The librarians provided training for undergraduate and Master 1 students. Students were reminded how to use the ArchiRès portal and digital resources. To support students in writing their Master's theses and study reports, training focused on assistance with thesis writing, copyright and bibliography.

We suggest a reminder HERE to help you write a standardized bibliography that respects copyright, as well as a bibliography writing aid HERE

The Documentary Center will be closed to the public from April 29 to May 10, 2024.

Reopening Monday May 13, 2024 at 1pm.

This special issue of Études Normandes presents the collective thinking behind an experimental teaching and research partnership between the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie, the Institut Polytechnique UniLaSalle (Rouen campus) and a number of local players.

This analysis presents the results of an "Atelier hors les murs", a five-day immersion with S-07 students from both schools in the commune of Duclair (Seine-Maritime), which is taking part in the national "Small Towns of Tomorrow" program. The work was supervised by lecturers from the M1 DE Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires urban and territorial project workshop (Joseph Altuna, Dominique Lefrançois, Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla).

The publication was coordinated by Gabriella TROTTA-BRAMBILLA forENSA Normandie features contributions from teachers, researchers, and local stakeholders (Boucles de la Seine Normande Regional Nature Park, Seine-Maritime Departmental Directorate for Territories and the Sea, GIP Seine Aval, local elected officials, etc.).

Click HERE to download the special issue from the Études Normandes website.

visual: ©Études normandes, 2024 - view of downtown Duclair. coll. PNR BSN

Mir@bel, is the result of a network of monitoring partners, including theENSA Normandie Documentation Center. It is managed by Sciences-Po Lyon. The site lists open-access journals on the Internet and provides the public with links to them. The ArchiRès/Mir@bel partnership is reflected on our documentation portal by the inclusion of a button  which takes you to the Mir@bel website. For example, by clicking on  In the entry for the magazine L'architecture d'aujourd'hui, Mir@bel will tell you that issues from 1930 to 1953 have been digitized on the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine website.

Have you heard of Compilatio? No? It's the anti-plagiarism software thatENSA Normandie has been usingENSA Normandie 2019. It allows teachers to check whether students' work complies with copyright law. There is a student version (Compilatio Studium), which is a good tool for reassuring yourself and finding out whether sources are cited correctly. Infoplag, the anti-plagiarism website set up by the Documentation Center, centralizes all the information you need, including the referral code that allows students to use Compilatio Studium for free.

Until March 15, the Pôle documentaire invites you to extend your visit to the exhibition "Mai 68! L'architecture aussi" exhibition, and take books and magazines off the shelves. You'll be able to leaf through books from the old collection on architecture competitions at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in the 50s and 60s, admission sketches, or enrich your knowledge of the history of architectural education.

7 documentaries are available for free viewing, including testimonials by Jean Castex, Philippe Panerai and François Chaslin +Info

The Documentary Center will be closed to the public from March 4 to 8 , 2024.

Reopening Monday March 11, 2024 at 1pm.

Since 2017,ENSA Normandie Master's program in Architecture, City, and TerritoryENSA Normandie collaborating with Guadeloupe's Department of Cultural Affairs (DAC). Each year, around 20 students from Normandy discover this overseas department and base their semester project on a territory that they learn to interpret and analyze. The aim of the teachers is to encourage students to take an interest in complex situations and invite them to place their projects in the context of broad, shared issues: those of landscape and the environment, changing urban configurations, and social, programmatic, industrial, and technological transformations.

Teachers in charge: Rémi Ferrand, and Céline Orsingher

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

The Pôle documentaire is innovating. To make it easier for you to access digitized journals, QR codes are now available on the display racks. Scan them and they'll direct you to Mir@bel, the website that facilitates access to digitized journals, or to the resource center's digital subscriptions.