Prof.
Christophe
Girot
Alumni
Christophe Girot was Professor of Landscape Architecture at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He joined the NCCR DFAB as Principal Investigator in 2017 and retired in January 2023. Christophe Girot continues as Professor Emeriti at ETH and maintains his practice in Zurich with projects both in Europe and Asia. In his research he addressed topological methods in landscape architecture, new media in landscape analysis and perception, and the history and theory of landscape architecture. Girot received a double master’s degree of architecture and landscape architecture from the University of California Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in environmental planning from the University of California Davis. Before coming to ETHZ he was Professor for Landscape Architecture at the Versailles School of Landscape Architecture in France from 1990 to 2000.
Role in the NCCR Digital Fabrication
Alumni: Associated Investigator
Current position
Professor EmeritiNCCR publications
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Robotic Landscapes—Designing the Unfinished (2021)
- Date: 01.01.2021
- Authors: Prof. Christophe Girot, Dana Cupkova, Fujan Fahmi, Mathias Bernhard, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Francesca Hughes, Dr. Ilmar Hurkxkens, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter, Dr. Dominic Jud, Prof. Matthias Kohler, Benedikt Kowalewski, Jesus Medina, Dr. Ammar Mirjan
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Informing Topology: Performative Landscapes with Rapid Mass Movement Simulation (2020)
- Date: 01.01.2020
- Authors: Dr. Ilmar Hurkxkens, Benedikt Kowalewski, Prof. Christophe Girot
- Event: 21th International Conference on Digital Landscape Architecture (DLA2020)
- Notes: Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) the conference was conducted virtually.
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Robotic Landscapes: Designing Formation Processes for Large Scale Autonomous Earth Moving (2019)
- Date: 01.01.2019
- Authors: Dr. Ilmar Hurkxkens, Mirjan Ammar, Prof. Fabio Gramazio, Prof. Matthias Kohler, Prof. Christophe Girot
- Event: Design Modelling Symposium, Impact: Design with All Senses
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Robotic Landscapes — Nature, Computation, and the Design Space of Autonomous Terrain Modeling (2018)
- Date: 01.06.2018
- Authors: Prof. Christophe Girot, Dr. Ilmar Hurkxkens
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Robotic Landscapes. Developing Computational Design Tools towards Autonomous Terrain Modeling (2017)
- Date: 01.01.2017
- Authors: Dr. Ilmar Hurkxkens, Prof. Christophe Girot, Prof. Dr. Marco Hutter
- Event: 37th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA)