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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EPFL launches of sustainability course for all first-year students

Education

Whether they study mathematics, microengineering, life sciences or architecture, all 1862 first-year EPFL students experienced their first session of the common sustainability course on Tuesday February 18. The course is organized by the Environmental Sciences and Engineering Section of ENAC.

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New nominations and promotions at ENAC School

EPFL

The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced new appointments and promotions of professors at ENAC: Alexandra Kushnir, Andreas Schüler, Peter Kummer, Dusan Licina, Priya Ramakrishna and Jan Skaloud. Congratulations to all of them!

The master’s program in urban systems supports an holistic and interdisciplinary approach. © HKaerial 2025 EPFL

New master's program encourages fresh approaches to urban planning

EPFL

EPFL’s School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) has introduced a new master’s program in urban systems that will start this fall. The goal is to train experts who are capable of implementing sustainability-oriented approaches for urban planning and development.

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

Nonsmooth dynamics of extrinsic cohesive models for fracture

21-03-202521-03-2025

With: Vincent Acary
Place and room: GC B1 10
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69895263418
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Epidemic Management: Integrating Behavioral, Mobility, and Epidemiological Perspectives

21-03-202521-03-2025

With: Cloe CORTES BALCELLS
Place and room: SG 1138
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69955736935?pwd=20IMQcfks1Uv7fuPWH96hoO84t5FtH.1
Category: Thesis defenses

3D mapping of a reef in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, November 2023. © Lukasz Warzecha

Red Sea corals – Bridging science & diplomacy in favor of the « Reefs of Hope »

16-03-202516-04-2025

Place and room: Place Ada Lovelace
Category: Exhibitions

Défi: vivre un mois de jeûne de consommation du 18 mars au 18 avril!

18-03-202518-04-2025

Place and room: CM 1 258
Category: Miscellaneous

CC-BY-NC-SA EPFL Library

Document selection : Soleil·s

12-03-202515-05-2025

Place and room: Bibliothèque EPFL
Category: Exhibitions

Neighbours – Lectures on History & Theory of Architecture, vol. 5

27-02-202521-05-2025

With: Eyal Weizman (Goldsmiths University);  Hannah Leroux (University of Sheffield) David Wengrow (University College London) Theodora Vardouli (McGill University) Debjani Bhattacharyya (University of Zurich) Giorgio Gianighian (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Interdisciplinary seminar series – course ENG-647

20-02-202522-05-2025

Place and room: MA A3 30
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Call for projects: CROSS 2026 (Collaborative Research on Science and Society)

11-03-202517-06-2025

Category: Call for proposal

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Sun Shines on Architecture / ARCHIZOOM

21-03-202521-06-2025

Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Exhibitions

Construction durable ou l'utilité cachée de l’inutile, Marlène Leroux / LAST

24-03-202524-03-2025

With: Marlène Leroux, Atelier Archiplein, Genève
Place and room: AAC 0 08
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Irina Davidovici, Convivium: Architecture as network / DC-lab

24-03-202524-03-2025

With: Irina Davidovici
Place and room: AAC 0 20
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63860912677
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Academic careers – the shape of things to come

24-03-202524-03-2025

With: Sarah Blackford
Place and room: BC 420
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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The Agency of Less by EAST [Original Sketch by Eiermann und Jänecke ( Arbeitsgemeinschaft)]

The Agency of Less – Rethinking Existential Minimum / EAST

24-03-202517-04-2025

Category: Call for proposal

Sustainability Series with Guilhem Banc-Prandi

25-03-202525-03-2025

Place and room: RLC G1 350
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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EESS talk on "Including environmental and human health impacts of plastic emissions into Life Cycle Assessment."

25-03-202525-03-2025

With: Dr Anne-Marie Boulay, Ciraig, Polytechnique University of Montréal
Place and room: ALP 1 107
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69011077410
Category: Conferences – Seminars

What would be your reaction if you encountered racism at EPFL ?

Engage, Reflect, Act: Forum Theatre on Racism – Action Week Against Racism 2025

25-03-202525-03-2025

With: Specta(c)tor
Place and room: BC 420
Category: Miscellaneous

Building teaching and learning environments that reduce the risk of harassment and discrimination

25-03-202525-03-2025

With: Roland Tormey, Joelyn de Lima
Place and room: AAC 0 06
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Architecture of Extraction: Galaad Van Daele / RIOT

25-03-202525-03-2025

With: Galaad Van Daele is an architect, editor and researcher active in Paris and Zurich. His research interests gravitate towards ambiguous spatial objects that challenge the nature-culture boundary, which he approaches by means of writing – between history, science, fiction – and photography.   Starting from a focus on landscape studies, his research endeavours now tackle the possibility of writing a history of architecture that acknowledges the various layers of geological presence inside built spaces. Creating dialogues between architecture, the sciences and the humanities, he seeks transversal modes of thinking about spatial productions and architectural historiographies, beyond the dissociation between the human and the terrestrial.
Place and room: Archizoom
Category: Conferences – Seminars

lunch&LEARN: Ola Svensson

lunch&LEARN: Students as Teachers: How AI challenges students to teach

27-03-202527-03-2025

With: Ola Svensson
Place and room: ME A3 31
Online: https://epfl.zoom.us/meeting/register/VD7TV1A9R3Kp3K0mHwbwag
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Logo for the 2025 edition of the competition "My Thesis in 180 seconds"

Final of the competition "My Thesis in 180 seconds"

27-03-202527-03-2025

With: MT180 Finalists
Place and room: Forum RLC
Category: Public Science Events

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