While some architects have been experimenting with mushroom mycelium as a cladding material, architect Dirk Hebel and engineer Philippe Block have gone one step further – by using fungi to build self-supporting structures. More
Researchers from Switzerland's ETH Zurich university will use robots and 3D printers to design and build a pioneering three-storey house at a local research and innovation campus. More
A research team from ETH Zurich used 3D-printed moulds to make the skeletal framework for this all-concrete boat, which won first prize for design innovation at the Concrete Canoe Regatta. More
One-minute movie: this shingled timber pavilion was created by ETH Zurich students using robotic fabrication techniques they developed to minimise waste during construction. More
This shingled timber pavilion was created by masters students on ETH Zurich's Digital Fabrication course, after developing robotic fabrication techniques to minimise the waste involved in its construction. More
Swiss studio Züst Gübeli Gambetti has completed a long, narrow building that steps up a grassy hillside, to provide extra teaching space at an ETH Zurich university campus. More
Visitors to this year's Manifesta art biennale can watch films while enjoying a swim in this floating pavilion, built by students to float on Switzerland's Lake Zurich ( + slideshow). More
Venice Architecture Biennale 2016: a team led by ETH Zurich researchers has constructed an expansive canopy using 399 slabs of limestone and no glue, showcasing a "milestone for stone engineering" (+ slideshow). More
Architects Le Corbusier, Herzog & de Meuron and Gottfried Semper are depicted in drag to promote a series of talks about the industry's gender imbalance at Swiss university ETH Zurich. More
Disney Research Zurich and Swiss technology institute ETH have developed a four-wheeled robot with integrated propellers that allow it to scale vertical surfaces. More
World Architecture Festival 2015: bamboo could "revolutionise the building industry" and replace steel as the dominant reinforcing material, according to a professor who is working on new applications for the grass. More
Chicago Architectural Biennial 2015: a team of designers from Swiss and American universities have created a towering architectural structure made from nothing but gravel and thread – which was built by a robotic arm (+ slideshow). More
Architects and engineers from ETH Zurich university have used waste material to create a vaulted pavilion for New York City's Ideas City festival (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: in the second part of our video interview with Ammar Mirjan, the architect explains how drones with cable dispensers attached can be used to quickly build lightweight architectural structures. More
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: architect and researcher Ammar Mirjan explains how drones could be programmed to construct buildings in the first of two movies about the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in architecture. More
Design strategy collective Urban-Think Tank has designed and built a prototypical house as part of an initiative to improve housing conditions for slum dwellers in some of the 2700 informal settlements across South Africa (+ movie). More