In 2023, Les Editions Alternatives published "Le tour des matériaux d'une maison écologique", a book designed by the Anatomies d'architecture collective. In 2024, it was the subject of an exhibition at CAUE Rhône Métropole, supported by Maison de l'architecture de Normandie, Grands Ateliers and Territoires Pionniers. The digital version is available HERE

"Le tour des matériaux d'une maison écologique" recounts the experimental adventure of a group who set themselves the challenge of renovating a traditional house in Orléans using only natural materials (wood, hemp, etc.) found less than 100 km from the building site. The central question posed by this book is how to reconnect housing with its territory?

You can choose to read it from A to Z to discover the project in its entirety, or by chapter, like a dictionary of materials. The authors have chosen a dynamic narrative form, a comic strip and an interview.

This project was nominated for the Équerre d'argent 2022 award in the 1st work category.

For more information click HERE

April 3, 2025, at 1:00 p.m. –ENSA Normandie Documentation Center.

Book presentation, discussion on the theme of dystopia/utopia and book sales

"AI surveillance of privatized housing estates, mega-infrastructure projects, heat islands in the ghettos... Nothing has been mapped out yet! Far from prefabs and reinforced concrete, the city of tomorrow is already teeming, crumbling and pushing back at the same time." Two authors from Normandy, Blanzat and Ariane by their pen names, have contributed to this collection of science fiction short stories, published by La Volte in autumn 2024. At a time of ecological and social backlash, Blanzat and Ariane project themselves politically into the future, using literature to think about the city and architecture of tomorrow.

At the invitation of the seminar Enquête(s) sur la fabrique écologique de l'architecture (DE Expérimentation), these individuals will present their work and discuss the need for science fiction to move beyond dystopia and reinvent a form of critical utopia.

Cover illustration © Hao

In the study booklet for semester 1 of the 2023 project workshop, we would like to clarify certain passages in the exercise statements.

It appears that paragraphs and quotations from the ENSA Paris-Est 1st year 2018/2019 project workshop study booklet have been taken over without explicit mention of their source (p. 11, statement; p. 15, statement; p. 21, statement and quotation from H. Focillon; p. 27, statement and quotation from A. Perret).

The work carried out at Paris-Est served as a reference for the development of exercises just before the start of the 2023/2024 academic year atENSA Normandie, and certain excerpts were mistakenly retained in the published version of the booklet. However, these texts had been revised in September 2023 and were not intended to be distributed in this form.

We sincerely apologize to the authors concerned for this inappropriate use. In order to rectify this situation, the workbook is being corrected and access to it has been temporarily suspended.

Viet Le Trong and the teaching team responsible for drafting the exercise statements.

Echoes. 50 years of the I Maestri collection" explores the important contribution of the Italian furniture company Cassina to design culture. The faithful reissue, in 1965, of furniture created by Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret subsequently led to the creation of the I Maestri collection, which has continued the process by reissuing iconic pieces by great names in 20th-century architecture. The book also looks back at the company's collaboration with renowned Italian architects such as Franco Albini, Gio Ponti and Carlo Scarpa.

Launched in 2024, the Pôle documentaire's greening project is now a reality. Eloïse and Julien from Jungle In, a plant store in Rouen, delivered and installed around twenty plants on Wednesday January 22. They will embellish and keep our readers company in the reading room. We'll need plant lovers to feed and, above all, water all these little creatures, so don't hesitate to come and see us to offer your services.

Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine has published its latest online issue, entitled "Les Pédagogies de l'architecture, de la ville et du paysage: nouvelles donnes au XXIe siècle".

This issue was edited by Anne Debarre, Maxime Decommer and Juliette Pommier.

In this issue, Isabelle Genyk (researcher at the ATE laboratory) co-signs with Élise Macaire (researcher at the LET-Lavue) an article entitled "Socialisation aux pratiques professionnelles participatives et pédagogies coopératives.The example of student residences in rural areas".

Camille Bidaud (researcher at EVCAU, associate researcher at the ATE laboratory) and Matthieu Cisel (researcher at the Agora laboratory) also offer an article entitled " Une décennie d'essor des enseignements sur l'existant dans les ENSA vue à travers les intitulés de cours" .

You can download the magazine (and all its issues) from theOpen Edition websiteby clicking HERE.

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Higher education in culture is a network of 99 establishments under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture throughout France, with over 36,000 students.

Focused on the professionalization of students, these establishments provide training in a wide range of professions and practices in the fields of visual arts, performing arts, audiovisual arts, design, heritage, architecture and landscape.

The aim of this document is to present this rich range of training courses, comprising over 40 national diplomas, with a view to informing the widest possible audience, first and foremost secondary school students and their families. For each field, it also highlights the professions for which these establishments provide training.

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

Everything you ever wanted to know about the construction site, Fabien Grolleau , himself an architecture graduate, and Clément C. Fabre tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the building site in their comic strip "Le chantier", published in 2024 by Dargaud.

Flora, a young architect, starts her career with the prestigious El Rodrigo firm. She is in charge of managing a major construction site in Barcelona. We follow her in her efforts to solve problems, find solutions, manage the various players on the site and listen to her client.

This showcase booklet brings together the work of 20 students from the Master's program in Urban and Regional Architecture atENSA Normandie. In 2024, they discovered the city of Pointe-à-Pitre, where they based their semester project. Following in the footsteps of their predecessors, they focused their attention on the southeastern entrance to the city.
New landscape features and redesigned traffic flow have given rise to a series of architectural proposals, which are summarized below.

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

This study booklet brings together the work of students in Semester 2 of the 2024 Project Workshop. This second semester continues the work begun in Semester 1 of gradually acquiring an architectural culture, method and technique specific to architecture.

Find the booklet in the publications kiosk and by clicking here