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
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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
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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
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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)”.)
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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.
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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
Part 2 End of Year Show 2026 – Projects
The End of Year Show brings together work developed at EPFL Architecture across all years and studios, reflecting the diversity of approaches, questions, and forms of architectural practice explored 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 @t@texas.studio.epfl
Images: Ben Bégon
@epflarchitecture @epflenac @epflstudents @epflcampus
Part 1 End of Year Show 2026 – Opening
We are delighted to share a glimpse of some memorable moments from the End of Year Show 2026. Congratulations to all, and thank you for bringing life, inspiration, and such care to your work and to our school.
This edition was also marked by an important milestone: the conclusion of Professor Paola Viganò’s teaching at EPFL after more than a decade leading the Lab-U. Over the past thirteen years, she has profoundly shaped generations of students through her teaching, research, and engagement with contemporary urban questions. We are deeply grateful for her lasting contribution to our community. We extend our warmest thanks to her and her team for their unwavering commitment and for the valuable knowledge they have shared. We will miss them and wish them every success in their future endeavours.
Images: Ben Bégon
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Architizer A+ Awards
Le projet Creative Factory du bureau Bauart, dont le Prof. Emmanuel Rey du Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST) est associé, a remporté le prix du jury de la 14e édition des Architizer A+ Awards dans la catégorie "Projet de réaffectation résidentielle", lauréat parmi des candidatures provenant de plus de 80 pays. Les Architizer A+ Awards mettent à l’honneur chaque année une sélection de réalisations architecturales remarquables à travers le monde.
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👏 Architizer A+Awards : https://winners.architizer.com/2026/Typology/residential-15/residential-adaptive-reuse-project-2/
👉 Plus d’info : https://actu.epfl.ch/news/architizer-a-awards-2/#
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Série photographique part 3 « Les Maisons Mainou, état des lieux et lecture du site »
Les Maisons Mainou sont un ensemble de bâtiments patrimoniaux situés à Vandœuvres, dans le canton de Genève. Gérées par la Fondation Johnny Aubert-Tournier, elles accueillent des résidences d’écriture pour des auteurs, dramaturges et compositeurs. Implanté dans un cadre rural et calme, le lieu favorise la création artistique, les échanges culturels et le développement de projets liés aux arts de la scène.
- Vandœuvres
- 07/06/2026
📷 Sony a7IV
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Série photographique part 2 « Les Maisons Mainou, état des lieux et lecture du site »
Les Maisons Mainou sont un ensemble de bâtiments patrimoniaux situés à Vandœuvres, dans le canton de Genève. Gérées par la Fondation Johnny Aubert-Tournier, elles accueillent des résidences d’écriture pour des auteurs, dramaturges et compositeurs. Implanté dans un cadre rural et calme, le lieu favorise la création artistique, les échanges culturels et le développement de projets liés aux arts de la scène.
- Vandœuvres
- 07/06/2026
📷 Sony a7IV
Tous droits réservés, photos soumises au droit d’auteur.
photography daily architecture
Série photographique part 1 « Les Maisons Mainou, état des lieux et lecture du site »
Les Maisons Mainou sont un ensemble de bâtiments patrimoniaux situés à Vandœuvres, dans le canton de Genève. Gérées par la Fondation Johnny Aubert-Tournier, elles accueillent des résidences d’écriture pour des auteurs, dramaturges et compositeurs. Implanté dans un cadre rural et calme, le lieu favorise la création artistique, les échanges culturels et le développement de projets liés aux arts de la scène.
- Vandœuvres
- 07/06/2026
📷 Sony a7IV
Tous droits réservés, photos soumises au droit d’auteur.
photography daily architecture
Des maillages fertiles au service de la transition urbaine
Le dernier numéro des Cahiers d’EspaceSuisse publie un article consacré au projet de recherche Maillages fertiles, développé par le Laboratoire d’architecture et technologies durables (LAST). Cette contribution met en évidence les travaux menés sur le rôle des espaces publics végétalisés dans les processus de transition écologique et d’adaptation au changement climatique.
https://actu.epfl.ch/news/des-maillages-fertiles-au-service-de-la-transition/
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Série photographique part 3 « Centre d’hébergement de Rigot (Suisse) par @acauarchitecture »
Le Centre d’hébergement de Rigot est un ensemble de logements temporaires situé à Genève, conçu pour accueillir 370 résidents. Le projet est composé de deux bâtiments symétriques de cinq niveaux réalisés à partir de modules préfabriqués en bois. Pensé comme une réponse rapide à une situation d’urgence, il privilégie la flexibilité des logements tout en valorisant la filière locale du bois genevois dans son processus constructif.
- Genève ( Février 2016 – Juillet 2019 )
- 26/05/2026
📷 Sony a7IV
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Série photographique part 2 « Centre d’hébergement de Rigot (Suisse) par @acauarchitecture »
Le Centre d’hébergement de Rigot est un ensemble de logements temporaires situé à Genève, conçu pour accueillir 370 résidents. Le projet est composé de deux bâtiments symétriques de cinq niveaux réalisés à partir de modules préfabriqués en bois. Pensé comme une réponse rapide à une situation d’urgence, il privilégie la flexibilité des logements tout en valorisant la filière locale du bois genevois dans son processus constructif.
- Genève ( Février 2016 – Juillet 2019 )
- 26/05/2026
📷 Sony a7IV
Tous droits réservés, photos soumises au droit d’auteur.
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Série photographique part 1 « Centre d’hébergement de Rigot (Suisse) par @acauarchitecture »
Le Centre d’hébergement de Rigot est un ensemble de logements temporaires situé à Genève, conçu pour accueillir 370 résidents. Le projet est composé de deux bâtiments symétriques de cinq niveaux réalisés à partir de modules préfabriqués en bois. Pensé comme une réponse rapide à une situation d’urgence, il privilégie la flexibilité des logements tout en valorisant la filière locale du bois genevois dans son processus constructif.
- Genève ( Février 2016 – Juillet 2019 )
- 26/05/2026
📷 Sony a7IV
Tous droits réservés, photos soumises au droit d’auteur.
photography daily architecture
Critiques finales de l'atelier RELIEFS URBAINS
Les critiques finales de l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey ont eu lieu fin mai à l’Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne. Ce fut l’occasion de découvrir le travail intense, original et fructueux de plus d’une trentaine d’étudiantes et étudiants ayant travaillé sur la conception d’un nouveau quartier sur le coteau de la ville de Saint-Gall. Les experts invités à cette occasion étaient Sibylle Kössler, architecte à Lausanne, et Didier Collin, architecte à Genève.
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@tim.beuret.photo
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https://actu.epfl.ch/news/critiques-finales-de-l-atelier-reliefs-urbains-4/
Critiques finales de l’atelier RELIEFS URBAINS
Cette semaine ont lieu les critiques finales de l’atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey où trente étudiantes et étudiants présentent leur réponse unique à la conception d’un nouveau quartier dans les hauteurs de St-Gallen. Les critiques sont particulièrement marquées par la présentation du travail à travers plusieurs échelles allant du projet urbain jusqu’au détail constructif, soulignant leur engagement envers des solutions innovantes et durables avec une compréhension intégrée des interactions entre différentes échelles urbaines et architecturales.
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Montage End of Year Show 2026
Cette semaine se déroulent les jurys et expositions de fin d’année de la Section d’Architecture de l’EPFL. Les jurys de l'atelier du Prof. Emmanuel Rey au Laboratoire d'architecture et technologies durables (LAST) auront lieu du mercredi 27 au jeudi 28, et l’exposition restera ouverte jusqu’au vendredi 29 mai.
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⚠️ Étudiants de première année en architecture EPFL • automne ’26 ⏳👀
Expérience de géométrie appliquée sur un petit monstre 🧩👾
avec Marie-Pierre Zufferey, CRCL
De la géométrie numérique à l’objet physique 👩🏻💻🖨️
Monstre-puzzle imprimé en 3D pour explorer la symétrie, la rotation, l’assemblage et le passage entre mondes virtuel et matériel 🌀
Avec une structure interne allégée 𐄳
tout en conservant la rigidité 📐
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🌐 First-year Architecture students EPFL • Fall ’26 ⏳👀
A geometric experiment on a small monster 🧩👾
with Marie-Pierre Zufferey, CRCL
From digital geometry to physical object 👩🏻💻🖨️
3D-printed puzzle-monster for symmetry, rotation, assembly and transition between virtual and material worlds 🌀
Lightweight internal grid structure 𐄳
while maintaining rigidity 📐
🏟️Not a stadium! A Student Residence.
Would you like to live here as well? (Me too)
What looks futuristic is actually designed around something simple:
movement, community, and density done well.
it’s one of those projects that completely changes how you think student housing can feel.
Still one of the wildest places I’ve been to as a student.
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URBAN MENDING — EPFL Visiting Studio
Visiting design studio at EPFL titled “Urban Mending”, exploring approaches of careful repair within fragmented urban territories through punctual interventions in public spaces. The studio encourages precise, context-based and interconnected actions, focusing on small-scale strategies of repair, reactivation and adaptation. Through targeted interventions, students developed projects aimed at re-establishing connections between places and the communities inhabiting them, working this semester on the case study of the so-called “Città Ticino”.
Spring semester 2026.
The pictures show the semester reader developed for students: conceived as a manual for urban mending, composed of a series of white and pink A4 sheets wrapped in an A2 map of the site.
Graphic design by Alice Monguzzi @alicemonguzz.i ✨
Semester lead: Tiziano Schürch
Assistant: Blerta Axhija @blerta_axhija
Studio of Visiting Professors Rolli & Schürch
Across models, drawings, research, and debate, the brings together the diverse investigations of ’s studios. Rooted in a project-based approach that connects design with technical, social, and critical questions, the exhibition reflects on how architecture engages contemporary forms of living, building, and collective space. From 26.–29.5.26, the End of Year Show invites visitors to discover four days of architectural work in dialogue with places, practices, and collective futures.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Opening Apero
Tu 26. May 2026, 18:30
Ada Lovelace Square
First year
@alice_epfl
Second year
@assemble_studio_epfl @studio.gaymenzel @last_epfl @jotaillieuarchitecten @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
Graphic Design
@romankarrer @timetravel3000
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We are pleased to welcome Professor to . Previously Professor at Northeastern University in Boston, she has been appointed Full Professor of in the Institute of Architecture and the City, part of the . At EPFL, she will lead the laboratory (Critical Histories of Architecture and Art).
She is an internationally recognized historian of art and architecture whose work has reshaped the understanding of the Italian Renaissance. Her research explores architectural history, the role of drawing in design processes, and exchanges between Europe and the Islamic world. Combining art history, architectural theory, and the history of science, her interdisciplinary approach offers new perspectives on architectural production and cultural context.
Her studies on Michelangelo and Giuliano da Sangallo have provided key insights into the relationship between drawing, invention, and architectural practice, as well as on how architects engaged with Antiquity and historical memory. She is the author of “Michelangelo, Drawing and the Invention of Architecture” (2008) and “Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome” (2022), and co-author of “Variety, Archeology and Ornament” (2011).
At EPFL, her teaching will focus on rethinking history courses through a comparative and global approach. Her research will continue to examine drawing as a central medium in architectural conception, alongside new work on Mediterranean exchanges and the transformation of Islamic architectural heritage in Spain.
@cammyrbrothers
@epflarchitecture
Images
1 Portait by Nile Scott Hawver
2-4 “Cammy Brothers, Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome” (Princeton University Press, 2022)
5-6 “Cammy Brothers, Michelangelo, Drawing and the Invention of Architecture” (Yale University Press, 2008)
7-8 “Variety, Archeology and Ornament: Renaissance Architectural Prints from Column to Cornice” (UVA Art Museum, 2011)
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Congratulations to Prof. on receiving the for Urban Planning and Design, awarded by the (UIA). Named after Sir Patrick Abercrombie, a key figure in modern urban planning, this distinction is among the most prestigious international awards in the field.
The award highlights the outstanding contribution Prof. Viganò has made to our School through her teaching, research, and leadership. As professor at EPFL, where she leads the Habitat Research Center (HRC) and the Laboratory of Urbanism (LAB-U), she plays a central role in shaping academic development in the field of urban planning. Her work has significantly enriched our academic environment, bringing together research and design practice, and fostering a deep engagement with contemporary territorial and ecological questions in urbanism.
We warmly thank her for her continued commitment and for the impact of her work within our community and beyond.
Images
1 Antwerp director scheme, 03-06, Studio Secchi-Viganò
2 Portrait, Ph: Alain Herzog
3 The square of the theater, Antwerp: spazio s-misurato, 05-10, Studio Secchi-Viganò, Ph: Teresa Cos
4 Soil and Labour: a vision for the Grand Genève, 2018-2021, Habitat Research Center, EPFL with the students of the Design Studios BA 5-6, MA 1-2, SAR-IA (in the frame of the Prospective visions for Great Geneva - The Eco-Century Prohect®, Fondation Braillard Architectes, Geneva)
5 Redevelopment of Marie Janson Square, 019-023, Studio PaolaViganò, Ph: Michiel Decleene
6-7 Quatre scénarios d’évolution du bassin versant, Multidisciplinary strategic scheme for Vesdre watershed, 022-024, Studio PaolaViganò and ULiège TEAM-Vesdre
8 ZAC de la Courrouze, Rennes and Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande. Living in the city, inhabiting a park, 03-014, Studio Secchi-Viganò, 015-026 (ongoing), Studio PaolaViganò, Ph: Fabrizio Stipari
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We are pleased to present , new Professor at . Previously Postdoctoral Researcher at TU Delft, she has been appointed Tenure Track Assistant Professor in the Institute of Architecture and the City, part of the . She will lead the (Materials in Transition Laboratory) at the in Fribourg.
Her work spans materials science, architecture, and civil engineering, focusing on sustainable material flows and reuse. She developed a glass connection technology leading to patents, influencing glass recycling strategies. At TU Delft, she led research and teaching in the Structures + Materials group. She holds an MEng (Manchester) and PhD (Cambridge) on material efficiency in architectural glass and façade design. She developed a cross-faculty Master’s course on Future Materials and secured collaborations to develop digital tools for assessing reuse potential of building elements.
At EPFL, her research and teaching promote an environmentally responsible built environment by understanding materials across scales, from micro composition to end-of-life cycles. The MATR Lab will develop digital assessment tools, test protocols for reclaimed products, and explore carbon-sequestered materials for climate-resilient architecture.
Full article
actu.epfl.ch/search/architecture
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Images
1 Photo by Marcel Bilow
2 Stacked glass leaves with ReSolved connection technology, GlassTec, Dusseldorf 2024, photo by Andreas Weise
3-4 Reclamation potential in the Built Environment: A method and metric for assessing environmental benefits beyond, first use in Buildings and Environment (Research Article: Hartwell, R.; Overend, M. 2024)
5-6 Laminated glass separation to enable flat glass reuse (PhD thesis, Hartwell, R.)
7 Live Disassembly Workshop, Future Materials, TU Delft
8 Student Project Work, Future Materials, TU Delft
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