Summer Saud IslamSummer Islam, ARB AADipl (hons) is a doctoral fellow at the RIOT lab, EPFL ENAC-IA, where her research project ‘Ground Work’ explores the potential for a decarbonised built environment which prioritises ecosystems over industry. Her work investigates the political ecology of construction materials, with a particular focus on the environmental implications of scaling the use of regenerative materials in housing retrofit. She is also an architect and director of Material Cultures, an interdisciplinary not-for
Constantinos MarcouConstantinos Marcou (London, 1988) is a British Cypriot writer, architect, and urban designer based in Larnaca, Cyprus. He studied Architecture at the University of Cyprus, graduating with excellence, and later completed a Master’s degree in Urban Design at UCL, supported by a state scholarship, under the mentorship of Luca Galofaro and Davide Sacconi.After his studies, he joined a local architectural magazine as an editor, where he explored the syntactic and literary dimensions of architecture. There, he w
Aurélie Anne-Laure TerrierAn architect and archaeologist, Aurélie Terrier has been developing for more than two decades a singular expertise at the interface of architectural archaeology, digital heritage and the history of ancient built environments. Her research focuses on ancient and medieval architecture, architectural archaeology, the reuse of building materials, issues related to construction sites, new technologies and digital humanities, as well as the valorisation and restoration of heritage. Trained in architecture at the
Pedro Correa FernandezPedro Correa Fernández is a Doctoral Candidate in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP. Before joining GSAPP, he was an adjunct professor at the Architecture School of Universidad Católica de Chile where he taught seminars and lectures on architecture history and related epistemological, aesthetic, and political issues. His current work examines the mediations between technical knowledge, artisanal crafts, and global industrial capitalism in early nineteenth-century Latin America.Pedro holds an architecture degre
Laurence DanguyExpertise
History of European Art, 19th–21st CenturiesCultural History, 19th–21st Centuries
Laurence Danguy studied art history, history and archaeology at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She also studied management sciences at the University of Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (MBA – IAE Paris). In 2006, she completed her PhD in History and Art Sciences as part of a joint supervision arrangement between the EHESS and the University of Konstanz (
Christophe van GerreweyChristophe Van Gerrewey (1982) is an architecture critic and theorist, writing about contemporary buildings, their recent histories and intellectual dimensions, and their connections to society, philosophy, art and literature. In particular, he is an expert on the work of OMA/Rem Koolhaas as well as on Belgian architecture. He is one of the editors of architecture journal OASE, and of art and culture journal De Witte Raaf. In his writings, architecture is considered as a source of comprehensive and integrated knowledge that pertains to diverse disciplines – a way of looking at, and of understanding, many aspects of the world we live in. This gives his activities an unusually broad and comprehensive aspect, transcending divisions of knowledge.
Since 2015, he is Assistant Professor Tenure Track of architecture theory at EPFL Lausanne. He was trained as an architect-engineer at Ghent University and as a literary theorist at KU Leuven. In Dutch, his mother tongue, he has published three novels and a collection of essays between 2013 and 2017.
Ian SmithPhD, Cambridge University, 1982 Interests 1 Active shape control for structures for deployment and where serviceability criteria governs 2 Biomimetic structures (learning, self-diagnosis, self-repair) 3 Infrastructure management support through structural identification 4 Advanced computer-aided engineering applications of stochastic optimization and search, multi-criteria analysis, system uncertainties (measurement and modelling), multi-modal approaches (combining statistics with behavior models) More details : see https://www.epfl.ch/labs/imac/research/iansmith/ Paolo IennePaolo Ienne has been a Professor at the EPFL since 2000 and heads the Processor Architecture Laboratory (LAP). Prior to that, he worked for the Semiconductors Group of Siemens AG, Munich, Germany (which later became Infineon Technologies AG) where he was at the head of the Embedded Memories unit in the Design Libraries division. His research interests include various aspects of computer and processor architecture, FPGAs and reconfigurable computing, electronic design automation, and computer arithmetic. Ienne was a recipient of Best Paper Awards at the 20th, 24th, and 28th ACM/SIGDA International Symposia on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA), in 2012, 2016 and 2020, at the 19th and 30th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), in 2009 and 2020, at the International Conference on Compilers, Architectures, and Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), in 2007, and at the 40th Design Automation Conference (DAC), in 2003; many other papers have been candidates to Best Paper Awards in prestigious venues. He has served as general, programme, and topic chair of renown international conferences, including organizing in Lausanne the 26th International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL) in 2016. He serves on the steering committee of the IEEE Symposium on Computer Arithmetic (ARITH) and of the International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL). Ienne has guest edited a number of special issues and special sections on various topics for IEEE and ACM journals. He is regularly member of program committees of international workshops and conferences in the areas of design automation, computer architecture, embedded systems, compilers, FPGAs, and asynchronous design. He has been an associate editor of ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization (TACO), since 2015, of ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), since 2014, and of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems (TODAES) from 2011 to 2016.
Anja FröhlichTeaching & PhD Past EPFL PhD Students Tiago André Pratas Borges
Eric LapierreTeaching & PhD PhD Students Tanguy Auffret-Postel Courses Architectural theory, initiation AR-103 This course offers an introduction to architectural theory through the analysis of a set of fundamental concepts that have shaped and guided the structuring and evolution of the discipline. Housing and typology AR-530 Using a typology-focused approach, the teachers will successively explore the main types of rationalist housing to understand their historical origins, as well as
Raffael BaurExpertise
Architect, teacher and researcher. Expertise in sustainable and circular construction systems, detailing, the art and history of craft and fabrication in relation to space and tectonics. Experimental research in timber- and plywood construction, folded sheet metal and textile reinforced concrete (with civil engineers).
Expertise
Architect, teacher and researcher. Expertise in sustainable and circular construction systems, detailing, the art and history of craft and fabrication in relation to space
Patricia GuaitaExpertise
pedagogy of makingdrawing as an actionmultidisciplinary projectsdesign methodologies in 1:1 fabricationexperiential learning processesknowledge transfer with the Global Southdiversity and care
Patricia Guaita is an architect, researcher, and educator with expertise in drawing as an action and social and sustainable research projects. Her work focus on design methodologies, which incorporate drawing by hand, 1:1 fabrication, spatial and tectonic analysis, and the development of construction protoco
Barbara GalimbertiExpertise
Archival science, collections management, and information sciences applied to architectural archives and to heritage and research collections, within the Archives of Modern Construction (ACM) of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne.Standardized archival description, metadata structuring and governance, dissemination of finding aids, and development of digital infrastructures for long-term preservation and access (Morphé / AtoM + Archivematica ; MorphéPlus).Intellectual and physical process
Sarah NicholsTeaching & PhD PhD Students Tiffanie Paré, Akshar Gajjar, Eva Simone Ruof
Francesco MondadaDr. Mondada received his M.Sc. in micro-engineering in 1991 and his Doctoral degree in 1997 at EPFL. During his thesis he co-founded the company K-Team, being both CEO and president of the company for about 5 years. He is one of the three main developers of the Khepera robot, considered as a standard in bio-inspired robotics and used by more than 1,000 universities and research centers worldwide. Fully back in research in 2000 and after a short period at CALTECH, he participated to the SWARM-BOTS project as the main developer of the s-bot robot platform, which was ranked on position 39 in the list of The 50 Best Robots Ever (fiction or real) by the Wired Journal in 2006. The SWARM-BOTS project was selected as FET-IST success story by the EU commission. He is author of more than 100 papers in the field of bio-inspired robotics and system level robot design. He is co-editor of several international conference proceedings. In November 2005 he received the EPFL Latsis University prize for his contributions to bio-inspired robotics. In 2011 he received the "Crédit Suisse Award for Best Teaching" from EPFL and in 2012 the "polysphère" award from the students as best teacher in the school of engineering. His interests include the development of innovative mechatronic solutions for mobile and modular robots, the creation of know-how for future embedded applications, and making robot platforms more accessible for education, research, and industrial development.
Irène Elizabeth Vogel ChevrouletEDUCATION
Architect Diploma EAUG 1991 Uni Geneva Prof. Tita Carloni Practical work: Neuchâtel - London - Tokyo Takefumi Aida Associates Master of Arts in Advanced Art Historical & Related Studies 1995 Uni East Anglia, Norwich, England, Prof. Stefan Muthesius - young researcher scholarship FNSRS - Birth of my first child 1998 - Piano certificate: Mention Good 1999 Conservatoire de musique Lausanne Prof. Martine Jaques - Birth of my second child 2001 - PhD in theory and history of architecture 2009 The Creation of a modern Japaness (1870-1940) or European Architects Vision towards Japan: Josiah Conder, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Bruno Taut, Charlotte Perriand Federal Polytechnical School Lausanne, Prof. Jacques Lucan - scholarship Marie Heim Vögtlin FNSRS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER - LUMEN Natural daylighting Building Technical Institute EPFL, 1992-94 - European cities history: Architecture Institute Geneva, Prof. Ricardo Mariani, 1996-98 CREATION & MANAGEMENT of the new BOOKSHOP at Photography Musée de l'Elysée Lausanne, Dir. Bill Ewing, 1998 ARCHITECT ADVISOR at the District territorial planning, Lausanne, 1999 - 2000 SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR EPFL 2000 - 2014 1) Territorial modelisation and architecture materiology Urban, territorial and architectural lab, Prof. Patrick Berger, 2000-2002 2) Territorial theory & urban environnement and mobility Dynamic territorial lab, Prof. Martin Schuler, 2002-2004 3) The human representation in architectural design at digital era Construction & conservation lab, Prof. Luca Ortelli, 2010 4) Bernard Huet and Japan 1964 Research done at Prof. Christian Gilot's chair, 2011 5) Direction's assistance for the Minor Center for Area and Cultural Studies CACSCollege of Humanities CDH 2012 - 2014 6) Archiving teaching material 1992-2012 / Writings synthesis / - Collaboration to Animal? Archizoom Exhibition and Book / texts Prof. Patrick Berger Urban Territorial Architectural Lab 2011 - 2014 HOST RESEARCHER - ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE ENAC EPFL 2015 - 2021Bernard Huet au Japon Architectures et jardins Zen (2015 - 2017) Conference SAH Pasadena LABook PPURPikionis and Japan (2018 - 2020)Conference SAH SydneyArticle JoLAPikionis - NoguchiIn progress 2021Reiko HayamaIn progress 2021 Other publications and conferences are in the list below.LECTURER College of Humanities Contemporary Japan 2013-2021 EXPERT for Master thesis in various schools (Polytècnico Lisboa - HEPIA - HEIA) CONFERENCES for a broad publicLe jardin de Ryôan-jiHES Fribourg - Japan Impact - Cercle Suisse Japon 2018: Une maison japonaise voisine de TotoroJapan Impact 2019Du Japon à l’Acropole : l’art paysager de Dimitris Pikionis Japan Impact 2020
