The exhibition "It's already old" is a commission of the project "Cultural resources and urban project" which studies the heritage of the Reconstruction in Normandy. "Cultural Resources" is a research project of the National School of Architecture of Normandy (ATE laboratory). It is part of the interministerial research and experimentation programme "Ville du XXe siècle matière à projets pour la ville durable du XXIe siècle" of the Ministry of Culture (BRAUP). The subjective view of the artist reveals the ordinary, extraordinary, suffered, inherited intimacy of the inhabitant: "Reconstruction is already old", "I stay for the view", "no defect except ...", "the potential to transform it", "I will not change anything". In fifteen encounters, "It's already old!" is a humanistic and illustrated panorama of daily life in the housing of the Reconstruction.

Elisabeth Blanchet, photographer and journalist, has built her artistic work on the observation of life paths. She works in particular on post-war barracks in the United Kingdom and in France, with a dimension that is both sensitive and militant.

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Presentation on Wednesday 16 December 2020 at 14:30 in visiocon

Visual: ©Elisabeth Blanchet

This exhibition invites us to revisit a field of possibilities, the fifteen years (1962/1977) that saw the renewal of education, along with that of architecture, urban planning and the professions associated with them. The refusal of heritage, or at least its evolution, the reinvention of forms and pedagogical content that followed, and finally the hypotheses that were formulated for society and architecture are the main themes that make it possible to analyse the aspiration to do architecture differently.

Exhibition curators: Caroline Maniaque (ENSA Normandie), Eléonore Marantz (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Jean-Louis Violeau (ENSA Nantes). Set design: Auriane Bernard Guelle.
Based on the original exhibition designed and presented at the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine for the 50th anniversary of May 1968.

This event was supported by the Ministry of Culture (Bureau de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère) and the Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine.

This seminar is organised by the ATE Laboratory with Caroline Lemans, Lionel Engrand, Patrice Gourbin, Camille Bidaud and Ralph Goche.

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In association with teachers fromENSA Normandie, the Hangar Zéro team invites you to a videoconference (webinar) on July 8 to discuss its project, experiences, ambitions, challenges, and solutions. This first conference will mark the start of a partnership between Hangar Zéro and the school of architecture, which will enable various future initiatives to be implemented (participatory projects, internships, educational activities, research, etc.), with the first ones starting this summer.

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This seminar is organised by the ATE Laboratory with Caroline Lemans, Lionel Engrand, Patrice Gourbin, Camille Bidaud and Ralph Goche.

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An envelope design described as innovative for two artists' houses. A tailor-made die that adds value to a coastal plant heritage. A multi-functional design that extends to the material, the construction system, the die and even the strategic design of a foundry. Tomorrow, walls simplified to a minimal and biophilic expression: a "hearth skin"! Wouldn't innovation finally be the effectual process linked to the contemporary use of vernacular materials; reed, wood?

Conference organised by the ATE laboratory as part of the Fabrique Echelle 1, Experimenting with the Reed

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Visual: ©Clémence Cazenave

The theme considered is the differences between central and peripheral spaces in terms of design and heritage in the city (re)built in the 20th century.
the city (re)constructed in the 20th century. What are the respective modes of perception, experience and action for the actors, residents, users and visitors in these spaces?
spaces? What interactions, how to think about the interfaces and intermediate spaces of the in-between?

Organization: ATE research units (Patrice Gourbin), ENSA Normandie ESO-Caen, University of Caen-Normandy

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During the Trente Glorieuses, several large French cities were governed and represented by 'leaders' such as Jacques Chaban-Delmas in Bordeaux, Georges Frêche in Montpellier or Pierre Mauroy in Lille. The power of these personalities was based, of course, on their personal charisma, but also on their capacity to be both strongly inserted in society and local networks and able to represent the interests of their city on a national scale, based on national mandates, sometimes of the highest order. The gradual construction of the French inter-municipal system has also, at least initially, strengthened their power, by allowing them to position themselves as 'unifiers' on subjects that are rather consensual at the local level, such as the reclamation of industrial wastelands through urban projects or outreach policies.

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This seminar is organised by the ATE Laboratory

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This seminar is organised by the ATE Laboratory

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