News and Events

Congratulations to Meryl Barthe and Noémie Perregaux-Dielf for receiving SIA commendation for their master’s project titled, “DIS/ ASSEMBLE.”

Congratulations to Enzo Migliano for receiving SIA commendation for his master’s project titled, “Habiter la Grande Profondeur.”

October 4, 2024, University of Pennsylvania: Sarah Nichols will deliver a keynote lecture at Concrete Age, Concrete Nation conference at Weitzman School of Design, Philadelphia. 

October 16, 2024, 12:30pm, AAC 0 14, EPFL: Jesse Honsa will join us for ‘Mud on the Floor: Dirty Realities in Scholarly Work’ lecture series.

Congratulations to Tiffanie Paré for receiving funding from doc.ch SNSF grant for her PhD project titled, “The Contractor as More-Than Builder: Zschokke and the Built Environment in Switzerland and Beyond, 1909–1981.”

THEMA has an open position for a postdoctoral position to commence on or before January 2025.

May 8, 2024, 12:30 pm, SG Foyer, EPFL: Anna-Maria Meister will join us for the Neighbors lecture series on History & Theory of Architecture Vol. 3. 

April 10, 2024, 12:30 pm, SG Foyer, EPFL: Claire Zimmerman will join us for the Neighbors lecture series on History & Theory of Architecture Vol. 3. 

March 25-28, 2024, Newcastle University: Sarah Nichols will present at the production studies conference.

March 6, 2024 – May 5, 2024: “Concrete: Cosmetic and Care” is now showing at The Great Repair exhibition at Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris.

March 6, 2024, SG Foyer, EPFL: Sarah Nichols will present at the colloquium Technologie du Bâti and participate in the roundtable discussion. 

December 6, 2023, 12:30 pm, AAC 008, EPFL: Davide Spina will join us for the fifth talk of the Neighbours lecture series on History & Theory of Architecture Vol. 2. 

November 14, 2023, 12:30 pm, CM 0 11, EPFL: Mari Lending will join us for the second talk of the Neighbours lecture series on History & Theory of Architecture Vol. 2. 

October 18, 2023: Inaugural lecture of Prof Dr Sarah Nichols titled “Constructing Material” will take place in hall SG1 at EPFL.

October 13 and 14, 2023: THEMA will contribute to The Great Repair Exhibition in the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, with a focus on the repair of heavy heritage: the mass of mainly post-war construction in reinforced concrete.

November 23 and 24, 2022: Conference ‘Culture du bâti dans l’existant – Baukultur im Bestand’ at EPFL Rolex Forum & Plateforme 10, Lausanne is co-hosted by Sarah Nichols and Dieter Dietz for Stiftung Baukultur Schweiz and School of Architecture at EPFL

November 15, 2022: Sarah Nichols will moderate a discussion with Norihisa Kawashima, Yūtarō Muraji, and Mio Tsuneyama

October 17, 2022: Sarah Nichols gives a lecture at ‘Whole Wood’ – Superonda Talks N°2 at EPFL Archizoom. December 5, 2022: Sarah Nichols debates with Mario Rinke, Stéphane Berthier and Yves Weinand, moderated by Christophe Catsaros

October 6, 2022: Sarah Nichols participates in a roundtable discussion with Leopold Banchini, Jo Taillieu, and Ludovica Molo, chaired by Muck Petzet as part of ‘(non)finito’ – Swiss Biennial of Territory at the International Institute of Architecture in Lugano and Mendrisio

June 11, 2022: Sarah Nichols moderates the panel ‘The Business of Building’ at the conference ‘Architecture and Real Estate: Historical Perspectives’ at ETH Zurich

May 2022: plan Magazin interviews Sarah Nichols about the exhibition ‘Beton’

MatéRhône – Matériaux de construction dans l’axe rhodanien

May 12, 2022: Sarah Nichols takes part in a roundtable on construction materials, extraction, and recycling at the MatéRhône conference in Geneva

April 18, 2022: Rice Design Alliance interviews Sarah Nichols about the exhibition ‘Beton’