Renewal of Raphaël Labrunye as director of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie
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Following the favorable opinion of the Board of Directors on December 6, 2024, La Ministre de la Culture has appointed Raphaël Labrunye as Director of the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie. Mr. Labrunye was first appointed on February 1, 2019, with a renewal in 2022. This new 3-year mandate, in accordance with current decrees, takes effect from February 1, 2025.
Here are the details of our work areas.
Published on January 29 2025
In support of the actions carried out during the last two terms of office, the three areas of focus for the Director ofENSA Normandie be:
- Stabilize and increase the reliability of administrative services, so that they can improve their working conditions and tools in support of teaching and research. The ambition is to set up a "learning organization", working collaboratively on identified improvement projects, and reinforcing in-house training to support existing expertise.
- A medium-term reflection on the three geographical sites ofENSA Normandie, in Rouen, Le Havre, and Hanoi. The training and research associated with partners at these three metropolitan sites offer numerous opportunities for teaching staff and students. In Rouen, the unprecedented collaboration between the School and the University on transitions and multi-risk management has already enabled the ATE laboratory to initiate major scientific collaborations. In Le Havre, long-standing collaborations with the University (Master 2 DRAQ) and INSA (dual architect-engineer degree) have enabled the deployment of the Grand Chantier center around reuse and the Auguste Perret Chair on the heritage of Reconstruction. In Vietnam, with the support of the bachelor's degree awarded in collaboration with Hanoi Architecture University, the partners plan to further develop this program combining architecture and landscape design and to develop partnership-based research.
- A longer-term ambition for all 21 ENSA(p). When I was elected to the presidency of the Collège des directeurs et des directrices, I asserted the need to professionalize collaboration between the ENSA(P), which broadly share the same organizational and forward-looking issues in architectural education and research. Although our supervisory ministries are responsible for strategic policy, and each of our establishments is autonomous in its pedagogical and scientific orientations, I feel it is necessary to strengthen the sharing of expertise within the network, and to pool common management tools and methods.