Irène Elizabeth Vogel Chevroulet
Lecturer
irene.vogelchevroulet@epfl.ch +41 21 693 46 59 https://epfl.academia.edu/IreneVogelChevroulet
Citizenship: Suisse - Royaume Uni
EPFL Teachers' Council
2017 - 20192019 - 2021
2021 - 2023
Fields of expertise
Architecture Theory and History 19th -21th c
- Architect Diploma Uni Ge School of Architecture
- Swiss National Science Foundation Young Researcher Scholarship
- Historian MA University of East Anglia in Norwich
Japanese Architecture, Garden Art, Culture
Writings and drawings on Japanese Architecture and Garden Art since 1870
- Swiss National Science Foundation MHV Researcher Scholarship for 3 years
- Dr es Sciences Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne
Archivist and collaborator: Patrick Berger Architect in Paris & Professor Hon EPFL - Teaching and research documentation 1992-2012
Member of the Board of Directors Foundation Sasakawa Paris
Piano since 1972 - Certificate Lausanne Haute Ecole de Musique Mention Bien 1998 - Since 2023 with Prof. Esther Walker
Ceramics 1996 - 2024 Toshiyuki Takeuchi Workshop
Japan 1983 - 1984 Social Work Teaching Calligraphy Ikebana Painting
- Architect Diploma Uni Ge School of Architecture
- Swiss National Science Foundation Young Researcher Scholarship
- Historian MA University of East Anglia in Norwich
Japanese Architecture, Garden Art, Culture
Writings and drawings on Japanese Architecture and Garden Art since 1870
- Swiss National Science Foundation MHV Researcher Scholarship for 3 years
- Dr es Sciences Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne
Archivist and collaborator: Patrick Berger Architect in Paris & Professor Hon EPFL - Teaching and research documentation 1992-2012
Member of the Board of Directors Foundation Sasakawa Paris
Piano since 1972 - Certificate Lausanne Haute Ecole de Musique Mention Bien 1998 - Since 2023 with Prof. Esther Walker
Ceramics 1996 - 2024 Toshiyuki Takeuchi Workshop
Japan 1983 - 1984 Social Work Teaching Calligraphy Ikebana Painting
Current work
LECTURER Courses about JapanEPFL Architecture School - College of Humanities
HES Fribourg School of Architecture
RESEARCHER - HOST at EPFL ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE
Publications in progress on contemporary architects, landscape gardeners and sculptors
EXPERT
Master thesis and project in European Architecture schools
Biography
EDUCATIONArchitect Diploma EAUG 1991
Uni Geneva Prof. Tita Carloni
Practical work: Neuchâtel - London - Tokyo Takefumi Aida Associates
Master of Arts in Advanced Art Historical & Related Studies 1995
Uni East Anglia, Norwich, England, Prof. Stefan Muthesius
- young researcher scholarship SNFS
- Birth of my first child 1998 -
Piano certificate: Mention Good 1999
Conservatoire de musique Lausanne
Prof. Martine Jaques
- Birth of my second child 2001 -
PhD in theory and history of architecture 2009
The Creation of a modern Japaness (1870-1940)
or European Architects Vision towards Japan:
Josiah Conder, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Bruno Taut, Charlotte Perriand
Federal Polytechnical School Lausanne, Prof. Jacques Lucan
- scholarship Marie Heim Vögtlin SNFS
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER
- LUMEN Natural daylighting Building Technical Institute EPFL, 1992-94
- European cities history: Architecture Institute Geneva, Prof. Ricardo Mariani, 1996-98
CREATION & MANAGEMENT of the new BOOKSHOP at Photography Musée de l'Elysée
Lausanne, Dir. Bill Ewing, 1998
ARCHITECT ADVISOR at the District territorial planning, Lausanne, 1999 - 2000
SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATOR EPFL 2000 - 2014
1) Territorial modelisation and architecture materiology
Urban, territorial and architectural lab, Prof. Patrick Berger, 2000-2002
2) Territorial theory & urban environnement and mobility
Dynamic territorial lab, Prof. Martin Schuler, 2002-2004
3) The human representation in architectural design at digital era
Construction & conservation lab, Prof. Luca Ortelli, 2010
4) Bernard Huet and Japan 1964
Research done at Prof. Christian Gilot's chair, 2011
5) Direction's assistance for the Minor
Center for Area and Cultural Studies CACS
College of Humanities CDH 2012 - 2014
6) Archiving teaching material 1992-2012 / Writings synthesis /
- Collaboration to Animal? Archizoom Exhibition and Book / texts
Prof. Patrick Berger
Urban Territorial Architectural Lab 2011 - 2014
HOST RESEARCHER - ARCHITECTURE INSTITUTE ENAC EPFL since 2015
Bernard Huet au Japon Architectures et jardins Zen (2015 - 2017)
Conference Society of American Historians Pasadena LA
Book PPUR
Pikionis and Japan (2018 - 2020)
The paths of gods and architects From Japan to the Acropolis: the landscapes of Dimitris Pikionis
The Journal of Landscape Architecture JoLA 2020 Issue 1
Paper presented at the EAHN-SAHANZ Annual Conference Sydney July 2019
Du Japon à l’Acropole : l’art paysager de Dimitris Pikionis
Japan Impact Conference 2020
For other major publications and conferences please look at the publications section
CONFERENCES in Switzerland
Le jardin de Ryôan-ji
HES Fribourg - Japan Impact - Cercle Suisse Japon: 2018
Une maison japonaise voisine de Totoro
Japan Impact 2019
Du Japon à l’Acropole : l’art paysager de Dimitris Pikionis
Japan Impact 2020
Habiter la rue: humanisme et régénération Tokyo Godfathers de Satoshi Kon
Séminaire cinéma de la Professeure Claire Akiko Brisset UNI GE 2021
Publications
Selected publications
| Irène Vogel Chevroulet The Journal of Landscape Architecture July 2020 Issue 1 |
The paths of gods and architects: From Japan to the Acropolis, the landscapes of Dimitris Pikionis |
| Irene Vogel Chevroulet Presses polytechniques universitaires romandes 2017 ISBN 978-2-88915-185-1 |
Bernard Huet au Japon Architectures et jardins Zen |
| Irene Vogel Chevroulet Wort-Bild Assimilationen Japan und die Moderne, Simone Muller, Ito Toru, Robin Rehm Gebr. Mann Verlag Berlin 2016 pp. 68-93 ISBN 978-3-7861-2721-5 |
The Architecture of Japan: Discovery, Assimilation and Creation - Josiah Conder opens the Way |
| Irene Vogel Chevroulet
Yasushi Zenno dearq 15 - Bogota June 2015 pp. 60-81 ISSN 2011-3188 |
Reiko Hayama, Between the Acts: Legacies from Le Corbusier and Kunio Maekawa |
| Irene Vogel Chevroulet Exposition Imagine Japan, Catalogue Musee d'ethnographie Neuchatel, 2015, pp. 322-333 ISBN 978-2-88078-040-3 |
Le Japon illustré d'Aimé Humbert: effet Dom-ino? |
| I. Vogel Chevroulet Agathon Luglio 2013 Dipartimento di Architettura Universita degli Studi di Palermo pp. 119-123 IS 978-88-89683-46-0; Japan Irreducible Differences East West Symposium paper Milan Polytechnico december 2012 |
Japon: des différences irréductibles |
| I. Vogel Chevroulet, Y. Zenno Docomomo Conference Helsinki 2012, Proceedings January 2014 pp. 30-37 ISBN 978-952-93-2300-5 |
Modern Synthesis revisited: Interior Design and Renovation of the Japanese Ambassador's Residence in Paris by Prouvé, Perriand and Hayama, 1968-2001 |
| I. Vogel Chevroulet Editions Universitaires Européennes 2010 525 p. ISBN 978-613-1-52722-7 |
La création d'une japonité moderne (1870-1940) ou le regard des architectes européens sur le Japon: Josiah Conder, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Bruno Taut et Charlotte Perriand |
| I. Vogel Chevroulet, Y. Zenno SAH Society of Architectural Historians Pittsburgh annual conference paper, april 2007 |
Japan 1940-41's imprint and resonance in Charlotte Perriand's designs |
| I. Vogel Chevroulet Publication interne EPFL |
Modélisation de situations territoriales complexes et matériologie Patrick Berger Chair UTA, 2002 |
| I. Vogel Chevroulet UEA Library |
New possibilities in the design of 1920-1930s openings, B. Lubetkin: Comment concevez-vous la fenêtre University of East Anglia Stefan Muthesius |
| Y. Golay, I. Vogel, L. Deschamps Baudocu, 3/93 - 5/94, 1993-94 |
Lumière naturelle et énergétique: 15 études typologiques |
Research
Since 2010
1) Reiko Hayama, Between the Acts: Legacies from Le Corbusier and Kunio Maekawa Article for Dearq Architecture Review Le Corbusier's collaborators N2 Uni de los Andes Bogota 2015In collaboration with:
Yasushi Zenno
Lecturer Aoyama Gakuin Womens Junior College Tokyo
2) Effet Dom-ino? Aimé Humbert's Japon Illustré 1870's impact on Western architects
Essay
Neuchâtel Ethnography Museum Catalogue Imagine Japan March 2015
3) The Architecture of Japan: discovery, assimilation and creation - Josiah Conder opens the Way
Essay for Zürich University Asien Orient Institute
In collaboration with Dr Simone Muller and Dr Robin Rehm
2013 Colloquium's Proceedings Gebr. Mann Verlag Berlin 2016
4) Bernard Huet and Japan 1964
On Photography - Against Interpretation
Paper for the Society of Architecture Historians Conference in Pasadena 2016
5) Bernard Huet au Japon
Architectures et jardins Zen
Essay for the Presses Polytechniques Universitaires Romandes 2016
6) Reiko Hayama, Between the Acts: Legacies from Le Corbusier and Kunio Maekawa
Project of translating the essay (published in english in 2015) in Japanese and publication in Japan
7) Charlotte Perriand and Bernard Huet: Japanese architecture and garden as sources of inspiration
Project of editing two papers presented at the Society of Historians of Architecture conferences: Pittsburgh 2007 and Los Angeles 2016
8) The paths of gods and architects From Japan to the Acropolis: the landscapes of Dimitris Pikionis. Actual research concerning Dimitris Pikionis and Japan. First paper has been presented at the EAHN-SAHANZ conference in Sydney 2019 and published in the Journal of Landscape Architecture JoLA July 2020 Issue 1
Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Humanities and Social Sciences Program
Architecture
Courses
Contemporary Japan I
Introduction into the culture of Japan - its thought and way of life - designed to foster future study of the archipelago. We elucidate the specificities of a Japanese identity that is imbued with both tradition and openness to innovation, to create sustainability - society, economy, environment.
Contemporary Japan II
Introduction to the culture of Japan - its thought and way of life - designed to foster future study of the archipelago. It elucidates the specificities of a Japanese identity that is imbued with both tradition and openness to innovation, for creating sustainability - society, economy, environment.