This book is an extension of the Materia architectures exhibition held at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in 2025. It follows the same structure and is a continuation of the Fibra architectures (2019) and TerraFibra (2021) exhibitions and books dedicated to contemporary architecture using earth, stone, and plant fibers.

It follows the structure of the exhibition with three chapters dedicated to these three materials, each of which documents the 40 finalist projects for the Matera Award.

The projects are intended to be rooted in the local area and promote traditional craftsmanship and local industries, without neglecting new regulations on carbon footprints and material sobriety.

The book is intended as an educational manifesto to inspire, share, and convince architects, craftsmen, project owners, and students.

The exhibition is a co-production of the Pavillon de l'Arsenal, amàco, Les Grands Ateliers, and the Compagnons du Devoir et du Tour de France.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 – The documentation center welcomes twenty-three first-year students from Le Corbusier High School, accompanied by their mechanical engineering teacher, Olivier Valery, and Dalila Azouz, a librarian.

This visit is part of the "Les cordées de la réussite" program, which allows secondary school students to receive support from a higher education institution.

High school students are tasked with building a full-scale model of a bus shelter equipped with a photovoltaic power system and an autonomous lighting system. They will bring their sketches with them to explain their project.

Théo Vinceslas, lecturer and researcher atENSA Normandie, will spend the morning assisting the high school students with their work and offering his expertise on the choice of materials.

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Since 2017,ENSA Normandie 's Master's program in Urban and Regional ArchitectureENSA Normandie been collaborating with Guadeloupe's Department of Cultural Affairs (DAC). Each year, around twenty students from Normandy discover this overseas department and base their semester project on a territory that they learn to understand and analyze.

The aim of this course is to enable students to take an interest in complex situations and encourage them to place their projects in the context of broader, shared issues: those relating to landscape and the environment, changing urban configurations, and social, programmatic, industrial, and technological transformations.

This album was produced by students atENSA Normandie their teacher in October 2025. Neither its content nor its proposals are binding onENSA Normandie partners. The proposals are presented in the form of a narrative. The characters mentioned here are the product of the students' imagination and any resemblance to real persons is purely coincidental.
Based on the students' drawings and real-life photographs, the work presented here uses artificial intelligence interfaces. This work also aims to stimulate collective reflection and criticism regarding the use and future of this technology.

Teacher in charge: Rémi Ferrand

Booklet available for download in the publications stand and by clicking HERE.

This showcase booklet brings together the research and project ideas developed by students, with the help of their teacher, during Andy Yu's exploratory workshop: "Cooking and Making: A Comparative Methodology between Cooking and Design."

Find the booklet in the publications kiosk and by clicking here

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This study booklet brings together the work of students from the second semester of the 2025 project workshop. This second semester continues the work begun during the first semester, focusing on the gradual acquisition of architectural culture, methods, and techniques specific to architecture.

Find the booklet in the publications kiosk and by clicking here

How can we feed the world without destroying the planet? This is the existential question that Cédric Rabany, an agronomist and globetrotter for 20 years, attempts to answer in this graphic novel inspired exclusively by real events. Follow him on his journey, fraught with uncertainty and humor, from the tropics (Ivory Coast, Uganda, Burundi, Tanzania...) to the plains of Beauce, via the terraces of Morocco. A book beautifully illustrated by our teacher César Canet and his magical colored pencils! In bookstores on February 6, 2026.

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The School's new activity report has just been released. This document, which summarizes the School's main activities during the 2024-2025 academic year, is available in the publications kiosk, or by clicking HERE.

Sociologist Jean-Louis Violeau, a specialist in the field of architecture, returns with a book that questions the authorship of architects. Drawing on contemporary examples, the author poses a thousand questions: "Can we talk about authorship in architecture? What does it mean to build? Who is the author? Can we talk about an author in a collective work? Can a building be a work of art? ..."

These are legitimate questions, and it's all the more important to address them in the new context of the arrival of Artificial Intelligence.

Since the start of the school year in September 2025, the ArchiRès portal home page has been enhanced with a new access point. When you are logged in to your account and you are on the local version of ArchiRès (by clicking on the school logo), you can now directly access the digital resources of the document center.

Here you'll find network subscriptions: Ensa-P conferences on replay, Numilog Ebooks, Images de la culture films on VOD, student works, publications supported by the French Ministry of Culture. Two new items: Bêka & Lemoine films. These are 10 films by artist duo Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine. Tënk, the documentary film platform presented to you in the November newsletter.

As for resources accessible only to students from Normandy: Arte Campus, Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Europresse, Kheox, Compilatio anti-plagiarism software, Materiaux.archi dematerialized material library and Dicobat.

Coming soon: My cow, to work on your English, the encyclopaedia universalis, On architecture, a platform devoted to documentaries on buildings and architecture (700 films).

From December 1 to 5 at Pôle Doc' – Return of the Book and Magazine Exchange. The concept: librarians offer you the opportunity to purchase books and magazines from their collections at an unbeatable price: €1!

The event will be held throughout the week at the Documentary Center, during opening hours.

Come and bargain for books and magazines - we look forward to seeing you!

For information, payment by credit card only.