EDAR Newsletter

nº 94

December 2024 – January 2025

EDAR Welcomes

New PhD Students

EDAR is delighted to welcome the new PhD students:

• Reda Berrada, who will start his research on the 1st of February 2025 at LAPIS
• Filippo Fanciotti, who will start his research on the 1st of February 2025 at LAPIS

and wishes success in their studies.

Public Thesis Defenses

Elena Calafati (PhD student at LAB-U)

16 December 2024, 18:00 (CET)

The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Spaces of production: an Atlas. paradigms, scales, forms in transition" will be held in AAC 1 32 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Paola Viganò (LAB-U). To attend the public defense, please contact here.

Héléna Roux (PhD student at HAT)

31 January 2024, 18:00 (CET)

The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "The authentic city: uses of industrial heritage in large-scale regeneration projects, a comparative analysis" will be held in ELA 2 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Florence Graezer Bideau (HAT). To attend the public defense, please contact the speaker.

EDAR Thesis Distinction 2024

EDAR warmly congratulates the recipients of the 2024 Thesis Distinction – Anna Karla De Almeida Milani (LAB-U), Dalmine Lives. A biopolitical History of an Italian Company-Town, and Sara Formery (LAST), Quartiers Rhodaniens en Transition.

The two PhD theses, clearly situated in the fields of architecture and urban planning, are particularly representative of the EDAR's scientific culture: they integrate an interdisciplinary dimension in a precise and relevant way; they provide new knowledge for understanding and dealing with the built and urban heritage – namely modernist heritage,

experiment with new, replicable research tools and methods, and have a high potential for impact on the academic and professional world.

The Thesis Distinction was awarded during the festive Winter Party-Assembly organised on December 3 by the EDAR Direction together with QUATRE, the PhD students' representative collective.

PUBLICATIONS

by EDAR PhD Students

Twice a year, EDAR Newsletter shares the list of publications by PhD students of our doctoral program. Here is the 10th edition with all the publications from July to December 2024. The alphabetical order refers to the surnames of EDAR PhD Students. 

Have a nice reading!

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Borges, Tiago P. “To Work Typologically Is to Re-co-gnise.” In Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis: Architectural Research in Re/Action, edited by Jeffrey Huang, Dieter Dietz, Laura Trazic, and Korinna Zinovia Weber, 216-21. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2024. https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/transcalar-prospects-climate-crisis.

Borges, Tiago P. "From Pumps to Placemaking: Typological Notes on Petrol Stations and The Filling Station by Carmody Groarke." In Studies on Types: Filling Stations, edited by Laboratory EAST, 54–63. Zürich: Triest Verlag, 2024.

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Chanis, Vasileios. “To the ‘Hero of Heroes’: Dimitris Pikionis and the Landscaping of the Velissariou Memorial.” Journal of Landscape Architecture 19, no. 1 (2024): 34–49. https://doi.org/10.1080/18626033.2024.2364546.

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Émile, Arthur. "Quand la gare débordait en ville : la suppression des fumées ferroviaires, une question ‘d’hygiène, de propreté et d’esthétique’ (France, 1830-1930)." Dans La nouvelle nature des gares, sous la direction de Nacima Baron, Nils Le Bot et Pauline Detavernier, 33–48. Vincennes : Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, collection GéoTraverses, 2024. https://doi.org/10.3917/puv.baron.2024.01.0033. En ligne : https://shs.cairn.info/la-nouvelle-nature-des-gares--9782379244582-page-33?site_lang=fr.

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Giovanazzi, Theodora. “The Birth of Social Housing.” L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui 463 (December 2024).

Grangeot, Maxence, Qianqing Wang, Katrin Beyer, Corentin Fivet, and Stefana Parascho. “Structural Concrete Rubble Arrangements: A Framework for Upcycling Demolition Waste into Slender Masonry Walls for Buildings.” In Scalable Disruptors, edited by Philipp Eversmann, Christoph Gengnagel, Julian Lienhard, Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, and Jan Wurm, 15–27. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68275-9_2.

Fivet, Corentin, Stefana Parascho, Maxence Grangeot, and Malena Bastien-Masse. “Disused Concrete, Digital Acupuncture and Reuse.” Architectural Design 94, no. 5 (2024): 88–97. https://doi.org/10.1002/ad.3101.

Küpfer, Célia, Maxence Grangeot, Barbara Lambec, and Corentin Fivet. “Reading the Existing: What Discarded Materials Bring to the Project.” In Architecture Revalued: Baukultur and the Culture of Transition, edited by Valentin Bourdon, Anna Livia Friel, and Paula Viganò, 51–68. First edition. Lausanne: EPFL Press, 2024. https://doi.org/10.55430/6641BKVA01.

Grangeot, Maxence. “Concrete Rubble Tectonics through Digital Upcycling.” In Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis: Architectural Research in Re/Action, edited by Jeffrey Huang, Dieter Dietz, Laura Trazic, and Korinna Zinovia Weber, 308–15. Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2024. https://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/transcalar-prospects-climate-crisis.

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Marcou, Constantinos. “From Bed to Bedroom: A Genealogical Study of Horizontality in Domestic Space.” Burning Farm, no. 11 (August 2024). https://burning.farm/essays/from-bed-to-bedroom.

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Armengol, Jan Mateu, Cristina Carnerero, Clément Rames, Álvaro Criado, Javier Borge-Holthoefer, Albert Soret, and Albert Solé-Ribalta. "City-Scale Assessment of Pedestrian Exposure to Air Pollution: A Case Study in Barcelona." Urban Climate 58 (2024): 102183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2024.102183.

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Savio, Stéphanie. “Bevrijdingspoging van een bevolkingsgroep: Hannes Meyer en Freidorf.” De Witte Raaf 232 (November/December 2024): 16–17. https://www.dewitteraaf.be/site/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/DWR-232_LR.pdf.

Roca-Musach, Marc, Glòria Serra Coch, Isabel Crespo Cabillo, and Helena Coch Roura. "Machine-Learning to Analyze Human-Building Interactions: How Do People Use Mobile Solar Protections?" Journal of Building Engineering 98, no. 7 (October 2024): 111039. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jobe.2024.111039.

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Zhang, Mengke. “The State-Led Approach to Industrial Heritage in China’s Mega-Events: Capital Accumulation, Urban Regeneration, and Heritage Preservation.”Built Heritage 8, no. 30 (2024): 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1186/s43238-024-00144-1.



EDAR COURSES

Spring 2025

EDAR is glad to announce the list of Courses for the upcoming Spring semester 2025. EDAR Course book for the academic year 2024-2025 is available through the link.

AR-667 / 01-06.2025 Rythmologies. Sociétés et territoires à l'épreuve.

Vincent Kaufmann

AR-604 / 06-07.03.2025 Introduction to Research II.

Elena Cogato Lanza, Luca Pattaroni

31.03, 04.07, 14.04.2025 Bad Books. Close reading of a canonical text on architecture.

Marson Korbi

28-30.04.2025 Neighbourhoods in Transition II. Potentials of urban slopes in a post-carbon perspective.

Emmanuel Rey, Sophie Lufkin

AR-684 / 13-14.05.2025 9th Les Rencontres de l’EDAR. Original Knowledge.

Elena Cogato Lanza, Nicola Braghieri

23-27.06.2025 Movement Matters: Exploring Transitions in Architecture Research, EPFL-ETHZ Summer School.

Sarah Nichols, Philip Ursprung, Akshar Gajar, Debasish Borah, Jacopo Zani

Summer 2025 Learning from the South. Cultural Landscapes and Transnational Dialogues on Urbanization in Transition, Summer School.

Paola Viganò, Florence Graezer Bideau, Ben Gitai, Anna Karla De Almeida Milani

AR-683 – MUD ON THE FLOOR

Shady Transfers – Lecture by Alice Hertzog

The public lecture series Mud on the Floor. Dirty Realities in Scholarly Work concludes with a talk by Alice Hertzog (UZH). Entitled Shady Transfers: Dealings in a West African Megacity, it will address the issue of actual construction processes, which currently does not enjoy much currency within architectural academia. It will further reflect on how construction knowledge can infuse architectural debate, from design theory to historical exegesis, and environmental analysis to social values. The lecture will take place on December 11 at 09:30 in BP 4232. For detailed announcement, please visit the link.



CALLS

Call for Doctoral Positions

The Laboratory for History and Theories of Architecture, Technology, and Media (HITAM) is pleased to invite applicants for two doctoral positions within the framework of a multi-year research project funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF). The interdisciplinary project Data Centers: An Architectural History of Environmental Information seeks to explore how architecture – understood as both material structures and a conceptual framework – has historically enabled the measurement, control, and modification of natural cycles for productive purposes. Applications and inquiries are to be submitted to hitam@epfl.ch by January 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

Calls for Papers and Participation

gta papers announces a call for papers for its new issue, entitled Macroeconomics & Architecture. The issue is dedicated to specific macroeconomic decisions and their effect on architecture, the city, and landscape. Contributions may look at the effects of decisions on tax, trade, goods, tariffs, labour, energy, currency, pricing and debt, using architecture as a measure of the material consequences of such decisions. Abstracts of 300 words should be submitted to academic.editor@gta.arch.ethz.ch by December 13, 2024. For detailed information, please visit the link.

ICOMOS working group "Architectural Heritage Year 2025", ETH Zürich, EPFL, and the National Information Centre for Cultural Heritage (NIKE) announce a call for papers for the international and interdisciplinary conference entitled A Future for whose Past? The Heritage of Minorities, Fringe Groups and People Without a Lobby, which will be held on October 22-24, 2025, on Monte Verità, Ascona, Switzerland. The conference will reflect upon the motto of the European Heritage Year 1975 “A future for our past,” in view of the consequences of globalisation, migration, communication technology revolutions and civil and human rights activism. Abstract of 500 words and CV should be submitted to denkmalschutzjahr2025@arch.ethz.ch by December 15, 2024. For detailed information, please visit the link.

Politecnico Milano, Politecnico di Torino, KU Leuven, and Ghent University announce a call for participation in the online research seminar entitled Housing for Single People: Narratives, New Perspectives, and Methodological Challenges, which will be held on March 21, 2025. The research seminar investigates housing for singles and other non-normative households, exploring singlehood through the lenses of architecture, interior design, and urbanism, with the goal of critically examining the ambivalent position of single-person households in history, capturing both their precarious realities and their potential for emancipation. Abstracts of 300 words and bio should be submitted to hsp.researchseminar@gmail.com by January 6, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) announces a call for papers for its 37th annual Congress entitled Planning as a Transformative Action in an Age of Planetary Crisis, which will be held on July 7-11, 2025, in Istanbul, Turkey. The Congress seeks to foster a dialogue on how planning can become a vehicle for addressing not only environmental crises but also the socio-spatial inequalities that exist within cities and regions, acting as a crucial agent of change. Abstracts for the Congress tracks should be submitted through this link by January 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

European Architectural History Network (EAHN) announces a call for papers for the thematic conference entitled The Built Ocean, which will be held on September 10-13, 2025, in Porto, Portugal. The conference aims to frame the current state of architectural research in relation to these bodies of salt water, to broaden horizons, and to unpack ongoing projects that emphasize a fundamental shift in our perception of both the oceans and architecture. Abstract of 400 words and bio should be submitted to via the link by January 18, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

International Urban Symposium (IUS) and the University of Kent announce a call for applications for the 2025 Field Training School and Research Seminar entitled Urban Research: Theories and Methods, which will be held on July 21-27, 2025, in Montecatini Terme, Tuscany, Italy. The Field Training School is an intensive exercise aimed at postgraduate students, postdoctoral scholars and practitioners who are interested in research in urban settings and in empirically-grounded analysis. The primary aim is to train participants in conducting ethnographic fieldwork and develop the link between ethnographically-based analysis and social theory. Applications should be submitted to i.pardo@kent.ac.uk and g.b.prato@kent.ac.uk until March 17, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.