100bdb584f187a017f2688e80a7e8e-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mediating the Rural: From Ethnography to Design Knowledge Symposium", "start": "2026-11-09T12:30:00+01:00", "end": null, "place": "ETH Zürich, Hönggerberg", "address": "8093 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture", "society/rural-life"], "description": "An interdisciplinary symposium titled 'Mediating the Rural: From Ethnography to Design Knowledge' at ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg. It was convened by Radu Remus Macovei, a doctoral fellow in the Department of Architecture, together with Maarten Delbeke (Chair for the History and Theory of Architecture), Laurent Stalder (Chair for the Theory of Architecture) and Noelle Paulson, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation and the Department of Architecture. It asks what counts as 'the rural' and how knowledge of it has been produced and used in design. It examines how rural environments have been made legible through images, texts, objects and institutions, and how these media inform spatial intervention.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/mediating-the-rural-from-ethnography-to-design-knowledge-sym-87463/", "official_url": "https://ausstellungen.arch.ethz.ch/en/exhibitions/translating-the-rural-symposium", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d0f5edf15ce00a0afc337796db148bf0a8e3eb7cb15bf11f44827c3667bb29f1-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Ausstellung: Out of Service? – Schweizer Sakralarchitektur im Wandel", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur", "address": "Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture/religious-architecture"], "description": "An exhibition at the ZAZ BELLERIVE Zentrum Architektur Zürich is devoted to Swiss sacral architecture. It is organised by the ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur, which also sells the tickets. It looks at how religious and church building in Switzerland has developed and changed over time. The show suits anyone interested in architecture and how it evolves.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/ausstellung-out-of-service-schweizer-sakralarchitektur-im-wa-122806/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "Out of Service? – Swiss Sacred Architecture in Transformation", "start": "2026-09-19T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2027-02-07T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur", "address": "Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture/religious-architecture"], "description": "The exhibition 'Out of Service? – Swiss Sacred Architecture in Transformation' presents historical and contemporary projects from Switzerland showing how empty religious buildings can be transformed. It is an exhibition by ZAZ BELLERIVE, curated by Fabian Ruppanner and Nora Hochuli. As many places of worship increasingly stand empty and their upkeep becomes difficult, parishes are seeking alternative property strategies. Ranging from removed church pews to demolition, the many paths of transformation are meant to foster a collective discourse on the transformation and preservation of sacred buildings.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/out-of-service-swiss-sacred-architecture-in-transformation-68875/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ccefce9912450061b9ec1c6f4cc0e6c9cc1ac394f09d1edcb6c523fa90011cbb-2000.webp"}, {"title": "House ⇆ Shed ⇆ Field", "start": "2026-11-07T18:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-11-07T21:00:00+01:00", "place": "ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur", "address": "Höschgasse 3, 8008 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["art/architecture"], "description": "«House ⇆ Shed ⇆ Field» is a public lecture by Ito Tamotsu at ZAZ Bellerive Zentrum Architektur in Zurich. The architect, working between his native Gifu and metropolitan Tokyo, shows how he treats demographic shifts, obsolete industrial facilities and regional waste streams as generative constraints rather than limitations. He frames this approach through the «Non-Modern Hybrid», arguing for the critical necessity of «re-assembling» our built environment as he moves between the «House», the «Shed» and the «Field». The event is hosted by plenty.online, Frano Karlovic and ZAZ BELLERIVE and will be held in English; the bar is open before and after the lecture.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/house-shed-field-32101/", "official_url": "https://www.zaz-bellerive.ch/fcl-booklaunch-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/808746d5097800b6adcd293666fee270bec5fd5b47edcc58b5881a86d76ef53b-2000.webp"}, {"title": "A PLACE TO PLAY. THE CENTRO EDUCATIVO ITALO-SVIZZERO IN RIMINI", "start": "2026-09-24T00:00:00+02:00", "end": "2026-11-18T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "ETH OAT", "address": "Andreasstrasse 5, 8050 Zürich", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["art/architecture", "history/postwar"], "description": "An exhibition about the Centro Educativo Italo-Svizzero (CEIS), a children's and youth village founded in Rimini in 1946. It is organised by the Chair of Construction Heritage and Preservation at ETH Zurich together with the cultural association The Formwork and the Fondazione Margherita Zoebeli. The show presents how education, social responsibility and architecture come together in the urban context, through photographs, archival material, original furniture and film projections. It traces the history of CEIS and the links between Italian and Swiss architecture from the Second World War to the reconstruction period.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/zurich/events/a-place-to-play-the-centro-educativo-italo-svizzero-in-rimin-8306/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/cd42e44b5eb4c856446b7d65f113832048683a3440d719b29315a6414d6df6df-2000.webp"}]}