Until June 25, 2025 -

The ATE laboratory is calling for papers for a study day Living on the changing coastline: forms, practices, representations to be held atENSA Normandie November 25 and 26, 2025.

The objective of this study day is to question the impacts of climate change on built forms, the evolution of land use and coastal lifestyles since the 1970s – the end of growth and the rise of ecological concerns – by crossing the contributions of different disciplinary fields, scientific (ecology, geography, history, sociology) and operational (architecture, urban planning, landscape), both in their theoretical and applied dimensions.

The call for papers is open until June 25, 2025.
Proposals for papers are submitted by way of an abstract. The abstract will include the title, the authors' names and their institutional affiliations, the problem, the corpus, the methods, and the main results.

The study day is organized by Valter Balducci and Milena Guest , researchers at the ATE laboratory.

The call for papers is available HERE

visual: Granville coastline, photo taken on February 23, 2024 © Valter Balducci, 2024

Friday, June 13, 2025
from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine

The Association d'histoire de l'architecture organizes its Journée des Jeunes chercheuses et chercheurs en histoire de l'architecture.

The morning will be devoted to a Doctathlon, during which participants will present an important methodological question from their thesis that triggered a change in their research. This Doctrathlon will be moderated by ATE researcher Sébastien CHERRUET.
In the afternoon, the young PhDs invited will offer an overview of recently defended theses in architectural history.

The organizing committee includes Gabriel BERNARD GUELLE (doctoral student at ATE), Cléa CALDERONI, Franka FAHL and Sibylle LE VOT

Download the program HERE
More information on the AHA website

Visual: Conoscientia, Sala degli Svizzeri, Palazzo d'Accurso (Palazzo comunale), Bologna, Italy, 17th century © cliché Sibylle Le Vot

Until July 6, 2025 -

Normandy's three cultural colleges - the Le Havre-Rouen College of Art and Design, the Caen/Cherbourg College of Arts & Media, and the Normandy National College of Architecture - members of the Normandie Université Community of Universities and Institutions, and the Doctoral School 558 "Normandie Humanités" have created in 2018 RADIAN, a doctorate in artistic research and creation open to the fields of art, design, architecture and creative writing(more information HERE).

The call for applications for the RADIAN 2025 program is now open.

Contemporary Creation" section and "Architecture" section - Applications to be sent before July 6, 2025 11:59 pm - online only. Oral audition of eligible candidates and results on Tuesday, October 15, 2025 in Caen.

More information on the call and the application process HERE.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Jean Duminy Lecture Hall – ENSA Normandie

To mark the 120th anniversary of the Normandy School of Architecture, Sébastien Cherruet (researcher at the ATE laboratory) and Claire Rosset (ATE laboratory researcher) are organizing a study day entitled "Memories and histories of a school. 120 d'architecture en Normandie".

The first school founded outside Paris,ENSA Normandie now one of twenty-one public architecture schools in France. In recent years, there has been growing interest in the history of these schools, particularly through the HEnsA20 research program. The exhibition "120 Years of Architecture Education" organized in the fall of 2024 revealed some facets of the institution's history. However, research has also highlighted the gaps in both administrative and educational archives. Oral sources have sometimes been collected, but this memory has not always been scientifically evaluated.
The study day "Memories and stories of a school. 120 years of architecture in Normandy" aims to address this issue . Through a major interview and three sessions, bringing together researchers as well as witnesses and actors in the field of architecture in Normandy, this day aims to gather testimonies and provide a space for discussion on the history of the institution.

Day program HERE

visual: Jean-Claude Schmid's personal archives

Friday June 13 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm -
Campus Mont Saint-Aignan - Université de Rouen Normandie - UFR STAPS management building, boardroom
by videoconference (registration required)

On June 13, the 4th research seminar entitled " Living with the river. An investigation through photo elicitation "This seminar isorganized as part of the research project "Villes en scène. Interrogating the territorial fabric on the occasion of major events", in which Cristina Algarra Sanchez, associate researcher at ATE, is taking part.

This meeting will provide an opportunity to share a stage of research into the territorial fabric of art and cultural projects, focusing on the place given to the Seine. The results of an initial collection of interviews will open the discussion on uses, imaginaries and the perception of ecological issues from the river. The Observatoire Photographique des Paysages de la Vallée de la Seine will present its activities in the field of landscape mediation, awareness-raising and interpretation.

Open to all, this seminar is intended to provide an opportunity for joint reflection with all those interested in territorial dynamics and the imaginary world of the river.

Videoconferencing also available. Registration is required at : villesenscene@univ-rouen.fr

visual: event poster

wednesday, may 21
9am-6.30pm
Campus Condorcet -8 cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers, France

As part of the Printemps des cités-jardins program, a day of visits and studies is being organized on the theme of "Disseminating the garden city concept", with the Seine-Saint-Denis departmental council, Plaine Commune, the Seine-Saint-Denis tourism development agency, the towns of Pré Saint-Gervais, Livry-Gargan, Dugny, Stains and Epinay-sur-Seine, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Campus Condorcet.

Marie Gaimard, researcher at ATE, will give a talk entitled "Les grandes ambitions de l'architecte Jean Walter pour les cités-jardins en France au début du XXe siècle".

Free admission, registration recommended.
Further information and program HERE

visual: Rencontres poster

From June 18 to 20, 2025 -
Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University and ENSA Toulouse

The fifth French-speaking Congress on Construction History is organized by the Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (UT2J - FRAMESPA laboratory) and the Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Toulouse (ENSA Toulouse - LRA laboratory), under the patronage of the Association francophone de l'histoire de la construction. This meeting is part of a dynamic series of international scientific events bringing together construction history practitioners and researchers, heritage players (local authorities, associations, etc.), students, amateurs, elected representatives and users.

This edition, entitled "À pied d'œuvre", like its predecessors, aims to contribute to the consolidation of this field of research and enrich knowledge through a multiplicity of viewpoints.

Patrice Gourbinresearcher at the ATE laboratory, will give a talk entitled "Le hangar agricole Boiron-Rivet, une architecture nouvelle pour les campagnes dévastées par la Seconde Guerre mondiale".

François Fleury, researcher at the ATE laboratory, is a member of the scientific committee.

Download program HERE
Registration HERE

program visual

Friday, May 9, 2025 from 9:30am to 5:15pm - Amphi Jean-Duminy (and visio).

The ATE laboratory is organizing the 14th edition of its Culture of Research seminar on the theme of "HABITER". This one-day seminar, also open to S2 students, will revisit the question of habitat and inhabitation in the 20th century, based on a number of case studies. Particular emphasis will be placed on the way in which architects have used the media - newspapers aimed at the general public, architectural magazines, exhibitions and conferences - to promote their architecture.
A short film and two documentaries will punctuate the presentations.

We will welcome three speakers:
- Tim Benton Professor Emeritus, The Open University
- Catherine Blain PhD, research engineer, IPRAUS, ENSA Paris-Belleville
- Élodie Degavre architect, teacher, researcher and film-maker.

PROGRAM HERE

The session will be broadcast live HERE

This 14th edition of the "Culture of Research" seminar is organized by Caroline Maniaque, HDR professor at the ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie

April 3-4, 2025 at theUniversity of Poitiers -
Faculty of Humanities and Arts.

The international symposium "L'exil comme voyage. La Méditerranée des architectes et le monde, XVIIIe-XXe siècle" will be held at the University of Poitiers on April 3-4, 2025. It is co-organized by Nabila Oulebsir, Université de Poitiers, CRIHAM (UR 15507), Marie Gaimard and Caroline Maniaque École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, Architecture, territoires, environnement laboratory (ATE, UR 7464).

Caroline Maniaque will lead the "Between two waters: itineraries and wanderings" session.
Marie Gaimard and Claire Rosset will lead the "Plural identities" session.

Free admission.
Download program HERE
Download session summaries HERE

visual: after Nouvelle carte de la mer Méditerranée, François Berthelot, 1700. Source gallica.bnf.fr/BnF. Graphic design: Isabelle Fortuné / Université de Poitiers, Service Communication - UFR Sciences Humaines & Arts

Until April 30, 2025.

The journal Transversale histoire architecture urbain paysage is calling for articles for its ninth issue on the theme of "Pathways, interweaving, hybridization: a global history of architecture and urbanism."
This issue is coordinated by Marie Gaimard (ATE, ENSA Normandie), Gilles-Antoine Langlois, and Léonore Losserand (EVCAU, ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine).

This call for papers proposes an approach to architectural "journeys", "hybridizations" and "weavings" without chronological boundaries, based on 3 entries:

1/ the journeys and exchanges between people who have designed and built both in their native country and in the other country;
2/observation of the measures and processes involved in weaving and hybridization;
3/ amore theoretical approach to the "architecture of exchange", which is both situated and contextualized, even though it stems from fields where the construction of historical time is fundamentally different.

Articles must be submitted by April 30, 2025.
More information on thecall for contributions and the editorial charter.

Starting with issue no. 9, thecross-disciplinary journal is published by ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine/EVCAU andENSA Normandie, distributed by MSH Paris.

visual : Fool's Cap Map of the World (circa 1580) - © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London