Architecture Hub

The Architecture Hub gives access to the latest news of EPFL Architecture within the ENAC faculty, as well as presenting teaching and research programs, governance and people at the core of the community. The organizational structure of EPFL Architecture and the EPFL ecosystem is described in the glossary.  

Events

School Lecture Series Spring 2026
Archizoom Exhibition: Une éducation au réel, l’Atelier Cantàfora à l’EPFL
Student Center, Introduction Seminar
School Lecture Series: Experience / EPFL Architecture

announcing: Drawing Research Platform 2026, London. OPEN TO ALL ENAC STUDENTS Organized by the ENAC EPF Lausanne in collaboration with Drawing Matter org. London, UK: 16 - 21 August 2026 Information Session AAC 132 Monday, 2nd March, 2026, 5:00 pm Presentation: Patricia Guaita, Raffael Baur If you would like to register now, please send an email to patricia.guaita@epfl.ch

Information session: Drawing Research Platform, ENAC Summer Workshop
Information session: Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete with LC3, ENAC Summer Workshop
School Lecture Series: Scheidegger Keller / EPFL Architecture
Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l'école d'architecture / ARCHIZOOM
Neighbours Vol. 7: Form of Life: An Anthropological Gaze on Architecture, Gianfranco Bombaci / TPOD, THEMA, HITAM
Une éducation au réel. L'Atelier Cantàfora à l'EPFL / ARCHIZOOM

News

11.02.26 - On the occasion of the fourth edition of the Master Prize in Architecture, awarded by the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA), two projects from EPFL Architecture received an Honourable Mention, recognising the quality and commitment reflected in these diploma projects. Among the awarded works is the project by Léa Guillotin, Re-fabricating Sévelin: The Image of Industry in the City Centre. Located in Lausanne’s Sévelin district—today largely shaped by the service sector—the project questions the role of industry in the contemporary city in light of current ecological and logistical challenges. Building on the last remaining industrial complex …

Two Mentions at the SIA Master Prize in Architecture 2025
“My goal is to drive change in architectural practice”
Bruno Marchand honoured with the 2025 Culture du Bâti Award

28.11.25 - The EPFL Architecture Studio TEXAS project was awarded the Swiss Arc Award 2025 in the Next Generation category. Congratulations to all the students and the teaching team involved for their outstanding work ! Hétérotopies Taking as a starting point the concept of heterotopia developed by Michel Foucault, the students envisioned the transformation of a housing block built in 1955 in Sarcelles, on the outskirts of Paris. With a careful and committed approach to preserving this modern heritage, they explored ways to extend the spatial and material qualities of these dwellings. Each group developed a collective housing project based …

Studio TEXAS receives the Swiss Arc Award 2025, Next Generation
Promoting reuse can help restore cities' charm
Dedalo Minosse International Prize 2025 XIII Edition : Salima Naji
Sloping sites: allies for denser cities

14.10.25 - An EPFL study shows red light, like blue, causes stronger glare than white, challenging the century-old and globally used function that describes how the human eye responds to different light wavelengths. The findings have implications for standards and research, as well as for the comfort of building occupants. Glare from sunlight can be a major source of discomfort for building occupants, especially when the windows have inadequate shadings. New smart glazing technology aims to provide protection from overheating in summer and from glare by changing the tint level to reduce the amount of solar radiation that passes through. …

Red is shown to create a surprising amount of glare

Living Archives

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 …

Drawing Research Platform London 2025

The Summer Workshop explored the structural, architectonic, environmental, and social dimensions of TRC and its application, particularly in the context of school programs in the Global South, where it serves as a socially and environmentally sustainable “lightweight” material. Building upon the TRC Prototype Pavilion initiated in 2019 at EPFL Fribourg and previous research by Brazilian architect Lelé on Argamassa Armada (ferrocement), the summer workshop aimed to craft full-scale (1:1) Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) elements for a new secondary school in Somaliland, Africa, a project led by Urko Sanchez Architects, based in Kenya. Additionally, we aim to facilitate knowledge exchange between …

A Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete_ENAC Summer Workshop 2025
Semester Exhibition Winter 2025
Architecture Masters 2025: Crafting Positions
Re:bble Pavilion - Reused concrete for building structures

Projets de Master 2025 Exhibition and reviews The 2025 Master Projects Exhibition showcases the work of EPFL architecture students as they confront the material, social, and territorial challenges of today’s world. Spread across three distinct areas, the exhibition showcases a diverse range of approaches: some projects delve into the use of local resources and traditional craftsmanship, working with materials such as wood or earth, or exploring self-building techniques. Others operate at larger scales, reimagining urban and territorial dynamics in light of environmental and societal shifts. A third group focuses on housing, both collective and individual, and on interventions within existing …

Projets de master 2025

Exhibitions and conferences

School Lecture Series Autumn 2025
Archizoom Exhibition: Histoires croisées
School Lecture Series Spring 2025
Archizoom Exhibition: Sun Shines on Architecture
School Lecture Series Autumn 2024 - Housing Vol.1
Archizoom Exhibition: Begin Again. Fail Better
Neighbours Lecture Series vol.4
Exhibition: Brut. 50 ans d'un écrin monumental / ACM
Archizoom Exhibition: Water Designs: l’eau dessine la ville / Archizoom
Archizoom Exhibition: Zombie Tech / Archizoom
Symposium: Technologie du Bâti / Dreier,Frenzel

Prizes and Awards

RIBA President's Medals 2024: Nathalie Marj Awarded
SIA Master Prize 2024: Meryl Barthe & Noémie Perregaux-Dielf and Enzo Migliano

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.

Sustainable is Beautiful Student Architecture Prize / LAST
Distinction FEB 2024

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.

2023 RIBA CHARLES JENCKS AWARD: Dogma, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
SIA Master Awards 2023: "Paris, Transit: last-mile food platform", Marie-Ange Farrell and Manuel Rossi
2023 Fondation Arditi, Master Project Award / Theodora Stefan
The Real Book /ALICE

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.

2022 EDAR doctoral program laureate for the EPFL Distinction /Anna Pagani
Paola Viganò wins the Schelling Award for Architectural Theory
Architect Anne Lacaton wins the Erna Hamburger Award