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
In the Quest for -Lost- Meaning
The Vernacular Architecture Discourse in the Age of Environmental Awakening, 1939–1972 | Vasileios Chanis – Doctoral Research
Architectura Redepicta
An Operational Critics into Pictorial Art History through its Digital Deconstrucion | Filippo Fanciotti, 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
Toward a Minor Heritage
An Operative Critical Method for the Reappraisal of Vernacular Architecture | Reda Berrada, Doctoral Research
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