ENSA Normandie operation in 2014–2015

Architects ultimately contribute to changing society and propose a new model that revisits our economic, social, environmental and cultural balances. The students of today will be the architects of tomorrow. Their vision will be at the origin of their development and of the renewal of professional thoughts and practices. This book therefore also aims to show this innovative attitude of creativity necessary for any architectural project.

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The transformation of existing architecture is not just a matter for specialists and technicians, but a discipline that is deeply relevant to our everyday lives.
ENSA Normandie addressing this issue since 1999 by examining industrial heritage, urban housing typologies, and the architecture of the Trente Glorieuses, which are representative of the urban and landscape challenges facing the Normandy region.

Exhibitions, symposiums, and concerts on Xenakis took place atENSA Normandie. This program is the result of a partnership that has been in place for several years between the University of Rouen, the University of Rouen History Research Group, the Iannis Xenakis Center, and the National School of Architecture of Normandy.
This publication is the result of this collective commitment to "Xenakis and the arts."

This fifth issue ofENSA Normandie notebooksENSA Normandie a selection of final projects defended between 2009 and 2011. This publication illustrates the diversity and inventiveness of our students on the complex subjects of contemporary architectural, urban, and landscape changes, as well as the interdisciplinary and cross-disciplinary nature of their work.

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The book presents a selection of student projects from the second year of the plastic and digital arts workshop. This course is led by teachers Christian Leclerc, Laurent Karst and Gilles Saussier. For the past four years, this workshop has been proposing the design of an artistic device within an art gallery, based on urban explorations centred on the city of Rouen and its immediate surroundings

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From the outset, the question of what is the contemporary has been the focus of this book, which tends to shift the question to the "how". How, then, are we led to search? The complexity of the devices, the layering of temporalities, the uncertainties of the politics of ambiences... What forms of elaboration would we be led to go through, which are not necessarily linear, nor imbued with logical stability, but rather 'constellar'? Hence this question: How can the contemporary be made?
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This publication reflects the richness, interdisciplinarity and transversality of student productions.

The book presents a selection of projects, reflecting the diversity of themes and approaches, supported from 2006 to 2008

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This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition "Incise" presented at ENSA Normandy in tribute to Michel-Henri Viot. Issue No. 2 of Cahiers deENSA Normandie devoted to the work of this painter and engraver, author of graphic and pictorial research on the representation of space.

Michel-Henri Viot taught atENSA Normandie 2008.

This book is the result of a meeting organised in 2004 in Rouen by the seminar "Contemporary architectural creation". This seminar aimed to question the conditions of production of contemporary situations, and to work, around the architectural project, on the grounds of encounters, the effects of contamination which play between disciplines as diverse as engineering, architecture, cinema, the plastic and/or digital arts.

Seminar organiser: Nicolas Nogue, a specialist in Lafaille and three architects - Emmanuel Doutriaux, Arnaud François (author of a thesis on cinema and architecture) and Christian Leclerc (who has focused his research on contemporary art)

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