"I regard myself as a descendent of the true Modernists," a young Rem Koolhaas told Dutch journal wonen-TA/BK in 1978.

New insight into termites' architectural strategies could help us design more energy efficient self-sustaining buildings for humans.

For the past 15 years, EPFL's Urban Sociology Laboratory has been showing students and researchers the value of incorporating social-science related concepts into engineering and architecture.

Lands, Buildings and Real Estate is making permanent a pilot program that distributed crew members throughout campus in four district offices. The reorganization is designed to put LBRE staff close to their customers, eliminate travel and speed delivery of services.

As they walk through the University of Miami's Coral Gables campus, many people are struck by the plethora of trees and greenery that surround them. Unfortunately, this is in stark contrast to many parts of the world where trees and forests, which play a vital role in our planet's survival, are being rapidly destroyed due to deforestation.

An architect argues to stay the wrecking ball and reuse older buildings, a historian recalls Martin Luther King Jr.'s timeless economic message, a master storyteller brings a new set of tales, an engineer conjures a children's book with a robot's-eye view of the deep ocean..

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Architect Bernard Tschumi has donated the archives of his Bridge City project - developed for the City of Lausanne in 1988 - to EPFL.