The Bernardo Secchi Days

At the initiative of the Braillard Architects Foundation in cooperation with the Laboratory of Urbanism of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, and in honor of the great Italian town planner of the same name (1934- 2014), the Bernardo Secchi Study Days were established in 2015 to offer regular and interdisciplinary workshops to study the main issues related to urbanisation in this era of ecological transition.

Existenzminimum: 90 years of the 2nd CIAM
24 September 2019, 08:00 – 18:00
Modern city and contemporary city: facing the transition EXISTENZMINIMUM 90 years of the 2nd CIAM 24 September 2019 EPFL, Rolex Learning Center, Forum Rolex Route cantonale, 1015 Écublens See the call for contributions See the programme of the day (to come) The 5th Bernardo Secchi Study day is jointly organised by three entities: the Braillard […]
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Modern city and contemporary city: facing the transition
25 September 2018, 08:30 – 17:00
PDF of the Call for Contribution – BSD 2018 PDF of the Programme of September 25th PDF of the brochure (FR/EN) Watch the videos of the day   This year we are celebrating 90 years since the La Sarraz Declaration. As it has been close to a century since that moment so significant for the […]
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Urbanism of hope: projecting horizons of expectation
20 September 2017, 09:00 – 00:00
SEE THE VIDEO PROGRAMME   INAUGURAL SPEECH: WHICH CITIES TO ENTER THE ANTHROPOCENE? Dominique BOURG, Philosopher, Full professor, Institute of Geography and Sustainability, Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne.   Session 1: Theory and history   BETWEEN “ARCOLOGY”, THE “LOCAL PROJECT” AND THE “HORIZONTAL METROPOLIS”: CONFRONTING THE DILEMMAS OF SUSTAINABLE URBAN HORIZONTALITY Christian […]
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The city of the rich and the city of the poor
27 September 2016, 09:00 – 29 September 2016, 19:30
SEE +   Bernardo Secchi day 2016   The city of the rich and the city of the poor The Braillard Architects Foundation (FBA) organized the Bernardo Secchi Study Day with the Laboratory of Urbanism (Lab-U) of EPFL and the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID). The Day took place as part […]
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The ground of cities, resource and project
22 September 2015, 09:00 – 19:30
SEE + SEE THE VIDEO PROGRAMME   Introduction   URBAN SOIL: AN INERT SURFACE OR A LIVING RESOURCE? Elena HAVLICEK, Pedologist – Federal Department of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communication, Federal Office of Environment, Department of Substances, Soil and Biotechnology THE GROUND IN THE HORIZONTAL METROPOLIS Paola VIGANÒ, Architect – professor Laboratory of Urbanism, Swiss […]
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