🎓 EDUCATION PROGRAM RECOMMENDATION:
Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design (MAS UTD)
by ETH Zürich & EPFL
🌍 A one-year, full-time postgraduate programme for those who want to engage seriously with the territorial project as a driver of social and ecological change.
Can urban design respond to climate, ecology, and governance at once?
This joint MAS moves beyond conventional urban design. It treats territory as an active agent, and design as a tool for synthesis across research, practice, ecology, and governance.
✨ What makes it stand out
— Joint degree by two of Europe’s leading schools
— Strong design + research studio focus
— Deep engagement with climate, post-extraction, planetary urbanisation, and social justice
— Swiss and international case studies with in situ workshops
— Taught fully in English
👤 Who it’s for
Graduates and young professionals in architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, engineering, and related fields who want to connect critical theory, spatial practice, and real territories.
📌 Application deadline: March 31, 2026.
Full programme details via All Things Urban: https://allthingsurban.net/education/509
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MAS UTD ETHZ EPFL – Launch Call for Applications 2026-2027]
The MAS UTD Call for Applications is now open for 2026-2027!
The Master of Advanced Studies in Urban and Territorial Design (MAS UTD) is accepting new applications from January 1-March 31 for the 2026-2027 academic year. The joint MAS programme bridges the ETH Zurich and EPFL Universities, and is part of the Institute of Landscape and Urban Studies (LUS) at the ETH Zurich D-ARCH and the Habitat Research Center (HRC) at the EPFL ENAC. Participants of this one-year, full-time postgraduate programme receive a 60 ECTS joint degree, the “MAS ETH EPFL UTD”.
The future of the urban engages social and environmental imaginaries, which now extend beyond-the-city and beyond-the-human. Rather than an object, the territory becomes a subject in dialogue with other subjects, and space becomes an agent of socioecological change. The urban and territorial project is understood as a possibility to explore common epistemic horizons and new biopolitical paradigms. The MAS programme embraces such a transition as a field of critical and imaginative investigation based on the principles of social and environmental equity and justice. Engaging with notions of transformation, reuse, regeneration, reparation, and transition of habitats and ecologies, the MAS deploys the urban and territorial project as the crucial field of knowledge production across scales.
For further information concerning the programme, tuition fees, and how to apply, please check the link in our bio or contact us:
Info-masutd@ethz.ch
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GRAPHIC DESIGN
Goda Budvytytè
Faire évoluer les pratiques architecturales
Architecte et professeur associé, Emmanuel Rey a fondé le Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) il y a 15 ans. Pionnier de l’intégration
des questions environnementales et climatiques dans la culture du bâti à l’EPFL, il crée inlassablement des synergies entre enseignement, recherche et pratique.
@last_epfl @EPFL @epflenac @epflarchitecture
@bauart.ch
💡 https://actu.epfl.ch/news/faire-evoluer-les-pratiques-architecturales/
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Congratulations to all the winners of the 2025 EPFL Architecture Master Prizes!
Your projects demonstrate an extraordinary breadth of ideas, positions, and impulses, from industrial transformations and inclusive urban strategies to ecological futures and intimate architectural narratives.
We are immensely proud of the creativity and commitment you have brought to your work. Each project reflects the diversity and ambition of a new generation of architects, and it is inspiring to see these visions take form.
Swipe to discover the award-winning projects and the great minds behind them! 🌟🏆
More images on Living Archives!
Image 1
Marie Bourdon and Juliette Lafrasse
De cinq à six. Du hangar commercial à la maison collective
SIA Swiss Award (Mention)
Image 2
Léa Guillotin
Fabriquer Sévelin: l’image de l’industrie en centre-ville
SIA Swiss Award (Mention)
Image 3
Remo Panarese
"Fimmine, Fimmine" - Transformation de l’ancienne manufacture de tabac à Cardigliano en centre de réinsersion pour femmes
SIA Vaud Award
Image 4
Célia Feole
Mind the Gap – Inhabiting Lausanne’s Residual Spaces
SIA Vaud Award
Image 5
Isabel-Marie Grohe and Hanna Lindenberg
PASS THIS ON - Protocols and Fictions for Ruins of Coal Extraction in Germany
SIA Vaud Award
Fondation Arditi Award
FAS Award (Fédération Suisse des Architectes, Romandie et Genève)
Image 6
Gautier Pierrat
De la route au câble : vers un futur sans voiture à La Tzoumaz ?
Ville d’Ecublens Award
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Hanna Hausel
Peeing in Public, Planning and Norming the Network of Inclusive, Safe and Clean Public Toilets in Lausanne
Hackahealth Award
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Felix Balling
In Defence of the Wrinkled, the Chapped and the Rough. Imagining Housing Futures beyond Erasure
WSP Construction et développement durable Award
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflcampus @epflstudents @siavaud @ville_ecublens @ramahackahealth @ws_pa
We are thrilled to announce that Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes will assume the leadership of the MAS UTD at EPFL, effective September 2026, succeeding Prof. Paola Viganò.
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect, urban designer, and Assistant Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology—EPFL, where she leads the laboratory RIOT. Previously Assistant Professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Malterre-Barthes conducts research on contemporary urbanization, material extraction, climate emergency, and ecological/social justice. She holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich on the political economy of commodities in the built environment and is the co-author of several prize-winning books.
This appointment marks a homecoming of sorts: Malterre-Barthes served as Director of the MAS Urban Design at ETH Zurich from 2019 to 2024, bringing extensive experience in leading advanced design programs. We look forward to the new directions she will get to the MAS UTD.
Images:
1. Scales of Extraction after Morphosis, 2022.
2. Zoom of scales of Extraction after Morphosis, 2022.
3. The Political Economy of Space book series, edited by C.Malterre-Barthes RIOT/EPFL, Hatje Cantz.
@riot_epfl @habitat_epfl @epflarchitecture @epflenac @lab_u_epfl @ethzarchitecture @ethzurich @architecture.of.territory
Critiques semestrielles de l'atelier RELIEFS URBAINS
Cette semaine ont eu lieu les critiques semestrielles des ateliers d’architecture à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Pour l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey, ce fut l’occasion de discuter le travail en cours de plus d’une trentaine d’étudiantes et étudiants œuvrant à la conception d’un nouveau quartier situé sur le coteau de la ville de Saint-Gall. Les experts invités à cette occasion étaient Sara Formery, architecte à Lausanne, et Didier Collin, architecte à Genève.
@last_epfl @epflarchitecture @collinfontaine.architectes
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https://actu.epfl.ch/news/critiques-semestrielles-de-l-atelier-reliefs-urb-3
Visite du Collège du Cossy à Nyon
L’unité d’enseignement UPCYCLING, partie intégrante de l’axe « Design intégré, architecture et durabilité (IDEAS) », a effectué une visite architecturale du Collège du Cossy à Nyon. Cette excursion architecturale entre en résonance avec les enjeux abordés dans le cadre de cet enseignement dédié à la conception interdisciplinaire d’un équipement sportif temporaire.
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/visite-du-college-du-cossy-a-nyon-2/
@epflenac @epflarchitecture @last_epfl @sxl.epfl.ch @ittenbrechbuehl
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Rolex Learning Center under the moon.
Architectes : SANAA
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25EPFL TERRITORIAL ACUPUNCTURE
Fall semester at @epfl_architecture, rethinking the potential of public spaces as places of encounter in Aurigeno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, 2025.
Documents from the second semester phase INTUITION: re-imagining the public spaces of Aurigeno through a territorial strategy and reflected in punctual interventions.
Student works by Diane Gasser, Éloïse Fortin, Eléonore Robin, Emile Cornebois, Helori Saout, Ivan Serrano Herrero, Kari Chen, Louis Baldyr-Moulinier, Louis Fillistorf, Luisa Heining, Luisa Luther, Marwan Abansir, Mohamad Ali El Mawla, Nathan Wanner, Nora Guigues, Ostap Pshyk, Paul Delort Laval, Thomas Brütsch, Victor Stasik, Zoé Aymon.
Studio of Visiting Professors Rina Rolli and Tiziano Schürch.
Assistant Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
architecture
25EPFL TERRITORIAL ACUPUNCTURE
Fall semester at @epfl_architecture, rethinking the potential of public spaces as places of encounter in Aurigeno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, 2025.
Documents from the second semester phase INTUITION: re-imagining the public spaces of Aurigeno through a territorial strategy and reflected in punctual interventions.
Student works by Diane Gasser, Éloïse Fortin, Eléonore Robin, Emile Cornebois, Helori Saout, Ivan Serrano Herrero, Kari Chen, Louis Baldyr-Moulinier, Louis Fillistorf, Luisa Heining, Luisa Luther, Marwan Abansir, Mohamad Ali El Mawla, Nathan Wanner, Nora Guigues, Ostap Pshyk, Paul Delort Laval, Thomas Brütsch, Victor Stasik, Zoé Aymon.
Studio of Visiting Professors Rina Rolli and Tiziano Schürch.
Assistant Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
architecture
25EPFL TERRITORIAL ACUPUNCTURE
Fall semester at @epfl_architecture, rethinking the potential of public spaces as places of encounter in Aurigeno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, 2025.
Documents from the second semester phase INTUITION: re-imagining the public spaces of Aurigeno through a territorial strategy and reflected in punctual interventions.
Student works by Diane Gasser, Éloïse Fortin, Eléonore Robin, Emile Cornebois, Helori Saout, Ivan Serrano Herrero, Kari Chen, Louis Baldyr-Moulinier, Louis Fillistorf, Luisa Heining, Luisa Luther, Marwan Abansir, Mohamad Ali El Mawla, Nathan Wanner, Nora Guigues, Ostap Pshyk, Paul Delort Laval, Thomas Brütsch, Victor Stasik, Zoé Aymon.
Studio of Visiting Professors Rina Rolli and Tiziano Schürch.
Assistant Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
architecture
25EPFL TERRITORIAL ACUPUNCTURE
Fall semester at @epfl_architecture, rethinking the potential of public spaces as places of encounter in Aurigeno, Valle Maggia, Ticino, 2025.
Documents from the second semester phase INTUITION: re-imagining the public spaces of Aurigeno through a territorial strategy and reflected in punctual interventions.
Student works by Diane Gasser, Éloïse Fortin, Eléonore Robin, Emile Cornebois, Helori Saout, Ivan Serrano Herrero, Kari Chen, Louis Baldyr-Moulinier, Louis Fillistorf, Luisa Heining, Luisa Luther, Marwan Abansir, Mohamad Ali El Mawla, Nathan Wanner, Nora Guigues, Ostap Pshyk, Paul Delort Laval, Thomas Brütsch, Victor Stasik, Zoé Aymon.
Studio of Visiting Professors Rina Rolli and Tiziano Schürch.
Assistant Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
architecture
On Thursday 20.11 Estefania Mompean Botias will publicly defend her doctoral research entitled:
Architectures of Emergency
Sentinel Attentions and Relational Governance in a Rapidly Changing World
We are living in an age increasingly shaped by a continuous and constructed condition of emergency. Climate disruption, systemic inequality, forced displacement, and ecological degradation are not anomalies but interwoven dynamics that define the present. Emergency has become foundational—an organizing framework that governs how we perceive, inhabit, and respond to a changing world.
Architectures of Emergency examines how emergency is not only managed but actively constructed—with the complicity of architecture, urbanism, and design—as it is sensed, spatialized, and institutionalized across scales.
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The presentation will be held in English and will take place at Archizoom at 16:00. Feel very welcome to join us!
For those who wants to attend online, it is possible via the following link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/61749044521
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @archizoomepfl
Pour une densification qualitative des friches urbaines
Dr. Sophie Lufkin, collaboratrice scientifique au sein du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST), a été invitée à partager son expertise dans le cadre de l’émission télévisée « Couleurs locales », diffusée sur la RTS 1.
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/pour-une-densification-qualitative-des-friches-urb/
@last_epfl @epflarchitecture @epflenac @rts @radiotelevisionsuisse
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The village in a planimetric view 🤍
zürich student drawing illustration masters life design architects architecture
Tout ce qui ne devait jamais être montré.
The Competition / Angel Borrego Cubero / Espagne – Suisse / 2013 / 120’
Immersion dans les ateliers d’architecture de Jean Nouvel, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster et Dominique Perrault lors d’un concours international.
Coulisses explosives, pression et ego démesurés : tout ce qui ne devait jamais être montré.
Haletant. Subversif.
@cinemalagrange @galactica_production
Déclivités urbaines
Nicolas Bassand, chargé de cours à la Haute école de paysage, d’ingénierie et d’architecture de Genève (HEPIA), était l’invité de l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) pour parler de différentes formes d’habitat collectif sur des sites en pente. Intitulée « Déclivités urbaines. Paysages résidentiels en situation de pente », sa conférence a permis aux étudiantes et étudiants de découvrir plusieurs projets contemporains se confrontant aux enjeux spécifiques de sites urbains marqués par des dénivelés importants.
@epflarchitecture @last_epfl @nicolasbassand
_epfl
👉https://actu.epfl.ch/news/declivites-urbaines/
SCHOOL LECTURE 6/7
Tuesday, November 14, 6:30 pm
COMMUNITY VOL.1
Seven exemplary projects and case studies
WEYELL ZIPSE ARCHITEKTEN
COME IN! GUGGACH PRIMARY SCHOOL IN ZURICH
The Guggach Primary School experiments with transformative spatial qualities: its iconic central foyer is designed as an intermediate climate zone that adapts to the changing seasons. Open in summer and enclosed in winter its climate is regulated through manually operated sliding gates and a greenhouse roof. The foyer's three-storey atrium offers open, flexible spaces with a fluid perception, whose use can be continuously re-defined. The lecture will focus on the question of how this space fosters the creation of community within the school and the surrounding neighborhood.
is an architectural practice founded in 2016 in Basel by Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse. Both partners have previously taught at ETH Zurich and were appointed guest professors at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in 2024. The practice was nominated for the Swiss Art Awards in 2021, the DAM Preis 2024 for Architecture in Germany, and received the Best architects 24 award in Gold, as well as the Golden Rabbit for the award ‹Die Besten 2024› for the best building of the year in Switzerland.
Both Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse were appointed members of the FSA (Federation of Swiss Architects) in 2024.
Portrait by Weyell Zipse
Image credits by Daisuke Hirabayashi
School Lecture Series
@epflarchitecture
@weyellzipse
Find the recordings of the lectures on our YouTube channel EPFL Architecture
Graphic design
@romankarrer @timetravel3000
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflstudents @archizoom
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Jeux d’échelle
Han van de Wetering, fondateur de l’atelier Corso à Zurich, était l’invité de l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) pour parler de son travail d’urbaniste à travers deux projets de planification communale. Intitulée « Jeux d’échelle : Entre urbanisme et projet architectural », sa conférence a permis aux étudiantes et étudiants de découvrir des projets de planification urbaine pour les villes de Zoug et Saint-Gall intégrant notamment les multiples enjeux liées la pente.
@last_epfl @epflarchitecture
@Han van de Wetering @atelier corso
_epfl
💡https://actu.epfl.ch/news/jeux-d-echelle
Transparency and curvilinear forms are major challenges when drawing greenhouses and other glass-iron buildings. The latter is brilliantly solved in this drawing of Laeken’s Winter Garden (1874–1876). Designed by the Belgian architect Alphonse Balat (1818–1895) for King Leopold II, this 57-metre-wide, 25-metre-high rotunda, is part of the complex of the Royal Greenhouses of Laeken.
① ② ③ Drawing of the central building.
④ Serres royales de Laeken, 1913, Collection Belfius Banque - Académie royale de Belgique - ARB-urban.brussels
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Second “chapter” of Greenhouse Studies.
Here it goes a photo recap of the first weeks of the design studio Greenhouse Studies II at @east.laboratory @epflarchitecture EPFL. Needless to say how thrilling it is to drive this design studio on a such exciting theme 🌿 Great energy and super group of learners tackling this theme!
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Greenhouse Studies II
Design Studio Bachelor 5 and Master 2 - FS25 EPFL
Instructors: @_tiagopborges_ @frohlich_martin @luciano.antonietti
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Philip Miller (1691–1771) was a botanist and chief gardener at Chelsea Physic Garden @chelsea_physic_garden for a significant period (1722 to 1770). In his book “The Gardeners' Dictionary”, Miller uses this image to illustrate the ideal greenhouse. In this configuration, the two wings — artificial heated stoves — are equipped with flues that ensure the back wall remains heated. Having two wings allowed the cultivation of different types of plants accordingly to their levels of 'hardiness', as Miller explains. The wings could also be divided to provide different levels of warmth. In the area behind the stoves, Miller proposes the construction of an additional row of rooms, or sheds, that will serve both as storage space and, primarily, as a buffer zone. This strategy protected the backwall from the cold and reduced fuel consumption. In Miller's design, these rooms doubled the volume of the main rooms of the greenhouse. This 'ideal' case is an excellent example of the tripartite model seen in many other greenhouses of that period▪️🔲▪️
Caption from the image:
A. The ground plan of the green-house
B.B. The ground plan of the two stoves
C.C.C. The sheds behind of the green-house and stoves
D.D. The passage of communication between the green-house and stoves, where the stairs are placed which lead to the rooms over the green-house.
E.E. The section of the flues in the back of the stoves.
F. The upright of the treen-house and stoves.
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Inktober 2025, day 31, Award 🥇
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