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We are thrilled to welcome our new and returning guest studio teachers for the 2026–27 academic year at EPFL Architectur...
31/08/2026

We are thrilled to welcome our new and returning guest studio teachers for the 2026–27 academic year at EPFL Architecture: Marta Peris and José Toral (Peris+Toral, Barcelona), and Charlotte Truwant and Dries Rodet (Truwant + Rodet +, Basel), teaching in the 2nd Bachelor; and Marta Benedicto, Ivet Gasol and Carlota de Gispert (Cierto Estudio, Barcelona), Susanne Eliasson (Grau, Paris), Anna MacIver-Ek and Axel Chevroulet (MacIver-Ek Chevroulet, Zurich/Neuchâtel/Lausanne), Marc Loeliger and Barbara Strub (Loeliger Strub, Zurich), Carla Ferrando and Pablo Garrido (Parabase, Zurich/Barcelona), Romina Grillo and Liviu Vasiu (Grillo Vasiu, Switzerland), and Christian Weyell and Kai Zipse (Weyell Zipse, Basel), teaching in the 3rd Bachelor and 1st Master.

Across their different practices, a number of shared questions emerge: how to transform and work with the existing, how to make better use of materials and resources, how housing can support collective life, and how architecture can connect buildings, landscape and the city. Their work spans architecture, housing, landscape, urbanism, research, design and installation, with approaches ranging from reuse and transformation to experimentation with form, material and construction. Together, they offer students a rich range of positions on what architecture can do today and how it can respond to the realities of our built environment.

We look forward to the projects, conversations and exchanges that will take place in the studios this year.

Cierto Estudio

GRILLO VASIU
Loeliger Strub Architektur
MacIver-Ek Chevroulet
PARABASE

Truwant Rodet
Weyell Zipse

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SCHOOL LECTURE 1/6Tuesday, September 8, Foyer SG, 18:15LEARNING VOL.1STEFANA PARASCHO + AUDE BILLARDDo Robots Dream of C...
25/08/2026

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 Archizoom
Produced with the Lab for Creative Computation (CRCL)

School Lecture Series
EPFL Architecture
stefana Lab for Creative Computation

Recordings available on YouTube


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
Roman Karrer

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SCHOOL LECTURE 1/6Tuesday, September 8, Foyer SG, 18:15LEARNING VOL.1STEFANA PARASCHO + AUDE BILLARDDo Robots Dream of C...
25/08/2026

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
Produced with the Lab for Creative Computation (CRCL)

School Lecture Series



Recordings available on YouTube


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


SCHOOL LECTURE SERIESAUTUMN 2026LEARNING VOL.1We are told that learning is no longer confined to the school or the unive...
19/08/2026

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 stefana Lab for Creative Computation
Do Robots Dream of Construction Sites?
18:15 Exhibition Opening Lecture Archizoom

22.9
ELLI MOSAYEBI, EMI ARCHITEKT*INNEN Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin
Chliriet Secondary School Building

6.10
JO TAILLIEU jo taillieu architecten
1:33/1:2
Special book sale

27.10
THOMAS FRIBERG + SOPHIE PITICCO, POOL ARCHITEKTUR pool Architektur
Building for Disassembly

10.11
NP2F ARCHITECTES NP2F
IMVT – Supporter de la Ville

24.11
PAOLO TOMBESI Paolo Tombesi
The extraction of value – Measurements, materials and craft
Exhibition Opening Lecture Archizoom

Recordings available on YouTube


School Lecture Series
EPFL Architecture

Graphic design
Roman Karrer

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The publication of “Order and Disorder: Selected Essays and Interviews by Manfredo Tafuri 1964–1994” marks the first vol...
10/08/2026

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 .

Edited by , , , and , 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.

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Link
https://birkhauser.com/en/book/9783035628203

Part 3 Master Projects 2026Congratulations to all the graduates for the dedication, curiosity, and commitment reflected ...
09/08/2026

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.



Photography: Ben Begon

Part 2 Master Projects 2026The projects revealed a wide range of positions and methods. Developed independently, they ne...
07/08/2026

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.



Photography: Ben Begon

Part 1Master Projects 2026In July 2026, the Rolex Learning Center became a place of exchange around the Master Projects ...
05/08/2026

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.



Pictures: Ben Begon

The final works of the Master’s students unfold as the outcome of individual journeys of research, exploration, and desi...
30/06/2026

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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This week, the World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona takes place under the theme “Becoming. Architecture for a pla...
29/06/2026

This week, the World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona takes place under the theme “Becoming. Architecture for a planet in transition.” A significant moment for our school, with EPFL Architecture strongly represented across the congress through Assemble, Aziza Chaouni (SONO), Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (RIOT), Paola Viganò (Lab-U), Peris+Toral Arquitectes, Sophie Delhay (EPFL Architecture / DC-Lab), Jo Taillieu (LIF), and the Structural Xploration Lab (SXL). Together, they will engage in key debates on cities and territories, the politics of architecture, housing, architectural pedagogy, and computational and structural research.

MONDAY 29.6


→ 10:45 Stage 2
Post Extractivism Urbanism
With 51N4E


→ 13:45 Stage 3
Collage as Construction: Reuse as Design Intelligence
With Flores & Prats
→ 15:00 Stage 1
The Politics of Reuse: Housing, Policy, and Urban Strategy
With House Europe!, Iñaqui Carnicero, Ann Pettifor
→ 16:45 Stage 1 .epfl.ch
Plenary Session with Baukunst, H Arquitectes, Transsolar, Mio Tsuneyama & Fuminori Nousaku, Nicolas Dorval-Borym Sana Frini

TUESDAY 30.6


→ 13:45 Stage 2
Domestic Space as Social Project. Architectural Strategies for Shared Living
With EMI Architekt*innen
→ 16:45 Stage 1 + Common Treasures
Plenary Session with Anna Puigjaner, Colectivo C733, Plan Común, Giovanna Borasi, Juan Herreros

WEDNESDAY 1.7


→ 13:45 Stage 6 .city.lab
Futures of Architectural Pedagogy: Knowledge, Practice and Emerging Contexts
With Tongji University, African Design Centre, Rural Studio



14:00 Stage 10 .epfl
The Wisdom Of Tradition: Culture as the Fourth Pillar of Sustainable Architecture
Round table with Gaetan Siew (UIA Past-President), Rahul Mehrotra, Alejandro Echeverri, Charles Waldheim, Camille Tallon

Image
1: Les Tres Xemeneies, Photo: Arnau Rovira

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