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Altitude: architecture et environnement de haute montagne

Estelle Lépine

At the centre of the research is the preservation of the countryside which is highlighted and studied through an architectural approach which focuses on cabins in the high mountains. The projects must reflect upon territorial, global and sustainable aspect ...

EPFL2016

El camino no es el camino. Some reflexions on the Valparaiso School and its architectural teaching

Patricia Guaita, Cornelia Dominique Tapparelli Portilla Kawamura

The teaching of architecture at the School of Architecture and Design at the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso (the Valparaiso School) has very often been described as ‘very unusual’. One of the most exceptional and most often remarked upon aspe ...

EPFL Press2015

(What) is Research Appropriate to Architecture?

Selena Savic

It is often unclear whether by architectural research we mean research about architecture, research through architecture or research for architecture. These three categories, borrowed from Christopher Frayling’s discussion on research in design and art, ar ...

2014

Care. Emerging Natures

Pieter Versteegh

The work addresses research by design as a subject and a method. It explores theorizations, experimentations, and verifications, all of them engaged in writing, drawing and building. It is discovery-led, and starts from a blurry "state of the arts". It osc ...

EPFL2012

The digital design paradox

Russell Alexander Loveridge

The emergence of computation in design is an ongoing evolution, rather than a technological revolution. Contemporary digital tools have influenced the image of architecture, as object, as shelter, and as icon – but digital design has yet to change our unde ...

Initiative Architektur Salzburg2011

Probable zoonotic leprosy in the southern United States

Stewart Cole, Jacques Rougemont, Rahul Sharma, Philippe Busso, Adamantia Kapopoulou, Pushpendra Singh

In the southern region of the United States, such as in Louisiana and Texas, there are autochthonous cases of leprosy among native-born Americans with no history of foreign exposure. In the same region, as well as in Mexico, wild armadillos are infected wi ...

2011

Dynamic Ornament: The Design of Responsive Architectural Environments

Mark Meagher

This thesis study investigates the architectural potential of digital information, using case studies and prototypes to explore the integration of dynamic information in the architectural environment. Responsive architecture, a design field that has arisen ...

EPFL2010

Timberfabric: Applying Textile Principles on a Building Scale

Yves Weinand, Markus Hudert

Practical and material orientated academic research has become increasingly important for architectural practice, due to several factors. First, it contributes to contemporary concepts in architecture and improves their implementation. Today’s architects a ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Stratégie versus composition

Adrien Besson

To avoid chaos and arbitrariness architects have traditionally looked for ways to structure buildings as wholes that can be factorised into parts. This approach to the nature of architecture is that of composition. After the Second World War, the world of ...

EPFL2009

Large Shareholders and Corporate Policies

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach

We analyze the effects of heterogeneity across large shareholders, using a new blockholder-firm panel dataset in which we can track all unique blockholders among large public firms in the United States. We find statistically significant and economically im ...

Oxford University Press2009