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Raffael Baur

raffael.baur@epfl.ch

Nationality: swiss

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EPFL ENAC IA ALICE
BP 4321 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Architect, teacher and researcher. Expertise in sustainable and circular construction systems, detailing, the art and history of craft and fabrication in relation to space and tectonics. Experimental research in timber- and plywood construction, folded sheet metal and textile reinforced concrete (with civil engineers).

Expertise

Architect, teacher and researcher. Expertise in sustainable and circular construction systems, detailing, the art and history of craft and fabrication in relation to space and tectonics. Experimental research in timber- and plywood construction, folded sheet metal and textile reinforced concrete (with civil engineers).

Professionals experiences

dipl. Arch. ETH

2005–2005

ETHZ

B. Arch. Cooper Union

2003–2003

The Cooper Union

Advancing TRC-LC as a sustainable technology for light prefabrication in social housing in Latin America

P. Guaita; D. Fernández-Ordóñez; R. Baur; E. Corres Sojo; B. Malchiodi  et al.

Structures and Architecture; London: CRC Press, 2025. p. 530 - 537.

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Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2024

P. Guaita; R. Baur; D. Fernandez-Ordoñez; E. Corres Sojo

2025.

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Drawing Structures First Year GC 2024

P. Guaita; R. Baur; D. Fernandez-Ordoñez; E. Corres Sojo

2025.

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Docta Manus: Drawing Structures 2020-22

P. Guaita; R. Baur; D. Fernandez-Ordoñez; E. Corres Sojo

Transcalar Prospects in Climate Crisis: architectural research in re/action; Zürich: Lars Müller Publishers, 2024. p. 266 - 271.

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Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2023

P. Guaita; R. Baur; D. Fernandez-Ordoñez; E. Corres Sojo; L. Guillotin

2024.

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Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2022

P. Guaita; R. Baur; D. Fernandez-Ordoñez; E. Corres Sojo

2023.

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Prototype Pavilion in textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) EPFL Fribourg / Work in progress / 2016-2022

R. Baur; P. Guaita; D. Fernandez-Ordoñez; L. Giorla

2023.

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Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2021

P. Guaita; R. Baur; D. Fernandez-Ordoñez; E. Corres Sojo

2023.

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Notes on Drawing: interior material lines

P. Guaita; R. Baur

Drawing in Architecture Education and Research; Lucerne: Park Books, 2023.

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“El Pórtico de los Huéspedes”: Exploring other ways of building at the Open City in Valparaiso, Chile

P. Guaita; R. Baur; D. Jolly; V. Jolly

The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South; London: Routledge, 2022.

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Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2020

P. Guaita; R. Baur; M. Fernández Ruiz; D. Fernandez-Ordoñez

2021.

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Une architecture à la manière d’un jardin: construction incrémentale à la Ciudad Abierta

P. Guaita; R. Baur; D. Jolly; V. Jolly

Tracés : revue suisse romande des techniques et cultures du bâti / Société suisse des ingénieurs et des architectes (SIA). 2021.

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Notes on learning through building in the Open City: Body, Craft and Materiality

P. Guaita; R. Baur

Building for Architecture Education Architekturpädagogiken. Lucerne Talks; Zurich: Park Books, 2021.

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A prototype pavilion in textile reinforced concrete: a tool for research and pedagogy

P. Guaita; R. Baur; M. Fernández Ruiz; D. Fernández-Ordóñez Hernández

2021. International fib Symposium - Conceptual Design of Structures 2021, Attisholz Areal, Solothurn, Switzerland, September 16-18, 2021. DOI : 10.35789/fib.PROC.0055.2021.CDSymp.P063.

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Textile reinforced concrete for sustainable structures: Future perspectives and application to a prototype pavilion

P. L. Valeri; P. Guaita; R. Baur; M. Fernández Ruiz; D. Fernández‐Ordóñez  et al.

Structural Concrete. 2020. DOI : 10.1002/suco.201900511.

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The potential of textile reinforced concrete for design of innovative structures

P. Valeri; P. Guaita; R. Baur; M. Fernández Ruiz; A. Muttoni

2019.

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Building Duration / El Portico de los Huespedes

P. Guaita; S. Devabhaktuni; R. Baur; D. Jolly

2019. 107th Annua2019 Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) 107th Annual Meeting: Black Box: Articulating Architecture's Core in the Post-Digital Era, Pittsburgh, PA, March 28-30, 2019. p. 127 - 128.

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Pedagogy through artisanal construction of thin-walled concrete elements: a dialogue between engineering and architecture

P. Valeri; P. Guaita; R. Baur; M. Fernández Ruiz

2018. IV Int. Conference on structural engineering education without borders, Madrid, Spain, 2018.

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"Rumba Catalana" - Un "velum" pour la célébration. Arsenal, San Jaume, Perpinya, Pyrénées Orientales, F

F. Parpoil

2018

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Scenographia Bibliothecae. Genèse d’une reliance urbaine et sociale de la bibliothèque contemporaine

Y. Claessens; C. Pittet

2018

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La jetée des pas-perdus, gare de Lausanne (CH)

C. Vallet

2018

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Four Banal

R. Dubuis; J. Van De Graaf

2018

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Fragments de Shiqi

G. Chan

2018

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In Téhéran

R. Mir Iravani

2018

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A l'O

S. Teodori; M.-P. Wellinger

2017

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“Hieronymus”, a Space for study

A. Blanc

2017

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Folie pratique, une scénographie “zen-kawaï”

T. Revel

2017

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Usine climatique. Un centre de recherche sur le design passif à Getafe (E)

G. Gysin

2017

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Revalorisation du patrimoine militaire à l'échelle du territoire: le Gothard

G. Droz-dit-Busset

2017

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Appendice. Micro-architecture de la ville informelle.

C. Brachet; C. Dupont

2017

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Habiter à la croisée des mondes, la place du Tunnel comme espace de rencontre, Lausanne

C. Jaboyedoff

2017

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Infrastructure collective, entre permanence et changement en milieu agraire - Ladakh, Himalaya

C. Charvet

2017

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Forum

B. Gmür

2017

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Konbini

A. Wolhoff Abades

2017

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ALICE y1 2011-2012

D. Dietz; R. Baur; T. S. W. Cheung; S. Formery; P. Guaita  et al.

2012.

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Annuaire 2010-2011: Mondes archipels, La ville entière

D. Dietz; S. Lamunière; R. Baur; A. Dubach; S. Formery  et al.

2011.

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Teaching & PhD

Prototype Pavilion in Textile Reinforced Concrete

https://www.epfl.ch/schools/enac/education/design-together-en/enac-summer-workshops/a-prototype-pavillon-in-textile-reinforced-concrete/