Polpo is presented at Salone del Milano
5.–10. Sept. 2021
Emilie Appercé
(*1990, Paris)
Würzgrabenstrasse 6, 8048 Zurich
mail@emilieapperce.com
Emilie Appercé (b.1990 Paris, France) is a Paris – Zürich based architect, editor and designer, founding member of Zurich International, educated both at the EAVT Paris-Est, and Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio where she graduated in 2014. Since 2012 she has worked for Miller & Maranta in Basel, Francesca Torzo in Genova and Caruso St John in Zürich. She joined the Chair of Prof. Adam Caruso at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich in 2019 as a studio/diploma teaching assistant. Together with Helen Thomas, she is an editor of womenwritingarchitecture.org, an international online annotated bibliography that addresses issues of gender parity in architectural education and cultural production. WWA.org is part of Tisch Zwei Verein, founded in 2023 together with Helen Thomas, which includes among other activities, the publishing house wwa publishing and the podcasts ‘A Book I Love’, ‘The Author Speaks’. Since 2020, she works independently and collaboratively in different fields of creations such as architecture, urbanism, design, publication, exhbition, writing, art production. She designed POLPO, a recycled moulded plastic stool together with Dominic Kim and Leo Bettini.
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Clients and Collaborations: Atelier Liaohui Guo, Thomas Demand, Kvadrat, Studio Raphael Hefti, Modern Animal Gallery, ETH Zürich, GTA Exhibitions, Caruso St John architects, The Watermill Center, Drawing Matter, Roots and friends (Even GmbH)
suns.works’gallery took up residence on the top floor former headquarters of Credit Suisse of the Hochhaus zur Palme, a modernist high-rise in Zurich, before its imminent transformation. Aggressively futuristic at the time, projecting a confidence in never-ending progress, it is now a landmark.
The show embraced the high-modernist aesthetics of Hochhaus zur Palme and the sombre atmosphere of the eponymous story of New Rose Hotel, whose techno-erotic vision of the future, coloured by millennial anxiety, appears much closer to present-day sensibilities.
set design together with Matthew Phillips. Exhibition participation, Manon Gaeschlin, Martin Jaeggi.
Photos credits Flavio Leone
Stool produced for Milano Design Week 2021
6 mm recycled moulded plastic
41x ø38 cm / 6kg 4 colour options
Photos credits Dominic Kim, Selina Feuerstein
conversation with Anders Byriel, CEO of Kvadrat, textile makers compagny, as part of this publication, on the question of patronage, legacy, narratives, pleasure and celebration.
The Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and Kvadrat which produced a new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus.
This publication presents extensive images of the completed buildings alongside other illustrated conversations with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, and Thomas Demand.
The Author Speaks (T-A-S) is a short interview where we find out a little about the approach and inspirations of different female producers of text, focussing each time on one of their works.
Our circle of guests extends globally to women that in some way or another, engage with an idea of architecture. Mindy Seu, writer of the Cyberfeminism Index inaugurated the new format.
T-A-S follows A Book I Love (A-B-I-L), the first series of podcast by WWA.
The episodes can be listened to on Spotify
Zurich International, Zürich (CH)
2022-on going
transformation and adaptive re-use of the Zurich International office
together with members of the Zurich International Verein
In 2022, the chair of Jan de Vylder at ETH Zurich began a 3-year experiment at the Furka Pass, (in:dépendance), 2429m above sea level and only accessible 4 months a year.
Women Writing Architecture represented by Helen Thomas, London-Zürich based architect, publisher, Jaehee Shin, architect, WWA editor born in Korea, and Emilie Appercé,
met together in this high Swiss pass to consider the work of a woman from a far distant time and place.
Led by D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and Hermione Spriggs, London-based artist, researcher.
At The Watermill Center, founded by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson.
Together with Graham Burnett, Hermione Spriggs, Catherine Hansen, Kyle Berlin, Anacarolina Marques, Brad Fox.
Place de Stalingrad, Paris (F)
2020-on going
Client: Private
Project of a winter bar Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad
Steel truss structure, outer skin of galvanised steel corrugated sheet, PVC slatted opening closures
Museumstrasse, Biel (CH)
2021
In collaboration with Silvio Schubiger
Restoration of a single-family house in a former villa divided into three parts.
3d scanned documentation of the on going construction site
Teaching, Events, Publication
06.2023 | From Canteen to Pasture, workshop organised together with Leo Bettini, with the Architecture Department ETH Zurich and the support of the Chair of Architecture and Construction of Adam Caruso and the restaurants Roots & friends (Even GmbH) |
02.2023 | Founding of the publishing house wwa publishing and Tisch Zwei Verein, together with Helen Thomas |
09.2022 | Summer residency in:dépendance, representing womenwritingarchitecture, invited by Professor Jan De Vylder, ETH Zürich, Furka, CH |
11.2022 | Guest lecturer with Leo Bettini for a weeklong workshop on Die Ecken, at the institut Raum für Gestalt, TU Graz (AT), invited by Prof. Dr. Alexander Lehnerer |
08.2022 | Summer residency at The Watermill Center, US, invited by D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History and History of Science, Princeton University and Hermione Spriggs, a London-based artist, researcher and exhibition-maker |
04.2022 | Guest critic, Centre d'art, Jury de fin d'année, École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est |
02.2022 | Always work in Progress, Exhibition and Talk with Helen Thomas, Barbara Thüler (Women Writing Architecture), Stéphanie Dadour, Claudia Mion hosted by Caryatide at la Galerie d’Architecture de Paris |
02.2022 | Guest, Workshop On Cemeteries, Atelier Amont with Anna Staudt, Mendrisio |
11.2021 | Guest critic, Story II, Studio Maria Conen, ETH Zürich |
10.2021 | Prelude, Belgian Art & Design Fair in Ghent |
09.2021 | Reading Room, Annexe at the ZAZ Zentrum Architektur Zürich |
06.2021 | LOTO Life Of The Others VIII, presentation by Emilie Appercé, Leo Bettini, Dominic Kim |
03.2021 | The Power of Mushrooms: Berta Rahm’s Pavilion for the Saffa 58 Entangled Histories, presentations by Emilie Appercé and Helen Thomas (Women Writing Architecture), gta Exhibitions, ETH Zürich |
Design: Romy Strasser — Code: Till Kammertöns
suns.works’gallery took up residence on the top floor former headquarters of Credit Suisse of the Hochhaus zur Palme, a modernist high-rise in Zurich, before its imminent transformation. Aggressively futuristic at the time, projecting a confidence in never-ending progress, it is now a landmark.
The show embraced the high-modernist aesthetics of Hochhaus zur Palme and the sombre atmosphere of the eponymous story of New Rose Hotel, whose techno-erotic vision of the future, coloured by millennial anxiety, appears much closer to present-day sensibilities.
set design together with Matthew Phillips. Exhibition participation, Manon Gaeschlin, Martin Jaeggi.
Photos credits Flavio Leone
Stool produced for Milano Design Week 2021
6 mm recycled moulded plastic
41x ø38 cm / 6kg 4 colour options
Photos credits Dominic Kim, Selina Feuerstein
conversation with Anders Byriel, CEO of Kvadrat, textile makers compagny, as part of this publication, on the question of patronage, legacy, narratives, pleasure and celebration.
The Triple Folly presents the rich collaboration between artist Thomas Demand, architects Caruso St John, and Kvadrat which produced a new pavilion for Kvadrat’s Ebeltoft campus.
This publication presents extensive images of the completed buildings alongside other illustrated conversations with Frank Gehry, Denise Scott Brown, Adam Caruso, Valerie Verhack, and Thomas Demand.
The Author Speaks (T-A-S) is a short interview where we find out a little about the approach and inspirations of different female producers of text, focussing each time on one of their works.
Our circle of guests extends globally to women that in some way or another, engage with an idea of architecture. Mindy Seu, writer of the Cyberfeminism Index inaugurated the new format.
T-A-S follows A Book I Love (A-B-I-L), the first series of podcast by WWA.
The episodes can be listened to on Spotify
Zurich International, Zürich (CH)
2022-on going
transformation and adaptive re-use of the Zurich International office
together with members of the Zurich International Verein
In 2022, the chair of Jan de Vylder at ETH Zurich began a 3-year experiment at the Furka Pass, (in:dépendance), 2429m above sea level and only accessible 4 months a year.
Women Writing Architecture represented by Helen Thomas, London-Zürich based architect, publisher, Jaehee Shin, architect, WWA editor born in Korea, and Emilie Appercé,
met together in this high Swiss pass to consider the work of a woman from a far distant time and place.
Led by D. Graham Burnett, Professor of History and History of Science at Princeton University and Hermione Spriggs, London-based artist, researcher.
At The Watermill Center, founded by theater and visual artist Robert Wilson.
Together with Graham Burnett, Hermione Spriggs, Catherine Hansen, Kyle Berlin, Anacarolina Marques, Brad Fox.
Place de Stalingrad, Paris (F)
2020-on going
Client: Private
Project of a winter bar Place de la Bataille de Stalingrad
Steel truss structure, outer skin of galvanised steel corrugated sheet, PVC slatted opening closures
Museumstrasse, Biel (CH)
2021
In collaboration with Silvio Schubiger
Restoration of a single-family house in a former villa divided into three parts.
3d scanned documentation of the on going construction site
Polpo is presented at Salone del Milano
5.–10. Sept. 2021