It all happened last Tuesday! The international students, their sponsor and the Partnerships and International team got together for a bowling and Secret Santa outing!
It was a great opportunity to exchange gifts, bowl strikes and, above all, welcome back the students at the end of their mobility program!
Don't hesitate to join our team of international student sponsors for next semester!
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Former teacher and Chairman of the Board of Directors
All these activities, combined with a passion for this profession and a thirst for passing it on, led Jean Duminy to create the Institut Européen d'Aménagement et d'Architecture (INEAA) in 1988, and to offer post-graduate training within a network of numerous European higher education and research establishments in the fields of regional planning, urban development and architecture, to learn THE method, HIS METHOD of integrated and participative urban design... In short, a profession that requires a mastery of the systemic, creative, forward-looking and iterative approach! But it's also a passionate profession, because of its complexity: the interplay of players, multi-scalarity, political stakes, regulatory constraints and developments, technical and environmental constraints... A profession which, by its very nature and objective: to interact and modify the Cities of tomorrow for us and our children... it's essential to be both convinced and humble at the same time.
In retirement, Jean Duminy rediscovered "the right to create", as he liked to say. A remarkable watercolorist, in 2001 he escaped to Tuscany to pick up his brushes again and devote himself fully to painting. Necessarily, his watercolors reflect a rich, intense, multifaceted and contrasting life, enriched by his many travels.
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ENSA Normandie now authorized to award the national doctoral degree on its own, which until now was awarded jointly with the University of Rouen Normandie, for a period of five years. AtENSA Normandie, doctoral degrees are prepared within its laboratory: ATE. Following the recognition of this research group as a Host Team in 2016 and then as a Research Unit in 2019, 2023 marks a new stage in the life of this research structure atENSA Normandie. Currently, 11 doctoral students are preparing their theses at ATE. And around 20 members are exploring architecture, territory, and the environment through complementary approaches.
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On Tuesday, November 21, an American red oak was planted in Lucien Fromage Park as part of the renewal of the park's management agreement. The Department, the cities of Darnétal and Rouen, andENSA Normandie the signatories to this agreement, which marks a commitment to preserving the biodiversity of this exceptional 2.5-hectare park in the heart of the city. The medium-term goal is to create a public park for residents that showcases architecture and creativity.
In attendance were Séverine Groult, departmental councilor for Seine-Maritime, Jean-Michel Beregovoy, deputy mayor of Rouen, Christian Lecerf, mayor of Darnétal, and Raphaël Labrunye, director ofENSA Normandie.
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From 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm - Amphithéâtre Jean Duminy -
Screening of the 10 films made as part of the "Resources" intensive S03 and the "Representation of Architecture" course.
Teachers: Joseph Altuna, César Canet, Fabrice Drain and Catherine Simonet
Visual: ©Catherine Simonet
By Caroline Maniaque
Cycle architecture à lire -
00 – Jean Duminy Amphitheater –
The book recounts the birth, development and demise of a magazine that appeared five times between the early and late 1970s, spread beyond any traditional institutional or economic framework, sold a million copies in the U.S. and Europe, and inspired a French version. It provided readers with practical information on the latest research being carried out by the American counterculture on how to live differently: how to build a geodesic dome, make compost or design solar architecture, as well as the latest publications in the practical and scientific fields. The catalog combined an ecological approach with a hippie sensibility and an interest in cybernetics. Paradoxically, it heralded the transformation of our societies by new information technologies.
Caroline Maniaque is an architect with a doctorate in architectural history. Her work focuses on the American countercultures of the 1960s and 1970s. She is the author of Go West! Des architectes au pays de la contreculture, published in 2014.
Discussant: Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla
Scientific directors of the "Architecture à lire" lecture series: Caroline Maniaque and Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla, architects, teachers, and researchers at ENSA Normandie and the ATE (Architecture, Territory, Environment) Research Laboratory / ENSA Normandie Normandie Université.
Viewing link HERE
Visual: ©Caroline Maniaque
Since 2020, the School has been mobilizing its various communities in the fight against sexual and sexist harassment and violence. As a key player in the education system,ENSA Normandie a signatory to the 2020-2024 regional agreement for equality between girls and boys, women and men in education. As part of this initiative, an awareness workshop on street harassment was held last Thursday. Led by the association En avant toute(s), the workshop brought together around 50 people in the Jean Duminy amphitheater. A "Violence Meter" poster campaign was also launched at the start of the school year in our school, and sandwich bags and napkins with useful numbers will soon be distributed in the cafeteria. In addition, each year, new students receive three hours of training to help them identify and understand sexual harassment, as well as all forms of hostile behavior with sexual connotations and sexual violence.
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Yves Ambroset passed away on November 4. Yves was an exceptional personality who courageously and relentlessly pursued his own personal path. Born in 1958 in Talange, Moselle, he studied at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Lorraine in Nancy between 1976 and 1979, before training to become a primary school teacher between 1981 and 1984, a profession he exercised until 1987. That was the year of one of the most radical changes in his life: he began a new career as director of a trading company. This experience marked his encounter with design.
In 2002, at the age of 44, he enrolled at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie (ENSA Normandy), graduating in 2006 with a degree and a final project that was awarded a grade of "very good" and published in a Cahier deEnsa Normandie. It was during this period of study that Yves visited Piedmont, where he met Italian architect and designer Angelo Mangiarotti (1921-2012). This encounter would prove to be a decisive moment in his career. He based his fourth-year research project, Les dynamiques à l’œuvre dans la genèse des formes d’Angelo Mangiarotti (The dynamics at work in the genesis of Angelo Mangiarotti's forms), on Mangiarotti's work. After obtaining his architecture degree and his license to practice as a project manager in his own name, he worked as an architect in France and in 2010 founded "La Manufacture d'Architecture" with Swanhild Brisset and Paterne Bulcourt.
His interest in architecture, in the work of Angelo Mangiarotti and in Italy never left him. In 2008, he spoke at a conference in Canelli on the recognition of the Langhe region of Piedmont as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He then bought a house in Italy, in Alice Bel Colle, to make it his permanent home. It was then that he set up his own agency, Bottega di architettura. In 2007, he began buying documents and original works by Mangiarotti to build up his own personal collection. On Mangiarotti's death in 2012, he approached the Angelo Mangiarotti Foundation set up by the heirs, and became a member of the Scientific Committee. Between 2012 and 2018, together with Mangiarotti's daughter Anne and the Swiss architecture critic François Burkhardt, he developed a project for an exhibition on Mangiarotti, which was later proposed to the Centre Pompidou in Metz, the Moma in New York and the Mak in Vienna, but the time was not yet ripe for its realization.
Then, yet another turn of events shook up his life. In 2018, at the age of sixty, he passed the entrance exam for the coveted and prestigious Doctorat de recherche en Storia dell'architettura at the Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia. Unsurprisingly, his research project concerned the figure of Angelo Mangiarotti, whose work he knew perfectly well and to whose archive he had access. The thesis, entitled Angelo Mangiarotti il film e i manoscritti. Impatto del primo periodo 1943-1955 nella formazione intellettuale e progettuale dell'architetto, was supervised by Professors Maria Bonaiti and Marco Mulazzani. During his doctoral research, Yves never stopped looking for leads, interviewing the personalities with whom Mangiarotti had come into contact and following the trail of documents missing from the Foundation's Historical Archive. Thus, during his doctoral research, Yves found a document thought to have been lost, the film that Mangiarotti had conceived and shot in 1953, Posizione dell'architettura, with music by Riccardo Malipiero and lyrics by Alfonso Gatto. Although still a doctoral student, he had become a leading figure in Italian studies of Mangiarotti. Together with Federico Bucci, he is responsible for the historical archives section of the exhibition Angelo Mangiarotti e l'immaginazione politecnica: opere inedite e ritrovate at the Politecnico di Milano (curated by Ingrid Paoletti, Matteo Ruta and Maria Pilar Vettori, April-May 2023).
On May 15, 2023, he organized a remarkable "Journée d'étude Intorno a "Posizione dell'architettura", with a screening of the film retrouvé. In preparation for the forthcoming defense of his thesis, Yves had sent an article on Mangiarotti to the Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère; we can only hope that, although posthumous, this article will find its way to publication. Unfortunately, with his untimely death, the planned presentation of his doctoral work at a seminar at the École d'architecture de Normandie, which had been under consideration since last spring, will not take place...
Valter Balducci
Discover the Angelo Mangiarotti Foundation by clicking HERE
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From October 15 to 21, 2023, a team of students fromENSA Normandie, accompanied by professor Caroline Maniaque, participated in the Blended Intensive Program (BIP) workshop in Lisbon. This group was joined by students from Frankfurt, mainly art historians or specialists in curatorial studies, as well as Portuguese students studying architecture.
The week was very intense, with lectures by geographers, sociologists and historians on the first day to situate the problem to be addressed, followed by actual visits to social housing around Lisbon. The program then developed around the exhibition Living in Lisbon, presented at the Garagem, an architectural exhibition space in the Belem Cultural Centre. The inauguration took place on Tuesday evening and was attended by at least 600 people, the entire architectural community of Lisbon and the surrounding region. Marta Sequeira, the exhibition's curator, gave an enlightening tour of the show.
On Thursday afternoon, participants attended a lecture given by Dutch architect Kamiel Klaasse (a partner of Amsterdam-based NL. Architects), presenting a transformation of a large 1960s Biljlmermeer housing development of 500 units in the Amsterdam suburbs.
A number of teaching aids were tested, including an interesting "speed dating" experiment, with Portuguese architects and landscape architects coming together very quickly to give their views on how the work was evolving.
The group of École students regrets just one thing: that the week went by far too quickly!
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The Pépite Normandie team, a student entrepreneurship cluster supported by Normandie Université, is organizing a film debate in Le Havre and Rouen.
Screening of the film DEMAIN by Cyril Dion and Mélanie Laurent, followed by a discussion on entrepreneurship and the challenges and opportunities it presents.
Tuesday, November 14 at 6 p.m. at the Ariel cinema in Rouen
Thursday, November 16 at 6pm at the Maison de l'étudiant of Le Havre Normandie University
Online registration HERE