Pablo José Donet GarciaTeaching & PhD Courses Studio BA5 (DOSCRE) AR-301(aw) Typological Urbanism bridges architecture and urbanism through dual perspectives: architectural typologies shaping urban form from within, and urban types shaping it from without. Working across scales, the studio explores evolving Swiss urban contexts through ensemble and composite forms. Studio BA6 (DOSCRE) AR-302(aw) Typological Urbanism bridges architecture and urbanism through dual perspectives: architectural typologi
Tanja ReimerTeaching & PhD Courses Studio BA5 (DOSCRE) AR-301(aw) Typological Urbanism bridges architecture and urbanism through dual perspectives: architectural typologies shaping urban form from within, and urban types shaping it from without. Working across scales, the studio explores evolving Swiss urban contexts through ensemble and composite forms. Studio BA6 (DOSCRE) AR-302(aw) Typological Urbanism bridges architecture and urbanism through dual perspectives: architectural typologi
Akuto Akpedze KonouExpertise
Ecological & Social Architecture; Sustainable urban planning; Urban agriculture and health-oriented spatial planning and design; Nature-Based Solutions; Circular Design and Construction.
Mission
Design and research healthier, more inclusive, climate-resilient environments through ecological architecture and health-oriented spatial planning.
Akuto Akpedze Konou, PhD, is an architect and urban planner affiliated with CEAT ENAC - IIE EPFL. Her work bridges architectural design and urban planning with
Silvia CoccoloExpertise
Urban GreeningOutdoor Thermal Comfort Urban Energy Modelling
Teaching & PhD Courses Behind/Beyond future cities AR-496 We are living in an urban world and the design of sustainable cities is essential in order to decrease our energy footprint. This course provides the instruments to understand the complex urban metabolism, as well as the solutions for planning future smart and sustainable cities. Urban neighborhoods, infrastructures and sustainable development PENS-309
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
Marta Peris EugenioTeaching & PhD Courses Studio BA3 (Peris et Toral) AR-201(bc) In this studio, students will establish the foundational comprehending needed to design collective housing typologies by understanding and applying Louis Kahn's principles of "served and servant spaces. Studio BA3 (Peris et Toral) AR-202(bc) In this studio, students will establish the foundational comprehending needed to design collective housing typologies by understanding and applying Louis Kahn's principles of "
Jose Manuel Toral FernandezTeaching & PhD Courses Studio BA3 (Peris et Toral) AR-201(bc) In this studio, students will establish the foundational comprehending needed to design collective housing typologies by understanding and applying Louis Kahn's principles of "served and servant spaces. Studio BA3 (Peris et Toral) AR-202(bc) In this studio, students will establish the foundational comprehending needed to design collective housing typologies by understanding and applying Louis Kahn's principles of "
Hugues LepesantTeaching & PhD Courses Urban neighborhoods, infrastructures and sustainable development PENS-309 This ENAC Teaching Unit aims to present and implement new concepts of sustainable urban neighbourhood planning.
Léonore Juliette Milena NemecTeaching & PhD Courses Navigating exhausted landscapes PENS-321 This course focuses on the challenges of transforming urban industrial sites in light of the living dynamics that run through them. It aims to experiment with an interdisciplinary approach their regeneration through the prism of a field investigation and a construction of a vision.
Aina Astorch CardonaTeaching & PhD Courses Navigating exhausted landscapes PENS-321 This course focuses on the challenges of transforming urban industrial sites in light of the living dynamics that run through them. It aims to experiment with an interdisciplinary approach their regeneration through the prism of a field investigation and a construction of a vision.
Iegor VlasenkoIegor (Yegor) Vlasenko (he/him) is a researcher in urban studies and planning with a Master of Science degree in Urban Studies from Malmo University (2017). Since April 2023, he is a Doctoral Assistant and PhD student in Architecture and City Sciences at the Laboratory of Urbanism, EPFL, working on the dissertation entitled «Decentralisation as an Agent of Resilience? Comprehending Urbanisation and Wartime Planning in Ukraine». He is also serving as a Communications Assistant of the Doctoral Program in Arch
Paola ViganòTeaching & PhD PhD Students Noélie Marion Charlotte Lecoanet, Shyam Sunder Sirimalla Past EPFL PhD Students Roberto Sega, Antoine Vialle, Tommaso Pietropolli, Sylvie Tram Nguyen, Anna Karla De Almeida Milani, Elena Calafati, Flore Jeanne Marie Andrea Guichot Courses Hidden rivers PENS-219 Hidden Rivers aims at fulfilling the need for an interdisciplinary understanding of the problematics surrounding urban streams, through ecological, hydrological, and spatial relationships found in riversc
Valentin Daniel Maurice BourdonValentin Bourdon is an architect, postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant. He obtained the french architectural diploma in 2013 from the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires Paris-Est at Marne-la-Vallée under the direction of Jacques Lucan, and completed his PhD at EPFL in 2020, under the supervision of Luca Ortelli. Since September 2021, he coordinates the Habitat Research Center at EPFL. Involved in the studies of the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation between 2017 and 2021, he also contributes in the supervision of its Housing Studio - Project Theory and Criticism for architecture bachelor. During his doctoral research, he benefited of an academic stay at Metrolab Brussels in 2019 with the support of the SNSF, and published multiple scientific and non-academic publications. His arrival in Switzerland and return to the academic world take place after a thorough professional experience in the parisian office MGAU Michel Guthmann Architecture Urbanisme. From 2010 to 2016, he participed to the majority of its developed projects and supervised several of them, both collective dwellings projects and urban projects.
Laura Daniela Morales DuranTeaching & PhD Courses Navigating exhausted landscapes PENS-321 This course focuses on the challenges of transforming urban industrial sites in light of the living dynamics that run through them. It aims to experiment with an interdisciplinary approach their regeneration through the prism of a field investigation and a construction of a vision.
Awards Best Poster Presentation 22nd Health Related Water Microbiology Conference 2025 Best Poster Presentation Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecolo
Paul Robert GuhennecMy research focuses on the usage of computational methods for architectural history and their epistemological implications. I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at EPFL's Digital Humanities Laboratory, where I recently finished my doctoral dissertation on Venice's urban and architectural history, entitled «The Skin of Venice: A Computational Approach to the City's Urban Structure».
Marc Antoine MesserExpertise
Territorial analysis Urban planning Metropolitan governance Local governements Local planning
ResearchDépasser les bornes / Crossing boundaries Doctoral Research Project under the supervision of Prof Vincent Kaufmann (EPFL - LaSUR) and Prof Daniel Kübler (UNIZH, 2013-2014) and Dr. Jérôme Chenal (EPFL - CEAT, 2014-2016).2013 - 2016AbstractUrban areas across Europe are constantly expanding under the pressure of demographics and of ever-increasing mobility. Meanwhile, the institutional boundaries o
Charlotte Cornélie TruwantCurrent work
Truwant+Rodet+ architects www.truwantrodet.ch
Architect, Co-founder of Truwant + Rodet +Guest Professor, EPFL – Atelier for Uncertain ConditionsCharlotte Truwant is an architect and co-founder, with Dries Rodet, of the architectural office Truwant + Rodet +. She is currently Guest Professor at EPFL, where she leads the design studio Atelier for Uncertain Conditions. The studio explores the transformation of existing structures at the intersection of architecture and landscape, where time is con Simon Elias BibriExpertise
• Sustainable cities• Smarter eco-cities• Sustainable smart cities• Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) • Generative Artificial Intelligence of Things (GAIoT)• Foundation Models (FMs) • Quantum Generative Artificial Intelligence (QGAI)• Urban Digital Twins (UDTs)• Urban Brain (UB) • Smart Circular Metabolism• Urban planning and design• Environmental sustainability and climate resilience• Sustainable smart energy• Sustainable smart transportation• Sustainable smart waste and water management•
Yves KazemiTeaching & PhD Courses Urban Green&Blue infrastructure and global warming ENV-462 The course introduces the concept of green and blue urban infrastructure in the context of global warming. It presents knowledge, concepts, and methods for planning, developing, and maintaining an effective network of green and blue infrastructure in urban areas.
