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  Ulrich Roth Architect

Ulrich «Ueli» Konrad Roth (born April 18, 1935 in Aarau) is a Swiss architect and planner with a degree in architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA, USA). Roth is one of the early academically trained Swiss urban and regional planners. He taught at various American universities and at the ETH in Zurich from the 1960s to the early 1980s. Over the course of his long career, Roth built on this foundation, producing numerous theoretical writings and research projects that formed a coherent body of regional and urban planning work.

Career and achievements

Ueli Roth studied architecture at the ETH Zurich from 1954 to 1959 and pursued his interest in urban and regional planning at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University (1960/61).

In 1963, Roth moved to Berkeley and taught at the University of California as an assistant professor of Urban Planning (1963-66). He returned to Switzerland in 1966 and founded his own office in Zurich.

Regional planning, environmental coordination and urban design remained central themes Roth and his office worked on for many years. From 1967 to 1982, he also lectured at the ETH Zurich, where he established systematized lectures on urban development, urban planning, housing development and – together with Lucius Burckhardt – urban density.

Roth's office was subsequently commissioned with a number of major research projects in the overlapping areas of energy, regional planning, urban development, infrastructure and the environment. Parallel to this work, Roth's office also developed architectural projects, such as the Stettbach railway station (1982-90), part of the expansion of the Zurich rapid transit system Zurich S-Bahn.

In 1988, in the midst of heated debates surrounding the revision of Zurich’s building and zoning regulations (BZO), Roth took on the planning for the conversion of an industrial zone encompassing approximately sixty hectares north of the Oerlikon railway station into a new mixed-use urban quarter (“Zentrum Zürich Nord” plan, 1988-2010, today Neu-Oerlikon). Roth developed a cooperative planning process for this project in which several private landowners collaborated with the city and Canton of Zurich, as well as with the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). This groundbreaking process subsequently became the standard for comparable projects in Switzerland.

From 1989 on, further commissions followed for the transformation of industrial sites into dense urban districts with mixed uses. Roth was able to steer and substantially influence the planning processes for the landowners right from the outset. His most significant projects include the development of the main site of Asea Brown Boveri in Baden (“Baden Nord” plan, 1989-99) and the urban renewal project for the industrial site of the former Maag cogwheel factory (“Maag Areal Plus”, 1998-2013). and the urban renewal project for the industrial site of the former Maag cogwheel factory (“Maag Areal Plus”, 1998-2013). The Maag project is centrally located near the Zurich Hardbrücke railway station and includes what was then the tallest building in Switzerland, the “Prime Tower”.

Selected projects

• 1967-1991 Studies and planning guidelines for the coordination of the regional development of the German-French-Swiss border region of Basel on behalf of the Regio Basiliensis (1967-71), head of the International Coordination Office (1971-75) and environmental advisor to the Regio Basiliensis (1975-91)
• 1969-1971 Project planning for a terraced housing development in Balzers, Principality of Liechtenstein
• 1970, 1979, 1980 Competition entries for the Zurich main railway station, together with Walter Schindler (1979: 2nd place)
• 1976-1977 Renovation and conversion of his own residence, “Bünishof”, in Meilen
• 1982-1989 Dübendorf-Stettbach rapid transit (S-Bahn) station near Zürich
• 1986-1987 Project for a hotel resort in Palm Springs, California (not realized)
• 1988-2010 Urban planning project “Zentrum Zürich Nord”, today Neu-Oerlikon district
• 1989-1999 Urban planning project “Baden Nord”
• 1998- 2009 Development planning BAG Turgi at the confluence of the Reuss, Limmat and Aare Rivers
• 1998-2013 Urban planning project “Maag Areal Plus” at Zurich West
• 2013-2024 Site development paper mill Balsthal

Publications

• “Elemente der Zeitarchitektur, Photo-Studienreise eines jungen Architekten.” Du magazine, vol. 20, no. 237, Nov 1960, pp. 1–47.
• “Louis Kahn und die Medical Towers in Philadelphia.” Werk, vol. 49, no. 1, 1962, pp. 22–25.
• “Amerikanischer Städtebau am Beispiel Philadelphias.” Werk, vol. 49, no. 5, 1962, pp. 149–160.
• “Nashville. Neuplanung einer amerikanischen Hauptstadt.” Werk, vol. 51, no. 4, 1964, pp. 141–146.
• Photographs: “Amerikanische Architektur – heute.” du vol. 24, no. 280, Juni 1964, pp. 16–41.
• “Das San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System.” Werk, vol. 53, no. 5, 1966, pp. 182–190.
• “Planung und Städtebau, Elemente und Systematik der Orts-, Regional- und Landesplanung.” (Lecture notes, ETH Zürich Department of Architecture, 1967–72.)
• “Wurster Hall, College of Environmental Design, Berkeley, California USA.” Werk, vol. 54, no. 1, 1967, pp. 1–23.
• “Verflechtung und Entflechtung.” Werk, vol. 54, no. 10, 1967, pp. 653–658.
• Various articles as well as all photographs and illustrations: “Im Reich der gefiederten Schlange. Kunst und Städtebau im präkolumbianischen Mexiko und Guatemala.” Du magazine, vol. 27, no. 320, Oct 1967: pp. 758–759 (platforms in space), pp. 760–818 (text and plans for individual ruins), pp. 834–837 (travels in Central America).
• “Amerikanischen Bürgern wird vermehrte Einflussnahme auf Autobahnentscheide gewährt.” Werk, vol. 56, no. 9, 1969, pp. 605–607
• “Landesplanerische Leitbilder der Schweiz.” Schweizerische Bauzeitung, vol. 89, no. 28, 1971, pp. 712–719.
• “Die internationale Koordination der Planung in der Regio Basiliensis. Entstehung, Ziele, Methoden.” Werk, vol. 59, no. 9, 1972, pp. 497–506.
• “Chronologie der Schweizerischen Landesplanung.” Werk, vol. 59, no. 10, 1972, pp. 604–608.
• “Zentrumsplanung Hergiswil NW.” Werk, vol. 60, no. 3, 1973, pp. 341–342.
• “Bewertung von Lösungsvarianten in Planung und Städtebau.” Schweizerische Bauzeitung, vol. 91, no. 42, 1973, pp. 1029–1032.
• “Energie und Siedlungsplanung.” Bauen + Wohnen, vol. 31, no. 7–8, 1977, pp. 289–93.
• “Siedlungsform, Energieversorgung und Umweltbelastung.” Schweizerische Bauzeitung, vol. 95, no. 49, 1977, pp. 877–884.
• “Station Stettbach: Architektur und Kunst an einem Bahnhof.” Schweizer Ingenieur und Architekt, vol. 108, no. 48, 1990, pp. 1393–1395.
• “S-Bahn-Station Zürich-Stettbach.” Werk, vol. 78, no. 3, 1991, pp. 68.
• “Von der autogerechten zur menschengerechten Stadt.” Ferrum, vol. 65, 1993, pp. 42–49.
• “Neu-Oerlikon. Ein modernes Planungsmärchen? 1988–2010.”, Zürich, 2010. (Self-publication, printed by the ETH Zurich)
• “Zentrum Zürich Nord. Gebietsmanagement bei der Stadterneuerung auf einem alten Industrieareal.” Collage. Zeitschrift für Raumentwicklung, vol. 4, 2002, pp. 12–14.

Weblinks

• Ueli Roth (* 1935). gta Archive of the Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta Archiv des Instituts für Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur), Federal Institute of Technology Zurich . The gta Archive’s bequest of Ueli Roth’s planning work, his buildings and designs, as well as his teaching activities in the United States and Switzerland includes 12 linear meters of bookshelves and 20,000 photographs.

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