Architecture Hub

The Architecture Hub gives access to the latest news of EPFL Architecture within the ENAC faculty, as well as presenting teaching and research programs, governance and people at the core of the community. The organizational structure of EPFL Architecture and the EPFL ecosystem is described in the glossary.  

Events

School Lecture Series Autumn 2026 Learning Vol.1
Archizoom Exhibition: Do robots Dream of Construction Sites?
ACM Exhibition: Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l’école d’architecture
Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l'école d'architecture / ACM ARCHIZOOM
School Lecture Series: Elli Mosayebi, EMI Architekt*innen / EPFL Architecture
Rhodanie urbaine Book Launch

NIGHT OF THE MUSEUMS Saturday 26 September 2026 2pm-midnight – Exhibition open 3pm / 6pm / 9pm – Guided tours in French 2pm–9pm – Social Contract 4.0, an interactive robotic installation by the artist Madeline Gannon The Museum Night will be celebrating its 25th anniversary. For this special edition, the museums are pulling out all the stops and transforming the city into one huge party: exhibitions, performances, talks, surprises and unique experiences will punctuate the day and evening, from 2 pm until midnight. At Archizoom, we’re offering an immersive experience surrounded by robotic arms and construction sites with the exhibition …

Night of the Museums / ARCHIZOOM
Pressure Points: Risk - Stefan Leins / RIOT, MAS UTD
School Lecture Series: Jo Taillieu / EPFL Architecture
Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? / ARCHIZOOM x CRCL
Collective Figurations of Baukultur

News

Book Lauch of Rhodanie Urbaine
New agreement protects EPFL's built environment and keeps it dynamic
Robots on construction sites: allies, not replacements
How rivers shape cities and societies

09.07.26 - Prof. Stefana Parascho and Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes have been selected to organise the 2027 EPFL Latsis Symposium. The Latsis International Foundation grants CHF 40K to one head of unit at EPFL, or a group of heads of units, per year for the organization of a scientific symposium. EPFL will host In the Same Room: Technology and Critique in the Built Environment, a symposium convened by Prof. Stefana Parascho (CRCL) and Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (RIOT) that brings architects, engineers, social scientists, historians, and theorists into the same room to confront one of the defining tensions in contemporary architecture: how …

EPFL Latsis Symposium granted to Profs. Parascho and Malterre-Barthes
Using public transport is a learned habit
“Embracing difference is the foundation of a shared world”

11.06.26 - Two master's projects completed within the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST) are among the winners of the 2026 FEB Distinction awarded by the Groupe spécialisé pour la conservation des ouvrages (GCO) of the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA). The master's project "Racines urbaines", developed by Lucile Charamel, received an award, while Zélie Cortès' project, entitled "Canopé sociale", received an honorable mention. This distinction annually recognizes academic projects that address, in an exemplary manner, issues related to the management, adaptation, and conservation of existing buildings. Since its foundation in 1994, the GCO has provided an …

FEB 2026 Distinction

Living Archives

Master Projects 2026
Order and Disorder: Selected Essays and Interviews by Manfredo Tafuri 1964–1994
End of Year Show Spring 2026
UEJ : Futurs des villages, vers une culture des lieux
UE - TRC LC3 Research Platform Fribourg 2026
Drawing Research Platform London 2025

Exhibitions and conferences

Master Projects 2026 Exhibtion + Final Juries
End of Year Show Spring 2026
School Lecture Series Spring 2026
Archizoom Exhibition: Une éducation au réel, l’Atelier Cantàfora à l’EPFL
School Lecture Series Autumn 2025
Archizoom Exhibition: Histoires croisées
School Lecture Series Spring 2025
Archizoom Exhibition: Sun Shines on Architecture
School Lecture Series Autumn 2024 - Housing Vol.1
Archizoom Exhibition: Begin Again. Fail Better
Neighbours Lecture Series vol.4
Exhibition: Brut. 50 ans d'un écrin monumental / ACM
Archizoom Exhibition: Water Designs: l’eau dessine la ville / Archizoom
Archizoom Exhibition: Zombie Tech / Archizoom
Symposium: Technologie du Bâti / Dreier,Frenzel

Prizes and Awards

RIBA President's Medals 2024: Nathalie Marj Awarded
SIA Master Prize 2024: Meryl Barthe & Noémie Perregaux-Dielf and Enzo Migliano

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.

Sustainable is Beautiful Student Architecture Prize / LAST
Distinction FEB 2024

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.

2023 RIBA CHARLES JENCKS AWARD: Dogma, Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara
SIA Master Awards 2023: "Paris, Transit: last-mile food platform", Marie-Ange Farrell and Manuel Rossi
2023 Fondation Arditi, Master Project Award / Theodora Stefan
The Real Book /ALICE

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.

2022 EDAR doctoral program laureate for the EPFL Distinction /Anna Pagani
Paola Viganò wins the Schelling Award for Architectural Theory
Architect Anne Lacaton wins the Erna Hamburger Award