Emilie Appercé

Emilie Appercé
(*1990, Paris)

Würzgrabenstrasse 6, 8048 Zurich
mail@emilieapperce.com

Emilie Appercé is a Paris–Zurich based architect and researcher working across spatial design, digital innovation, and editorial strategy. She leads a practice that includes built architecture projects, product design, as well as curatorial work and writing.

Her work applies architectural thinking to define spatial strategies and guide a coherent overall vision. She believes in well-crafted architecture, with a strong commitment to reuse as a responsible way to shape the future built environment. This is complemented by an interest in how technology can inform both working methodology and tools.

Recently, she has collaborated with architect Leo Bettini on the transformation of university canteens, bringing together stakeholders such as ETH, ZFV-Genossenschaft, Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW) and Roots; as well as two renovations for Swiss artists combining cultural and residential programs.

She has a strong interest in contemporary art and has been invited to write on artists’ works, including Thomas Demand and Lars Tunbjörk, to design exhibitions for international galleries and institutions such as Yangshuo Sugar House in China, and to participate in a summer residency at The Watermill Center, in New York. Art continuously informs her approach to architecture and the physical qualities of buildings.

Since 2019, Emilie has been teaching as a Senior Scientific Collaborator at the Department of Architecture at ETH Zurich. Her academic research is complemented by her role in the development and editing of womenwritingarchitecture.org, a global digital network and annotated bibliography. This partnership with Helen Thomas led to the founding of wwa (publishing) and Tisch Zwei Verein, a platform for discussion on architectural discourse and its dissemination.

Previously, Emilie worked as a project-leading architect and BIM manager at Caruso St John Architects. She contributed to large-scale housing projects and complex competitions, including the Universitätsspital Zürich and the Museum for a Roman Villa in Pully.

Full project list available here — for an extended portfolio and CV, please contact

Hoch Haus zur Palme, Zürich (CH)

Hochhaus zur Palme, Zürich

December 2023

Film in collaboration with Matthew Phillips and Kairos Studio

Film footage: Kairos Studio

Hochhaus zur Palme, the former Credit Suisse headquarters, captured in its suspended state before its imminent renovation

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Capsule Issue 4

Capsule Issue 4

2025

capsule.global

feed Under the Light Spell

Photography Firm of Accountants, by Lars Tunbjörk, 1997

A hybrid between a magazine and a book, paying homage to a lineage of Italian radical design publications while indulging in a lavish physicality.

Delving into the world of design in its broader definition through a genre-bending line up of designers, architects, and creators.

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Fire Pit Tower of Yangshuo Sugar House, Guilin, (CN)

Fire Pit Tower of Yangshuo Sugar House, Guilin, China

2023 

Exhibition and exhibition design in collaboration with Liaohui Guo

Client: Aurua Arts Foundation

Image credits: Isaïa Delaplace, Roman Signer, Marina Montresor, KAMU, Espoo City Museum, Gion von Albertini

Varnished cardboard columns, paper screens. Projections: scrolling of contributor images, and annotations in English and Chinese, read by generated voices.

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New Rose Hotel, Zürich (CH)

New Rose Hotel, Zürich

December 2023

sun.works gallery

 

www.contemporaryartlibrary.org

 

Exhibition design with Matthew Phillips

with contributions by Manon Gaeschlin, Martin Jaeggi

Photos credits: Flavio Leone

Light installations, colour filters applied to an existing lighting system

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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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Zurich International, Zürich (CH)

Zurich International, Zürich (CH)

zurich.international

2022

transformation and adaptive re-use of the Zurich International office

 

 

in collaboration with members of the Zurich International Verein

 

Photo credits: Tibor Bielicky

 

 

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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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Design: Romy Strasser — Code: Till Kammertöns

Hoch Haus zur Palme, Zürich (CH)
Hoch Haus zur Palme, Zürich (CH)

Hochhaus zur Palme, Zürich

December 2023

Film in collaboration with Matthew Phillips and Kairos Studio

Film footage: Kairos Studio

Hochhaus zur Palme, the former Credit Suisse headquarters, captured in its suspended state before its imminent renovation

Show more
Show less
Capsule Issue 4
Capsule Issue 4

Capsule Issue 4

2025

capsule.global

feed Under the Light Spell

Photography Firm of Accountants, by Lars Tunbjörk, 1997

A hybrid between a magazine and a book, paying homage to a lineage of Italian radical design publications while indulging in a lavish physicality.

Delving into the world of design in its broader definition through a genre-bending line up of designers, architects, and creators.

Show more
Show less
Fire Pit Tower of Yangshuo Sugar House, Guilin, (CN)
Fire Pit Tower of Yangshuo Sugar House, Guilin, (CN)

Fire Pit Tower of Yangshuo Sugar House, Guilin, China

2023 

Exhibition and exhibition design in collaboration with Liaohui Guo

Client: Aurua Arts Foundation

Image credits: Isaïa Delaplace, Roman Signer, Marina Montresor, KAMU, Espoo City Museum, Gion von Albertini

Varnished cardboard columns, paper screens. Projections: scrolling of contributor images, and annotations in English and Chinese, read by generated voices.

Show more
Show less
New Rose Hotel, Zürich (CH)
New Rose Hotel, Zürich (CH)

New Rose Hotel, Zürich

December 2023

sun.works gallery

 

www.contemporaryartlibrary.org

 

Exhibition design with Matthew Phillips

with contributions by Manon Gaeschlin, Martin Jaeggi

Photos credits: Flavio Leone

Light installations, colour filters applied to an existing lighting system

Show more
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
Zurich International, Zürich (CH)
Zurich International, Zürich (CH)

Zurich International, Zürich (CH)

zurich.international

2022

transformation and adaptive re-use of the Zurich International office

 

 

in collaboration with members of the Zurich International Verein

 

Photo credits: Tibor Bielicky

 

 

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