Mission

Head of the Theory and History of Architecture Laboratory 2 of the Institute of Architecture, ENAC Faculty. Head of the Institute of Architecture, ENAC Faculty. Teaching and research in the theory of architecture.

Biography

Bruno Marchand studied architecture at the EPFL and here he graduated in 1980. He obtained his doctorate at the EPFL in 1992. The subject of his thesis was the presentation of a typology of collective housing in Geneva. Appointed as assistant professor in the EPFL’s Department of Architecture in 1993, he lectured to 2nd year students on the theory of architecture and was responsible for Teaching unit B – Architectural critics. In 1995, he became visiting professor at the School of Architecture in Nantes. From 1996 to 1998 he taught the postgraduate course on urban development and planning. On 1st August 1997, he was appointed an associate professor of the theory of architecture and he became the director of the Theory and History of Architecture Laboratory 2 in 1999. In 2002 he created the "Architecture, City and History" doctoral program, which he directed until 2006, when he became the director of the Institute of Architecture, ENAC Faculty. The Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology appointed him a full professor of the theory of architecture at the ENAC Faculty since April 2009. In parallel with his teaching activities, Bruno Marchand has continued to carry out research works in the field of theory of architecture. Having taken a close look at the field of rational architecture in Switzerland in the 1930s, this work resulted in an exhibition presented in Switzerland and abroad, his two main areas of interest at the moment are architectural rationalism in Switzerland in the 1950s and 1960s and the relationships between public spaces and collective housing. From 1991 to 2000, he was active in the architectural practice «Jean-Marc Lamunière, Georges van Bogaert, Bruno Marchand and Associates», where he co-authored a number of studies on urban planning and several architectural projects and completed constructions, particularly in the field of collective housing. From 1996 to 2004, he had the post of assistant director of the Town and Country Planning Department of the Canton of Vaud. From 2001 onwards he has been one of the associates of the town planning consultants DeLaMa together with Patrick Devanthéry and Inès Lamunière.