Patrice GOURBIN

Patrice Gourbin

Senior Lecturer Doctor

History and Architectural Cultures

Presentation

Research topics

Protection, destruction and restoration of architectural and urban heritage before, during and after the Second World War. History, policies and heritage administrations. City, architecture and identity of the Reconstruction: regulations, contracting and project management, doctrine, reception. Patrimonialization and adaptation of the architecture and urbanism of the reconstruction. Urban forms. Agricultural architecture in the 20th century.

ATE axis

  • Cities, countryside and metropolisation processes

Research activities

Research assignments (leadership)

- 2018-2021 [with Camille Bidaud]: Cultural resources and urban project. Les villes moyennes de la seconde reconstruction (interministerial programme of research and experimentation 20th century architecture, project material for the sustainable city of the 20th century, BRAUP / Ministry of Culture)
- 2020-2021 : Urban and architectural study for the implementation of the label Remarkable Contemporary Architecture on the reconstructed city centres in Normandy (for DRAC-Normandy)
- 2014-2020 : The Neo-Norman style in Normandy (for the CAUE of Normandy)
- 2009-2011: Reconstruction in Calvados (for the CAUE of Calvados)
- 2008-2009: Heritage and social housing. La cité 212 au Blanc-Mesnil (for the General Council of Seine-Saint-Denis)
- 2006: Historical study of the Caen courthouse (for the project management agency of the Ministry of Justice)

Participation in research groups

- since 2020, multidisciplinary research group on the agricultural architecture of the reconstruction (University of Caen-ESO/regional inventory of cultural heritage/ENSA-Normandy. Stéphanie Dupont, Patrice Gourbin, Philippe Madeline)
- since 2018, annual PCR château de Caen XIth-XXIst centuries (University of Caen/CRAHAM, dir. Luc Bourgeois)
- 2016-2018: training courses in project management in France (ENSA-Normandie/PUCA, dir. Jean-Bernard Cremnitzer, Valter Balducci)
- 2010-2013: cultural wastelands in France (University of Rouen-GRR culture and society, dir. Françoise Lucchini)
- 2005-2010: Housing in the 19th and 20th centuries (University of Paris 1/INHA, dir. Claire Lévy-Vroelant, Danièle Voldman)
- 1999-2000: heritage policies (History Committee of the Ministry of Culture, dir. Philippe Poirrier, Loïc Vadelorge)

Actor of heritage

- since 2019: member of the selection committee for the Norman Reconstruction Heritage label
- 2018: setting up of the label Patrimoine normand de la Reconstruction [with the Daltym firm].
- 2014 to 2022: member of the Regional Commission for Heritage and Architecture (CRPA) of Normandy as a qualified personality
- since 2008: member of the Société des Antiquaires de Normandie (president in 2016)
- 2000-2001 then 2006: member of the working group on the 20th century label in Lower Normandy
- 1996: approved as a guide-lecturer in the City of Art and History, Caen. Guide-lecturer at the tourist office since that date

Publications/Works

https://cv.archives-ouvertes.fr/patrice-gourbin

News & Events

7 Nov 2025
8 Nov 2025

International Symposium - Memory(s) of the Second World War

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November 7 and 8, 2025 at Campus Condorcet and the Institut de France - Patrice Gourbin, researcher at the...

International Symposium - Memory(s) of the Second World War
30 August 2025

Conference-debate - Restoration, adaptation and modernization of France's war-damaged heritage (1940-1981)

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Saturday, August 30, 2025 2pm-4pm Institut français de recherche sur le Japon at the Maison franco-japonaise auditorium - 3-9-25...

Conference-debate - Restoration, adaptation and modernization of France's war-damaged heritage (1940-1981)
10 June 2025

Study day - Stories and memories of a school

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Tuesday, June 10, 2025 from 9am to 6pm - Amphi Jean Duminy - ENSA Normandie To celebrate 120 years...

Study day - Stories and memories of a school