Jean-Baptiste Marie elected chairman of the board of directors of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie

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.