The course lays the foundations of architectural design for around 400 students at D-ARCH – ETH Zurich and is jointly developed and taught by a collective of eight professors representing the departments of Design (Roger Boltshauser), Computational Design (Fabio Gramazio), Construction (Daniel Mettler), Building Materials (Jacqueline Pauli), Structural Design (Philippe Block), Energy and Climate Systems (Arno Schlüter), History of Architecture (Maarten Delbeke) and Landscape Architecture (Martina Voser). The didactic concept of the course is based on the integration of different disciplines within design theory.