In Conversation

EBA is a Zurich-based architecture practice, founded in 2022 by Ellena Ehrl and Tibor Bielicky, that explores the transformation of urban and architectural contexts through research-driven design. The projects focus on the cultural, historical, and spatial conditions of the built environment, with a particular interest in the potential of existing structures and collaborative, transdisciplinary processes. They initiated Recording America, a research platform on American architecture, urbanism, and subculture. Between 2010 and 2019 they edited and published architecture magazine Planphase. They co-founded Superposition, a periodical investigating the human side of architecture in 2020. Since 2022 they are editors at large of Capsule, an international review of Radical Design & Desire Theory. They are founding members of the collective design space Zurich International, have been adjunct professors at Politecnico di Milano (MInDS, 2025), and both teach at the architecture department at ETH Zurich since 2022.

Ellena Ehrl, Dipl.-Ing. Arch. TUM /SIA obtained her degree in architecture at Technical University Munich in 2014. After graduating, she co-edited the documentary film “Im Windschatten von Olympia“ as part of a research on the urban development of Munich in the 1960s and 70s. Between 2015 and 2017 she has worked for Graber Pulver Architekten in Zurich and between 2017 and 2021 for Christ & Gantenbein in Basel on competitions and project planning. In 2021 she joined the NEWROPE Chair of Architecture and Urban Transformation at ETH Zurich as studio lead. Ellena was an invited crit at Princeton University School of Architecture, Cornell University AAP, SoA University of Miami, Melbourne School of Design and ETH Zurich.

Tibor Bielicky, M.A. Arch. TUM /SIA obtained his degree in architecture at Technical University Munich in 2015. Between 2011 and 2012, he studied at Università Iuav in Venice. He worked at Caruso St John Architect in Zurich mainly on the SwissLife Arena project and several competitions between 2016 and 2022. Since 2021 he has been a teaching assistant at Studio Adam Caruso at the ETH Zurich. He contributed reviews, essays, and photographs to Kaleidoscope, FlashArt and Fondazione Prada. He was an invited crit at ETH Zurich, Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio, Technical University Munich, Princeton University School of Architecture, Cornell University AAP, SoA University of Miami, Melbourne School of Design and Cal Poly Pomona, Los Angeles.