Léonore Nemec

Biographie

Architect dipl. Arch. MSc EPFL and urban planner based in Geneva, Léonore Nemec explores the field of architecture and urban planning with collaborative projects with the Cooperative Architecture Land Initiative (2020) and Studio Nemec (2019), which she is the co-founder. Since 2020, she is a researcher and teacher at EPF Lausanne. She taught with the design studio elii (2020–2022), was part of the research team at the ALICE laboratory (2023–2024), and launched the course Navigating Exhausted Landscapes, as a lecturer and program supervisor (2025). She practices architecture from conception to completion in offices such as Herzog & de Meuron (Basel, 2015–2019) and through her own projects. Since 2019, she has been a correspondent for Tracés magazine and has been regularly invited to serve on competition juries and give lectures (BSA/FAS, EPFL, HEAD, Manufacture). In 2024, she completed the program Master in Political Arts Experimentation, founded by Bruno Latour in Sciences Po, Paris. Léonore's interest in architecture and urban planning lies primarily in their political and social dimensions. For her, experimentation is essential for a sustainable and sensitive engagement with the evolving spaces – material, normative, and ideological – of our societies. She is particularly interested in applying innovative practices from research to concrete projects that involve materials, bodies, and space. She studied architecture in Madrid (ETSAM) and Lausanne (EPFL).