Smart French - The resilience of the modern city - 1945-1975

Les éditions des méandres and the ATE laboratory publish the book Smart French. The resilience of the modern city. 1945-1975.
This collective work is edited by Raphaël Labrunye, researcher at the ATE laboratory.

Summary of the book

The Smart French research project is based on the premise that the built in France between 1945 and 1975 possess under-appreciated architectural qualities, conducive to à environmental transition. It offers an alternative to global approaches, which are often disparaging, and to monographic studies, which are necessary but difficult to generalize. Given the the lack of statistical data on this architecture, the study focuses on à develop relevant indicators, à based on a corpus of nearly 300 operations, to describe criteria such as the daylighting and ventilation.

The analysis is based on data taken from contemporary architectural reviews of these and designers' speeches. Thanks à statistical methods, the aim is to identify architectural recurrences, in order to inform public intervention policies targeting these that take into account their specific architectural and environmental features.

Authors

Shahram Abadie
Gauthier Bolle
Karim El Alami
Margherita Ferrucci
Élise Guillerm
Amir Mahamoud Issa
Raphaël Labrunye
Ignacio Requena
Daniel Siret
Yannick Sutter

The publication of this book was made possible with the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the PUCA, the Normandy Region, the ATE Laboratory (ENSA Normandie), the Arts, Civilization and History of Europe Laboratory - Arche - UMR 3400 (ENSA Strasbourg), ENSA Clermont-Ferrant and ENSA Bretagne.

More information on the book HERE

visual: cover of Smart French, éditions des méandres, 2024