Dieter DietzDieter Dietz has been educated at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and has studied at the Cooper Union in New York City with Diller/Scofidio. He has received his degree in architecture in 1991 at ETH Zurich. He has worked with Diane Lewis Architects in New York and with Herzog & de Meuron in Basel. With partner architect Urs Egg he was a founding member of UNDEND Architecture in Zurich in 1997, an architectural practice with award winning entries in national and international competitions. Currently he is building up dieterdietz.org, a firm engaging in projects in urban design, media and architecture. From 1996 to 1999 Dieter Dietz has taught as Junior Faculty with Professor Marc Angélil at ETH Zurich. Since 2006 Dieter Dietz is Associate Professor for Architectural Design at EPFL in Lausanne and director of the ALICE laboratory in the ENAC faculty. He collaborates with the ALICE team on research projects at diverse scales with labs inside and outside EPFL. His teaching activities include the direction of the first year architectural design course as well as projects at master and thesis level.
Jessen PageJessen Page was born in Dubai (UAE) in 1975. After attending school in Bulle (Switzerland) he studied physics for two years at the University of Konstanz, Germany, before joining the University of Fribourg in Switzerland. He graduated in June 2002 and joined the Solar Energy and Building Physics Laboratory 4 months later. He has been working on the EU funded SUNtool project since its launching in January 2003.
Valentin Daniel Maurice BourdonValentin Bourdon is an architect, postdoctoral researcher and teaching assistant. He obtained the french architectural diploma in 2013 from the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires Paris-Est at Marne-la-Vallée under the direction of Jacques Lucan, and completed his PhD at EPFL in 2020, under the supervision of Luca Ortelli. Since September 2021, he coordinates the Habitat Research Center at EPFL. Involved in the studies of the Laboratory of Construction and Conservation between 2017 and 2021, he also contributes in the supervision of its Housing Studio - Project Theory and Criticism for architecture bachelor. During his doctoral research, he benefited of an academic stay at Metrolab Brussels in 2019 with the support of the SNSF, and published multiple scientific and non-academic publications. His arrival in Switzerland and return to the academic world take place after a thorough professional experience in the parisian office MGAU Michel Guthmann Architecture Urbanisme. From 2010 to 2016, he participed to the majority of its developed projects and supervised several of them, both collective dwellings projects and urban projects.
Loïc Vivien FumeauxLoïc Fumeaux was born in 1978 in Geneva. After a scientific degree, he joined the EPFL . He graduated as an architect in 2007 under the direction of Professors Jean- Paul Jaccaud and Bruno Marchand. His master's thesis was about sustainability integration from urban scale to the architectural details. This masters project was awarded with the SIA Prize and the Construction and sustainable development Prize (BG Ingénieurs Conseils).
In addition to his studies, Loïc develops independant activities and collaborated with LVBK Rotterdam and Lacroix- Chessex Geneva. In 2009 , he founded xy-ar.ch with Amélie Poncety . The office participates in many competitions and won the competition for the redevelopment of the Place de la Planta in Sion , currently under development .
In 2010, he became studio assistant at the LAST (Laboratory of architecture and sustainable technologies) headed by Prof. Emmanuel Rey. After a period dedicated to teaching he starts a PhD focused on the integration of sustainability criteria into the design process of temporary event infrastructures .
He is a member of the group of architects at SIA section Vaud and Treasurer of InterAssAr.
Luca OrtelliLUCA ORTELLI
Né à Sorengo (Cantone Ticino) le 8 février 1956
Diplômé en Architecture de la Facoltà di Architettura del Politecnico di Milano en 1983
Positions académiques
1983 à 1986 Assistant à l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Zurich
1985 à 1989 Professeur de Projet et Théorie du projet à la Scuola Tecnica Superiore de Lugano
1986 Visiting critic à la University of Miami (USA)
1989 à 1991 Chargé de cours à l'École dArchitecture de l'Université de Genève (EAUG)
1992 à 1997 Professeur ordinaire à l'École d'Architecture de l'Université de Genève (EAUG)
1994 à 1996 Professeur invité à South California Institute of Architecture à Vico Morcote
de 1997 Professeur ordinaire à lInstitut dArchitecture et de la ville, Faculté ENAC, EPFL
Positions administratives
1999 à 2001 Président de la Commission d'enseignement du Département d'Architecture EPFL
2002 à 2008 Directeur de la Section Architecture de la Faculté ENAC
de 2006 Membre de la Direction de la Faculté ENAC
de 2007 Membre de la Commission de recherche EPFL
de 2008 Membre du Comité de Direction Programme doctoral Architecture et sciences de la ville
Positions éditoriales
1980 à 1990 Rédacteur de la revue darchitecture Lotus international de
1988 à 1993 Codirecteur des guides d'architecture Stella polare, Edizioni Città Studi, Milano
de 2007 Codirecteur collection Architecture, Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes
Pratique professionnelle
Participation à nombreux concours nationaux et internationaux
Activité indépendante en Suisse de 1990 et réalisation des Archives du Canton Tessin (1993-1998)
Jean-Cédric ChappelierJean-Cédric Chappelier is currently senior researcher and lecturer
in Computational Linguistics at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de
Lausanne (Switzerland). He holds an Ms.Sci. and a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
de Paris (France).