News
Catherine De Wolf’s talk, “Digital Management of the Circular Building Economy,” is now available
Prof. Catherine De Wolf speaks about the mission of the CEA lab and recent PhD projects in CEA at this talk presented at the Yale Architecture symposium “Building a Planetary Solution: Regenerative Architectural Strategies for a Planet in Crisis.”
Beril Önalan et al. publish a systematic review on computational methods for reusing non-standard materials in the International Journal of Architectural Computing
New publication by CEA PhD student Beril Önalan, co-authored with CEA members Ioanna Mitropoulou, Eleftherios Triantafyllidis, Jens Hunhevicz, and Catherine De Wolf, maps current approaches and outlines design guidelines for material reuse in circular construction.
CEA was invited alongside MIT to the Biennale Architettura 2025, curated by Carlo Ratti
Professors John Ochsendorf and Caitlin Mueller from MIT and CEA director Catherine De Wolf applied their groups’ research to an installation in the Venice Architecture Biennale 2025. CEA researchers Vanessa Costalonga, Zain Karsan, Clara Blum, and Océane Durand-Maniclas worked on the material upcycling and (digital) fabrication.
CEA co-organized and coordinated the SWIRCULAR Second Annual Meeting
On 1. April, Catherine De Wolf and the CEA members of the Innosuisse Flagship project SWIRCULAR co-organized and coordinated the SWIRCULAR Second Annual Meeting in collaboration with the host institution, ZHAW.
Open PhD position in adapting and strengthening end-of-life steel sections for reuse through wire arc additive manufacturing
The Steel and Composite Structures Group in the Institute of Structural Engineering (IBK) led by Prof. Andreas Taras at ETH Zurich has an open position for a full-time (100%) PhD student in adapting and strengthening end-of-life steel sections for reuse through wire arc additive manufacturing (WAAM). The position is available with a flexible start date, as soon as possible starting from August 2025.