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 January 29, 2025
Building on the achievements of the last two terms of office, the ENSA Normandie Director's three main areas of work will focus on :
- 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 ENSA Normandie's three geographical sites in Rouen, Le Havre and Hanoi. The training and research programs associated with the partners of these three metropolitan sites offer many opportunities for the teaching and student teams. In Rouen, the School's unprecedented collaboration with the University on transitions and multi-hazard management has already enabled the ATE laboratory to initiate large-scale scientific collaborations; in Le Havre, historic collaborations with the University (Master 2 DRAQ) and the INSA (dual architect-engineer curriculum) have enabled the development of the Grand Chantier cluster around reuse and the Auguste Perret Chair on the heritage of Reconstruction; in Vietnam, with the support of the bachelor's degree delivered in collaboration with the Hanoi Architecture University, the partners plan to better characterize this training program associating architecture and landscape, and to develop research partnerships.
- 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.