EPFL Architecture a le plaisir de vous inviter aux discussions et expositions sur les projets de fin de semestre qui auront lieu dans le bâtiment SG du 15 au 19 décembre 2025. Ateliers Propédeutique (BA1): ALICE (Dietz); Deuxième année (BA 3): Assemble (Binning + Perkins), Gay Menzel, KUHAB (Blanc), LAST (Rey), LIF (Taillieu), Peris Toral, Truwant Rodet; Troisième/Quatrième année (BA5/MA1): ADHER (Devaux), DC-LAB (Delhay), DOSCRE (Donet, Reimer), EAST (Fröhlich, Borges), FAR (Vannucci), IBOIS (Weinand), LAB-U (Viganò), LAPIS (Braghieri), LDM (Huang), Salima Naji, RIOT (Malterre-Barthes), Rolli Schuerch, Scheidegger Keller, SUMMACUMFEMMER, TEXAS (Lapierre); Cinquième année (MA3): Superstudio (Pier Vittorio Aurelie).

NRP 81 Session series BAUKULTUR: A EUROPEAN GENEALOGY Tuesday, 13 January 2026 (18:00 – 19:30) Venue: Archizoom, EPFL & ZOOM ID: 68258520857 The third and fourth sessions revisit various episodes of modernity and its critique. These undoubtedly continue to influence all cultural perceptions of architectural and urban production. As with the previous sessions, both begin with brief presentations, after which the floor is opened for discussion. Invited speakers Angelika Schnell, Vienna Irina Davidovici, Zurich Discussants Paola Viganò, Pierre Caye, Andri Gerber, Caspar Schärer

NRP 81 Session series BAUKULTUR: A EUROPEAN GENEALOGY Tuesday, 20 January 2026 (18:00 – 19:30) Venue: Winterthur, ZHAW, MD E0.17 (Tössfeldstrassse 11, 8401 Winterthur) ZOOM ID: 68258520857 This concluding session broadens the genealogical question, exploring the theme of transformation. Undoubtedly, Umbakultur is inextricably linked to the very concept of Baukultur, and can also be read by tracing back through the main strands of European urban culture. Invited speakers Paul Landauer, Paris Discussants: Paola Viganò, Pierre Caye, Andri Gerber, Caspar Schärer

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

Water design is of major importance today. The risks associated with water and climate change are a cause of global concern. The number of projects dealing with water-related issues is virtually endless, so pervasive that they play the role of connectors among coalitions of different players, disciplines, performances and ways of thinking. Water Designs, the title of the exhibition, considers not only water as a topic, but the project that water itself designs, according to its rationalities, logics and behaviours. The water project is the one that shapes our territories and our living space over the longue durée. Water is …

Les étudiant.es en Master, Vincent Digneaux, Solène Guisan et Vincent Kastl ont gagné le premier prix du concours étudiant d’architecture Sustainable is beautiful avec leur projet d’une passerelle modulable sur la rivière Chamberonne, à la fois lieu de passage et de rencontre. Une première expérience au plus proche de la réalité de la profession. Le Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) propose depuis quelques années aux étudiantes et étudiants de la Faculté de l’environnement naturel, architectural et construit (ENAC) des concours d’idées baptisés Sustainable is beautiful, en partenariat avec des institutions privées ou publiques engagées dans des initiatives locales liées à la transition.

PRIX RIBA CHARLES JENCKS AWARD 2023

Le bureau Dogma, fondé en 2002 par Pier Vittorio Aureli, professeur associé à la section d’Architecture de l’EPFL (ENAC), et Martino Tattara, a été récompensé par l’illustre prix Charles Jencks 2023 du Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA).

Créé en 2003 pour récompenser une personne (ou un bureau) ayant récemment apporté une contribution majeure à la fois à la théorie et à la pratique de l'architecture, ce prix prestigieux a distingué au fil des ans des architectes tels que Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas ou Jacques Herzog et Pierre de Meuron.

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.