announcing: Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete with LC3, EPFL Fribourg. OPEN TO ALL ENAC STUDENTS and CAN BE TAKEN AS A PART FOR THE SC MINOR Organized by the ENAC EPF Lausanne in collaboration with LMC EPFL lab and Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenia. EPFL Fribourg: 24 August - 04 Sept 2026 Information Session AAC 132 Monday, 2nd March, 2026, 5:30 pm Presentation: Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur If you would like to register now, please send an email to patricia.guaita@epfl.ch

SCHEIDEGGER KELLER Studenthouse Rosengarten The house with loggias and halls renders the street’s noise invisible, while creating collective spaces at multiple scales. Christian Scheidegger studied architecture at ETH Zurich from 1998 to 2004. In 2004 he was awarded the ETH Medal for the diploma thesis project «Leuk Congress Center» and received 2002 the Swiss Steel Construction Award (Schweizer Stahlbaupreis «Prix Acier») for the «Office Tower on the Jelmoli Parking Garage» in Zürich. From 2004 to 2009 he led the «Leutschenbach Schoolhouse» project in Zurich at the architecture firm of Christian Kerez. He then opened his own architectural office in Zürich. …

Abstract: Construction robotics has historically been driven by the goal of full automation. Yet the inherent variability of construction tasks and environments, combined with the current limitations of robotic systems, has rendered complete automation largely unattainable. Humans, by contrast, possess a rich repertoire of skills - ranging from craft knowledge and adaptability to intuition and the ability to respond to unforeseen conditions in unstructured settings - that make them indispensable to construction work. We argue for a collaborative workflow in construction, one that leverages robots’ strengths in precision, load-bearing capacity, and endurance, while foregrounding human capabilities within intuitive and cooperative …

ABSTRACT Architecture organizes life, anthropology interprets practices, meanings, and social relations. The work of Gian Piero Frassinelli is emblematic of an anthropological perspective on architecture, understood as a cultural practice shaped by everyday life, labor, rituals, and modes of inhabitation. Emerging within the radical context of Superstudio, Frassinelli’s work helped redefine architecture not primarily as the production of buildings, but as a critical framework for understanding how human life is organized, represented, and imagined. Beginning with his thesis project, the Centre for Anthropological Studies in Florence, and continuing through subsequent research developed within Superstudio, such as The Twelve Ideal Cities …

14.01.26 - Emmanuel Rey, an architect and associate professor, founded EPFL’s Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies 15 years ago. He was one of the first at our School to bring environmental and climate issues to the realm of architecture. Today, he’s working tirelessly to forge synergies among teaching, research and practice. For as long as he can remember, Emmanuel Rey has been fascinated by architectural spaces and how they can be transformed. His interest in the field dates back to his childhood, when his parents built their family home in Valais Canton. Alongside this budding vocation, Rey also became …

During a one-week Summer Workshop at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in Central London, students will explore drawing as a fundamental tool in architecture and engineering, engaging with the site as both a built environment and a historically transformed place. Developed in collaboration with Drawing Matter, London, the workshop integrates hands-on drawing with research into the Drawing Matter Collection, a unique archive of architectural drawings. Students will construct survey drawings—understood as instruments for potentially transforming existing conditions—while investigating drawing as a corporeal practice of measuring, analyzing, and questioning spatial, tectonic, urban, and material articulation, as well as the notion of place. Drawing …

This semester’s exhibition brings together work developed across the architecture design studios at EPFL. The projects reflect a wide range of questions, methods, and positions explored throughout the term. The images document the exhibition as it unfolded, showcasing student work through models, drawings, photographs, and digital media. They capture both the variety of approaches across studios and the shared moment of presentation and exchange. The exhibition was made possible by the commitment of the students and teaching teams. Their engagement and openness to discussion continue to shape the culture of architectural education at EPFL. ↗︎ Presentations of the design studio …

Proving that reused concrete components are reusable again! At the heart of Lausanne’s museum centre last month, I was privileged to showcase new structural and spatial possibilities using the same structural elements used in previous demonstrators of Maxence Grangeot's PhD thesis. These prefabricated wall elements made from concrete rubble, originally fabricated in collaboration with Prelco, were disassembled from the tower configuration, and combined again with cut concrete slabs, into a pavilion whose structural layout and connections were validated by NFIC, and installation carried out in collaboration with Marti. This public pavilion has been exhibited as part of Tracés/espazium first “Baukultur …

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.