JOUD BEAUDOIN, LORRAINE BEAUDOIN Maison de quartier des Plaines du loup Located in the Parc du loup, on the edge of a newly built neighborhood, the community center is designed according to the principle of “houses within a house”: the various programmatic units are distributed across four distinct volumes, fragmenting the building and giving it a human scale and porosity to its environment. Between them lies a fluid interstitial space that lends itself to encounters and exchanges, thanks to a double-height space that connects the two levels. This spatial constellation offers a wide variety of possible uses, while the construction …

Directeurs de thèse : Prof. P. V. Aureli, Prof. C. van Gerrewey Programme doctoral en Architecture et sciences de la ville Thèse n° 11699 Pour participer à la soutenance publique, merci de contacter directement l’intervenant

Tuesday 9 June 5 pm Guided tour of the Archives de la Construction Moderne followed by a guided tour of the exhibition Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l'école d'architecture International Archives Day is a global event established by the International Council on Archives in 2005 to raise awareness of the role of archives and highlight the work of archivists. To mark the occasion, the Archives de la Construction Moderne and Archizoom invite you to take a tour that begins with the ACM's original document storage facilities and ends with their display at Archizoom with the exhibition Des Cèdres à Dorigny, …

30.04.26 - Aurélie Terrier is among the winners of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s (SNSF) 2026 Scientific Image Competition. An architect and archaeologist at EPFL's Arts of Science Laboratory (LAPIS), she captured researchers conducting an impressive measurement session that combines modern and traditional tools. This is a picture of someone taking a picture, although we can’t see the object being photographed. Two colleagues, safely harnessed, seem to be enjoying themselves as they stand on scaffolding over 15 meters off the ground and skillfully manipulate a long extension pole fitted with a camera. They’re exploring the inaccessible heights inside the Temple …

29.04.26 - Portrait of Aziza Chaouni, our new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. An American-Moroccan architect and civil engineer committed to issues of sustainability and conservation, she is joining EPFL Architecture and will head the SONO Lab (South–North Laboratory for Sustainable Construction and Conservation) in Fribourg. Previously Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, she has been appointed Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Construction in the Inwstitute of Architecture and the City, part of the ENAC Faculty. At EPFL, she will lead the SONO Lab (South–North Lab for Sustainable Construction and Conservation) at the Smart Living Lab in Fribourg. …

22.04.26 - Beate Jessel was a professor at the Institute of Architecture and the City at EPFL from 2023 to 2026. She passed away on 13 April 2026. It is with a heavy heart and immense respect that we honor the memory of our dear colleague, Professor Beate Jessel, who passed away on Monday, April 13, 2026. Professor Beate Jessel was a landscape planner and landscape ecologist. Trained as an engineer, landscape ecologist, and landscape architect, she completed her doctorate on the theory of ecologically oriented planning. She was a professor at the University of Potsdam and at the Technical …

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.