ETH Zurich

ETH Zurich (from its German name Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, ETHZ) is the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, Switzerland. It is commonly called the ETH or the Poly after its original name Polytechnikum.

Campus

The ETH Zürich has no single campus. The main building was

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constructed in the 1860s in the heart of the city, and when

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the university grew, it spread out into the surrounding quarters.

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Its Zentrum location consists thus of various buildings and

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institutions throughout Zürich, firmly integrating the ETH in the

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city.

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Because this geographic situation substantially hindered the

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expansion of the ETH, a new campus was built from 1964 to

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1976 on the Hönggerberg in the outskirts of the city.

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The last major expansion project of this new campus was completed

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in 2003; since then, the Hönggerberg location houses the

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departements of materials science, architecture, civil engineering,

Related Topics:
Materials science - Architecture - Civil engineering

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physics, biology, and chemistry.

Related Topics:
Physics - Biology - Chemistry

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