November 27, 2024
18h
Le Forum - maison de l'architecture de Normandie
48 rue Victor Hugo - 76000 Rouen

Marie Gaimard and the Forum - maison de l'architecture de Normandie are organizing a new event this year, focusing on books devoted to architecture: treatises, essays, short stories... A pretext for rediscovering great classics, or lesser-known essayists, this reading circle is designed as a moment of conviviality and sharing on the great movements of thought linked to the history of architecture.

The first event will take place on November 27 and will focus on Le M'Zab, une leçon d'architecture by André Ravereau, published in 1981 and reissued in 2024 by Parenthèses.

Free with registration.
More information and registration HERE

visual © Le Forum - Maison de l'architecture de Normandie

We'd like to announce the publication of Ce que l'architecture fait à l'écologie, edited by Valéry Didelon, published by 205.

Several events are planned to present the book:
- Tuesday, November 12 at 7.30pm at the Volume bookshop in Paris, with Valéry Didelon and Julien Choppin.
- Tuesday November 26 at 6:30 pm at the Archipel bookshop, Lyon, in the presence of Valéry Didelon and Ivan Mazel
- Wednesday December 4, 7pm at Recyclart, Brussels (Belgium), with Valéry Didelon, Lionel Devlieger and Julie Neuwels.

Summary of the book

As a counterpoint to the abundant existing literature on what ecology does to architecture, this book reverses the perspective and opens up a debate. The authors, both researchers and practitioners, examine the many ways in which those involved in the development of built spaces - architects, landscape architects, engineers, etc. - shape society's expectations in terms of the fight against climate change. - to shape society's expectations in the fight against climate change, resource depletion and the collapse of biodiversity. What architecture does to ecology shows that their practices and discourses determine the conditions of production of the built environment as much as they are determined by them. In this book, architecture is seen as one of the laboratories for inventing the techniques, aesthetics and, above all, ethics that can orient and guide collective action in the world to come.

Authors:
Lionel Devlieger, engineer-architect and historian
Julien Choppin, architect
Philippe Coignet and Alice Hallynck, architects
Marcos Colina, architect
Gaël Huitorel and Alexandre Morais, architects
Delphine Hyvrier, doctoral student and artist
Ivan Mazel, architect-urban planner and doctor of architecture,
and Marie Flécheux, Thierry Joffroy, Julien Nourdin, David Rodrigues-Soares, Yannick Sieffert
Victoria Mure-Ravaud, architect, researcher, teacher
Julie Neuwels, architect and PhD in the Art of Building and Urban Planning
Natalia Petkova, architect

This work was supported by the ATE laboratory,ENSA Normandie the Ministry of Culture.

For more information, click here

visual: cover of Ce que l'architecture fait à l'écologie, éditions 205, 2024

Thursday, November 21, 2024 - 10:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. -

The ATE laboratory is organizing the 12th edition of its Culture of Research seminar on the theme of "LABELS. The cultural identity of cities in question".

On this occasion, two speakers will present the progress of their work and reflections:

– Cristina Sanchez-Algarra, PhD student at the ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie,
– Marina Rotolo, PhD, MCFA, IPRAUS/AUSser ENSA Paris-Belleville.

The seminar will take place in the Petit Amphi from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm.

This 12th edition of the "Culture of Research" seminar is organized by Caroline Maniaque, professor and researcher at the ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie.

Download the program HERE.

November 14-15-16, 2024 -
Amphithéâtre de la MRSH - Université Caen-Normandie (Esplanade de la Paix - Caen) - France

Patrice Gourbin, lecturer atENSA Normandie researcher at ATE, is a member of the scientific committee.

Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla, lecturer atENSA Normandie researcher at ATE, Claire Rosset, research engineer and researcher at ATE, and Joumana Charif-Yakan will give a presentation entitled "Small towns rebuilt in Normandy, heritage and urban projects."

More information and program HERE
Free registration HERE.

visual poster "Le Patrimoine de la Reconstruction" conference

From October 8 to November 30, 2024 the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana in Medellin (Colombia) will host the exhibition "May 68! Architecture too + Colombia".

After traveling around France, the touring version of "Mai 68: l'architecture aussi" is presented abroad for the first time, to highlight the links between the rupture of the 60s and 70s, the transformations in the teaching and practice of architecture in France and their resonances elsewhere in the world, in this case here in Colombia. A special addendum on Colombia has been added to the original exhibition, enriching the analysis of the French case and highlighting the transfers that people, material culture and the media have fostered.

On October 8, 2024, the inaugural conversation followed by a vernissage will bring together the curators of the original exhibition and those of the Colombian project: Caroline Maniaque (ENSA Normandie), Éléonore Marantz and Andrés Ávila (Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne), David Vélez (UPB Medellín).

Visual of the exhibition

october 15, 2024
6pm-8pm
Cultural and Social History of Art Research Center - INHA

Marie Gaimard will take part in the "Architecture and Natural Environments" research seminar organized on October 15, 2024 at the Institut National d'Hsitoire de l'Art.

Organized by Jean-Philippe Garric and Eléonore Marantz, the research seminar offers a series of 5 thematic sessions focusing on how architecture - from habitat to territory - uses, reorders, reinvents and appropriates nature. Marie Gaimard will be presenting a paper entitled "Hydraulics and architecture: André Ravéreau's 'paradoxical desert'" at the first meeting in this series, entitled "Elsewhere. Inhabiting a hostile climate".

More information and program HERE

visual © HiCSA

Monday, October 14, 2024
2:00 p.m.
Jean Duminy Amphitheater – ENSA Normandie

Raphaël RATTIER will submit his doctoral thesis entitled "Concevoir en bauge aujourd'hui: Contribution au renouvellement de l'architecture contemporaine".

This doctoral thesis was prepared at the ATE laboratory, under the supervision of François FLEURY, professor, ENSA Normandie, ATE.

Jury members
Erwan HAMARD rapporteur, HDRn research engineer, Gustave Eiffel University, GPEM
Nathalie TORNAY rapporteur, HDR lecturer, ENSA Toulouse, LRA
Valéry DIDELON examiner, professor, ENSA Normandie, ATE
Antonella MASTRORILLI examiner, professor, ENSAP Lille, LACTH
Steve GOODHEW examiner, professor, School of Art, Design and Architecture University of Plymouth
Estelle MORLÉ examiner, senior lecturer, ENSA Lyon, EVS-LAURE
François STREIFF examiner, consulting architect, Cotentin and Bessin Marshes Regional Nature Park

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

visual: CobBauge experimental prototype, image by Raphaël Rattier

thursday, october 24, 2024
from 6pm to 8pm
Maison de l'Architecture-Le Forum - 48 rue Victor Hugo, 76000 Rouen, France
free admission

The Maison de l'Architecture-Le Forum welcomes us to present issue 31 of the journal Études Normandes , devoted to "Knowledge and recognition of Reconstruction in Normandy".

The contributions gathered in this double issue extend the research conducted atENSA Normandie reconstruction after World War II. They come from institutional representatives, experts, and residents, and reflect the current dynamics in terms of historical knowledge and heritage recognition. They also seek to imagine relevant methods for adapting this already old architecture to current constraints of comfort and use. Together, the articles form a "research-action" project that observes, participates in, and is committed to the evolution of its subject of study.

Public presentation in the presence of Patrice Gourbin.

October 16 to 19, 2024 -
Théâtre de l'Hôtel de Ville, Le Havre -

The congress of the historical societies of Normandy will take place in Le Havre from 16 to 19 October 2024.
This year, the theme will be architecture in all its dimensions (historical, social, constructive, etc.), based on the theme "Architecture in Normandy. Construction and reconstruction".

Patrice Gourbin, lecturer atENSA Normandie researcher at ATE, will give the inaugural lecture "Normandy and architecture. Transfer, creation, identity."

More information on the program HERE.

visual : Le Havre. Boulevard François Ier circa 1955. Archives municipales du Havre, 47Fi155.

Thursday, October 3 and Friday, October 4, 2024
Jean-Duminy Amphitheatre

Noura Arab and François Fleury conclude the seminar series: "Between resources and ecology, architecture in question. Methods, implementation, forms produced." This series has been running since June 2022 and is supported byENSA Normandie, the ATE laboratory, and the "Renewable Natural Resources, Climate, and Architecture" chair . It has already resulted in two publications, released by Les Presses des Mines.

The third seminar , "The Existing,Architecture as a Resource," will take place on October 3 and 4 atENSA Normandie.

Free admission
Videoconference presentations and debates will be possible live videoconferencing HERE

Download the program HERE

visual: editing and photographs © Noura Arab