ENAC Summer Workshops 2025 A Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete August 25 - September 5, 2025, Fribourg The Summer Workshop will explore the structural, architectonic, environmental and social dimensions of TRC and its application, especially in the context of social housing in Latin America as a socially and environmentally sustainable “lightweight” material. Building upon the TRC Prototype Pavilion initiated in 2019 at EPFL Fribourg and prior research from the Brazilian architect Lelé in Argamassa Armada (ferrocement), our upcoming summer workshop aims to craft 1:1 TRC elements for Social Houses in Nicaragua. The teaching team has fostered a collaborative partnership …

CISBAT 2025 focuses on the crucial research topics of Operation, Well-Being, and Circularity that jointly drive the sustainable transition of our built environments. From innovative approaches to operational efficiency and occupant well-being, to the principles of circularity and resource management, our conference will offer a comprehensive exploration of these pressing issues and encourage interdisciplinary dialogue.

We are delighted to invite you to the opening of the Re:bble Tower: a full-scale 2-storey structure demonstrator built from reused concrete. The walls are made from large flat demolition rubble, while the slabs are cut from a building before demolition. Two construction systems are used for the walls: prefabrication and in situ construction. We would be delighted to welcome you to EPFL Fribourg, on September 9th, to celebrate the opening of this housing-fragment demonstrator: 16:30 – Welcome 17:00 – Presentation 17:30 – Apéro & visits 21:30 – End of event Full address: Halle Bleue, Passage du Cardinal 13b, 1700 …

Opening Program: 6.30pm — Introduction words by Cyril Veillon & Pier Vittorio Aureli 6.45pm — Lecture by Léa-Catherine Szacka 7.30pm — Opening of the exhibition door and aperitive Born in the 1920s, critic Ada Louise Huxtable and architects Gae Aulenti and Phyllis Lambert were among the most influential figures in architecture and design during the postwar boom. Pioneers in a largely male-dominated field and key players in the transition from modernism to postmodernism, they set out to conquer the public spaces they designed and built. Through accounts, archival images, drawings and photographs, this exhibition sheds light on some of their …

For Museum Night, Archizoom will be open from 2 p.m. to midnight! Under the theme “Turn on the light,” we have put together a special program for you: 2pm-midnight — Discover the Crossed Histories exhibition and two new installations: The archives revealed: Alice Biro, first graduate in architecture from EPFL & Jeanne Bueche, first graduate in architecture from ETHZ 2-9pm — My drawing in midnight blue, Cyanotype workshop 4, 6.30, 9pm — Guided tour of the exhibition More information on the Crossed Histories exhibition.

15.01.25 - URBES together with ENAC-IT4Research have developed an online platform for urban data visualization now displayed at the Datapoiesis exhibition in Venice The exhibition Datapoiesis organized by IUAV in Venice (Biblioteca Tolentini, 15.01-03.02.2025) investigates the use of the “graph” as a tool for modelling urban systems with the aim of anticipating, to some extent, their future evolution. The focus is on the application of such models, often inspired by morphogenetic principles and implemented through simulations using cellular automata, multi-agent systems, fractal geometry, etc., in a tradition that dates back at least to the 1970s. The data visualization platform created …

30.12.24 - The passing of David Jolly, architect and Professor at the Universidad EAD PUCV in Valparaíso, Chile, marks an immense loss. His stance, his remarkable body of work, and his research in the Ciudad Abierta in Chile deeply inspired students of EPFL. David Jolly: The intellectual and teaching legacy of the Open City movement The passing of David Jolly, architect and Professor at the Universidad EAD PUCV in Valparaíso, Chile, marks an immense loss. As the last guardian of the legacy of the Open City movement, his ethical and intellectual stance, his remarkable body of work, and his research …

EPFL architecture graduates, Vincent Digneaux, Solène Guisan and Vincent Kastl, were crowned winners of the Sustainable is Beautiful student architecture prize for their modular footbridge over the Chamberonne river. Designing the structure, which serves as both a crossing and a meeting place, gave them their first taste of life as an architect. Several years ago, the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) at EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) launched Sustainable is Beautiful, a competition run in partnership with public and private organizations involved in green-transition projects, to help equip budding architects for their future role.

WINNER OF THE 2023 RIBA CHARLES JENCKS AWARD

The Dogma practice, founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli, associate professor at the EPFL Architecture Department (ENAC), and Martino Tattara, has been awarded the prestigious Charles Jencks 2023 Prize by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Created in 2003 to reward an individual (or office) who has recently made a major contribution to both the theory and practice of architecture, this prestigious prize has distinguished architects such as Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron over the years.

Housing is a major contributor to Switzerland's carbon footprint and energy consumption, but it is also a basic need. Research on climate change mitigation strategies has so far paid insufficient attention to households' preferences and their contribution to housing sustainability. Depicting residential preferences requires an understanding of the multilevel, context-specific, and interrelated determinants of the match between households and dwellings, which are made explicit in the residential mobility process.