ENAC Summer Workshop 2025 Drawing Research Platform 2025, London Londres, UK: 17 - 22 Août 2025 During a one-week Summer Workshop in the archives and on the site of Drawing Matter, Somerset, students will explore drawing as a fundamental tool in both architecture and engineering. Through research into the Drawing Matter Collection and the construction of survey drawings and spatial fabrications, drawing will be explored as a corporeal form of measuring and conceiving our environment. The Drawing Matter site, London, UK, offers a unique setting as drawing archive as well as testing ground for construction. The ENAC Summer Workshop Drawing …

CISBAT 2025 focuses on the crucial research topics of Operation, Well-Being, and Circularity that jointly drive the sustainable transition of our built environments. From innovative approaches to operational efficiency and occupant well-being, to the principles of circularity and resource management, our conference will offer a comprehensive exploration of these pressing issues and encourage interdisciplinary dialogue.

Opening Tuesday 23 September 6.30pm Born in the 1920s, critic Ada Louise Huxtable and architects Gae Aulenti and Phyllis Lambert were among the most influential figures in architecture and design during the postwar boom. Pioneers in a largely male-dominated field and key players in the transition from modernism to postmodernism, they set out to conquer the public spaces they designed and built. Through accounts, archival images, drawings and photographs, this exhibition sheds light on some of their emblematic achievements and interweaves their extraordinary biographies to rethink the crucial role of women in the history of 20th-century architecture. This exhibition was …

For Museum Night, Archizoom will be open from 2 p.m. to midnight! Under the theme “Turn on the light,” we have put together a special program for you: 2pm-midnight — Discover the Crossed Histories exhibition and two new installations: The archives revealed: Alice Biro, first graduate in architecture from EPFL & Jeanne Bueche, first graduate in architecture from ETHZ 2-9pm — My drawing in midnight blue, Cyanotype workshop 4, 6.30, 9pm — Guided tour of the exhibition More information on the Crossed Histories exhibition.

13.06.25 - Joan Rey tested the reliability of commercial tools and artificial intelligence to measure and predict radon levels in buildings for his doctoral thesis in civil engineering. He shares his conclusions in a column that appeared in three Swiss dailies. Radon is a naturally occurring radioactive gas and a common indoor-air pollutant. It poses a significant public-health risk in Switzerland, as it’s found in just about all our buildings and is responsible for nearly 300 lung-cancer deaths each year. The Swiss authorities began making a concerted effort in the 1990s to reduce residents’ exposure to radon gas. Because the …

11.03.25 - EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) has introduced a new master’s program in urban systems that will start this fall. The goal is to train experts who are capable of implementing sustainability-oriented approaches for urban planning and development. By rethinking their approach to managing and developing urban areas, city officials can play a role in responding to modern-day challenges such as climate change, the depletion of natural resources and the impact of manufacturing and other anthropogenic activities on the environment and human health. The goal of ENAC’s new master’s program in urban systems is to …

30.12.24 - Nathalie Marj, an architecture student at EPFL, has been awarded the RIBA Awards for Sustainable Design and received a special mention for the RIBA Silver Medal for her master’s project “Protocols for Beirut’s Unbuildable Lots: Designing Non-Sectarian Spaces.” This project explores innovative solutions for non-sectarian public spaces in Beirut, addressing crucial environmental, social, and economic sustainability challenges in a complex urban context. For 188 years, the RIBA President’s Medals have recognized the best student work in architecture worldwide. This year, out of 372 submissions, Nathalie’s project stood out for its response to key sustainability challenges while imagining non-sectarian …

End of Year Show Spring 2025 Questioned and reevaluated, the very foundations of our disciplines find space for exploration, research, and critical dialogue within the design studios. The Semester Exhibition will open on Monday, May 26th. A lecture by BHSF Architekten will take place on Tuesday, May 27th, followed by an apero. Exhibition & Reviews Mo 26. May to Fr 30. May 2025 EPFL SG Building School Lecture Tu 27. May 2025, 18:30 BHSF Architekten Auditorium SG Exhibition Opening Apero Tu 27. May 2025, 19:30 Ada Lovelace Square

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.