EDAR Newsletter

nº 96

March 2025

EDAR WELCOMES

New PhD Student

EDAR is delighted to welcome the new PhD student Matthieu Gautrot, who started his research on the 1st of March 2025 at LASUR, and wishes success in his studies.

PUBLIC THESIS DEFENSE

Nagy Makhlouf (PhD student at RIOT)

18 March 2025, 16:00 (CET)

The public defense of the doctoral thesis entitled "Home of the Free: the Political Economies of Suburbia in the United States" will be held in MED 0 1418 (campus EPFL Ecublens). The thesis is completed under the supervision of Prof. Dieter Dietz (ALICE) and Prof. Charlotte Malterre-Barthes (RIOT). To attend the public defense, please contact here.

EXTENSION REQUESTS

The Doctoral Students' Office is pleased to announce that the validation process for extension requests for doctoral candidates has been digitised. The extension requests for candidacy exam, credits or oral exam will now be received via the ServiceNow tool. Detailed instructions concerning submitting and validating requests in ServiceNow are available through the link. With any questions, please contact the Doctoral Students' Office at sac-doctorants@epfl.ch.

AR-686 BAD BOOKS

Close Reading of a Canonical Text on Architecture

The methodological course Bad Books: Close Reading of a Canonical Text on Architecture, organised by Marson Korbi (TPOD), is focused on the history and analysis of a book that has been important in the history of architecture. It is the second episode of a cycle of lectures and seminars on the studies of Microhistory. The course is structured as a series of lectures by Marson Korbi (TPOD), Pier Vittorio Aureli (TPOD), Maarten Delbeke (ETHZ) and Silvia Groaz (Université de Liège), and presentations from EDAR PhD students. Lectures will take place at 09:15 - 13:00 on Mondays of March 31, April 7, and April 14 in AAC 0 06. Attendance is open for all PhD students of the EDAR. For detailed information, please refer to the EDAR Course Book: link.

AR-684 9th LES RENCONTRES DE L'EDAR

Original Knowledge

The 9th edition of Les Rencontres de l’EDAR, which will be held on May 13-14, invites EDAR PhD students, supervisors and co-supervisors, and external guests to reflect and debate on the ways doctoral research meets the criterion of producing original scientific knowledge. While the course is open to all EDAR PhD students, it is mandatory for all students in their second and third years. Students must register for the course and submit a 300-word abstract by April 11. The updated two-day course schedule is available at this link. For details on registration and abstract submission, please visit the link.

CALLS

Calls for Papers and Participation

Language, Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies journal announces a call for papers for its new issue entitled Mapping Body Space Continuum in Urbanscapes. The issue explores the role of the human body in consciously forming the spaces within a city and shaping their social and political order. The call anticipates papers which extend the discourse on spatiality and the role of the body and its agency in the imagination and formulation of spaces. Full articles between 3,500 and 10,000 words should be submitted via the link by March 15, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

ENSA Paris Belleville announces the conference entitled Architecture as a project for society: the teaching of Giancarlo De Carlo, which will be held in Paris in November 2025. The conference aims to update and put into perspective the teaching of the architect Giancarlo De Carlo, twenty years after his death. By reconnecting with the roots of a way of thinking that closely links theory and practice, it situates De Carlo's contributions within the theoretical and methodological debates of his time and places his legacy in the context of contemporary debates and professional practices. Abstracts of 4,000 characters in English or French are to be submitted to enrico.chapel@toulouse.archi.fr, filippo.depieri@polito.it, and roberta.morelli@paris-belleville.archi.fr by March 17, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

Folly journal of architectural theory announces a call for papers for its new issue entitled Cultivation. The issue encourages submissions that explore the relationship between agriculture and architecture, from the mythic origins of architecture's beginnings to industrialised farming. Abstracts of up to 300 words are to be submitted to follynewsletter@gmail.com by March 31, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

Comité International des Critiques d'Architecture (CICA) announces the online conference entitled Territoriality and Temporality in Architecture, which will be held on October 25-26, 2025. The conference focuses on how architecture engages with the past, present, and future in discussing the ecological and social potentials they convey. The 2025 conference seeks papers that critique built projects' temporal or territorial qualities. Abstracts of 500 words are to be submitted via the link by April 9, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.

The Institute of Habsburg and Balkan Studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences, announce an international conference entitled Architecture and the Power of Bureaucracy. The objective of this conference is to incorporate bureaucracy into the discourse on architectural theory and history as an indispensable element and a powerful factor in the process of constructing a building. It will explore the material implications of bureaucratic measures, arguing that they already strongly impacted architectural practice and urban form in the late nineteenth century and modern periods. Proposals of 300 words and CV should be submitted to hnidkova@udu.cas.cz by April 30, 2025. For detailed information, please visit the link.