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The SUPERSTUDIO team is happy to launch the second Forum of the semester: DIGEST.
Students, teachers, and guests will gather to discuss on food, power, territory and types.
When: 08 & 09 October
Where: Project Room, SG Building, EPFL
Under the title 'Domesticated Foodscapes,' Superstudio explores hidden perspectives and design strategies related to food, examining its transformative impact on spatial and cultural practices. Since humanity settled down from a nomadic lifestyle as hunter-gatherers, we have continually shaped our environment to accommodate our needs for sustenance, shelter, and community. This ongoing process of cultivation extends from the micro level of our bodies cellular structures to the macro level of territorial ecologies. Among the many products of human labor, food uniquely embodies this interconnection, shaping our identities and intertwining with the landscapes and cities we inhabit. It creates shared cultural patterns and influences a diverse range of architectural typologies. However, since the onset of industrialization and the rise of global transport networks, these typologies have been decoupled from their original territories. Technological advancements have enabled artificial climate zones, while international trade has made food accessible far beyond its place of origin. Although food production continues to shape landscapes today, in many regions it also degrades them - especially where the demand far exceeds local needs.
In light of global population growth, the call for rationalizing food production is growing louder. But does this rationalization come at the expense of local traditions? Are these traditions still viable in the face of contemporary challenges, or are they being eroded by the push toward efficiency? Do we need to rethink the concept of tradition and identity?
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SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES — HOUSING VOL.1 @epflarchitecture
Introducing the first edition of its School Lecture Series for Autumn 2024, the EPFL ENAC School of Architecture invites six architecture offices to discuss affordable housing through six exemplary projects. The series will begin with philosopher Emanuele Coccia, author of The Philosophy of Home.
The aim of these lectures is to not stare to romantically at affordable housing, but rather to show how building affordable housing is both difficult and possible. The lecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher Emanuele Coccia - author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - who will introduce the house as a place where to imagine new and unprecedented communities that can challenge the way in which we build and inhabit housing today.
Save the dates and join us on Tuesday evenings! Find the recordings of the lectures on our YouTube channel @epflarchitectureschool
10.9
Emanuele Coccia
Bringing the Planet Home. Notes on the Future of Domestic Topology
1.10
Summacumfemmer
San Riemo Cooperative Housing, Munich
14.10
Fala Atelier
Cheshire cats & Trojan horses
29.10
Peris+Toral Arquitectes
Modulus Matrix
12.11
RC Architects
Vivoli, Affordable Housing Mumbai
26.11
Plan Común
Architecture of Commons. La ‘Maison Commune’
16.12
Esch Sintzel Architekten
Permanence and transience - Converting a warehouse into a collective residential building
A program proposed by Sophie Delhay and Pier Vittorio Aureli, directors of the Architecture Section and the Institute of Architecture of EPFL.
Graphic design
@romankarrer
@epflenac @epflarchitecture @archizoomepfl
@domestic.city.lab @unicamens @fala.atelier @rc._architects @plancomun_ @eschsintzelarchitekten
SCHOOL LECTURE 2/7
SUMMACUMFEMMER
HOUSING VOL.1
San Riemo Cooperative Housing, Munich
San Riemo is an experimental, cooperative housing project in Munich. It is a built attempt to overcome conventional boundaries of living together, operating both with strict limitations and unexpected opportunities.
Join us Tuesday 1st October at 6.30pm at @epflarchitecture to exchange with the architects Anne Femmer and Florian Summa, founders of the Leipzig office SUMMACUMFEMMER.
Their realized projects include the experimental cooperative residential building San Riemo in Munich, which they designed collaboratively with Büro Juliane Greb. In 2023, they were co-curators of the German Pavilion at the 18th Architecture Biennale in Venice. They have taught at ETH Zurich, TU Munich and TU Graz and are currently visiting professors at the Berlin University of the Arts.
@epflenac @epflarchitecture @archizoomepfl
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Démarrage de l'unité d'enseignement UPCYCLING
Partie intégrante de l’axe « Design intégré, architecture et durabilité (IDEAS) », l’unité d’enseignement UPCYCLING s’intéresse à l’intégration des questions de durabilité au projet architectural sous l’angle de l’économie de moyens. Dédiée à la conception interdisciplinaire d’un pavillon temporaire, elle réunit une quarantaine d’étudiants de l’EPFL, encadrés par des enseignants du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST), du Laboratoire de performance intégrée au design (LIPID) et du Laboratoire d'exploration structurale (SXL).
@epflenac @epflarchitecture @last_epfl @sxl.epfl.ch
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https://actu.epfl.ch/news/demarrage-de-l-unite-d-enseignement-upcycling-5/
It is a pleasure to announce the of a lecture series established in 2023 by the joint effort of the and . Every semester Neighbours gather and in the field of architectural history to present their work or books. Lectures take place on , either during lunch break or in the late afternoon at the Archizoom exhibition space. For more information, visit memento.epfl.ch/architecture.
Lecture Calendar:
25.09, 5pm
Irina Davidovici @idavidovici
The Autonomy of Theory: Ticino Architecture and its Critical Reception
9.10, 12:30pm
Léa-Catherine Szacha @lc_szacka
Paolo Portoghesi: Architecture Between History, Politics and Media
6.11, 6pm
Alfredo Thiermann @athiermann
Radio-Activities: Book Launch with Sarah Nichols and Pier Vittorio Aureli
20.11. 12:30pm
Anooradha Siddiqi @iyersiddiqi
Minnette De Silva: Intersections
4.12 , 12:30pm
Moritz Gleich and Sarine Waltenspül @moritz_gleich
Inhabited Machines and Models in Films
@epflarchitecture @thema_epfl @burning.farm @epflenac
@dominiqueperrault Mechanics Hall @epflcampus Lausanne
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OPEN FIELD LUNCHES
Productive Habitats
24 Sept 2024
12:15 - 14:00 CET
Archizoom EPFL
Productive Habitats: Shaping Urban Environments Through Capital of Industry
The Productive Habitats Open Field Lunch 2024 invites EPFL scholars to critically examine the profound influence of companies in shaping urban environments over the last three centuries. Through their extractive activities and industrial dominance, corporations have not only molded cities, towns, and entire regions, but have also left an indelible mark on the spatial, environmental, and socio-political landscapes.
This interdisciplinary dialogue, hosted by the Habitat Research Center, will explore both the decline and potential resurgence of these corporate-driven settlements. By investigating the relationships between market forces, corporate governance, and societal well-being, this event aims to offer fresh perspectives on the intersection of capitalism and the built environment.
At this occasion, we will welcome as keynote speaker Prof. Víctor Muñoz Sanz from the Department of Urban Design at TU Delft (Netherlands) that will bring how the Bata company built and administrated a “Network Utopia” of towns and settlements in different countries and production sites.
Keynote speaker: Ass Prof Victor Munoz Sanz, TU Delft. “Networked utopia: the architecture and urbanism of the Bata Shoe Company satellite cities”.
EPFL Research presentations:
Elena Calafati, Laboratory of Urbanism EPFL. “Production and real estate. Siemens’ construction of the city”
Anna Karla de Almeida Milani, Habitat Research Center EPFL. “Company towns never died”
Credits for the image: Sanz, VM. Networked Utopia
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CONFERENCE
Monday 23 Septembre 18:30 CET
In collaboration with Archizoom, the Habitat Research Center is delighted to welcome author, photographer, and landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn, Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at MIT, for a lecture and discussion with Professor Paola Viganò (LAB-U EPFL) in the framework of the “Water Designs: l’eau dessine la ville” exhibition.
Anne’s work promotes community-oriented spaces that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, and artful. As she says:
“Human survival depends upon adapting ourselves and our landscapes – cities, buildings, roadways, rivers, fields, forests – in new, life-sustaining ways, shaping places that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, artful, and just, places that help us feel and understand the relationship of the natural and the built. My career as an author, photographer, landscape architect, and teacher has been dedicated to this goal.”
Anne Whiston Spirn is an American landscape architect, photographer, and author. She is a pioneer of a socially engaged design with water. Her work promotes community-oriented spaces that are functional, sustainable, meaningful, and artful. Spirn is Cecil and Ida Green Distinguished Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning of the MIT School of Architecture and Planning. She is the 2001 winner of the International Cosmos Prize.
@epflenac @epflarchitecture @archizoomepfl @mitarchitecture
Visions spatiales pour la ville de demain
Han van de Wetering, fondateur de l’atelier d’urbanisme Van de Wetering 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 « Visions spatiales pour la ville de demain », sa conférence a permis aux étudiantes et étudiants de découvrir des projets urbains pour les villes de Zoug et Neuchâtel, intégrant notamment les mutliples enjeux urbanistiques liées la pente.
@last_epfl @epflarchitecture @epflenac
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https://actu.epfl.ch/news/visions-spatiales-pour-la-ville-de-demain/
Petite chronique sur les ambiguïtés de la densification vers l'intérieur en temps de néolibéralisme. Si le mitage a été le débat phare des dernières décennies c'est peut-être désormais la question du bourrage qui doit être soulevée...pour retrouver les outils d'une densification écologiquement et socialement responsable (lien vers l’article en bio). @lecourrier.ch @epflarchitecture
Kengo Kumas ArtLab @epflcampus Lausanne
3 institutions under a 235m long roof
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Here is the long awaited program !
See you all next Monday !
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SCHOOL LECTURE 1/7
HOUSING VOL.1
Emanuele Coccia
“Bringing the Planet Home. Notes on the Future of Domestic Topology“
Long forgotten by architectural theory, domestic space is the prism through which to rethink the future of the planet. It is by imagining new homes that we will be able to rethink a new politics, a new nature, a new idea of society.
Join us Tuesday 10 September at 6.30pm at @epflarchitecture to exchange with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia.
Philosopher and lecturer at EHESS, Emanuele has been a visiting professor at the universities of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Columbia and Harvard. He is the author of La Vie sensible, The Life of Plants, Métamorphoses and Philosophie de la maison.
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Portrait ©Frank Perri
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Démarrage de l'atelier RELIEFS URBAINS à Neuchâtel
Par une approche se situant à différentes échelles d’intervention – du projet urbain au détail constructif – l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey vise à analyser et explorer les enjeux propres à la contribution du projet architectural à la transition des territoires urbains. Intitulé RELIEFS URBAINS, l’atelier 2024-2025 mènera plus particulièrement ses investigations sur le thème des sites en pente explorant les multiples potentialités de mutation de tels lieux, en se concentrant sur un secteur situé sur le coteau de la ville de Neuchâtel.
@last_epfl @epflarchitecture @epflcampus @epflenac
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https://actu.epfl.ch/news/demarrage-de-l-atelier-reliefs-urbains-a-neuchatel
10 September
Tuesday 19:00 - 20:00
Location: Jardin de circulation, jardin de pluie, Vallée de la Jeunesse, Lausanne
En nous, eau
En nous, eau is a performance by three artists who have graduated from the Manufacture. It’s an opportunity to inaugurate the multifunctional character of the Jardin de circulation through the body in movement, but also to talk about water and how water makes space.
Water, which is the basis of life and therefore of the garden, cannot be used as a tool to rethink urban space separately from our bodies, in which water and material circulate.
Through this performance, we propose to talk about another form of circulation, different from that of the cars at Expo 64 and the bicycles at LausanneJardins24: that of water inside, through and between our bodies.
Performance:
Adina Voldrábová,
Jasmin Sisti,
Judit Waeterschoot
Contact
Ada Massarente
ada.massarente@epfl.ch
@epflenac @epflarchitecture @lausanne.jardins @villelausanne adamassarente
@adina.voldra
@jasminsisti
@judit_waeterschoot
Margaux (1989, La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland) lives in Vevey and works between Berlin and Switzerland. She is a researcher, cultural producer and curator working at the intersection of art, ecology and hospitality. In her work, she prioritizes spaces outside the gallery context and valorizes kitchens, marketplaces, fields, orchards and gardens as potent spaces for transmission of knowledge and know-how.
She graduated with a degree in Hospitality Science from the EHL School and hold a CAS in cultural policy and practices from the University of Lausanne. In 2017, she founded foodculture days, a knowledge-sharing platform around food ecologies and politics. The platform conducts field research, a cultural mediation program and an online editorial project called Boca A Boca. These ongoing meetings and exchanges culminate in a one week Biennale held in Vevey every odd year and hosting a multitude of creative and culinary interventions such as visual art exhibitions and installation in public spaces, talks, thematic and collective meals, cooking sessions and performances.
In her research, The Swiss-Mexican curator explores the interactions between territories, ecologies, and food cultures to (re)discover the multiple meanings and functions of the edible in daily life, as well as the tangible or imperceptible impact of our choices on the global environment. At a time when ecological and social issues affect an ever-increasing number of living organisms, her projects bring together artists, architects, scientists, farmers, cooks, winemakers, anthropologists, philosophers, activists, ecologists, gardeners, local experts and elders to mediate knowledge-transfer between them. To do so, she focuses on the notion of hospitality, conviviality, and access to culture and art where food is considered as a research subject, a medium, a material, a way to connect with our environment and/or a tool of resistance.
Web: www.foodculturedays.com
Instagram: @margauxschwab @foodculturedays
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The SUPERSTUDIO team is happy to launch the new semester with the Forum 1: Focus.
Students, teachers, and guests will gather to discuss on food, power, territory and types.
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When: 10 & 11 September
Where: AAC231, SG Building, EPFL
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Blaise Hofmann
Julia von Mende
Maarit Ströbele
Johnny Fleury
Catherine Mcneur
Roland Fuhrmann
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Under the title 'Domesticated Foodscapes,' Superstudio explores hidden perspectives and design strategies related to food, examining its transformative impact on spatial and cultural practices. Since humanity settled down from a nomadic lifestyle as hunter-gatherers, we have continually shaped our environment to accommodate our needs for sustenance, shelter, and community. This ongoing process of cultivation extends from the micro level of our bodies cellular structures to the macro level of territorial ecologies. Among the many products of human labor, food uniquely embodies this interconnection, shaping our identities and intertwining with the landscapes and cities we inhabit. It creates shared cultural patterns and influences a diverse range of architectural typologies. However, since the onset of industrialization and the rise of global transport networks, these typologies have been decoupled from their original territories. Technological advancements have enabled artificial climate zones, while international trade has made food accessible far beyond its place of origin. Although food production continues to shape landscapes today, in many regions it also degrades them - especially where the demand far exceeds local needs.
In light of global population growth, the call for rationalizing food production is growing louder. But does this rationalization come at the expense of local traditions? Are these traditions still viable in the face of contemporary challenges, or are they being eroded by the push toward efficiency? Do we need to rethink the concept of tradition and identity?
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SCHOOL LECTURE 1/7
Emanuele Coccia
HOUSING VOL.1
Bringing the Planet Home. Notes on the Future of Domestic Topology
Long forgotten by architectural theory, domestic space is the prism through which to rethink the future of the planet. It is by imagining new homes that we will be able to rethink a new politics, a new nature, a new idea of society.
Join us Tuesday 10 September at 6.30pm at @epflarchitecture to exchange with the philosopher Emanuele Coccia.
Philosopher and lecturer at EHESS, Emanuele has been a visiting professor at the universities of Tokyo, Buenos Aires, Düsseldorf, Columbia and Harvard. He is the author of La Vie sensible, The Life of Plants, Métamorphoses and Philosophie de la maison.
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@unicamens
@epflenac @epflarchitecture @archizoomepfl
@sophie.delhay.architecte @unicamens ity design
*NEW PROGRAM*
SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES — HOUSING VOL.1
Introducing the first edition of its School Lecture Series for Autumn 2024, the EPFL ENAC School of Architecture invites six architecture offices to discuss affordable housing through six exemplary projects. The series will begin with philosopher Emanuele Coccia, author of The Philosophy of Home.
The aim of these lectures is to not stare too romantically at affordable housing, but rather to show how building affordable housing is both difficult and possible. The lecture series will be inaugurated by philosopher Emanuele Coccia - author of the acclaimed book The Philosophy of Home - who will introduce the house as a place where to imagine new and unprecedented communities that can challenge the way in which we build and inhabit housing today.
Save the dates and join us on Tuesday evenings!
10.9
Emanuele Coccia
Bringing the Planet Home. Notes on the Future of Domestic Topology
1.10
Summacumfemmer
San Riemo Cooperative Housing, Munich
14.10
Fala Atelier
Cheshire cats & Trojan horses
29.10
Peris+Toral Arquitectes
Modulus Matrix
12.11
RC Architects
Vivoli, Affordable Housing Mumbai
26.11
Plan Común
Architecture of Commons. La ‘Maison Commune’
16.12
Esch Sintzel Architekten
Permanence and transience - Converting a warehouse into a collective residential building
A program proposed by Sophie Delhay and Pier Vittorio Aureli, directors of the Architecture Section and the Institute of Architecture of EPFL.
Graphic design
@romankarrer
@epflenac @epflarchitecture @archizoomepfl
@sophie.delhay.architecte @unicamens @fala.atelier @rc._architects @plancomun_ @eschsintzelarchitekten
ity design
LUCIANO ANTONIETTI is a swiss architect and founder of the Lausanne Office of Architecture forme commune. He holds a master’s degree from EPFL. His research focused on the resilience of the suburban area to modify its environmental impact by incorporating interstitial spaces as a common subject. This ongoing research questions the cultural state of the Swiss suburban garden – seen as a simple, green, monotonous lawn accompanied by a large stoning of the left-over spaces.
Alongside his architectural practice at forme commune, Luciano co-founded the publishing association for Swiss building culture - la méduse - with Tiffanie Paré, Basil Merz and Mathias Helfenstein. Through publishing and events, the association's aim is to present the critical mass Swiss of quality comprises Swiss architecture, enabling it to be the silent foundation on which iconic architecture and architects are built.
Web: https://formecommune.ch/
Instagram: @formecommune
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2/ Au-dessus du gazon, le brouillard – Lausanne Jardins 2024 ©Julien Heil
3/ Emilienne Farny - Le bonheur Suisse, 1985
4/ Journée de déménagement - alpage famille Murith
5/ Dolores Hayden – What Would a Non-Sexist City Be Like?
6/ S.O.S. l’espace public ©formecommune
7/ John Hedjuk - Mask of Medusa
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