Raffael Baur
Fields of 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).
Professional course
dipl. Arch. ETH
Master
ETHZ
2005
B. Arch. Cooper Union
Bachelor
The Cooper Union
2003
Publications
Infoscience publications
Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2023
2024.Prototype Pavilion in textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) EPFL Fribourg / Work in progress / 2016-2022
2023-06-15.Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2022
2023-11-01.Notes on Drawing: interior material lines
Drawing in Architecture Education and Research; Lucerne: Park Books, 2023.Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2021
2023-01-24.“El Pórtico de los Huéspedes”: Exploring other ways of building at the Open City in Valparaiso, Chile
The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South; London: Routledge, 2022-12-30. p. 508.Docta Manus Drawing Structures 2020
2021-09-21.A prototype pavilion in textile reinforced concrete: a tool for research and pedagogy
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.Notes on learning through building in the Open City: Body, Craft and Materiality
Building for Architecture Education Architekturpädagogiken. Lucerne Talks; Zurich: Park Books, 2021. p. 210.Une architecture à la manière d’un jardin: construction incrémentale à la Ciudad Abierta
Tracés. 2021-09-14.Textile reinforced concrete for sustainable structures: Future perspectives and application to a prototype pavilion
Structural Concrete. 2020-01-29. DOI : 10.1002/suco.201900511.The potential of textile reinforced concrete for design of innovative structures
2019. Madrid, Spain.Building Duration / El Portico de los Huespedes
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.Fragments de Shiqi
2018Scenographia Bibliothecae. Genèse d’une reliance urbaine et sociale de la bibliothèque contemporaine
2018Four Banal
2018In Téhéran
2018"Rumba Catalana" - Un "velum" pour la célébration. Arsenal, San Jaume, Perpinya, Pyrénées Orientales, F
2018La jetée des pas-perdus, gare de Lausanne (CH)
2018Pedagogy through artisanal construction of thin-walled concrete elements: a dialogue between engineering and architecture
2018. IV Int. Conference on structural engineering education without borders, Madrid, Spain, 2018.“Hieronymus”, a Space for study
2017Appendice. Micro-architecture de la ville informelle.
2017Infrastructure collective, entre permanence et changement en milieu agraire - Ladakh, Himalaya
2017Revalorisation du patrimoine militaire à l'échelle du territoire: le Gothard
2017Forum
2017Usine climatique. Un centre de recherche sur le design passif à Getafe (E)
2017Habiter à la croisée des mondes, la place du Tunnel comme espace de rencontre, Lausanne
2017Folie pratique, une scénographie “zen-kawaï”
2017A l'O
2017Konbini
2017Abri urbain. Prototype d'une structure habitable
2016Avant la vague. Architecture mobile entre terre et mer
2016Simple projet
2016Un petit quelque chose
2015Logement nomade pour un berger transhumant en Suisse
2015ALICE y1 2011-2012
2012.Annuaire 2010-2011: Mondes archipels, La ville entière
2011.Teaching & PhD
Teaching
Architecture
Projeter ensemble ENAC