ARCHITECT
Julien graduated from EPFL in architecture in 2023. Following his degree, he developed an independent practice at the intersection of architecture, photography, and cartography. Alongside commissions in architectural photography, he has collaborated on several research projects with the ALICE laboratory, for which he produced visual and cartographic materials aimed at the analysis and representation of built environments. His work places a particular emphasis on tools of documentation and devices to organize and display information.
He is currently a PhD candidate within the laboratory and the framework of the EDAR doctoral program. His research investigates framing as a construction process capable of mediating relationships between milieu, medium, and forms of collectivity. Through the study of intermediary devices, particularly the table, his work examines the modes of production of information, contexts, and collective representations in contemporary architectural and urban practices. Mobilizing photography, mapping, archives and comparative atlases, the research explores architectural tools as a critical and operative instruments for reading and constructing the built environment.
He has developed this approach in research projects such as Passage-Paysage (ALICE) and Vision Jardin des Nations in Geneva (ALIN cooperative). He also collaborates with various institutions related to architecture and urbanism, such as TRACÉS magazine. He is currently applying this research in co-design methodologies through the Infrastructural Baukultur project within the National Research Program NRP81, as well as the Fribourg Grant project SURFACE.
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