Plans and Images: An Archive of Projects on Typology in Architecture 2013–2018

Learning to construct is the objective of the architecture student, who seeks to bring sketches, sophisticated visualizations, material and component choices, and detailed plans and diagrams together in a single grand composition.

Plans and Images offers insight into how architects are trained by examining the teaching and research approach of the Laboratory of Elementary Architecture and Studies of Types EAST (Laboratory EAST), a satellite studio of the EPFL School of Architecture in Lausanne. Going beyond the traditional notion of functionally determined typologies, Laboratory EAST is concerned more broadly with the principles of typology in architecture. Richly illustrated with drawings and plans by Laboratory EAST’s students, the book also includes essays by faculty and other experts and an interview with the renowned Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, who discusses the research topics pursued at Laboratory EAST. Four photo essays by Swiss photographer Joël Tettamanti round out the book.
 

Anja Fröhlich and Martin Fröhlich are associate professors at the EPFL School of Architecture in Lausanne, where they codirect the Laboratory of Elementary Architecture and Studies of Types EAST. Tiago P. Borges and Sebastian F. Lippok are architects and teaching and research assistants at the EPFL School of Architecture’s Laboratory of Elementary Architecture and Studies of Types EAST.