On November 25 & 26, 2025 , the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie will host the international symposium "Habiter un littoral en mouvement. Forms, practices, representations" - Salle Juliette Billard in Ateliers du Parc

This symposium will analyze the transformations in built form, land use and ways of living on the coast from the 1970s to the present day, a pivotal period marked by the emergence of ecological issues and, above all, by the tangible effects of climate change: rising sea levels, more intense storms, accelerated erosion and increasing thermal stress.

The aim is to cross the contributions of scientific and operational disciplines, by combining theoretical reflection with feedback from experience. Combining the perspectives of ecology, geography, history and sociology on the one hand, and architecture, urban planning and landscape on the other, this symposium explores the ways in which coastal societies deal with environmental vulnerability, development policies and shoreline imaginaries.

The international symposium "Habiter un littoral en mouvement" is organized by the ATE laboratory.
Organizing committee and scientific coordination: Valter Balducci and Milena Guest
Scientific Committee: Eric Alonzo, Valter Balducci, Thomas Beillouin, Stéphane Costa, Milena Guest, Alexis Metzger, Anne Portnoï
with the support of the Ministère de la Culture, ENSA Normandie and the ATE laboratory

Download the program HERE
Download abstracts HERE
Find thecall for papers HERE

visual: Granville coastline, photo taken on February 23, 2024 © Valter Balducci, 2024

Until March 30, the ATE laboratory is calling for papers for the symposium "Goodness and Beauty in Contemporary Architecture," which will be held at the school in November 2026.

This symposium aims to explore the extent to which ethical considerations relating to the quality of life and well-being of residents and users, and to environmental preservation, are contributing to the renewal of architectural aesthetics today.

It is co-organized by Valéry Didelon and Guillaume Nicolas, professors and researchers at the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Normandie, Architecture, Territories, Environment Laboratory (ATE, UR 7464).

The deadline for submitting proposals is March 30, 2026.

Details of the arguments, procedures and timetable can be found HERE. 

The call for papers is available in English HERE.

october 13, 2025
18h
Barcelona El Vallès - Sala de Actos ETSAV - Carrer de Pere Serra 1-15 - Sant Cugat del Vallès 08173

Caroline Maniaque, researcher at the ATE laboratory, will give a lecture entitled "In Search for Lightness" as part of the 2025-2026 lecture series of the Illinois Architecture Study Abroad Program at Barcelona El Vallès.

Abstract
In Search for Lightness charts inflatables' epic journey from military labs to a symbol of fluid futurism at Expo '70 in Osaka.
It explores how visionary architects and then the counterculture hijacked this technology to experiment with new living and social criticism, creating an architectural bubble of utopian dreams.

visual: conference poster - Barcelona architecture Illinois - ETSAV

November 7 and 8, 2025 at Campus Condorcet and Institut de France France -

Patrice Gourbinresearcher at the ATE laboratory, will take part in the "Mémoire(s) de la Seconde Guerre mondiale" conference organized by the Mission du 80ème anniversaire des débarquements, de la Libération de la France et de la Victoire.

On Friday November 7, he will give a talk entitled "La reconstruction des villes de France et de Pologne. A comparative memory".

More information on the program HERE
Registration for Friday, November 7, 2025 HERE
Registration for Saturday, November 8, 2025 HERE

Campus Condorcet - Centre des colloques, Place du Front Populaire - 93300 Aubervilliers - France
Institut de France - Auditorium André et Liliane Bettencourt, 3 rue Mazarine - 75006 Paris

visual: program details for the "Memory(s) of the Second World War" symposium

October 16 and 17, 2025 -
For its 8th edition, the Rencontres doctorales nationales en architecture et paysage will be held at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles on October 16 and 17, 2025.
Doctoral students have been asked by the Steering Committee to reflect on the question of "Terrains and territories: doctoral research in the light of the diversity of practices, methods and issues", discussing their concrete and abstract, micro and macro, theoretical and applied character in order to question how research in architecture and landscape unfolds and operates.

Doctoral students from the ATE laboratory will be present for this event:

• Guillaume NicolasThe future of vernacular agricultural architecture, beyondexploitation" - Thursday October 16, session "Rural territories: architectures, places and narratives" (10am-12pm)
• Lucie Dehame: "Timber-framed housing in Rouen in the face of climate change: methods of analysis and prospects for intervention" - Thursday, October 16, session "Terrains and territories of the already there: changes and transformations of the existing" (4:30 pm - 6:30 pm)
• Léna Tullifer: "Characterization of existing conditions and users' thermal perceptions of public spaces during periods of high heat: issues and adaptations in the Rouen area" - Thursday, October 16, session "Water territories and climate, knowledge and theories in times of crisis (continued)" (4:30-6:30 pm)

More information and program HERE
And on the ENSA Versailles website

École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles
5 avenue de Sceaux, 78000 Versailles, France

RDNAP 2025 program visual

Wednesday, October 15, 2025 - 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. - France
The docomomo France association, in partnership with the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, is organizing its 4th study day on October 15, 2025. The program is dedicated to "New programs in danger", in homage to Paul Chemetov (1928-2024).

Marie Gaimardresearcher at the ATE laboratory, administrator of Docomomo France and coordinator of the study day with Benoît Pouvreau, will moderate a round-table discussion.

Sébastien Cherruetresearcher at the ATE laboratory, will take part in the "Modules and components" session with a presentation entitled "La résidence, 63-65 avenue Parmentier (1963, Paris): illustration de l'architecture tubulaire d'Edouard Albert (1910-1968)" (The residence, 63-65 avenue Parmentier (1963, Paris): illustration of the tubular architecture of Edouard Albert (1910-1968)).

Karima Younsiteacher-researcher at ENSA Normandie, will take part in the "Foyers et hébergements collectifs" session with a presentation entitled "Le foyer Moïse, Rouen (Roger Génermont, arch., 1969)".

A day of visits will take place on Saturday, October 18, 2025 as part of the Journées nationales de l'architecture.

More information on the program HERE
Admission is free, with registration on the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine website HERE

Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine
Auditorium - 7, avenue Albert de Mun 75116 Paris

visual: Tétrodons HVDVK, Piacé-le-Radieux © M. Konstantinovitch

october 3, 2025
9am-6pm
Bernard-Huet Amphitheatre
ENSA Paris-Belleville - 60 bd de la Villette - 75019 Paris

The "Jean-Louis Cohen" series of meetings, conceived and organized jointly by the ACS (Ensa Paris-Malaquais), AHTTEP (Ensa Paris-La Villette), IPRAUS (Ensa Paris-Belleville) and OCS (Ensa Paris-Est) laboratories, in collaboration with the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, is built around specific theme days, highlighting one aspect of the legacies and perspectives opened up by Jean-Louis Cohen's work.

The 2nd Jean-Louis Cohen meeting will return to one of the intellectual projects that Jean-Louis Cohen left unfinished, around the notion of "interurbanity".

Caroline Maniaque, researcher at the ATE laboratory and member of the scientific committee, will take part in round table 1: "Interurbanity in question".

More information on the program HERE

visual of the "Rencontres Jean-Louis Cohen" program

Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from 1:30 pm to 6:30 pm -
As part of the Zigzag Festivalorganized by the Maison de l'architecture de Normandie - le Forum, a seminar will be held on the theme of "What new river narratives? The seminar will be followed by an urban walk (4:30-6:30 pm).

Cristina Algarra Sanchez, Associate Researcher at ATE, will give a talk entitled "Le récit culturel de la vallée de la Seine normande" (The cultural narrative of the Norman Seine Valley).

Meet at the Maison de l'architecture de Normandie - le Forum, 48 rue Victor Hugo - 76000 Rouen

More information and registration HERE

visual © MaN-LeForum

September 24th to 26th, 2026
Heraklion, Crete, Greece

The 10th Advances in Tourism Marketing Conference (ATMC) will be held in Crete on the theme of Resilient futures & creative placemaking.

Cristina Sanchez Algarra, Associate Researcher at ATE, will give a talk entitled "Renewing regional tourism through sustainability: the example of the Normandy region (France) and its cycle routes".

More information HERE

visual: © Cristina Sanchez Algarra and Alcie Sohier

Les Presses des Mines, the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie, the ATE laboratory and the Natural Renewable Resources, Climate and Architecture Chair, are publishing the book Ressources pour l'architecture écologique. Tome 3, Intelligences de l'existant. This collective work is the result of the seminar "L'Existant, l'architecture comme ressource", held in October 2024 at ENSA Normandie.

The book is edited by Noura Arab and François Fleury, lecturers at the ATE laboratory.
Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla, researcher at the ATE laboratory, contributes to the book with the article "Taking care of existing buildings in their environment: Europan projects in France".

The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the support of the French Ministry of Culture, the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, the ATE laboratory and the Natural Renewable Resources, Climate and Architecture Chair.

Find all the information (summary, table of contents, orders) on the publications kiosk by clicking HERE

visual: cover of Ressources pour l'architecture écologique. Tome 3, Intelligences de l'existant, Presses des Mines, 2025