Lecture
The conferences and lectures provide a space for reflection and discussion on contemporary issues in architecture. They bring together architects, researchers and professionals to share their experiences and explore new perspectives. Open to students, teachers and the general public, these meetings contribute to the dissemination of knowledge and promote dialogue between theory and practice.
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The School Lecture Series, initiated by professors Pier Vittorio Aureli and Sophie Delhay in 2024, explore a central theme of architecture each year, spanning the two academic semesters. Each edition brings together seven invited speakers, including researchers and practitioners, who present an exemplary project that illustrates the chosen theme in a concrete and critical way, from design to realization.
The themes vary from year to year, such as housing or community, offering insights into current practices and debates in the architectural field. Each project provides an opportunity to analyze strategies and approaches to architecture in its social, urban, and collective dimensions, without romanticizing the constraints or challenges involved.
All lectures in the series take place on Tuesdays and are open to students, faculty, and the public, providing a space for reflection and discussion on the diversity of contemporary architectural practices and approaches.
The Neighbours lecture series is a forum for provocative voices in architectural research. Faced with unprecedented social and political pressures, those working on the history and theories of architecture are called upon not only to react, but also to reconsider their historiographical and epistemological tools, and even the very object of ‘research’.
Organised by EPFL professors of architectural history and theory – Pier Vittorio Aureli, Sarah Nichols and Alfredo Thiermann – and their respective laboratories, this series explores themes that situate architecture within a spectrum of issues ranging from labour to construction, materials to property, questions of form to politics and planning, the organisation of class and gender roles to the search for the origins of architecture.
The series questions how the discipline is instrumentalised by – and instrumentalises – its broader historical context to operate and assert its values. Rather than dissolving architecture into a generic multidisciplinarity, the aim is to study how it situates itself alongside/with/against its neighbours – whether related disciplines or cultural and political fields – and, in so doing, to question and reformulate the landscape of architectural history and theory.
Events
EPFL Architecture and its community organise conferences, exhibitions and symposiums throughout the year, open to the academic community and the general public, to disseminate research and practices in architecture.
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