February 13, 2025 -
2:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Académie d'architecture - 9 place des Vosges 75004 Paris.

To coincide with the exhibition Dessiner, voyager... Deux siècles de dessins d'architectes (Véronique Descharrières, Marilena Kourniati and Danièle Pauly, exhibition curators), the Académie d'architecture is organizing a study day of the same name, focusing on the relationship between drawings and travel among architects.

Claire Rossetresearcher at the ATE laboratory, will give a talk entitled " Du croquis au Carnet. Journey of an architect's drawing. (Laprade fonds)".

For more information on the Study Day program HERE

visual: program details

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 –
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Paris Nanterre University, building F, room F352

The Center for Theory and Analysis of Law, the Archaeology and Philology of the East and West Laboratory, the Orient & Mediterranean, Texts, Archaeology, History Laboratory and the University of Lausanne are organizing a new edition of the History of Construction Seminar . The meeting on Tuesday, January 28 will have the theme "Constructive experimentation" .

François Fleury , researcher at the ATE laboratory, will present a presentation entitled “Experimentation of the flat vault with a single keystone proposed by Joseph Abeille (1699)”.

More information about the program HERE

visual: Joseph Abeille – Flat vault (1699), in Jean-Gaffin Gallion, “Machines and inventions approved by the Royal Academy of Sciences”, volume 1 (source: BnF Gallica)

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.

visual : CRAUP logo

Friday, January 24, 2025 –
From 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at theENSA Normandie documentation center.

TheENSA Normandie Research CommissionENSA Normandie voted to organize a new doctoral seminar.
Organized by the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie (ENSA Normandie) starting in January 2025, this doctoral seminar aims to contribute to critical and engaged reflection on methods and tools specific to architectural research, while promoting a strong transdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of the humanities and social sciences, science and technology, and research-creation. It is organized around the presentation, analysis, and discussion of documents relating to the practices and theories of architecture, urban planning, and landscape design, which in each session are drawn from the corpus of a doctoral student and an experienced teacher-researcher.

TheENSA Normandie doctoral seminarENSA Normandie held once per semester at its premises in Darnétal. It is open to all members of Doctoral School 556 Man, Societies, Risks, Territory and Beyond, but its primary purpose is to support doctoral students in positioning themselves with regard to contemporary epistemological issues.

The first session will be held on Friday, January 24, atENSA Normandie, documentation center, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. It will focus on methodological questions raised by architects' discourse in the form of published or transcribed texts. How should such documents be critically examined? What status should be given to them? How can they be mobilized? This will be discussed on the basis of ongoing researchby Antoine Apruzzese (doctoral student) and Marie Gaimard (lecturer).

image : Bowl Chair, Lina Bo Bardi, 1951

Congratulations to Valter BALDUCCI, professor atENSA Normandie defended his Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in History of Architecture at the University of Strasbourg on December 17. This HDR was defended within Doctoral School 519 "Humanities and Social Sciences – European Perspectives," ARCHE Research Unit "Arts, Civilization, and History of Europe" – UMR 3400.

The jury was composed of
Ms Anne-Marie CHÂTELET, Professor Emeritus, HDR, ENSA Strasbourg, guarantor;
Mr Angelo BERTONI, Professor, HDR, ENSA de Strasbourg, Rapporteur;
Mr Enrico CHAPEL, Professor, HDR, ENSA Toulouse, Rapporteur;
Mr Julien FUCHS, Professor, HDR, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Chairman
and Ms Hélène JANNIÈRE, Professor, HDR, Université de Rennes II, Rapporteur.

The application file consisted of " Penser la ville par l'architecture. Itinéraires entre projets, théories et histoire ", 4 volumes, 5 volumes with the unpublished scientific contribution " Sauver les enfants, modeler les âmes. Children's colonies in Fascist Italy (1922-1943) " (671 pages + 264-page appendix).

Thanks to this defense, the ATE laboratory is delighted to count among its members a sixth researcher qualified to direct research.

EXTENSION
Until Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 8pm -

We announce the launch of the call for papers for the international colloquium
L'exil comme voyage. Architects' Mediterranean and the world, ^18th-20th centuries
Exile as a journey. The Mediterranean of architects and the world, 18th-20th century
to be held at the University of Poitiers on Thursday April 3 and Friday April 4, 2025

This symposium is co-organized by Nabila Oulebsir, Université de Poitiers, CRIHAM (UR 15507), Marie GaimardÉcole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, Architecture, territoires, environnement laboratory (ATE, UR 7464) and Caroline Maniaque École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, Architecture, territoires, environnement laboratory (ATE, UR 7464),

The deadline for submissions is January 17, 2025 8pm, at colloque.poitiers.avril2025@gmail.com

Details of the arguments, procedures and timetable can be found HERE. 

Visual: Lapie, Pierre (1779-1850). Cartographer. Carte des voyages de Télémaque et d'Ulysse / drawn by P. Lapie, captain engineer geographer. 185.. - source © gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France

Monday December 9 and Tuesday December 10, 2024
ENSA Grenoble

The École nationale supérieure d'architecture and the AE&CC research unit are organizing a scientific colloquium entitled "Le projet comme terrain de la recherche contributive", to be held on December 9-10, 2024.

This colloquium explores the idea that it is the project as laboratory that specifies research in design disciplines: project as place of emergence of research questions, project as place of observation of interactions between resource actors, project as place of investigation or project as space for experimentation. The contributions cover a range of research projects, whether architectural, urban, planning, territorial, landscape or in the applied arts. Whether commissioned by an agency or as part of a teaching exercise, exploratory, operational or experimental (demonstrator) projects are all opportunities to produce or update design knowledge.

Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla is a member of the steering committee.

More information on the program HERE
Free registration required HERE

Visual of the symposium - photo DL/Valentin Ollier

Wednesday, November 20, 2024 at 1:03 p.m.
School of ArchitectureSeville (Spain)

Caroline Maniaque gave a lecture entitled "Inflatable structures from military use to psychedelic environments of North American alternative culture" as part of the "Master en Arquitectura" lecture series at the Seville School of Architecture.

visual: event poster

Thursday, December 12, 2024
at 2:00 p.m. –
Jean Duminy Amphitheater – ENSA Normandie

Cristina SANCHEZ-ALGARRA will present her doctoral thesis entitled "Urban recipes for the European Capital of Culture label: from desired city to reinvented territory".

This doctoral thesis was prepared at the ATE laboratory, under the supervision of Bruno PROTH, professor, ENSA Normandie, ATE, and co-supervised by Dominique DEHAIS, honorary professor, ENSA Normandie, ATE.

Members of the jury
Laurent DEVISME, rapporteur - Professor - Nantes University
Cristina MAZZONI, rapporteur - Professor - ENSA Paris-Belleville
Marc DUMONT, examiner - Professor - Université de Lille
Françoise LUCCHINI, examiner - Maîtresse de Conférences HDR - Université de Rouen Normandie
Elise PALOMARES, examiner - Professeur - Université de Rouen Normandie
Elsa VIVANT, examiner - Professor - École des Ponts Paristech

A live webcast of the defense will be available by clicking HERE

Summary

This thesis analyzes the construction of French cities' bids for the European Capital of Culture label for the year 2028, up to the designation of Bourges in December 2023 after a heightened national competition. These bids are studied as initiatives capable of constructing narratives establishing the guidelines of urban production, this label being a tool exalting the prospective image of a city. The research explores the way in which the preparation of a cultural project of international scope enables us to reflect on the contemporary conditions of the process of making cities and their spaces, whether materially or socially conceived.
Complementing urban studies on the post-event legacy, and through a close-up analysis of nine candidate cities, and more specifically the finalists Bourges, Clermont-Ferrand, Montpellier and Rouen, we explore the strategies used to elaborate a supposedly unifying discourse that nonetheless appeals to a variety of audiences with divergent expectations. In this respect, the label is an edifying catalyst for analysis, insofar as we are also interested in the possible instrumentalization of this narrative, which, drawing on the symbolic power of art and culture to underpin certain political agendas, would help to pacify tensions without overcoming partisan, territorial and social cleavages. Our study focuses on two issues in particular: territorial construction and the urban strategy for hosting the event.
In a context marked by the imbrication of crises - territorial, economic and environmental - we question the paradigms perceptible in the bidding documents and the positioning of candidate cities with regard to contemporary urban issues. To do so, we focus on projects that are either disconnected from, or linked to, existing public policies and urban images and references, with the aim of verifying whether the concept of the "successful city", so dear to European discourse, translates into a single political, social, economic and urban response.

visual : Facade of the Métropole Rouen Normandie with the colors of the Rouen bid. Photo © Cristina Sanchez-Algarra

November 28-29, 2024
9:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Auditorium opens at 8:45 a.m.)
Palais de l'Institut de France - Palais d'Iéna
André and Liliane Bettencourt auditorium (3, rue Mazarine - Paris VIe)

To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth and the 70th anniversary of the death of Auguste Perret (an architect whose major work, the reconstruction of the city of Le Havre, is on UNESCO's World Heritage List), the Auguste Perret Foundation - Académie des Beaux-Arts has decided to pay tribute to him with an international symposium. The aim of this event is to provide an update on the historical and heritage aspects of the architect's thinking and work.

Eight sessions and two round tables will explore the many facets of Auguste Perret's work. The first day aims to highlight the breadth of his work, which is not limited to the question of concretes, but allows us to examine all the scales of architecture and the complex posture of an intellectual-builder who was already recognized during his lifetime. The second day focuses resolutely on the living work of Auguste Perret. The restoration of his buildings poses a number of challenges, in terms of both materiality and use, as illustrated by the reconstructed center of Le Havre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Auguste Perret, whose influence extends beyond France's borders, remains a benchmark for many practitioners throughout the 20th century. The final round table will also examine his contemporary legacy.

On Thursday, November 28, Sébastien Cherruet, lecturer atENSA Normandie researcher at ATE, will give a talk entitled "Furniture and interior design: a matrix for dialogue between the arts?"
On Friday, November 29, Marie Gaimard, lecturer atENSA Normandie researcher at ATE, will give a presentation entitled "Theoretical connections between Auguste Perret and André Ravéreau."

Sébastien Cherruet is a member of the board of the Auguste Perret Foundation. With Marie Gaimard, they are both members of the organizing committee.

Download the program HERE
More information and free registration HERE.

visual: poster for the "Auguste Perret, 1874-1954: an anniversary" symposium