Claudia Devaux, heritage architect, has been appointed Professor of Practice at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She has been teaching within the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) since spring 2025. Among her goals—developed and enriched in close dialogue with the entire DDA team—is the ambition to share and advance her research toward a multidisciplinary approach to interventions on existing structures.
Her teaching builds on the experience gained through DDA’s weekly workshops and through numerous collaborations with practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds, carried out in the framework of projects from initial design through to completion. In doing so, the aim is to prepare students—the architects of tomorrow—to meet the challenges of the profession and respond to contemporary issues. Her laboratory, ADHER, short for Architectural Design and Heritage, constitutes a key venue for the transmission and development of both established and experimental methods of conservation, adaptive reuse, and design within the existing built environment.
Claudia Devaux, heritage architect, has been appointed Professor of Practice at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). She has been teaching within the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) since spring 2025. Among her goals—developed and enriched in close dialogue with the entire DDA team—is the ambition to share and advance her research toward a multidisciplinary approach to interventions on existing structures.
Her teaching builds on the experience gained through DDA’s weekly workshops and through numerous collaborations with practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds, carried out in the framework of projects from initial design through to completion. In doing so, the aim is to prepare students—the architects of tomorrow—to meet the challenges of the profession and respond to contemporary issues. Her laboratory, ADHER, short for Architectural Design and Heritage, constitutes a key venue for the transmission and development of both established and experimental methods of conservation, adaptive reuse, and design within the existing built environment.
