Emilie Appercé

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)

New Rose Hotel

New Rose Hotel, Zürich

Set design, December 2023

sun.works gallery

 

www.contemporaryartlibrary.org

 

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

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POLPO

POLPO

APPERCÉ BETTINI KIM design

 

www.polpo.world

Instagram

Stool produced for Milano Design Week 2021

 

 

On sale at Modern Animals Gallery, Zürich

 

Zurich International, Zürich

6 mm recycled moulded plastic

41x ø38 cm / 6kg 4 colour options

 

Photos credits Dominic Kim, Selina Feuerstein

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The Triple Folly, Thomas Demand / Caruso St John

The Triple Folly

Thomas Demand / Caruso St John

 

ISBN 978-1-915743-08-4

April 2023

MACKBOOKS.CO.UK

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.

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The Author Speaks (WWA)

The Author Speaks

 

Podcast by Women Writing Architecture

 

WOMENWRITINGARCHITECTURE.ORG

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

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Zurich International

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

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in:dépendance, Furka Pass (CH)

in:dépendance, Furka Pass, CH

September 2022

 

WOMENWRITINGARCHITECTURE.ORG

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.

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Watermill Center, New York (US)

Watermill Center, New York

Art Residency

August 2022

 

WATERMILLCENTER.ORG

 

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.

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Rue des Falaises, Binic (F)

Rue des Falaises, Binic (F)

 

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Place de Stalingrad, Paris (F)

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

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Museumstrasse, Biel (CH)

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

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Teaching, Events, Publication

06.2023From 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)
02.2023Founding of the publishing house wwa publishing and Tisch Zwei Verein, together with Helen Thomas
09.2022Summer residency in:dépendance, representing womenwritingarchitecture, invited by Professor Jan De Vylder, ETH Zürich, Furka, CH
11.2022Guest 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
08.2022Summer 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
04.2022Guest critic, Centre d'art, Jury de fin d'année, École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est
02.2022Always 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
02.2022Guest, Workshop On Cemeteries, Atelier Amont with Anna Staudt, Mendrisio
11.2021Guest critic, Story II, Studio Maria Conen, ETH Zürich
10.2021Prelude, Belgian Art & Design Fair in Ghent
09.2021Reading Room, Annexe at the ZAZ Zentrum Architektur Zürich
06.2021LOTO Life Of The Others VIII, presentation by Emilie Appercé, Leo Bettini, Dominic Kim
03.2021The 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

New Rose Hotel
New Rose Hotel

New Rose Hotel, Zürich

Set design, December 2023

sun.works gallery

 

www.contemporaryartlibrary.org

 

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

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Show less
POLPO
POLPO

POLPO

APPERCÉ BETTINI KIM design

 

www.polpo.world

Instagram

Stool produced for Milano Design Week 2021

 

 

On sale at Modern Animals Gallery, Zürich

 

Zurich International, Zürich

6 mm recycled moulded plastic

41x ø38 cm / 6kg 4 colour options

 

Photos credits Dominic Kim, Selina Feuerstein

Show more
Show less
The Triple Folly, Thomas Demand / Caruso St John
The Triple Folly, Thomas Demand / Caruso St John

The Triple Folly

Thomas Demand / Caruso St John

 

ISBN 978-1-915743-08-4

April 2023

MACKBOOKS.CO.UK

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.

Show more
Show less
The Author Speaks (WWA)
The Author Speaks (WWA)

The Author Speaks

 

Podcast by Women Writing Architecture

 

WOMENWRITINGARCHITECTURE.ORG

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

Show more
Show less
Zurich International
Zurich International

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

Show more
Show less
in:dépendance, Furka Pass (CH)
in:dépendance, Furka Pass (CH)

in:dépendance, Furka Pass, CH

September 2022

 

WOMENWRITINGARCHITECTURE.ORG

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.

Show more
Show less
Watermill Center, New York (US)
Watermill Center, New York (US)

Watermill Center, New York

Art Residency

August 2022

 

WATERMILLCENTER.ORG

 

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.

Show more
Show less
Rue des Falaises, Binic (F)
Rue des Falaises, Binic (F)

Rue des Falaises, Binic (F)

 

Show more
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Place de Stalingrad, Paris (F)
Place de Stalingrad, Paris (F)

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

Show more
Show less
Museumstrasse, Biel (CH)
Museumstrasse, Biel (CH)

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

Show more
Show less

News

Polpo is presented at Salone del Milano

5.–10. Sept. 2021