The laboratory explicit mission is to explore a world that hangs in the balance between art and science. Its studies and research topics deal specifically with questions of architectural representation at different levels: the rational figuration of rural heritage, the emotional image-making of bourgeois life and the idealist visions of utopian thought.
ONGOING
Analog and Digital
Addressing the continuity of architectural drawing practice in the design process | Emma Larcelet – Doctoral Research – Doc.CH SNSF
Architectura Redepicta
An Operational Critics into Pictorial Art History through its Digital Deconstrucion | Filippo Fanciotti, Doctoral Research
ONGOING
For a Pedagogy of the Vernacular
Understanding and Rethinking Swiss Vernacular in Architectural Education
Toward a Minor Heritage
An Operative Critical Method for the Reappraisal of Vernacular Architecture | Reda Berrada, Doctoral Research
In the Quest for -Lost- Meaning
The Vernacular Architecture Discourse in the Age of Environmental Awakening, 1939–1972 | Vasileios Chanis – Doctoral Research
ONGOING
Sobek and Haroeris in Kom Ombo
Aurélie Terrier, bourse FNS-AMBIZIONE, EPFL ENAC IA LAPIS
FLORENCE ‘6878
Filippo Fanciotti, Grant Italian Council XIII edizione, DIREZIONE GENERALE CREATIVITÀ CONTEMPORANEA, Ministero della cultura, EPFL ENAC IA LAPIS
CONCLUDED
Silent transformations
Patrick Giromini, architect Dr. EPFL, defended Ph.D (2021)
On decoration by shadows
Laura Trazic, architect Dr. EPFL, defended Ph.D (2021)
A Third Way Alternative
Jana Konstantinova, architecte Dr. EPFL, defended Ph.D (2021)
CONCLUDED
Helvécia, Brazil
Tracing invisibilized Swiss colonial entanglements in the Brazilian Quilombo community in the 19th and 21st c. | Doctoral Research – Denise Bertschi