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20.05.26 - Our travel habits are changing as our attitudes toward transport shift – with a greater emphasis on comfort and the latest technology. For insights into this trend, we spoke with sociologist and EPFL professor Vincent Kaufmann. How will we be moving around over the next 50 years? Discussions about the mobility transition underway in Europe are nothing new – they were also the topic of Vincent Kaufmann’s PhD thesis in the 1990s. “European policymakers wanted to encourage the use of public transport in urban areas and get people out of the car and into the train,” says Kaufmann, …
12.05.26 - Portrait of Cammy Brothers, new Professor of History of Architecture. An internationally recognized historian of art and architecture, her work has significantly reshaped the understanding of the Italian Renaissance and the exchanges between Europe and the Islamic world. She joins EPFL Architecture and will develop the CHAART – Critical Histories of Architecture and Art. We are pleased to welcome Professor Cammy Brothers to EPFL Architecture. Previously Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, she has been appointed Full Professor of History of Architecture in the Institute of Architecture and the City, part of the ENAC Faculty. At EPFL, she …
30.04.26 - Aurélie Terrier is among the winners of the Swiss National Science Foundation’s (SNSF) 2026 Scientific Image Competition. An architect and archaeologist at EPFL's Arts of Science Laboratory (LAPIS), she captured researchers conducting an impressive measurement session that combines modern and traditional tools. This is a picture of someone taking a picture, although we can’t see the object being photographed. Two colleagues, safely harnessed, seem to be enjoying themselves as they stand on scaffolding over 15 meters off the ground and skillfully manipulate a long extension pole fitted with a camera. They’re exploring the inaccessible heights inside the Temple …
22.04.26 - Beate Jessel was a professor at the Institute of Architecture and the City at EPFL from 2023 to 2026. She passed away on 13 April 2026. It is with a heavy heart and immense respect that we honor the memory of our dear colleague, Professor Beate Jessel, who passed away on Monday, April 13, 2026. Professor Beate Jessel was a landscape planner and landscape ecologist. Trained as an engineer, landscape ecologist, and landscape architect, she completed her doctorate on the theory of ecologically oriented planning. She was a professor at the University of Potsdam and at the Technical …
26.03.26 - The exhibition Des Cèdres à Dorigny (EPFL, Archizoom) featured the restoration of a tracing paper drawing by Jean-Pierre Vouga, held in the Archives de la construction moderne. Through this case, it highlighted the material and scientific challenges involved in preserving architectural documents. As materials age and respond to mechanical stresses and environmental conditions, stabilising such fragile supports becomes essential to ensure their long-term transmission and legibility. From March 4 to September 29, 2026, the exhibition From Cèdres to Dorigny: Building the School of Architecture, presented at Archizoom on the EPFL campus, traces the origins and development of architectural …
During a one-week Summer Workshop at Lincoln’s Inn Fields in Central London, students will explore drawing as a fundamental tool in architecture and engineering, engaging with the site as both a built environment and a historically transformed place. Developed in collaboration with Drawing Matter, London, the workshop integrates hands-on drawing with research into the Drawing Matter Collection, a unique archive of architectural drawings. Students will construct survey drawings—understood as instruments for potentially transforming existing conditions—while investigating drawing as a corporeal practice of measuring, analyzing, and questioning spatial, tectonic, urban, and material articulation, as well as the notion of place. Drawing …
This semester’s exhibition brings together work developed across the architecture design studios at EPFL. The projects reflect a wide range of questions, methods, and positions explored throughout the term. The images document the exhibition as it unfolded, showcasing student work through models, drawings, photographs, and digital media. They capture both the variety of approaches across studios and the shared moment of presentation and exchange. The exhibition was made possible by the commitment of the students and teaching teams. Their engagement and openness to discussion continue to shape the culture of architectural education at EPFL. ↗︎ Presentations of the design studio …
Proving that reused concrete components are reusable again! At the heart of Lausanne’s museum centre last month, I was privileged to showcase new structural and spatial possibilities using the same structural elements used in previous demonstrators of Maxence Grangeot's PhD thesis at SXL and CRCL. These prefabricated wall elements made from concrete rubble, originally fabricated in collaboration with Prelco, were disassembled from the tower configuration, and combined again with cut concrete slabs, into a pavilion whose structural layout and connections were validated by NFIC, and installation carried out in collaboration with Marti. This public pavilion has been exhibited as part …
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.
