Double Shot 💛 Thank You @ everyone of you @ baubūro In Situ & B.Lambec @ F AR / EPFL & L’archipel for good Wibes 💛
Double Shot 💛 Thank You @ everyone of you @ baubūro In Situ & B.Lambec @ F AR / EPFL & L’archipel for good Wibes 💛
Série photographique part 3 « Energiezentrale Josefstrasse par @graberpulver »
Située dans le quartier de Zürich-West, l’Energiezentrale Josefstrasse est issue de la transformation de l’ancienne usine d’incinération des déchets, mise en service en 1904. Le projet conserve une partie de la structure existante tout en la transformant en une centrale moderne dédiée au stockage, au traitement et à la distribution de chaleur à distance.
Le bâtiment s’inscrit aujourd’hui dans un quartier urbain en pleine mutation. L’enjeu architectural était de faire cohabiter une infrastructure technique de grande échelle avec un environnement désormais résidentiel et public.
La volumétrie, composée de plusieurs niveaux et de volumes décalés, traduit la complexité des installations techniques qu’elle abrite : réservoirs de chaleur, chaudières, pompes et réseaux de distribution. La structure existante en béton et en acier est enveloppée d’une façade composée de verre coulé bleuté et de bandes d’aluminium brut.
- Josefstrasse 205, Zürich, Suisse
- 2024
📷 Sony a7IV
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Série photographique part 2 « Energiezentrale Josefstrasse par @graberpulver »
Située dans le quartier de Zürich-West, l’Energiezentrale Josefstrasse est issue de la transformation de l’ancienne usine d’incinération des déchets, mise en service en 1904. Le projet conserve une partie de la structure existante tout en la transformant en une centrale moderne dédiée au stockage, au traitement et à la distribution de chaleur à distance.
Le bâtiment s’inscrit aujourd’hui dans un quartier urbain en pleine mutation. L’enjeu architectural était de faire cohabiter une infrastructure technique de grande échelle avec un environnement désormais résidentiel et public.
La volumétrie, composée de plusieurs niveaux et de volumes décalés, traduit la complexité des installations techniques qu’elle abrite : réservoirs de chaleur, chaudières, pompes et réseaux de distribution. La structure existante en béton et en acier est enveloppée d’une façade composée de verre coulé bleuté et de bandes d’aluminium brut.
- Josefstrasse 205, Zürich, Suisse
- 2024
📷 Sony a7IV
Tous droits réservés, photos soumises au droit d’auteur.
photography daily architecture
Série photographique part 1 « Energiezentrale Josefstrasse par @graberpulver »
Située dans le quartier de Zürich-West, l’Energiezentrale Josefstrasse est issue de la transformation de l’ancienne usine d’incinération des déchets, mise en service en 1904. Le projet conserve une partie de la structure existante tout en la transformant en une centrale moderne dédiée au stockage, au traitement et à la distribution de chaleur à distance.
Le bâtiment s’inscrit aujourd’hui dans un quartier urbain en pleine mutation. L’enjeu architectural était de faire cohabiter une infrastructure technique de grande échelle avec un environnement désormais résidentiel et public.
La volumétrie, composée de plusieurs niveaux et de volumes décalés, traduit la complexité des installations techniques qu’elle abrite : réservoirs de chaleur, chaudières, pompes et réseaux de distribution. La structure existante en béton et en acier est enveloppée d’une façade composée de verre coulé bleuté et de bandes d’aluminium brut.
- Josefstrasse 205, Zürich, Suisse
- 2024
📷 Sony a7IV
Tous droits réservés, photos soumises au droit d’auteur.
photography daily architecture
Call for Semester Projects
How much of what makes a building is hidden and uncounted?
ENAC Semester Project: Unearthing Foundations
Fall 2026 · 4 ECTS
Open to SAR and SGC students and contributing to an Archizoom exhibition in Fall 2027
Supervised by THEMA (SAR) and CONSTRUCT (SGC)
See link in bio
architecture
We will forensically and critically reconstruct building foundations to understand the materials and embodied carbon hidden beneath them.
ENAC Semester Project: Unearthing Foundations
Fall 2026 · 4 ECTS
Open to SAR and SGC students and contributing to an Archizoom exhibition in Fall 2027
Supervised by THEMA (SAR) and CONSTRUCT (SGC)
See link in bio
architecture
Student-led research can deploy drawings, physical modeling, and carbon accounting - see link in bio
ENAC Semester Project: Unearthing Foundations
Fall 2026 · 4 ECTS
Open to SAR and SGC students and contributing to an Archizoom exhibition in Fall 2027
Supervised by THEMA (SAR) and CONSTRUCT (SGC)
See link in bio
architecture
We will forensically and critically reconstruct building foundations to understand the materials and embodied carbon hidden beneath them.
ENAC Semester Project: Unearthing Foundations
Fall 2026 · 4 ECTS
Open to SAR and SGC students and contributing to an Archizoom exhibition in Fall 2027
Supervised by THEMA (SAR) and CONSTRUCT (SGC)
See link in bio
architecture
Call for Semester Projects
How much of what makes a building is hidden and uncounted?
ENAC Semester Project: Unearthing Foundations
Fall 2026 · 4 ECTS
Open to SAR and SGC students and contributing to an Archizoom exhibition in Fall 2027
Supervised by THEMA (SAR) and CONSTRUCT (SGC)
See link in bio
architecture
Student-led research can deploy drawings, physical modeling, and carbon accounting - see link in bio
ENAC Semester Project: Unearthing Foundations
Fall 2026 · 4 ECTS
Open to SAR and SGC students and contributing to an Archizoom exhibition in Fall 2027
Supervised by THEMA (SAR) and CONSTRUCT (SGC)
See link in bio
architecture
SCHOOL LECTURE 1/6
Tuesday, September 8, Foyer SG, 18:15
LEARNING VOL.1
STEFANA PARASCHO + AUDE BILLARD
Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites?
What if robots didn’t replace people, but worked alongside us to conceive, plan and build architecture? While digitalisation is reshaping the built environment, most efforts have centered on automation and substitution, with little real impact on how we design or build. The talk argues that adaptability - not automation - is the key to sustainable architectural and construction impact. It highlights autonomous systems that adjust structural and spatial strategies in real time, and human-robot interaction models that keep human judgment central.
Stefana Parascho is an architect, researcher, and educator exploring the intersection of architecture, robotics, and computational design. She is an Assistant Professor at EPFL and head of the Lab for Creative Computation. Her work focuses on human-robot collaboration, robotic construction, and accessible digital tools. She holds a PhD from ETH Zurich and taught at Princeton University.
Aude Billard is a full professor and head of the LASA laboratory at EPFL, and a pioneer in machine learning and human-robot interaction. She is President-elect of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society and an IEEE Fellow, with numerous prestigious awards including the Intel Teaching Award and IEEE RAS Distinguished Award.
EXHIBITION OPENING LECTURE
Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites?
09.09-05.12.2026 @archizoomepfl
Produced with the Lab for Creative Computation (CRCL)
School Lecture Series
@epflarchitecture
@stefanaaa @crcl_epfl
Recordings available on YouTube
@epflarchitectureschool
Images
1 ReConfig CRCL EPFL, Alberto Johnsson
3 Exhibition « Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites? », Archizoom
5 LightVault, © Maciej Grzeskowiak
6 Stefana Parascho, © Mathias Bernhard
7 Aude Billard, © Alain Herzog
Graphic design
@romankarrer @timetravel3000
livingarchives architecture architects epflenac @archizoom @epflenac @epflcampus @epflculture
SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES
AUTUMN 2026
LEARNING VOL.1
We are told that learning is no longer confined to the school or the university, but it has become a continuous process that involves the totality of life. Yet in accepting this reality, we take for granted several questions that loom large within the contemporary idea of learning. In a time when technology and information are ubiquitous, does it still make sense that for learning to happen or be confined within a place? Is learning still an asymmetrical relationship where there are teachers and a student? And above all, is learning accessible, or has it become too expensive a commodity? In this lecture series, we’ll attempt to answer these questions by investigating learning on different levels such as technology, construction systems, educational spaces, and above all, making architecture. Indeed, the question that is more than anything else crucial to us is whether architecture is still a place of learning and not only of empowering those who have capital to build it. We will look at schools, drawings, robots, and measuring devices. We will ponder whether these things are only ‘tools’ to achieve a result or can still be vital places for learning.
PROGRAMME
Tuesdays, 18:30, Foyer, SG Building, EPFL
8.9
STEFANA PARASCHO + AUDE BILLARD @stefanaaa @crcl_epfl
Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites?
18:15 Exhibition Opening Lecture @archizoomepfl
22.9
ELLI MOSAYEBI, EMI ARCHITEKT*INNEN @emiarchitektinnen
Chliriet Secondary School Building
6.10
JO TAILLIEU @jotaillieuarchitecten
1:33/1:2
Special book sale
27.10
THOMAS FRIBERG + SOPHIE PITICCO, POOL ARCHITEKTUR @poolarchitektur
Building for Disassembly
10.11
NP2F ARCHITECTES @np2f
IMVT – Supporter de la Ville
24.11
PAOLO TOMBESI @paolotombesi
The extraction of value – Measurements, materials and craft
Exhibition Opening Lecture @archizoomepfl
Recordings available on YouTube
@epflarchitectureschool
School Lecture Series
@epflarchitecture
Graphic design
@romankarrer @timetravel3000
livingarchives architecture epflenac @archizoom @epflenac @epflcampus @epflculture
The publication of “Order and Disorder: Selected Essays and Interviews by Manfredo Tafuri 1964–1994” marks the first volume in a book series initiated by the Laboratory of Theory and Project of Domestic Space at EPFL.
Edited by , , , and , with the assistance of , the anthology brings together selected essays and interviews by one of the most influential architectural historians and theorists of the twentieth century.
Covering ’s career from 1964 to 1994, the volume presents the wide scope of his work, with many texts translated into English for the first time. Including more than 700 images and a biographical essay by Tafuri's wife Letizia Rapisarda, the book explores Tafuri’s writings on architectural ideology, capitalist development, the Soviet avant-garde, Renaissance urbanism, and architects such as Giulio Romano, Le Corbusier, Aldo Rossi, and Carlo Scarpa.
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @birkhauser_books @burning.farm @dogma.name @marsonkorbi @theodoritos @jolandadevalle @romain.bth campus
Link
https://birkhauser.com/en/book/9783035628203
Part 3 Master Projects 2026
Congratulations to all the graduates for the dedication, curiosity, and commitment reflected in their work, and thank you to the invited critics, faculty, and everyone who contributed to making this edition of the Master Projects Exhibition and Final Juries possible.
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflcampus @epflstudents students project models
Photography: Ben Begon @ben_begon
Part 2 Master Projects 2026
The projects revealed a wide range of positions and methods. Developed independently, they nevertheless converged around shared concerns for contemporary architecture, engaging with questions of territory and public space, housing, industrial and cultural heritage, and architecture in mountain environments.
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflcampus @epflstudents students project models lover daily detail
Photography: Ben Begon @ben_begon
Part 1
Master Projects 2026
In July 2026, the Rolex Learning Center became a place of exchange around the Master Projects in Architecture at EPFL. Bringing together the final juries and the exhibition, the event offered a moment to reflect on a year of research, design, and experimentation, while opening this work to discussion with invited critics, faculty, students, and the public.
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflcampus @epflstudents students project models lover daily detail
Photography: Ben Begon @ben_begon
Série photographique part 3 « Résidence pour personnes âgées par @loeligerstrubarchitektur »
Le projet réinterprète le tissu urbain existant avec une maison de rue et une maison sur cour reliées par des espaces communs paysagers. Il valorise le patrimoine, favorise la convivialité et propose deux typologies d'habitat : une maison de rue au caractère classique et des appartements sur cour à l'architecture plus contemporaine, ouverts sur des espaces verts et des aménagements partagés.
- Zurich, Waffenplatzstrasse 18 ( 2024 )
- 26/07/2026
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Série photographique part 2 « Résidence pour personnes âgées par @loeligerstrubarchitektur »
Le projet réinterprète le tissu urbain existant avec une maison de rue et une maison sur cour reliées par des espaces communs paysagers. Il valorise le patrimoine, favorise la convivialité et propose deux typologies d'habitat : une maison de rue au caractère classique et des appartements sur cour à l'architecture plus contemporaine, ouverts sur des espaces verts et des aménagements partagés.
- Zurich, Waffenplatzstrasse 18 ( 2024 )
- 26/07/2026
📷 Sony a7IV
Tous droits réservés, photos soumises au droit d’auteur.
photography daily architecture
Série photographique part 1 « Résidence pour personnes âgées par @loeligerstrubarchitektur »
Le projet réinterprète le tissu urbain existant avec une maison de rue et une maison sur cour reliées par des espaces communs paysagers. Il valorise le patrimoine, favorise la convivialité et propose deux typologies d'habitat : une maison de rue au caractère classique et des appartements sur cour à l'architecture plus contemporaine, ouverts sur des espaces verts et des aménagements partagés.
- Zurich, Waffenplatzstrasse 18 ( 2024 )
- 26/07/2026
📷 Sony a7IV
Tous droits réservés, photos soumises au droit d’auteur.
photography daily architecture
Depuis mercredi dernier et cette semaine ont eu lieu les jurys des projets de master en architecture à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Les thématiques développées par les diplômantes et diplômants du LAST passent de la rénovation et adaptation typologique d’un ensemble de logements abordables, à la transformation d’un bâtiment industriel voué à la démolition, ou encore à la résilience face aux risques d’inondation d’un village vulnérable, et sont explorées par le projet architectural. Les projets évoquent tous les possibilités de transition du cadre bâti dans une perspective de société bas-carbone. L’exposition publique est à découvrir au Rolex Learning Center jusqu’au vendredi 30 juillet.
@last_epfl @epflenac @epflarchitecture
_epfl
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/last/index-html/teaching/masters-projects/juillet.
https://memento.epfl.ch/event/projets-de-master-2/
Depuis mercredi dernier et cette semaine encore ont lieu les jurys des projets de master en architecture à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Les thématiques développées par les diplômantes et diplômants du LAST passent de la rénovation et adaptation typologique d’un ensemble de logements abordables, à la transformation d’un bâtiment industriel voué à la démolition, ou encore à la résilience face aux risques d’inondation d’un village vulnérable, et sont explorées par le projet architectural. Les projets évoquent tous les possibilités de transition du cadre bâti dans une perspective de société bas-carbone. L’exposition publique est à découvrir au Rolex Learning Center jusqu’au samedi 31 juillet.
@last_epfl @epflenac @epflarchitecture
_epfl
https://www.epfl.ch/labs/last/index-html/teaching/masters-projects/
https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/education/architecture/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/EPFL_Architecture_PDM2026_Final-Juries-Timetable_A5_digital_spreads.pdf
The final works of the Master’s students unfold as the outcome of individual journeys of research, exploration, and design. Each project traces its own path, yet together they open a shared field of questions about architecture today, spanning territory and public space, housing, industrial and cultural heritage, and architecture in the mountains. As the Final Juries take place, each project enters into dialogue with invited critics and faculty, revealing not only proposals, but also the questions, intentions, and explorations that shaped them.
Final Juries: 8.-15.7.26
Exhibtion: 8.-30.7.26
Rolex Learning Center
EPFL, Lausanne
Final Juries Timetable ↗︎
go.epfl.ch/sar-pdm-horaire-jurys-finaux-juillet
Projects: Master’s students in architecture; Juries: Corinne Waridel; Exhibition: Zoé Bahy, Sophie Delhay, Corinne Waridel; Graphic design: Sandi Gazic & Roman Karrer; Event: Valérie Jacot-Descombes (MEDIACOM); Setting-up: ISS Team
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflcampus @epflstudents architecturalexhibition livingarchives epflmasterprojects architecturestudents architectureproject architecturemodels models_architecture architecturelover architecturedaily architecturedetail GraphicDesign @romankarrer SandiGazic @timetravel3000
Part 5 End of Year Show 2026 – Projects
As we share this final glimpse of the End of Year Show 2026, we would like to thank everyone who contributed to making this final week possible, and Ben Bégon for capturing these moments so beautifully.
Wishing you all a rich summer of exploration, rest, and well-deserved disconnection, and courage to our Master's students for the final stretch.
To our Master's students, we wish you the very best for the final stretch before the juries, which will begin at the Rolex Learning Center on July 8, 2026. See you there!
More projects on livingarchives.epfl.ch
STUDIOS
First year
@alice_epfl
Second year
@assembleofficial @assemble_studio_epfl @gaymenzel @studio.gaymenzel @last_epfl @jotaillieuarchitecten @truwantrodet @uncertainconditions
Third / Fourth year
@adherstudio @domestic.city.lab @doscre_office @east.laboratory @fala.atelier @ibois_epfl @lab_u_epfl @mxd_epfl @riot_epfl @studio_tiziano_schuerch @ofreia_architecture @architecte.salimanaji @scheideggerkeller @texas.studio.epfl
Images: Ben Bégon
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflstudents @epflcampus
Part 4 End of Year Show 2026 – Projects
Another glimpse of the projects presented during the End of Year Show 2026 at EPFL Architecture. The exhibition showcases the breadth of questions, ambitions, and architectural explorations developed across the school throughout the semester.
More projects on livingarchives.epfl.ch
STUDIOS
First year
@alice_epfl
Second year
@assembleofficial @assemble_studio_epfl @gaymenzel @studio.gaymenzel @last_epfl @jotaillieuarchitecten @truwantrodet @uncertainconditions
Third / Fourth year
@adherstudio @domestic.city.lab @doscre_office @east.laboratory @fala.atelier @ibois_epfl @lab_u_epfl @mxd_epfl @riot_epfl @studio_tiziano_schuerch @ofreia_architecture @architecte.salimanaji @scheideggerkeller @texas.studio.epfl
Images: Ben Bégon
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflstudents @epflcampus
Congratulations to (TEXAS) who has received the Poster Award at the for the poster: “City of Watts: Wars, Norms and Foam – The Invention of an Architectural Language (1977–1998)”. His research explores how the 1970s energy crisis, emerging thermal regulations, and new construction technologies transformed architectural thinking in Switzerland. By tracing the rise of the airtight building envelope and its influence on architectural form, the project reveals how technical, political, and material constraints became catalysts for design innovation.
“This poster is a wall section, read from inside (left) to outside (right). But a wall does not work in single file: its layers act together. A wall is, in Bruno Latour’s sense, a composite — a heterogeneous assembly whose elements (matter, norm, form) hold only by holding one another, and which no linear account can unbraid into causes and effects, before and after. The three columns are therefore three simultaneous readings of one object, not three stages of a story. What appears on the right (form) was already at work on the left; what stands on the left (matter, norm) exists fully only once it is given form.” (Tanguy Auffret Postel, “City of Watts: Wars, Norms and Foam – The Invention of an Architectural Language (1977–1998)”.)
@texas.studio.epfl
@tanguyap
@m_ap_architectes
Images
1: ENAC Research Day 2026, Poster Award Winner: Tanguy Auffret Postel (TEXAS) for the poster “City of Watts” © EPFL ENAC
2: RDB / Ringier Dokumentation Bild — © Staatsarchiv Aargau.
3: SIA — © SIA.
4: Dow Chemical Company — © Science History Institute.
5: Technische Mitteilungen PTT, no. 10/1978, p. 406 — © Comtec.
6: Herzog & de Meuron, Frei Photographic Studio, 1981 — © Herzog & de Meuron.
7: Gigon Guyer Architekten — © Gigon Guyer.
8: Diener & Diener, Administration building, Hochstrasse, Basel, 1985–1988 / Photo: D.R.
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflstudents @epflcampus @texas.studio.epfl
Part 3 End of Year Show 2026 – Celebration and good bye
During the apero organised by the student association ASAR, students, assistants, faculty, and staff gathered to celebrate another year together.
It was also an occasion to mark the conclusion of Assemble and Gay Menzel’s five-year visiting teaching engagement with us. Through their studios, they have offered a distinctive approach to architectural education, encouraging experimentation, collaboration, and critical thinking within practice.
We are very grateful to them and their teams for their energy, generosity, and all they have shared with our school over these past five years. It has been a real pleasure to have them with us, and they will be missed. We wish them all the best for what comes next in their professional and academic journeys.
@assemble_studio_epfl @assembleofficial
@gaymenzel @studio.gaymenzel
Images: Ben Bégon
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflstudents @epflcampus