School Lecture Series Spring 2025
EPFL Architecture
Introducing the second edition of the School Lecture Series this spring 2025, we invite six architecture offices to discuss housing and reuse through six exemplary projects. The lecture series will be complemented by the launch of Professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes’s A Moratorium on New Construction.
Housing Vol.2.
Housing and Reuse: Six Exemplary Projects
Reuse of existing buildings is increasingly becoming a good practice. Yet, reuse is easier said than done. Within a capitalist society, buildings are produced as commodities and, as such, they are not meant to last. Moreover, what is at stake within reuse is not simply the reuse of buildings per se, but the whole process of building production behind each architectural project.
This lecture series explores projects of reuse in which former offices, factories, or houses are transformed or expanded as residential spaces. Each lecture will focus on one building in order to shed light not only on the advantages of reuse but also on its limits and challenges. The lecture series will be complemented by the launch of Professor Charlotte Malterre-Barthes’s A "Moratorium on New Construction".
4.3
Lütjens Padmanabhan
Zwhatt Sufficiency Project
March 4, 18:30, Foyer SG
18.3
Harquitectes
Organizing matter: Social housing in Palma de Mallorca
March 18, 18:30, Auditorium SG
1.4
Inge Vinck
Friant, about this and that and so on
April 1, 18:30, Foyer SG
15.4
Menna Agha, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
"A Moratorium on New Construction" Book Launch & Talk
April 15, 8:30, Foyer SG
29.4
Anna Heilgemeir
WiLMa 19 – Communal Living in collective Ownership
April 29, 18:30, Foyer SG
13.5
Aviolat Chaperon Escobar
Transformation d’un immeuble au chemin Guillaume Ritter à Fribourg
May 13, 18:30, Foyer SG
27.5
BHSF
Güterstrasse 8, Berne
May 27, 18:30, Auditorium SG