Hosting a foreign researcher - Mourad Bouzar

From December 1, 2025 to December 19, 2025, the ATE laboratory is pleased to welcome researcher Mourad Bouzar, lecturer at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts d'Alger.

Mourad Bouzar is currently on a research visit as part of the André Mandouze grant. Hosted by ATE under the direction of Marie Gaimard, he is observing the transfer of architectural teaching models from France to Algeria, with a particular focus on the role of Technical Cooperation during the first post-independence decade. Since October 20, 2025, he has been conducting this research in the archives of the Service historique de la Défense (Vincennes site), the Archives Nationales (Pierrefitte-sur-Seine site) and the Centre des Archives diplomatiques (La Courneuve and Nantes sites).

A presentation of his work will be held on December 11, 2025 at 4:30 pm at ENSA Normandie (amphi Jean-Duminy).
More information HERE.

Mourad Bouzar
Trained as a landscape architect, Mourad Bouzar also holds a Master's degree in Arts and Art Sciences from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts d'Alger (2015) and a PhD in Art History from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (2022).

Following initial research into the appropriation of colonial-era social housing space in a postcolonial context, and a thesis studying the professional career of Swiss architect Jean-Jacques Deluz (1930-2009), his most recent research focuses on the transfer of architectural teaching models from Switzerland and France to Algeria. They question the processes that underpinned their hybridization between 1962 and 1988 in the Algerian field, at the École nationale d'architecture et des Beaux-arts (ENABA) and the École polytechnique d'architecture et d'urbanisme (EPAU).

Currently a lecturer at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts d'Alger, Mourad Bouzar is in charge of the space design and furniture workshops, as well as the history of architecture and descriptive geometry modules. Since 2023, he has been in charge of "Alger Archi XVI-XX", a research group that introduces students in the Bachelor's and Master's programs in space design to the creation of monographic files, while familiarizing them with the city's history, urban planning and architecture.

Since September 2024, he has been head of ARTI, ENSBA-Alger's startup incubator, and chairs the Commission de suivi méthodologique des mémoires et projets de fin d'études.