Team:

Emily Bardenz

Ines Branet

Axel Chevroulet

Noé Cuendet

Arthur Douillet

Anna MacIver-Ek

Meryl Barthe

Nadia Doriot

Guillaume Nguyen

Paola Bergier

Gabrielle Chilinski

Anna MacIver-Ek and Axel Chevroulet met while studying in Copenhagen. Together, they explore the field of architecture. Through their projects, they strive for precision as a tool to achieve an architecture sensitive to its context and generous to its users. In their search for alternative forms of practice, they co-founded the collective la–clique. Continual investigation within the profession leads them to work using different scales and mediums, from films, furniture making, to teaching.

Project List

 

2022
farº, scenography for a performing arts festival in Nyon, with la–clique

 

Deliberate Leak, installation at Swiss Art Awards 2022, with Meryl Barthe

 

Clean Cut, competition for the renovation of the Swiss embassy in London, with cortese/mazza

 

Ksoik, competition for a kiosk in Zurich, with cortese/mazza

 

Matrix, scenography for an exhibition about Matrix Feminist Design Co-operative, Archizoom EPFL, with la–clique

 

Fertiliser, competition for sustainable housing in Bourguillon, 4th prize, with Michele Broglia

 

2021

Sardine, competition for a lighthouse on Lake Geneva,
3rd prize
with cortese/mazza

 

Deliberate Leak
Swiss Art Awards 2021, laureates

 

Living Room Odyssey
furniture series

 

Skumfidus
furniture series in insulation foam for Tableau

Gadolinium
installation for BIVOUAC Labor Lausanne
with la–clique

 

2020
M3
competition for the visual identity for the new metro line in Lausanne, laureates
with la–clique

 

Moustache
addition of a solar-powered porch

 

Nail it!
competition for the extension of a primary school

 

Air Force One
competition for a fire station at Oostende International Airport
with Bovenbouw Architectuur

 

Speakers’ Corner
installation for Manifesta 13 Marseille
with la–clique

 

Club Absinthe
refurbishment of a village house
with Comte/Meuwly

 

Triple Jump
competition for the extension of the Textile Museum St. Gallen
with Michele Broglia

 

Sunset
addition of winter gardens on a village house
with Comte/Meuwly

 

The Hesitant City
a story of infrastructural intercourse

 

2019
Calling Architecture
film series, 5 episodes, ongoing

 

Spare Ribs
transformation of an old butchery
with Comte/Meuwly

 

Fleurier
competition for the extension of a secondary school
with Marcela Lino and Alexandre Lebet

 

 

Teaching

 

2024 

Guest professorship, TU München

 

Guest critic, Studio Unicorn, ETH Zürich

 

Guest critic, Studio Puigjaner, ETH Zürich

 

Workshop, Semaine de tous les possibles, HEAD Genève

 

2023

Guest critic, Studio Maria Conen, ETH Zürich

 

Guest critic, Studio Material Cultures, ETH Zürich

 

Bachelor thesis expert, Berner Fachhochschule

 

Guest critic, Studio Youri Kravtchenko, HEAD Genève

 

Guest critic, Studio Hans Binder, Berner Fachhochschule

 

Studio to edit at ETH Zürich, with Prof. Maria Conen

 

2022

Guest critic, Studio Jan de Vylder, ETH Zürich

 

Studio to adapt at ETH Zürich, with Prof. Maria Conen

Workshop Swiss Summer School, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio

 

Guest critic, Bachelor Reviews, HEAD Genève

 

Guest critic, Festival, HSLU Luzern

 

Studio Unuseless Rooms at ETH Zürich, with Prof. Maria Conen

 

Guest critics, Studio Kosmos, HEAD Genève

 

2021

Guest critic, Studio Tom Emerson, ETH Zürich

 

Guest critic, Studio Adam Caruso, ETH Zürich

 

Studio LIFE MAKE HOUSE HOUSE MAKE LIFE at EPFL, with Prof. Jo Taillieu

 

Studio Unuseless Spaces at ETH Zürich, with Prof. Maria Conen

 

Guest critic for MAGMA at EPFL with Prof. Marco Bakker

 

Lecture and workshop at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio

 

Guest critic, Studio summacumfemmer, TU Graz

 

Studio Bergell – Aufzeichnungen eines Territoriums at ETH Zürich, with Prof. Corinna Menn

 

2020
Studio HOUSE ALTER HOUSE at EPFL, with Prof. Jo Taillieu

 

Guest critic, Studio Tom Emerson, ETH Zürich

 

Studio Story at ETH Zürich, with Prof. Maria Conen

 

Workshop at Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio

 

 

Publications, Exhibitions, Prizes, Talks

 

2022
Talk ‘House Keeping: from Architecture to the Planet, the Urgency of Care’ Biennale Svizzera del Territorio, Lugano, with Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Kathrin Dörfler and Monica Rhodes

 

Deliberate Leak is exhibited at the Swiss Art Awards 2022

 

Fertiliser wins 4th prize for sustainable housing in Bourguillon, in collaboration with Michele Broglia

 

Participation in fundraising exhibition No To War, Zürich

 

2021
Sardine wins 3rd prize for the lighthouse on Lake Geneva, in collaboration with
cortese/mazza

 

MacIver-Ek Chevroulet are awarded the Swiss Art Award 2021

 

Skumfidus is exhibited at Galleria Antonia Jannone in Milan during Salone del Mobile 

 

Skumfidus is exhibited at Tableau in Copenhagen, 05.08 – 02.10

 

Lecture in series Life of the Others, F/A FakeAuthentic

 

Calling Architecture is in competition at BARQ International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona

 

Club Absinthe is published in werk, bauen + wohnen, Starke Dörfer, Issue 3-2021

 

Gadolinium is selected for BIVOUAC in Lausanne, with la–clique

 

2020
Speakers’ Corner is published in Hochparterre

 

Calling Architecture is in the official selection of Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

 

Speakers’ Corner is selected for MANIFESTA 13 in Marseille, with la–clique

 

2019
Calling Architecture is exhibited at the XII International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo

 

2018

Edition of trans 34 Youth, with the editorial team

 

Edition of trans 33 Reality, with the editorial team

 

ETH Excellence Scholarship

 

2017
Participation in the exhibition Prinzip Hoffnung at the MaximiliansForum, München

 

2016
Disruptions is awarded the ETH Medaille