Emmanuel Rey

Emmanuel Rey earned his architecture degree at the EPFL in 1997 (with Paul Chemetov, Inès Lamunière, Yves Lion and Luigi Snozzi as professors), followed in 1999 by a European postgraduate diploma in architecture and sustainable development conferred jointly by the EPFL, the Université Catholique de Louvain, the ENSA Toulouse and the AA in London. In 2006, he completed his PhD at the Université Catholique de Louvain and was awarded in 2009 the European Gustave Magnel Prize for the quality of his thesis. Since 2000, he works by the architectural and urban design firm Bauart based in Bern, Neuchâtel and Zurich, of which he became a partner in 2004. In that position, he is involved in many projects, competitions and realizations, which have been published, exhibited and awarded on several occasions.  In 2010, he is appointed a professor at the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering and founds the Laboratory of Architecture and Sustainable Technologies (LAST). Emmanuel Rey’s contributions focus on the field of sustainable architecture, with special attention to how sustainability principles translate at various levels of the process - from urban design to construction components - and to the incorporation of evaluative and innovative criteria into the architectural project. His interdisciplinary approaches help build dynamic ties between engineers and architects. In 2015, he is awarded by the Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences and received the swiss-academies award for transdisciplinary research (td-award).