School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC)

ENAC combines the forces of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Environmental Sciences and Engineering to help ensure a sustainable living environment for humanity through the sound and respectful integration of human activities into the biosphere.

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New: Master in Urban Systems

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Starting in fall 2025, a program designed to equip students with backgrounds in engineering and architecture with the foundations needed to tackle the complex challenges of sustainability in urban areas and their surrounding territories.

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Architect Ada Massarente explores movement on the banks of the Veveyse river.© Ada Massarente - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“I've always been fascinated with how the body moves through space”

Education

For her master’s project in architecture, Ada Massarente combined notions of dance, drawing and landscape, focusing on the intimate relationship between the body and the city. She proposed redeveloping the banks of the Veveyse – a river that empties into Lake Geneva at Vevey – to create new community spaces.

Sara Formery is an architect and a postdoctoral researcher at EPFL. © François Wavre, Lundi 13

An interpretative framework for the urban banks of the Rhône

Research

How can the banks of the Rhône be developed in a sustainable and resilient way? That’s the question posed by Sara Formery, architect and postdoctoral researcher at EPFL’s Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST), in this column published in four daily newspapers in French-speaking Switzerland.

Matthieu Fehlmann, pictured here on the site of the extension to Collège du Cheminet in Penthalaz (Vaud), designed by Ferrari Architectes. © 2024 EPFL/Alain Herzog - CC-BY-SA 4.0

“Timber can be a good alternative if it's used wisely”

Education

For his master’s degree in civil engineering, Matthieu Fehlmann worked on a project in Australia where he studied methods for laterally stabilizing an eight-story timber building without using concrete. This experience was both personally and academically enriching, and it gave him exposure to a whole different set of construction standards.

ENAC three disciplines

ENAC bring together three transformative disciplines:

  • Architecture
  • Civil Engineering
  • Environmental Sciences and Engineering

ENAC explores the potentials of interdisciplinarity to achieve excellence in the training of tomorrow’s architects and engineers as well as to place scientists at the forefront of research.

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Events

Just finishedEESS talk on "Real and Idealized simulations of the Urban Boundary Layer: what ca we learn? "

19-11-202419-11-2024

With: Dr. Andrea Zonato, University of Bologna
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

photo credits to A. Herzog

Skills for Architecture PDM Mentors / ENAC

19-11-202419-11-2024

With: Tamara Milosevic, Helena Kovacs, Valentina Rossi
Place and room: CM 1 104
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Begin Again. Fail Better / ARCHIZOOM

19-11-202419-11-2024

With: Marco Bakker, Manuel Montenegro
Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Citation Politics / RIOT

19-11-202420-11-2024

With: Dr. Katie Lloyd Thomas (Newcastle), Khensani Jurczok-de Klerk (ETHZ), Dr. Frederick Chando Kim (NUS DoA)
Place and room: BP 4232
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Begin Again. Fail Better / ARCHIZOOM

05-11-202402-12-2024

With: L’exposition est réalisée par les architectes Manuel Montenegro (PT), Helen Thomas (GB) et Marco Bakker (CH/NL), la fondation Drawing Matter (GB) et les archives de trois hautes écoles d’architecture suisses, l’ETH Zurich, l’EPFL Lausanne et l’USI-Accademia di architettura Mendrisio.
Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions

Urban and Environmental Theory Sessions 2024 / MAS Urban and Territorial Design ETHZ/EPFL

23-09-202412-12-2024

With: Anne Whiston Spirn, Kelly Shannon & Chiara Cavalieri & Taneha Bacchin, Maria Kaika & Kristiaan Borrett, Achille Bourdon, Michiel Dehaene & Chiara Tornaghi, and others
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/s/64909760068
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Arboreal Futures

13-11-202405-01-2025

With: Plant Ecology Research Lab, Maja Renn, Krzysztof Wronski
Place and room: EPFL Pavilions, Pavilion A
Category: Exhibitions

Teaching toolkit for LABS

20-11-202420-11-2024

With: Roland Tormey, Nihat Kotluk
Place and room: BC 03
Category: Internal trainings

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Reaching 100% renewable energy while strengthening Swiss biodiversity: what are the implications for our society?

20-11-202420-11-2024

Place and room: UNIL, Amphimax 413
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Retour de Stage

20-11-202420-11-2024

Place and room: CE 1 106
Category: Miscellaneous

Journées d’information 2024

20-11-202422-11-2024

Place and room: STCC 2 9428
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Research Data Lunch Talks "How to manage big datasets: from art to stars"

21-11-202421-11-2024

Place and room: CM 1 120
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Mud on the Floor. Dirty Realities in Scholarly Work / EDAR, THEMA

21-11-202421-11-2024

With: Anooradha Siddiqi, Barnard College
Place and room: AAC 0 14
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Retour de Stage

21-11-202421-11-2024

Place and room: CE 1 104
Category: Miscellaneous

EESS talk on "Improving AI-Driven Subgrid Parameterizations in Climate Models Using Long-Term Observational Data’"

22-11-202422-11-2024

With: Dr. Donifan Barahona, NASA/GSFC 
Place and room: GR A1 402
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63024531408?pwd=VjkybUhwTWlVQUhOcG9ydCt3R1pUQT09
Category: Conferences – Seminars

UE U Cartography: Will Guthrie

22-11-202422-11-2024

With: William Guthrie
Place and room: AAC114
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Bridging Discrete Choice Modeling and Neural Networks: Unifying Statistical Rigor and Predictive Power

22-11-202422-11-2024

With: Brian Alan TAPPY-SIFRINGER
Place and room: ELA 1
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/9713747953
Category: Thesis defenses

Ouest Lausannois, a city with 10-minute-neighbourhoods? / LEURE

25-11-202425-11-2024

With: Jean-Christophe Boillat, Sascha Nick, Ariane Widmer Pham, Sibylle Wälty, Blanca Gardelegui
Place and room: Foyer SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Ouest Lausannois, a city with 10-minute-neighbourhoods? / LEURE

25-11-202404-12-2024

Place and room: Foyer SG
Category: Exhibitions

Housing / SCHOOL LECTURE SERIES N°6

26-11-202426-11-2024

With: Plan Comùn
Place and room: Foyer SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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