INGE VINCK Friant, about this and that and so on An existing house; a ‘modern’ building. A façade like a grid of windows. Excessively large windows and numerous construction nodes. Isolation as a box within a box is impossible. The opposite solution; a house within a house. A new façade behind the existing one to resolve the construction knots and create distance or space facing the street. Inge Vinck is a Belgian architect based in Ghent; co-founder of architecten jan de vylder inge vinck. / inge vinck jan de vylder architecten (A JDVIV / IVJDV A- 2019). Currently Inge Vinck …

This lecture is part of the course Bad Books by Marson Korbi, within The Doctoral Program of EDAR, EPFL Nikolaus Pevsner, Pioneers of the Modern Movement (1936) In his 1936 book, Pioneers of the Modern Movement, Nikolaus Pevsner offered a seminal interpretation of the origins and evolution of one particular definition of the Modern Movement in architecture. Beyond proposing its pioneers, the book responded to a precise cultural and political agenda aimed at legitimizing a certain view of the Modern Movement, serving as a form of advocacy for its establishment, first in Great Britain (first edition) and later in the …

05.12.24 - At the 2024 closing assembly, the Doctoral Program Architecture and Sciences of the City (EDAR) awarded two distinctions to Sara Formery of the Laboratoire d'Architecture et Technologies Durables (LAST) and Anna Karla De Almeida Milani of the Laboratory of Urbanism (LAB-U), respectively. Each year, this distinction recognizes the excellence of the research work and scientific merit of EDAR doctoral students by rewarding theses of exceptional high-quality. Sara Formery's doctoral work, carried out as part of the “Rhodanie urbaine” research project, focuses more specifically on the potential for transition towards sustainability of the urban banks of the Rhône. Over …

‘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.