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Teaching Circular Architecture On-site
Nicolas Henry Pierre Louis Rogeau, Camille Lucie Elisabeth Fauvel
The Land of a Thousand Dances is an interdisciplinary one-week workshop for architecture, civil engineering, and environmental sciences students at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). The course proposes to study design through maintenance, by ...
2023The Fifth Typology
Conception, organization and introduction Rafael Moneo once said that to talk about type in architecture is to talk about the essence of architecture. Indeed, when conceiving architecture is almost impossible to not start from an existing type, no matter h ...
2023The Domestic Turn: Politics of Education from New College to The Palazzo Della Sapienza
Student accommodation became a problem only a century after the foundation of the first universities in Europe in the 12th century. At the very beginning students had to provide their own lodgings autonomously. In many university cities the situation prove ...
2023The Fifth Typology: A Symposium on Type and Architecture
A type is not a model or an image to be copied, but the deep structure of how things are put together. The Symposium revisits the concept of type by critically reading its previous definitions and by offering a new interpretation of this rather elusive, but ...
2023The Pavilions at the Alhambra’s Court of the Lions: Graphic Analysis of Muqarnas
This research documents and graphically analyzes the pavilions muqarnas at the Court of the Lions in the Alhambra in Granada, a World Heritage Site. In order to cast some light on the understanding and preservation of these 14th century architectural eleme ...
2020Architecture / Philosophy: how, why, and what the questions seek in three case-studies from the late 20th century
André Patrão Neves De Frias Martins
Architecture and philosophy are no strangers to one another. In philosophical writings, architecture appears referred to, spoken of, described, defined, categorized, and figuratively used. In architectural discourse, by theoreticians and practitioners alik ...
EPFL2020New Drawings of the Alhambra: Deformations of Muqarnas in the Pendentives of the Sala de la Barca
Architectural heritage preservation and sustainability need advanced graphic techniques in order to document and understand the disposition/composition of plaster muqarnas, a fragile construction element. The muqarnas are key elements in the Nasrid archite ...
2019Introducing the architectural values of the Common
Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon
The recent development of the “Common” as an interdisciplinary field of reflection seems to show some restraint with respect to the architectural culture that precedes it. This proposal invites to explore the intensities and the reasons for such a resistan ...
University of Huddersfield2019Introducing the architectural values of the Common
Valentin Daniel Maurice Bourdon
The recent development of the “Common” as an interdisciplinary field of reflection seems to show some restraint with respect to the architectural culture that precedes it. This proposal invites to explore the intensities and the reasons for such a resistan ...
2019Typologie des écoles primaires en Suisse de 1945 à 2015 et stratégies d'éclairage naturel
Jean-Denis Bernard Marie Ghislain Thiry
Following the path initiated by Britain and the United States, where the evolution of education and the importance of the architecture of schools were debated vigorously by school boards, and mainly under the influence of Germany and the Netherlands, Switz ...
EPFL2019