Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 November 2026 10am-5pm – exhibition open continuously On the occasion of the next Scientastic event, which takes place on the weekend of 7 and 8 November 2026 on the EPFL campus, with a focus on health technologies, Archizoom invites you to take part in a range of activities linked to the exhibition Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? GUIDED TOURS 11am / 4pm – Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? in French Can we trust a robot on a building site? This guided tour explores what it means to build alongside increasingly capable machines, and …

IMVT – Supporter de la Ville The Mediterranean Institute for the City and Territories, designed in collaboration with Marion Bernard, Point Suprem, Jacques Lucan and Atelier Roberta, is a unifying entity rather than the simple sum of three existing schools (architecture, urban planning, and landscape studies). The Institute’s purpose is to physically foster relationships, exchanges, and collaborations between the three institutions and their immediate as well as broader environment. The architecture of the Institute is therefore intentionally open to the city. From Porte d’Aix Square, this small campus stands out, day and night, as a welcoming presence. NP2F architectes NP2F …

Materia Arquitectura 29, an architectural journal guest-edited by Anna Livia Friel (TU Wien) and Agustina Labarca Gatica (EPFL), proposes a critical reassessment of the notion of civic architecture. Moving beyond the exceptional public building and traditional representations of the state, the issue examines the practices, infrastructures, institutions, and spatial relationships through which public life is produced and sustained. For the launch event, organized by HITAM at EPFL in Lausanne, the guest editors will be joined by Felipe de Ferrari (Plan Común), Kersten Geers (OFFICE), Demetra Vogiatzaki (gta ETH Zürich), and Sarah M. Whiting (Harvard GSD) for a conversation on civicness …

24.08.26 - EPFL’s very first buildings and their surrounding areas were just classified as historical monuments. In connection with this, the School has entered into an agreement with Vaud Canton and the ETH Board to preserve its emblematic 20th-century architecture while enabling the Lausanne campus to keep changing with the times. It is the start of a new chapter for EPFL’s Lausanne campus. Today, EPFL and Vaud Canton announced that the campus’s original buildings, constructed between 1969 and 1984, and their surrounding areas have been classified as historical monuments. This recognition of the School’s architectural heritage has also led to …

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 …

A series of imagined film stills based on the transposition of the visual aesthetics of selected historically significant films into digitally modelled and rendered 3D scenes using Blender or Cinema 4D. The coursework investigated the translation of cinematic visual language into the digital environment. Each participant selected a historically significant film distinguished by its unique and influential aesthetic, analysed its characteristic visual principles, and subsequently transposed these qualities into a series of newly invented images. Rather than recreating existing film stills, the objective was to produce original ghost frames—fictional cinematic moments that never existed, yet convincingly belonged to the visual …

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.