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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ENAC’s latest news

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Satoshi Takahama nominated as Adjunct Professor

EPFL

Satoshi Takahama, currently Senior Scientist at EPFL, is nominated as Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC).

Departure of the AWACA convoy from the Adélie Coast.© Nicolas Pernin / French Polar Institute

In Antarctica to better understand the evolution of the ice cap

Research

A team of scientists from EPFL, CNRS, CEA and École polytechnique de Paris will be in Antarctica from December 2024 to mid-January 2025. As part of the AWACA project, they are installing innovative observation systems designed to predict the evolution of the ice cap over the next 100 years. Associate Professor Alexis Berne, Director of the Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory at EPFL, is on site.

The future SLL buidling © Behnisch Architekten

EPFL's Fribourg campus to get six additional research chairs by 2030

EPFL

The Fribourg Cantonal Government and EPFL have taken another step forward in their joint effort to expand EPFL’s Fribourg campus by strengthening its research capabilities in the built environment.

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

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

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Campus Lecture: Dominique Perrault

09-12-202409-12-2024

With: Dominique Perrault, architecte
Place and room: Forum Rolex
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

09-12-202420-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

EESS PhD Student talk on "Sources and processes governing the annual cycle of aerosol chemical composition in the central Arctic Ocean"

10-12-202410-12-2024

With: PhD Student Benjamin Heutte , EPFL
Place and room: ALP 1 107
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

IDEAS Lunch : Embracing nature and art / IDEAS

10-12-202410-12-2024

With: Yunni CHO
Place and room: LE 0 10
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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EESS PhD Student talk on "Unveiling the dynamics of upper forest shift in the Swiss Alps with deep learning and historical aerial images"

10-12-202410-12-2024

With: Thien-Anh Nguyen, PhD student at the ECEO lab.
Place and room: ALP 1 107
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

10-12-202421-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

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

11-12-202411-12-2024

With: Alice Hertzog, UZH
Place and room: BP 4232
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

11-12-202422-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

16th IFoU International Forum of Urbanism – Urbanism of Hope – Patrick Bouchain / HRC

12-12-202412-12-2024

With: Patrick Bouchain 
Place and room: Batiment SG
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

12-12-202423-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

©2021 CEPV - Giulietta Margot

Etat des lieux – Rooms / ALICE

13-12-202413-12-2024

Place and room: AAD
Category: Miscellaneous

Future Changes in Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation and Dry Periods in the Swiss Alps and Consequences for Hydropower Production

13-12-202413-12-2024

With: Tatjana MILOJEVIC
Place and room: Room ALP 1 109 Route des Ronquos 86 CH – 1951 Sion
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/62795294004?pwd=OYYZGm4xNZQTgAC3pHEhtFjzICSEPj.1
Category: Thesis defenses

Exhibition and reviews / EPFL Architecture

13-12-202419-12-2024

Category: Miscellaneous

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

13-12-202424-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

14-12-202425-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

Books at low prices / ARCHIZOOM

15-12-202426-12-2024

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Cultural events

ENAC General Assembly 2024

16-12-202416-12-2024

Place and room: SG 1138
Online: https://mediaspace.epfl.ch/media/Assembl%C3%A9e+G%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale+ENAC/0_xk5p4bfr
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Spaces of production: an Atlas. paradigms, scales, forms in transition

16-12-202416-12-2024

With: Elena CALAFATI
Place and room: AAC 1 32
Category: Thesis defenses

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