Polpo is presented at Salone del Milano
5.–10. Sept. 2021
Emilie Appercé
(*1990, Paris)
Würtzgrabenstrasse 6, 8045 Zurich
mail@emilieapperce.com
Emilie Appercé (b.1990 Paris, France) is a Paris – Zürich based architect 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. She is part of the editorial team working on the project womenwritingarchitecture.org initiated by Helen Thomas in 2021, an online annotated bibliography that addresses issues of gender parity in architectural education and cultural production. Since 2020, she works independently and collaboratively to explore different fields of creation.
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POLPO
2021
design Appercé Bettini Kim
Stool produced for Milano Design Week 2021
On sale Würzgrabenstrasse 6, Zürich by appointment and at Modern Animals gallery
6 mm recycled moulded plastic
41x ø38 cm / 6kg 4 colour options
Data sheet
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
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 |
09.2021 | F/A FakeAuthentic ICONIC IRONIC at Antonia Jannone Disegni di Architettura in Milano |
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 |
01.2021 | Guest critic, Eine Hütte am Hang, Studio Mattew Howell, Institut für Architektur Hochschule Luzern |
06.2020 | Guest critic, Ravensbourne, University of London |
11.2019 | Guest critic, The Great Interior, Chair for Architecture of professor Tom Emerson, ETH Zürich |
Design: Romy Strasser — Code: Till Kammertöns
POLPO
2021
design Appercé Bettini Kim
Stool produced for Milano Design Week 2021
On sale Würzgrabenstrasse 6, Zürich by appointment and at Modern Animals gallery
6 mm recycled moulded plastic
41x ø38 cm / 6kg 4 colour options
Data sheet
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