On Friday, April 19, the graduation and certification ceremony for the Class of 2023 took place. More than 250 people gathered atENSA Normandie celebrate the architects of tomorrow.

In attendance
Jérôme Felin, visual arts advisor for the Normandy Regional Cultural Affairs Directorate
Florence Lipsky, Lipsky Rollet architecture et environnement and class patron
Jean-Baptiste Marie, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Raphaël Labrunye, Director ofENSA Normandie
Catherine Henry Laurent, Vice-President of the Regional Council of the Order of Architects
Grégory Phiso, President of Alumni Normandy Architecture
And our teaching and administrative teams
An event hosted by Atelier Lucien

Congratulations again to all our graduates!

The representation of stability has long been considered key to architecture's cultural role. In recent years, however, our environment has become ever less stable, and clashes between buildings and natural forces have become frequent. Since Japan has known such clashes through the ages, its architects have demonstrated architectural expressions of both toughness and weakness. In parallel, the nation has displayed a remarkable economic, social, and cultural resilience. Is there a correlation between those expressions of weakness in public buildings and Japan's resilience?

Conference in English

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Visual © Ariel Genadt

Until May 17 -

ENSA Normandie an international week at its campus. There will be various activities highlighting the countries of this year's incoming exchange students—Germany, Morocco, Italy, Canada, Hungary, Spain, and Greece—within the school. Ball games in the park, traditional food, dancing, and more.

PROGRAM :

Monday May 13:
12pm to 1pm: Morocco - Serving green tea accompanied by Moroccan music in the central area.
1pm to 2pm: Germany - Discover Beerball in the park.

Tuesday May 14:
After lunch: Italy - Passeggiata, a call for a digestive stroll.
From 3 to 3:30 pm: Italy - La befana wanders the corridors giving sweets to people she meets.

Wednesday May 15:
1pm to 2pm: Canada - The expression game in the small lecture hall.
5:00 pm to 6:30 pm: Hungary - An animated Hungarian film, Cat city 1986. by Béla Ternovszky in the small lecture hall.

Thursday May 16:
From 12pm to 2pm: Spain - Taste blindfolded and guess the traditional dish in the space.
From 3.30pm: Spain - Sevillian dance in the centered space.

Friday May 17:
1:00 pm to 2:00 pm: Incoming students offer dishes typical of their country in the centered area.
3.30 pm to 4.30 pm: Greece - Ta Mila (ball game) in the park.

To register for beer ball and Ta Mila click HERE

Thanks to everyone who took part, we hope you all had a great time and are ready for next year!"

Friday, April 5 at 3 p.m. – The Doctoral School of Architectural History at the Instituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia will pay tribute to Yves Ambrosset, a former student atENSA Normandie. He will be honored with a presentation of his doctoral work by his supervisors (Maria Bonaiti and Marco Mulazzani), followed by the posthumous awarding of the title of Doctor of Research in Architectural History. At the end of the ceremony, a plant will be planted in the garden of the Palazzo Badoer in Venice.

For more information, click HERE

You can also read the article "Yves Ambrosset by Valter Balducci" by clicking HERE.

04/11 at 5pm - Forêt domaniale du Trait-Maulévrier / Chemin du Claquemure -

Inauguration of the observation platform designed byENSA Normandie students Sacha Baizé, Mandy Bergeon, Léo Bastien, and Martin Beaujon as part of the Fabrique Bois project led by teachers Benoît Flin and Aslé Gonano, and built by an ONF workshop in partnership with the Rouen metropolitan area.

On this occasion, Métropole Rouen Normandie and the Office National des Forêts will present the fruit of their partnership with the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie to enhance the landscape of the Seine Valley.

Visual © Benoit Flin

4th year Master AVT students presented the results of their urban analyses to partners from the City of Pointe-à-Pitre and the Direction des Affaires Culturelles, on Friday December 22.

Divided into several groups, they shared an architectural and urban inventory of the south-eastern entrance to the city, a strategic positioning and initiated a series of ideas for the end of the semester.

The meeting, chaired by M. Harry Durimel, Mayor of Pointe-à-Pitre, was attended by Sylvie Adélaïde, Cabinet Director, and Marie-Chantal Francillette, Director General of City Services, Michèle Robin-Clerc, Deputy Director of Urban Planning, Patrick Lebris, Head of the Historic Monuments Department of the DAC, as well as Marie-Noëlle Martial of the DAC and Kathy Louis-Thérèse, Rosy Jalce-Bambuck and Sébastien Manlus of the City of Pointe-à-Pitre.

City technicians were present, as were Vincent Marniquet and Rémi Ferrand, workshop teachers, and doctoral student Léna Tullifer. Absent teacher Maryse Bouyeure co-supervised the first week of the trip.

Work to follow until the end of the semester.

10/04 at 6pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre - France

The aim is to share what drives and underpins our architectural practice at Atelier HBAAT (Heleen Hart and Mathieu Berteloot) through the presentation of projects for the transformation of existing buildings. "In the course of these modest projects, the HBAAT studio has honed a language in line with the regionalism theorized by historian and critic Kenneth Frampton. It's an approach that applies to everyday architecture, without disarming in the face of the difficulty of bringing these projects to fruition in these territories with their uncertain economies.
With each new project, the studio pursues the same goal: to save on finishing touches - plastering, painting, tiling - which detract from the essence of the project, require maintenance, and eat up money that could be spent on a garden, more floor space, a growing program (...)".

Excerpt from "L'architecture, une matière en construction" Portrait of Cyrille Veran, D'Architecture, Dec. 2018.

Viewing link HERE

As part of the "Master Class" project workshop - S06 exploratory semester / Teacher : Valery Didelon

François Brix

Friday March 15 - Presentation of the work of the Master DRAQ students' project workshop, focusing on proposals for transforming the spaces of the City / Port Interface - Le Havre. This presentation will take place from 1:30pm in the UFR ST Amphi Normand, 2nd floor of the UFR des sciences et techniques, 25 rue Philippe Lebon - Le Havre.

04/11/2024 - Le Moho in Caen

Pépite Normandie, the student entrepreneurship cluster supported by Normandie Université, is organizing the Pépite Show, a pitch competition giving student entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their projects. This convivial event enables them to showcase their project to the Normandy entrepreneurial ecosystem, as well as to the general public.

The Pépite Normandie team looks forward to seeing you at the pitches and voting for your favorite project.

More info and registration

Opening on Thursday, April 11 at 6 p.m. -

From April 9 to 16,ENSA Normandie invitesENSA Normandie to discover a selection of the best final projects defended in June 2023 and January 2024 atENSA Normandie three fields of study: Urban and Regional Architecture, Experimentation, and Trans-Form, Building with the Existing.

REGISTER for the VERNISSAGE before April 8 by clicking HERE

Visual: Student Mattéo Jort during his defense ©Valéry Didelon