Tuesday 9 June 5 pm Guided tour of the Archives de la Construction Moderne followed by a guided tour of the exhibition Des Cèdres à Dorigny, bâtir l'école d'architecture International Archives Day is a global event established by the International Council on Archives in 2005 to raise awareness of the role of archives and highlight the work of archivists. To mark the occasion, the Archives de la Construction Moderne and Archizoom invite you to take a tour that begins with the ACM's original document storage facilities and ends with their display at Archizoom with the exhibition Des Cèdres à Dorigny, …

18.05.26 - EPFL and Unil students are working towards a more resilient society through tangible solutions: renovating vulnerable neighborhoods, revitalizing parched rivers, making grocery cooperatives more inclusive and giving children a safe space to express their concerns. All these initiatives are designed to make sure no one gets left behind. The Durabilis Award recognizes outstanding sustainability-related projects carried out by bachelor’s and master’s students at EPFL and the University of Lausanne (Unil). All five winners of the 2025 prize are driven by the goal of taking concrete steps towards a positive impact on the environment and society. The students’ enthusiasm …

06.05.26 - Portrait of Rebecca Hartwell, new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. A material scientist & engineer working at the intersection of materials science, architecture, and sustainability, she joins EPFL Architecture and will lead the MATR Lab (Materials in Transition Laboratory) at the Smart Living Lab in Fribourg. Previously Postdoctoral Researcher at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, she has been appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor of Architecture in the Institute of Architecture and the City, part of the ENAC Faculty. At EPFL, she will lead the MATR Lab (Materials in Transition Laboratory) at the Smart Living Lab in Fribourg. Rebecca …

29.04.26 - Portrait of Aziza Chaouni, our new Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. An American-Moroccan architect and civil engineer committed to issues of sustainability and conservation, she is joining EPFL Architecture and will head the SONO Lab (South–North Laboratory for Sustainable Construction and Conservation) in Fribourg. Previously Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, she has been appointed Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of Architecture and Sustainable Construction in the Inwstitute of Architecture and the City, part of the ENAC Faculty. At EPFL, she will lead the SONO Lab (South–North Lab for Sustainable Construction and Conservation) at the Smart Living Lab in Fribourg. …

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 …

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.