Learning Vol.1 | Elli Mosayebi : Chliriet Secondary School Building

Chliriet Secondary School Building

What makes for a good learning environment for young people? The presentation on the Chliriet Secondary School explores how spatial layout, landscape, architectural design, and color schemes can shape everyday school life. The long, narrow wooden building frames a spacious schoolyard featuring the existing multipurpose hall. The classrooms face the open landscape, while the hallways and group rooms offer views of the schoolyard. The colorful interior creates a vibrant and distinctive learning environment.

Elli Mosayebi, EMI Architekt*innen

Elli Mosayebi’s career is defined by the close relationship between practice, research, and teaching. Since 2004, she has co-directed the Zurich-based office EMI Architekt*innen with Ron Edelaar and Christian Inderbitzin. In 2018, she was appointed Professor of Architecture and Design at ETH Zurich. Her research focuses on load-bearing natural stone construction and the transformation of housing and residential architecture. These themes also shape her architectural practice, which links design research to changing social, cultural, and material conditions in contemporary architecture and building.

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Part of School Lecture Series Autumn 2026 | Learning Vol.1

We are told that learning is no longer confined to the school or the university, but it has become a continuous process that involves the totality of life. Yet in accepting this reality, we take for granted several questions that loom large within the contemporary idea of learning. In a time when technology and information are ubiquitous, does it still make sense that for learning to happen or be confined within a place? Is learning still an asymmetrical relationship where there are teachers and a student? And above all, is learning accessible, or has it become too expensive a commodity? In this lecture series, we’ll attempt to answer these questions by investigating learning on different levels such as technology, construction systems, educational spaces, and above all, making architecture. Indeed, the question that is more than anything else crucial to us is whether architecture is still a place of learning and not only of empowering those who have capital to build it. We will look at schools, drawings, robots, and measuring devices. We will ponder whether these things are only ‘tools’ to achieve a result or can still be vital places for learning.

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You can find the recordings of the lectures on the YouTube channel @epflarchitectureschool.