In Situ vous propose de découvrir le Boulodrome de Renens, un projet du bureau d'architectes MacIver-Ek Chevroulet. Construction d'un bâtiment sportif intégrant 4 pistes de pétanque intérieures et 16 pistes extérieures. Une salle polyvalente offrira un lieu convivial au profit des différentes associations renanaises. Le projet adopte une conception durable et rationnelle, avec l'utilisation de matériaux de réemploi et la mise en oeuvre d'une ossature bois. Ce programme renforcera l'attractivité du site, tout en favorisant la pratique sportive et les rencontres locales.

Invitation to PhD Public Defense - Shyam sunder Sirimalla Thursday, 17th September 2026 |14h00 CET Foyer SG, Campus EPFL Venue Map: https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==SG%20294.22 I am pleased to invite you to the public defense of my PhD thesis: Rich, Poor and Mechanism of Sharing in Space, Hyderabad City, India The Spaces of Encounters Under the direction of Prof. Paola Viganò (Thesis Director) & Prof. Vincent Kaufmann(Thesis Co-Director) at the Laboratory of Urbanism and Urban Sociology Laboratory. This thesis was accepted upon the jury’s recommendation on May 19, 2026, by Dr.Vandana Shiva, Satish Kumar, Rahul Srivastava, Prof. Milica Topalović & Prof. Nicola Braghieri. …

Chliriet Secondary School Building What makes for a good learning environment for young people? The presentation on the Chliriet Secondary School explores how spatial layout, landscape, architectural design, and color schemes can shape everyday school life. The long, narrow wooden building frames a spacious schoolyard featuring the existing multipurpose hall. The classrooms face the open landscape, while the hallways and group rooms offer views of the schoolyard. The colorful interior creates a vibrant and distinctive learning environment. Elli Mosayebi, EMI Architekt*innen Elli Mosayebi’s career is defined by the close relationship between practice, research, and teaching. Since 2004, she has co-directed …

11.08.26 - What if robots were increasingly in need of us? Archizoom and the CRCL laboratory at EPFL propose an exhibition to invite visitors to rethink the automation of construction sites, exploring robotic arms, recycled timber and the confidence to co-create with increasingly intelligent machines. Despite decades of technological promises, construction remains one of the least automated sectors — and one where the physical demands of the work remain the most intense. In light of this, the CRCL – Lab for Creative Computation, led by Professor Stefana Parascho, is exploring a different approach. Rather than opposing robots and workers, this …

Manfredo Tafuri was one of the most influential architectural historians of the twentieth century, and his work continues to shape the landscape of architectural history and theory. This anthology presents—for the first time—a carefully curated selection of essays and interviews spanning his entire career, from 1964, the year in which Tafuri decided to focus exclusively on architectural history, to 1994, the year of his untimely death. These texts—most translated into English for the first time—reveal the extraordinary range of Tafuri’s scholarship, ranging from topics as diverse as the critique of architectural ideology and capitalist development, to the contradictions of the …

In May 2026, the SG Building at EPFL hosted the End of the Year Show, bringing together the work developed across the Architecture's studios. Through models, drawings, research, installations, and debate, the exhibition offered a collective view of the diverse approaches that shape architectural education at EPFL. Rooted in a project-based approach that connects design with technical, social, and critical questions, the exhibited work explored contemporary ways of living, building, and imagining collective space. While each studio pursued its own methods and themes, together they reflected the breadth of investigations carried out throughout the academic year. Congratulations to all the …

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 …

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.