The second letter, published in July 2020, echoes the period of confinement linked to COVID, as Caroline Maniaque, Director of the ATE Research Unit, explains in her editorial: " We asked all ATE members to highlight a particular aspect of their activity over the last three months, made possible by the exceptional access to online resources - architectural journals, archive collections, books - or the deepening of previously collected but not yet analysed research files. Dominique Lefrançois, Bruno Proth and Raphaël Rattier each sent a contribution.

In March 2020, the first edition of the ATE Research Unit newsletter, Les cahiers d’ATE, was published. This new promotional tool highlights the particularly rich activities and events related to the culture of research atENSA Normandie.

RADIAL 2 contains two dossiers, featuring articles that share a common focus on the status, production, and functioning of images today.
The first dossier is based on contributions to the international symposium L’image sans qualités (Rouen, 2018) and articles selected at a later stage. The second dossier, Varia, includes contributions from artists and researchers, most of whom are from partner institutions of the RADIAN Doctorate: ED 558 HMPL, ESADHaR, ésam, andENSA Normandie.
Regarding the contribution fromENSA Normandie, L’oubli de l’espace (The Forgetting of Space) by Arnaud François explains why, in postmodernity, architecture and the visual arts in general are considered more as an art of time than an art of space.

For all requests for paper copies, please contactEsadhar.

Tricia Meehan and Patrice Gourbin (eds.), Élise Guillerm (scientific coordination), Relire Louis Hautecœur, Rouen, ATE / Éditions Point de vues, 2019, 175 p.

Louis Hautecœur (1884-1973) devoted his life to art and architecture, past and present. As an agent of the State, he was involved in artistic and architectural debates and institutions, and his career illustrates the great upheavals of the 20th century.

Versatile and polygraphic, he successively or simultaneously exercised several professions: professor of art and architecture history (École du Louvre, École des beaux-arts), architectural historian (History of classical architecture in France in seven volumes), exhibition curator (international exhibitions, Venice biennials), curator (Musée du Luxembourg, inspiration for the Musée National d'Art Moderne) and reforming administrator (Direction des Beaux-Arts in Egypt and France).

This book explores some of the lesser-known aspects of his political influence and cultural diplomacy, his museum and museography, his administration, and his conception of a timeless classicism, placing them in their artistic, intellectual and political context.

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The ATE laboratory in operation in 2018-2019

RADIAL is a journal published by the RADIAN doctoral program in research and creation, which brings together ED 558 HMPL, ESADHaR, ésam, andENSA Normandie. Issue No. 1, En finir avec le post-Internet (Ending the Post-Internet), features articles on the post-Internet era as a time when the Internet has become such an integral part of our lives that it no longer seems exceptional, its use becoming as commonplace as using a pencil once was, a time when "new technologies" are stripped of their a priori technological aspect.
The contributions come from artists and art researchers, including Dominique Dehais, professor atENSA Normandie. His article "Art and Political Economy" develops the idea that the role of the artist could well be to weave a fabric in which the economy of the sacred and the economy of the social are intertwined.

Paper version on request

The ATE laboratory in operation in 2017-2018.

Rehabilitation is a multi-faceted term, a major issue and a potential for architectural creation, but how are students and professionals trained, according to which courses and in which institutions? These questions were the subject of a study, commissioned by the PUCA within the framework of the REHA programme, consisting of a survey that provides an overview of the current offer.
This book is the result of this study; beyond the overall view it offers, it opens up avenues of reflection for developing the teaching of rehabilitation in order to give it a full and complete place in schools of architecture, but also to disseminate architectural culture in professional training.

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