Un événement d’envergure pour préparer son avenir. Comme chaque année, l’EPFL, via son Service de promotion de l’éducation et en collaboration avec ses facultés, se réjouit d'accueillir les gymnasiennes et gymnasiens sur son campus. L’École propose de venir découvrir ses filières de formation, sa communauté estudiantine, son corps enseignant, ses équipes de recherche, les divers services dédiés aux étudiantes et étudiants débutant à l’EPFL, ainsi que les multiples associations chargées d’animer la vie sociale et culturelle du campus.

Transformation et Rénovation énergétique, intervention : FWD architectes, Intervenir dans l’existant Dans le cardre du cours AR 340 "Transformation et Rénovation énergétique" (BA5), FWD architectes SA - bureau d'architecture basé à Lausanne, donnera un aperçu de types d'interventions pratiquées sur le bâti existant. Il s'agit d'une conférence pour les étudiant·es que nous ouvrant à la communauté de l'ENAC.

Lucia Allais (Columbia University) Topographic Modernism: Architecture and Nature on Italy’s Coast, ca. 1960 Bio: Lucia Allais is an architectural historian of the modern period. She works on architecture and internationalism and institutions; the technical and philosophical history of materials; the participation of buildings and design actors in political culture and global governance; architecture’s historiography, and epistemologies of time. Her first book, Designs of Destruction: The Making of Monuments in the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2018) described how a new definition of “the monument” arose from various plans within liberal internationalist organizations to protect and salvage famous building …

Venez découvrir le site de production de Holcim, la première cimenterie en Suisse romande, exploitant la carrière de calcaire du Mormont et une réserve de marne aux Côtes de Vaux. La visite débutera par un accueil café, suvie d'une partie théorique et d'une visite sur le terrain. Date limite pour s'inscrire : lundi 9 novembre à 17h

14.09.26 - The architectural firm Bauart, of which Prof. Emmanuel Rey of the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) is a partner, recently received an honorable mention for the Creative Factory project at the Design Educates Awards 2026. The Design Educates Awards recognize and promote worldwide architectural approaches that are likely to change the way architecture can be taught. In the heart of Lausanne's changing western district, the Creative Factory project involves converting a former logistics center into a multifunctional building. By transforming an existing building, the architectural design aims to revitalize the urban environment, preserve built heritage, limit …

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 …

Au cœur des politiques publiques, des rapports sociaux et des imaginaires, l’automobile a modelé de multiples façons l’histoire du XXe siècle et continue à façonner notre présent. De Roland Barthes à Luc Boltanski, en passant par ­Georges Friedmann, Alfred Sauvy et André Gorz, de nombreux penseurs ont écrit sur ce « fait social total » – économique, ­culturel, social, urbanistique, environnemental, psycho­logique, etc. –, en faisant à la fois un révélateur et un observatoire privilégié des dynamiques sociales contemporaines. Regroupant les contributions de près de 20 chercheurs en sciences sociales, cet ouvrage propose un retour sur les travaux ayant documenté …

Les villes sont des mosaïques vivantes : elles rassemblent des personnes aux origines, aux pratiques religieuses, aux langues, aux statuts économiques et aux pratiques quotidiennes multiples. Cette diversité, loin d’être une exception, constitue désormais la condition normale de la vie urbaine. Pourtant, les pratiques de planification continuent souvent de traiter les habitant·e·s à travers une seule dimension, au risque de figer et de simplifier à l’excès des réalités sociales infiniment plus complexes. Cet ouvrage propose de repenser la ville à partir de ses différences et de leur entrelacement. Il invite à concevoir un urbanisme inclusif, capable de reconnaître les multiples …

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.