Polpo is presented at Salone del Milano
5.–10. Sept. 2021
Emilie Appercé
(*1990, Paris)
Würzgrabenstrasse 6, 8048 Zurich
mail@emilieapperce.com
Emilie Appercé is a Paris–Zurich based architect, founding member of the collective design space Zurich International. She works both independently and collaboratively across architecture, design, publishing, exhibitions, writing, and art production. Her work engages with questions of practice, discourse, and formats of architectural production.
She has been involved with architect, writer, and publisher Helen Thomas in the development and editing of womenwritingarchitecture.org, a global online annotated bibliography and network highlighting women’s perspectives in architectural education and cultural production. They founded wwa (publishing), an independent publishing house and Tisch Zwei Verein, a place for discussions on architecture.
She has been teaching at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich since 2019.
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Clients and Collaborations: Atelier Liaohui Guo, Thomas Demand, Kvadrat, Modern Animal Gallery, ETH Zürich, GTA Exhibitions, Caruso St John architects, sun.works gallery, The Watermill Center, Drawing Matter, Roots and friends.
Exhibition design with Matthew Phillips
with contributions by Manon Gaeschlin, Martin Jaeggi
Film footage of the Hoch Haus zur Palme: Sebastian Vargas
Photos credits: Flavio Leone
Light installations, colour filters applied to an existing lighting system
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.
transformation and adaptive re-use of the Zurich International office
in collaboration with members of the Zurich International Verein
Photo credits: Tibor Bielicky
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
Design: Romy Strasser — Code: Till Kammertöns
Exhibition design with Matthew Phillips
with contributions by Manon Gaeschlin, Martin Jaeggi
Film footage of the Hoch Haus zur Palme: Sebastian Vargas
Photos credits: Flavio Leone
Light installations, colour filters applied to an existing lighting system
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.
transformation and adaptive re-use of the Zurich International office
in collaboration with members of the Zurich International Verein
Photo credits: Tibor Bielicky
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