Lucía Jalón Oyarzun

EPFL ENAC IA ALICE
BP 4221 (Bâtiment BP)
Station 16
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Body, architecture and politics.
Minor architectures.
Cultural landscape.
Landscape infrastructure.
Architectural ethnography of media territories.
Architectural mapping and cartography.

Expertise

Body, architecture and politics.
Minor architectures.
Cultural landscape.
Landscape infrastructure.
Architectural ethnography of media territories.
Architectural mapping and cartography.
Lucía Jalón Oyarzun is an architect and researcher whose work explores the intersections of space, politics, and capitalism. She graduated from the ETSAM School of Architecture in Madrid, where she also earned her PhD in 2017 with a dissertation titled Exception and the Rebel Body: The Political as Generator of a Minor Architecture. She is currently Head of Research at ALICE (Atelier de la Conception de l’Espace) at EPFL, where she leads interdisciplinary investigations into the social and cultural challenges of urban and territorial co-design. From 2017 to 2020, she directed the School of Arts SUR at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid. She has been a Research Fellow at the Center for Digital Visual Studies (University of Zurich) and has taught for several years at the ETSAM School of Architecture. Her work, which spans theoretical inquiry, cultural critique, and applied research, has been presented and published internationally.

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Capucine Fouquin, Natalia Gómez Mateu, Alejandro Martin Varela Lopez

Past EPFL PhD Students as codirector

Julien Lafontaine Carboni (2022), Estefania Mompean Botias (2025)

Courses

Collective Figurations of Baukultur

AR-698

Conceptualizes figuration in architecture and urban design within historical and theoretical debates on representation; historicizes design research; critically contrasts operative representations with collective figurations and assesses their implications for democratic co-design.

The city-tree

PENS-235

This ENAC week is an invitation to question how cities are reinventing their relationship with living and natural entities, focusing in particular on the question of trees.