May 23-24, 2024
University of Granada
Alhambra, Granada (Spain)

As part of the symposium series "Les voyages des architectes / The Architect's Journey. Travels and Transfers across the Mediterranean and Beyond (XVIIIth-XXth)". the University of Granada will host the symposium "The architects and the travels to the East, mid-18th Century - 1960s" on May 23 and 24, 2024.
Marie Gaimard and Caroline Maniaque, researchers at the ATE laboratory, are members of the scientific committee.

Caroline Maniaque will host a session on Friday, May 24: "The East of the moderns".

English program
Spanish program

visual: program details © Universidad de Granada, 2024

Thursday, April 4, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
ENSA Paris-La Villette

Gabriella Trotta-BrambillaGabriella Trotta-Brambilla, teacher-researcher at the ATE laboratory, took part in the ENSA Paris-La Villette cycle of research seminars and workshops. The theme was "Bringing territories to light through new methods of exploration". Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla's talk was entitled " Petites Villes de demain en Normandie, Territoires pionniers d'un projet urbain éco-politique?

More information on the program HERE.

visual: visual program of the seminar on 4.04.2024

The Society of Antiquaries of Normandy and the ATE laboratory have published the book La reconstruction du bâti agricole dans le Calvados après la Seconde Guerre mondiale. This publication is the result of original research conducted by Patrice Gourbin, lecturer and researcher at the ATE laboratory.

The publication of the book was made possible by the contribution of the Ministry of Culture, the department of Calvados and the ATE laboratory.

Click HERE to read a summary of the book in the publications kiosk.

Visual: Cover of the book The reconstruction of agricultural buildings in Calvados after the Second World War, Society of Antiquaries of Normandy, 2024

Saturday, April 6, 2024 at 3pm
Auditorium of the Château de Caen -

On the occasion of the publication of "La reconstruction du bâti agricole dans le Calvados", published by the Société des antiquaires de Normandie, Patrice Gourbin will be giving a talk on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the Liberation of France.

At the time of the Liberation, Calvados was France's worst-affected département in terms of agriculture, with almost 2,200 farms destroyed. Here, as throughout France, reconstruction was carried out by the state according to a modernist, functionalist doctrine.
In Calvados, the Coopérative de reconstruction de l'Habitat rural (CRHR) was the driving force behind this policy. The transformation carried out on this occasion turned the landscape of agricultural architecture upside down: separation of the home from the farm, outsourcing of product storage and processing. It took place against a backdrop of accelerating modernization of farming practices, at a time when some were seeking to maintain "peasant agriculture" between collectivization and industrialization.
A large number of buildings remain from the Reconstruction era.

More information HERE

visual: Farm in Bourguébus. Photo Patrice Gourbin

friday, march 22, 2024 -
8:30am - 5:30pm
Université du Havre, salle Madeleine de Scudéry, Pôle de recherche en sciences humaines

The HSRT (Homme, Sociétés, Risques, Territoire) doctoral school is organizing its 4th Study Day. Its aim is to provide young researchers in the Human and Social Sciences with an opportunity to present and share their work. Bringing together young researchers from a wide range of disciplines (architecture, geography, psychology, neurosciences, sociology, educational sciences and training, STAPS), and organized by doctoral students, the theme of the day is " TOMORROW".

On this occasion, two young researchers from the ATE laboratory will present their research:

Alexis Desplats with a paper entitled "L'architecte à l'école, une fabrique à communs";
Miléna Koutani with a paper entitled "Breaking out of enclosures: exploring the third common space".

More information on the program and registration HERE.

On-site or videoconference participation - registration required in both cases.

visual: poster for the 4th ED HSRT Day

Until May 1, 2024 -

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.

The symposium will focus in particular on the interaction between professional knowledge and academically constructed knowledge from two perspectives:

- How is research carried out in the field, and what is its added value in terms of knowledge production/updating?

- What role can research, whose field is the project, play in the careers of local players, practitioners, researchers and teacher-researchers?

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

Proposals must be submitted by May 1, 2024.
More information on the call for papers HERE

Visual: Call for papers - photo DL/Valentin Ollier

Until April 20, 2024 -

As part of the "Natural Resources, Renewables, Climate, and Architecture" chair, Noura Arab and François Fleury are organizing the third and final seminar in the "Resources and Ecology, Architecture in Question" series.
The call for papers is now open for the third seminar , "The Existing, Architecture as a Resource," which will be held on October 3 and 4, 2024, atENSA Normandie.

Proposals must be submitted by April 20, 2024.
Further information on the call for papers can be found at the "Natural and Renewable Resources, Climate and Architecture" Chair's Research Notebook

Visual: logo of the "Natural Resources, Renewable Energy, Climate and Architecture" Chair

February 27, 12:30 pm - 2 pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre
as part of the presentation of the exhibition "Mai 68. Architecture too! "

with
Caroline Maniaque, architect and historian. Professor of History and Architectural Culture at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie,
Eléonore Marantz, historian. Lecturer in the history of contemporary architecture, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne,
Jean-Louis Violeau, sociologist. Professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes / researcher at the Centre de Recherche Nantais Architectures Urbanités

FILMING TESTIMONY

The polyphonic talk (accompanied by films) will take us through the history of the "May 68 of architecture", through the testimonies of twenty-seven personalities from diverse backgrounds - architects, urban planners, sociologists, historians, engineers - who were involved in this "historic" turning point which, between 1962 and 1977, saw the renewal of teaching accompany a paradigmatic evolution of architecture and urban planning, in their most theoretical as well as their most practical dimensions. This history still resonates today.

Discussion of filmed interviews with personalities, actors and witnesses of the period : Ginette Baty, sociologist; Philippe Boudon, architect and urban planner; Jean Castex, architect, architectural historian; François Chaslin, architect; Henri Ciriani, architect; Pierre Clément, architect; Jean-Louis Cohen, architect and historian; Florence Contenay, civil administrator - Head of the prefiguration mission of the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine; Yves Dimet, architect; Monique Eleb, psychologist; Olivier Girard, architect; Thierry Gruber, architect; Jean-Paul Jungmann, architect; Jean-Pierre Le Dantec, architect; Gil Leparmentier, architect; Yves Lion, architect and urban planner; David Mangin, architect and urban planner; Michel Marot, architect; Philippe Panerai, architect; Bernard Paurd, architect; Christian de Portzamparc, architect and urban planner; Bruno Queysanne, historian and philosopher; Paul Quintrand, architect; Alain Sarfati, architect; Roland Schweitzer, architect and urban planner; Yannis Tsiomis, architect and historian; Françoise Very, architect and historian.

visual: Photogram of P. Panerai's interview © Tim Benton and Caroline Maniaque - 2018

From February 12 to 29, 2024,ENSA Normandie once againENSA Normandie the exhibition "May 68. Architecture Too!" after nearly three years of touring throughout France.

The exhibition was curated by Caroline Maniaque (ENSA Normandie), Eléonore Marantz (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University), and Jean-Louis Violeau (ENSA Nantes).

This exhibition invites us to revisit a field of possibilities, the fifteen years (1962/1977) that saw the renewal of education, along with that of architecture, urban planning and the professions associated with them. The refusal of heritage, or at least its evolution, the reinvention of forms and pedagogical content that followed, and finally the hypotheses that were formulated for society and architecture are the main themes that make it possible to analyse the aspiration to do architecture differently.

A guided tour of the exhibition by Caroline Maniaque will take place on February 13, 2024 at 1pm.
A conference/round-table will be held on February 27 from 12:30 to 2pm in the Jean-Duminy amphitheater. More information HERE

Visual: Self-building exercises as part of Jean Aubert's course at the Urban Planning Department of Paris VIII University in Vincennes - Jean Aubert, 1971. Courtesy Jeanne Aubert © SIAF - Cité de l'architecte & du patrimoine - Archives d'architecture du XXe siècle, fonds Jean Aubert, Inv. AR-29-09-17-01 to AR-29-09-17-12

Le Journal des anthropologues (the scientific journal of the French Association of Anthropologists) has published its latest issue, entitled "Portrait lessons".

The dossier for this issue was proposed by Catherine Deschamps (member of LAA/LAVUE, ENSA Paris-La Villette), Laetitia Overney (member of IPRAUS/AUSser, ENSA Paris-Belleville), and Bruno Proth (member of ATE, ENSA Normandie).

Bruno Proth co-signs two articles opening the thematic dossier: "Traits pour traits? Faire avec le portrait" and "Le portrait, un tracteur d'événements. Interview with Jean-François Laé".

Misia Forlen (PhD student at IDEES Le Havre / ATE ENSA Normandie) presents an article based on her ongoing doctoral research: "Videos of workers in Polish special economic zones."

Dominique Dehais (professor emeritus at ATE, ENSA Normandie) has written an article entitled "Envisagement" (Contemplation).

Click HERE to see the contents of this issue

visual: cover of Journal des anthropologues n° 174-175