UNE ÉDUCATION AU RÉEL L’ATELIER CANTÀFORA 18.03-05.06.2026 Guided tour by Nicola Braghieri Followed by a School Lecture by Truwant + Rodet + This exhibition explores the vast field of graphic representation in architecture through fifteen years of teaching architectural representation at EPFL at the turn of the 2000s. It presents around a hundred paintings on wood, didactic works produced between 1997 and 2007 in the teaching units of the painter Arduino Cantàfora. They suggest a possible way of making, between thought and actio, where drawing and painting structure a concept and become an essential language for expressing the founding idea …

Directeurs de thèse : Prof. C. R. Binder Signer, Dr A. H. R. Athanassiadis Programme doctoral en Architecture et sciences de la ville Thèse n° 11651 Pour participer à la soutenance publique, merci de contacter directement l’intervenant

La santé mentale en milieu urbain est devenue ces dernières années un domaine de recherche où se sont nouées de nouvelles alliances intéressantes et controversées entre les sciences de la vie et les sciences sociales. D'une part, au cours des vingt dernières années, un nombre croissant d'études en psychiatrie ont porté sur les dimensions urbaines de la psychose (« urbanicité »). Ces recherches ont progressivement dépassé les formes classiques d'épidémiologie spatiale pour étudier la santé mentale en milieu urbain in situ, en utilisant par exemple des évaluations instantanées réalisées à l'aide de smartphones. D'autre part, s'appuyant sur des travaux antérieurs …

19.03.26 - Within the framework of the ADHER studio, dedicated to the design of a future Student Center on EPFL’s historic campus, the Archives de la construction moderne were mobilized as an active design tool. During the month of March, the mobilisation of the Archives de la construction moderne (ACM) at EPFL, within the framework of the ADHER studio, takes place within a broader reflection on the role of architectural archives in contemporary design processes. This initiative is part of the Spring 2026 semester, marked by a reflection on a future Student Center and bringing together several studios – ADHER, …

05.03.26 - The Drawing Research Platform 2025 has been published on the Drawing Matter website, featuring hand drawings by ENAC Master’s students in architecture, civil engineering, and environmental engineering, produced during the ENAC Summer Workshop at Lincoln’s Inn Fields, Central London. Developed with Drawing Matter, this one-week workshop explored hand drawing as a core tool in architecture and engineering, engaging the site as both a built and historically layered environment. Using the Drawing Matter Collection, students produced survey drawings not as representations, but as cognitive, corporeal, and constructive instruments for understanding existing conditions. Working outdoors and within the collection, the …

This documentary on the 2025 Master's projects at EPFL Architecture offers a glimpse into the topics addressed and investigated by master’s students: resources and craftsmanship, issues related to urban and territorial scales, social housing and individual housing, and interventions in existing buildings, including transformation, rehabilitation and renovation, are among the topics covered during the PDM. The PDM year at EPFL offers a rare freedom: the choice of one's own subjects and collaborations. It is a crucial moment when everyone takes a stand, not only in their studies but also in relation to the role of the architect. The video does …

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.