Marc Angélil

Marc Angélil is Professor Emeritus of Architecture & Design, ETH Zurich; was member of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation (2003/10, 2013/19); and will be a member of the LafargeHolcim Awards jury for region North America in 2020.

Marc Angélil, LafargeHolcim Foundation Board member and Professor of Architecture & Design presented his farewell lecture at ETH Zurich “Tales of Territory: Athropocene, Urbicene, Capitalocene”. He began his lecture in the Alpine valleys of Central Switzerland where Charles Giron’s “The Cradle of the Confederation” depicts the 1291 founding of the Swiss nation – and continued on a global tour of political, social and economic drivers of global urbanization.

Marc Angélil, Senior Dean, Chair of Architecture & Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland was a member of the Global Holcim Awards jury in 2015.

Outgoing Head of the Academic Committee (AC) of the Holcim Foundation, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher (left), Prof. em. of Planning and Management in Construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) congratulates new Chair of the AC, Marc Angélil, Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH Zurich during the 4th International Holcim Forum.

4th Forum in Mumbai, India 2013: Concluding debate discussing workshop findings (l-r): Rolf Soiron (moderator), Ashok Lall, Werner Sobek, Nirmal Kishnani & Marc Angélil.

Holcim Awards 2011 jury for Latin America (l-r): Bruno Stagno, Marc Angélil, Vanderley John, Daniel Bermúdez Samper, Michel Rojkind, Carolyn Aguilar (Head of Jury), Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Angelo Bucci, and Andreas Leu met in Mexico City.

Following the Holcim Awards 2011 jury meeting for Latin America, members of the jury visited the Holcim cement plant in Hermosillo, Mexico (l-r): Matt Helms, Holcim Apasco; Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, ETH Zurich; Marc M Angélil, ETH Zurich; Pedro Lluch, Holcim Brazil; Bruno Stagno, Bruno Stagno Arquitecto y Asociados; Vanderley M John, Universidade de São Paulo; Angelo Bucci, spbr; Juan José Dominguez, Holcim Apasco.

Marc Angélil reviews submissions for Latin America as a member of the regional Holcim Awards jury 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico.

The Holcim Awards jury for region Latin America met in Mexico City, Mexico in July 2008 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction (l-r): Fernando Diez, Yolanda Kakabadse, Marc M. Angélil, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, José Luis Cortés (Head), Sara Topelson, Bruno Stagno, Daniel Bermúdez Samper, Vanderley M. John.

Marc Angélil is Professor Emeritus of Architecture & Design, ETH Zurich; was member of the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation (2003/10, 2013/19); and will be a member of the LafargeHolcim Awards jury for region North America in 2020.

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Marc Angélil, LafargeHolcim Foundation Board member and Professor of Architecture & Design presented his farewell lecture at ETH Zurich “Tales of Territory: Athropocene, Urbicene, Capitalocene”. He began his lecture in the Alpine valleys of Central Switzerland where Charles Giron’s “The Cradle of the Confederation” depicts the 1291 founding of the Swiss nation – and continued on a global tour of political, social and economic drivers of global urbanization.

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Marc Angélil, Senior Dean, Chair of Architecture & Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), Switzerland was a member of the Global Holcim Awards jury in 2015.

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Outgoing Head of the Academic Committee (AC) of the Holcim Foundation, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher (left), Prof. em. of Planning and Management in Construction at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) congratulates new Chair of the AC, Marc Angélil, Chair of Architecture and Design at the ETH Zurich during the 4th International Holcim Forum.

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4th Forum in Mumbai, India 2013: Concluding debate discussing workshop findings (l-r): Rolf Soiron (moderator), Ashok Lall, Werner Sobek, Nirmal Kishnani & Marc Angélil.

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Holcim Awards 2011 jury for Latin America (l-r): Bruno Stagno, Marc Angélil, Vanderley John, Daniel Bermúdez Samper, Michel Rojkind, Carolyn Aguilar (Head of Jury), Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Angelo Bucci, and Andreas Leu met in Mexico City.

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Following the Holcim Awards 2011 jury meeting for Latin America, members of the jury visited the Holcim cement plant in Hermosillo, Mexico (l-r): Matt Helms, Holcim Apasco; Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, ETH Zurich; Marc M Angélil, ETH Zurich; Pedro Lluch, Holcim Brazil; Bruno Stagno, Bruno Stagno Arquitecto y Asociados; Vanderley M John, Universidade de São Paulo; Angelo Bucci, spbr; Juan José Dominguez, Holcim Apasco.

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Marc Angélil reviews submissions for Latin America as a member of the regional Holcim Awards jury 2008 in Mexico City, Mexico.

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The Holcim Awards jury for region Latin America met in Mexico City, Mexico in July 2008 to select projects using the “target issues” for sustainable construction (l-r): Fernando Diez, Yolanda Kakabadse, Marc M. Angélil, Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, José Luis Cortés (Head), Sara Topelson, Bruno Stagno, Daniel Bermúdez Samper, Vanderley M. John.

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About

Marc Angélil is Professor Emeritus of Architecture & Design, Department of Architecture, at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.

His research at Network City & Landscape (NSL) and Future Cities Laboratory (FCL) focused on social and spatial developments of large metropolitan regions worldwide.

Marc Angélil received his architectural degree from the ETH Zurich where he also completed his doctoral dissertation summa cum laude. He was an Assistant Professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) and subsequently Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles (UCLA).

He is co-author of Inchoate: An experiment in architectural education (ETH Zurich, 2003) on methods of teaching; Indizien: Zur politischen Ökonomie urbaner Territorien (Niggli, 2006) on the political economy of contemporary urban territories; Mirroring Effects: Tales of Territory (Ruby Press, 2018) exploring the relationship between urbanization processes and capitalism; and Terrestrial Tales: 100+ Takes on Earth (Ruby Press, 2019), a collection of representations of the globe over the last 2000 years. His publications include Building Brazil: Proactive urban renewal of informal settlements (edited with Rainer Hehl, 2011); Architecture dialogues: Positions, concepts, visions (edited with Jørg Himmelreich, Niggli, 2011), Reform! Essays on the political economy of urban forum Vol.4 (edited with Sarah Nichols, Ruby Press, 2015).

Marc Angélil practices architecture with his partners Sarah Graham and Manuel Scholl at agps.architecture where he is Senior Advisor. Based in Zurich and Los Angeles, the firm’s projects include the Midfield Terminal at Zurich Airport; town center and light-rail station in Esslingen, Switzerland; extension of the IUCN Headquarters in Gland, Switzerland; Children’s Museum of Los Angeles (CMLA); an aerial tram infrastructure project in Portland, Oregon; Zurich International School; a slum upgrading project in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; as well as sports facilities for Adidas in Herzogenaurach, Germany.

With partner Sarah Graham, Marc Angélil was recipient of the 2008 “Honor Award for Architecture” from the American Institute of Architects (AIA) for the Portland Aerial Tram project. For the B35 (apartment building in Zurich), he received the Innovation Award 2010 “Energiespeicher Beton” and for the extension of the IUCN Headquarters the 2010 “Swiss Solar Prize”.

He moderated the workshop Mine the city - With logistics to circular metabolisms at the 3rd Holcim Forum “Re-Inventing Construction” held in Mexico City (2010); and participated in the concluding debate at the 4th Holcim Forum “Economy of Sustainable Construction” held in Mumbai (2013). He was a participant at all three Roundtables on “Re-materializing Construction” held at MIT Endicott House, Cambridge, MA, USA (2014), Einsiedeln, Switzerland (2015), and ILEK Stuttgart, Germany (2018). He was moderator of the 6th International LafargeHolcim Forum “Re-materializing Construction” held in Cairo (2019).

Marc Angélil is a founding member of the Board of the Foundation and of the Academic Committee from its inception in 2003 until 2010. He was Head of the Academic Committee (2013-19) and rejoined the Board of the LafargeHolcim Foundation (2013-19).

Marc Angélil was a member of the Awards jury for Europe in 2005 and for Latin America in 2005, 2008 and 2011. In the 4th and 5th LafargeHolcim Awards (2014/15 and 2017/18) he represented the Academic Committee in all regional and global Awards juries.