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, Printemps 25
Archizoom Exhibition: Sun Shines on Architecture
School Lecture Series: BHSF / EPFL Architecture
Final Reviews - Riponne Rooms / ALICE

11 June 2025, 12:30 - 14:00 SG Foyer, EPFL, Lausanne Habitat Research Center is inviting a world-renown author, Indian British activist, pacifist, and ecologist Satish Kumar as a Keynote speaker for a public speech on the International PhD Seminar - Learning from the South: Cultural Landscapes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition. About Satish Peace-pilgrim, life-long activist, and former monk, Satish Kumar is now 88, has been inspiring global change for over 50 years. Aged 9, Satish renounced the world and became a wandering Jain monk. Inspired by Gandhi, he decided at 18 that he could achieve more back …

Learning from the South: Dialogue with Satish Kumar / HRC
ETHZ/EPFL Summer School 2025 Movement Matters: Exploring Transitions in Architecture Research
ENAC Summer Workshop: Drawing Research Platform 2025, London
ENAC Summer Workshop: A Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete 2025
CISBAT 2025 International Scientific Conference on the Built Environment in Transition
Forum des transitions urbaines 2025 / LAST

News

How long will the dream of the seaside holiday villa last?
New master's program encourages fresh approaches to urban planning
URBES Laboratory at the exhibition "Datapoiesis" in Venice

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 …

RIBA President's Medals 2024: Nathalie Marj Awarded
David Jolly: The teaching legacy of the Open City movement

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 …

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2024 Durabilis Award: focusing on solutions and risks
EDAR doctoral program EPFL Distinction

Living Archives

Water Designs: l'eau dessine la ville
On Architecture and Greenwashing, The Political Economy of Space Vol. 1
Dalmine lives. A biopolitical history of an Italian company town
Concrete: Cosmetic and Care, The Great Repair Exhibition
Temenos. Projet de réaménagement des quais de la rade de Genève
Exposition MAP 24

Exhibitions and conferences

School Lecture Series Autumn 2024 - Housing Vol.1
Exhibition: Begin Again. Fail Better
Neighbours Lecture Series vol.4
Exhibition: Brut. 50 ans d'un écrin monumental / ACM
EXHIBITION: Water Designs: l’eau dessine la ville / 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