Vernissage de la publication et de l'exposition TEMPUS TRANSITUS regroupant les travaux d'étudiants produits dans le cadre du cours Magma & Principes des professeurs Marco Bakker et Alexandre Blanc - MANSLAB. Le vernissage de la publication aura lieu le lundi 10 mars 2025 à partir de 17h30 dans le foyer SG (Project Room). L'exposition se tiendra du 10 au 16 mars 2024. Le quatrième tome de la série Morceaux de domesticité s’intéresse à l’espace domestique de l’entrée à travers le thème de la transformation. Cet espace de transition, entre l’extérieur et le chez-soi, à la frontière du collectif et du …

Acts of responding to place We re-measure the site, re-reading its affordances. In this way, each student selects a new origin based on your expanded understanding of the land and stories produced in the first semester. Your architecture project will respond to this origin, exploring the notions and findings from the first semester: bodies, senses, territories, detail, program, story. Through listening to others, we produce a constellation of resonant possibilities. Places emanate architectures.

The Domestic City LAB is very pleased to welcome Boris Hamzeian et Cuno Brullmann for a lecture as part of the Studio Sophie Delhay's spring semester: The City as a House. The event will take place in AAC 114 and will be broadcast live on Zoom. Boris Hamzeian (PhD EPFL, 2021) est architecte et historien de l'architecture spécialisé dans les expérimentations de l’architecture dite « technomorphe » et dans les pratiques d’enseignement expérimentale de l’architecture aux années 1960. Il est chargé de recherche au service architecture du Musée national d’art Moderne-MNAM CCI au Centre Pompidou. Il est actuellement maitre de …

HARQUITECTES Organizing matter: Social housing in Palma de Mallorca The main strategy of the project is to reuse the materials of the old school demolition to construct the new building, with an ‘urban mining’ approach where the resources come mainly from the existing urban plot. The spatial organization and climatic behavior answers to the structural system as a new organization of the existing matter. Roger Tudó is a principal and founding partner of the architectural firm H ARQUITECTES based in Sabadell (BARCELONA) and founded in 2000 together with David Lorente, Josep Ricart and Xavier Ros. He had been combining his …

Sun Shines on Architecture 21.03-21.06.2025 In spring 2025, Archizoom is inviting you to immerse yourself into the world of solar architecture. Capturing, filtering, reflecting or protecting: the interactions of the sun with architecture and with our territories are many and varied. The sun is at once a source of precious energy, of unwanted heat, and of light. In the face of global warming, these technical and poetic challenges are getting a real update — illustrated in the exhibition by work from EPFL laboratories and the resurgence of historical examples. This exhibition is part of the Solar Biennale 2: Soleil-s Vernissage! …

17.12.24 - For her PhD thesis in architecture, Fiona del Puppo looked at the challenges young people face finding somewhere to live after leaving university. She outlines her observations in a column published in the Swiss French-language press. As part of my PhD thesis at EPFL’s Laboratory of Urban Sociology (LASUR), I looked at how the housing market is evolving in step with broader societal changes. My research, based on interviews with young people living in Geneva, shows that university leavers face unprecedented challenges when it comes to finding somewhere to live – and that the uncertainty associated with this …

06.12.24 - How can we ensure a low-carbon economy by 2050? What kind of sustainable housing can be imagined? The winners of the 2024 Durabilis prize awarded by EPFL and UNIL suggest ways forward, while raising awareness of potential risks. The Durabilis Award annually recognizes student work with a strong sustainability component, achieving a grade above 5 out of 6. This year, five winners from EPFL and the University of Lausanne (UNIL) received a prize (CHF 1,000 for master's theses, 500 for the bachelor's thesis) for their exceptional projects, selected from 38 submissions. The ceremony took place on Thursday, November …

Industrial organizations have significantly shaped the relationship between urbanization and industrialization through their policies of constructing and managing urban spaces, as well as their social actions, with company towns representing an outstanding example of this influence. Often seen as remnants of history, some company towns still maintain an active presence in their original territories, significantly affecting the daily lives of their residents in the long term. At the heart of these projects, quality of life was a fundamental unit of measure alongside worker productivity. Reading these realities through the lens of biopolitics offers a perspective to examine how power was …

‘Concrete: Cosmetic and Care’ focuses on a heavy heritage: the mass of mainly post-war structures in reinforced concrete. It is THEMA contribution to The Great Repair exhibition. The post-war building boom covered the globe with an unprecedented amount of concrete. Production of every ton of cement alone releases 600 kg of carbon dioxide making the construction industry a substantial emitter of greenhouse gases. Much work in the post-war era focuses on the preservation challenges for iconic brutalist structures. Here instead, the aim is to strategize the maintenance and repair of reinforced concrete as ubiquitous, unspectacular, and unloved and raise awareness …

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.