TheENSA Normandie Board of DirectorsENSA Normandie Jean-Baptiste Marie during its meeting on Friday, March 10.

Jean-Baptiste Marie, architect and doctor
Jean-Baptiste Marie is the general director of the Europe des projets architecturaux et urbains. This research and experimentation organization (under the supervision of the Ministry of Ecological Transition and Territorial Cohesion and the Ministry of Culture) pilots the Platform for Observation of Urban Projects and Strategies (POPSU), the Coubertin research program on the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as the Europan competition and the Engagés pour la qualité du logement de demain program. He is the author of a dozen books on architecture and cities in the twentieth century and has recently published Architectes et ingénieurs face au projet at Éditions du Moniteur.

Committed to the transmission of architecture, and invested in higher education and research in architecture

Jean-Baptiste Marie wants to raise awareness of the School's thinking on the future of architectural education as high as possible, in response to the challenges of climate change and, more broadly, the crises we are currently facing.
ENSA Normandie alreadyENSA Normandie a wealth of knowledge in the construction of carbon-neutral buildings, bio- and geo-sourced materials, and reuse. It is committed to providing a rich educational program that also covers self-construction, the use of renewable energies, and the transformation of existing buildings. These practices, reinforced by the development of digital tools, are also intertwined with ancestral know-how, from a time when "short supply chains" were the norm, and which today constitute a heritage to be seized.

5:30 pm - Jean Duminy Amphitheatre -

In the Age of Digital Craft -

As technology enables the transformation of natural materials such as timber and stone to give them new properties, what forms should architects give those new materials? This question has intrigued builders, designers and theoreticians since Vitruvius. It reemerged in the^19th century and gained a new dimension with the theories of "defamiliarization" or "making strange" in literature and in art since the 1910s. Postmodern architects in the 1980s were equally concerned with making old forms strange, while with the advent of digital design and fabrications it appeared that all we ever knew about the fit between form and material has been superseded. This lecture contextualizes the creative potential of current uses of transformed materials in light of historic and contemporary built works and texts.

Viewing link HERE

As part of the "Master Class" project workshop - S06 exploratory semester
Teacher: Tricia Meehan

© Ariel Genadt 2017

The Normandy Institute of Urban Planning is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the workshop "Articulating energy transition and heritage: the Perret district in Le Havre, its urban planning and architecture." This event will take place on Friday, March 17, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. at 139, Logéo Seine co-working space – Cours de la République – Le Havre. The workshop brings together M1 students from the DE AVT program atENSA Normandie M2 students from the Urbanity program at the University of Le Havre Normandy.

An event organized by :

Inès Ramirez-Cobo, Lecturer in Urban Planning and Development - University of Le Havre Normandy

Tricia Meehan – Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning – ENSA Normandie

With the support of : University of Le Havre Normandie, LSH University of Le Havre, Logeo Seine

Visual © Ines Ramirez-Cobo

The inauguration of La Fruitière took place on Monday, March 6, atENSA Normandie, to officially present the role of this new business incubator. This event, which brought together incubatees, partners, architects, and entrepreneurs, served as a reminder that this initiative promotes the emergence of innovative business projects in the broad field of architecture.
La Fruitière ensures continuity betweenENSA Normandie the professional sphere. The existence of this incubator opens students' minds to the possibilities for career paths. Indeed, entrepreneurship in architecture is often associated with the creation of an architectural firm that carries out project management, whereas many other business models remain to be discovered. This gives students food for thought and allows them to be creative in imagining their future.

To find out more about La Fruitière, go HERE.

Event proposed within the framework of Chantier Communs - Limited places -

Through a journey from the forest to the building, discover the Halle de Vatteville-la-Rue, an exemplary project entirely implemented from local material and human resources. In the heart of the village of Vatteville-la-Rue, located on the bucolic Chaumières road, the fruitful collaboration between the municipality, the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, the Parc Naturel Régional des Boucles de la Seine Normande and the regional wood industry, has made it possible to build this hall to welcome hikers

The Halle aux randonneurs in Vatteville-la-Rue is the winner of the Prix régional de la Construction bois 2022 - category "aménagement".

Reservation required HERE

Visual © PNRBSN

As part of the 2023 recruitment campaign for research professors,ENSA Normandie has advertised two positionsENSA Normandie associate professors in the TPCAU and ATR (APV) fields as part of the second phase of transfers.

At the end of this phase, one teacher applied for the position of TPCAU lecturer and one teacher for the ATR position.

The composition and the rules of procedure of each selection committee in charge of examining the applications are available below.

Compositions and rules of procedure can be downloaded by clicking HERE

DATES OF THE ORALS

17h30 -

This conference is an opportunity to question the different forms of competitions and their role in the French architectural and urban production. Competitions participate in the construction of cities, how do they guarantee a level of quality? Architects (students and professionals) participate in competitions, how can the exercise be beneficial and risky?

Viewing link Here

As part of the "Master Class" project workshop - S06 exploratory semester
Teacher: Tricia Meehan

In partnership with INSA Rouen Normandie

Visual /Arrival ofa cart in the courtyard of the Beaux-Arts drawn by student architects, Gazette-St-Germain-des-Prés, sept-65 - Source : commons.wikimedia.org

ENSA Normandie international professors to lead architectural project workshops as part of the S06 exploratory semester. Ariel Genadt, Tuan Manh Nguyen, Julien Choppin, Simona Maurone, and Armelle Goyon, all architects, will be welcomed between March and June to offer students methodologies, issues, and/or concepts that differ from those already covered in the School's project teaching.

All the information on their course and workshop by HERE.

Photo ©Valentin Lefevre

30 – Jean Duminy Amphitheater –

When we think about the relationship between trees and architects, it is often from the point of view of materials. From the tree, we get wood, from which we build frames, structures, buildings. But beyond this constructive approach, the tree as such can be studied in the relationship that some architects have had with it. Some deform their buildings to magnify this coexistence, others accept that the trees cross the construction, others still conceive their entire project around and thanks to the presence of a tree. This masterclass proposes a collection of singular stories where the living presence of plants transforms the architectural act in its own way.

Viewing link HERE

As part of the "Master Class" project workshop - S06 exploratory semester
Teacher: Tricia Meehan

Visual © General Noble Redwood Tree House_On the grounds of the Department of Agriculture's main building_Washington_1895

This year, the Label Day "Reconstruction Heritage in Normandy" and Chantiers Communs 2023 propose a study day " The Architect and Reconstruction".

This day will take place on Monday, March 13, 2023 at the auditorium of the Maison de la Recherche en Sciences Humaines, University of Caen-Normandie.

Patrice Gourbin and Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla, accompanied by Christel Palant (ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine), will give a talk entitled "Les écoles nationales supérieures d'architecture et La Reconstruction".

More information on the program HERE

visual : detail of the program " The architect and the Reconstruction ".