wednesday, may 21
9am-6.30pm
Campus Condorcet -8 cours des Humanités, 93322 Aubervilliers, France

As part of the Printemps des cités-jardins program, a day of visits and studies is being organized on the theme of "Disseminating the garden city concept", with the Seine-Saint-Denis departmental council, Plaine Commune, the Seine-Saint-Denis tourism development agency, the towns of Pré Saint-Gervais, Livry-Gargan, Dugny, Stains and Epinay-sur-Seine, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Campus Condorcet.

Marie Gaimard, researcher at ATE, will give a talk entitled "Les grandes ambitions de l'architecte Jean Walter pour les cités-jardins en France au début du XXe siècle".

Free admission, registration recommended.
Further information and program HERE

visual: Rencontres poster

From June 18 to 20, 2025 -
Toulouse Jean-Jaurès University and ENSA Toulouse

The fifth French-speaking Congress on Construction History is organized by the Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès (UT2J - FRAMESPA laboratory) and the Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Toulouse (ENSA Toulouse - LRA laboratory), under the patronage of the Association francophone de l'histoire de la construction. This meeting is part of a dynamic series of international scientific events bringing together construction history practitioners and researchers, heritage players (local authorities, associations, etc.), students, amateurs, elected representatives and users.

This edition, entitled "À pied d'œuvre", like its predecessors, aims to contribute to the consolidation of this field of research and enrich knowledge through a multiplicity of viewpoints.

Patrice Gourbinresearcher at the ATE laboratory, will give a talk entitled "Le hangar agricole Boiron-Rivet, une architecture nouvelle pour les campagnes dévastées par la Seconde Guerre mondiale".

François Fleury, researcher at the ATE laboratory, is a member of the scientific committee.

Download program HERE
Registration HERE

program visual

Friday, May 9, 2025 from 9:30am to 5:15pm - Amphi Jean-Duminy (and visio).

The ATE laboratory is organizing the 14th edition of its Culture of Research seminar on the theme of "HABITER". This one-day seminar, also open to S2 students, will revisit the question of habitat and inhabitation in the 20th century, based on a number of case studies. Particular emphasis will be placed on the way in which architects have used the media - newspapers aimed at the general public, architectural magazines, exhibitions and conferences - to promote their architecture.
A short film and two documentaries will punctuate the presentations.

We will welcome three speakers:
- Tim Benton Professor Emeritus, The Open University
- Catherine Blain PhD, research engineer, IPRAUS, ENSA Paris-Belleville
- Élodie Degavre architect, teacher, researcher and film-maker.

PROGRAM HERE

The session will be broadcast live HERE

This 14th edition of the "Culture of Research" seminar is organized by Caroline Maniaque, HDR professor at the ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie

April 3-4, 2025 at theUniversity of Poitiers -
Faculty of Humanities and Arts.

The international symposium "L'exil comme voyage. La Méditerranée des architectes et le monde, XVIIIe-XXe siècle" will be held at the University of Poitiers on April 3-4, 2025. It is co-organized by Nabila Oulebsir, Université de Poitiers, CRIHAM (UR 15507), Marie Gaimard and Caroline Maniaque École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, Architecture, territoires, environnement laboratory (ATE, UR 7464).

Caroline Maniaque will lead the "Between two waters: itineraries and wanderings" session.
Marie Gaimard and Claire Rosset will lead the "Plural identities" session.

Free admission.
Download program HERE
Download session summaries HERE

visual: after Nouvelle carte de la mer Méditerranée, François Berthelot, 1700. Source gallica.bnf.fr/BnF. Graphic design: Isabelle Fortuné / Université de Poitiers, Service Communication - UFR Sciences Humaines & Arts

Until April 30, 2025.

The journal Transversale histoire architecture urbain paysage is calling for articles for its ninth issue on the theme of "Pathways, interweaving, hybridization: a global history of architecture and urbanism."
This issue is coordinated by Marie Gaimard (ATE, ENSA Normandie), Gilles-Antoine Langlois, and Léonore Losserand (EVCAU, ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine).

This call for papers proposes an approach to architectural "journeys", "hybridizations" and "weavings" without chronological boundaries, based on 3 entries:

1/ the journeys and exchanges between people who have designed and built both in their native country and in the other country;
2/observation of the measures and processes involved in weaving and hybridization;
3/ amore theoretical approach to the "architecture of exchange", which is both situated and contextualized, even though it stems from fields where the construction of historical time is fundamentally different.

Articles must be submitted by April 30, 2025.
More information on thecall for contributions and the editorial charter.

Starting with issue no. 9, thecross-disciplinary journal is published by ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine/EVCAU andENSA Normandie, distributed by MSH Paris.

visual : Fool's Cap Map of the World (circa 1580) - © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

The desire to create a space in which every doubt, every question, and every sensitivity could become tangible gave rise two years ago to the "Labyrinthe" fanzine project by theENSA Normandie doctoral student collective. The shared desire to share and promote an exploratory approach has expanded, bringing together researchers, teachers, and artists in this dynamic of critical positioning.

This publishing project is once again based on the emblematic figure of the labyrinth, a place for wandering or strolling, hostility or refuge, symbolizing this reflexive process, and inviting us to evolve, to transform ourselves individually and collectively.

This issue invites us to explore a number of themes that all relate in different ways to the transformation of our reality: excess - or dis-measure, mutation and resilience.

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Contents of issue #1 - March 2025: editorial / Labyrinths and video games / Measuring excess / I love you... / Staying a researcher, at what price? / Re-port or the bitter seven of Juvisy / Salle de fêtes / Their joy

Editorial team: Antoine Apruzzese, Lucie Dehame, Alexis Desplats, Miléna Koutani, Léna Tullifer

With contributions from Alexis Desplats, François Fleury, Nikolas Fouré, Miléna Koutani, Kacha Legrand, Léna Tullifer, Alix Turcq

LINK TO THE FANZINE WEBSITE HERE: see #0 online!

The magazine transversale, histoire : architecture, paysage, urbain is publishing its 8th issue on the theme of Chantiers - matières et outils: l'architecture mise en œuvre.
This issue is coordinated by Leonore Dubois-Losserand, researcher at EVCAU (ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine), Marie GaimardATE researcher, and Gilles-Antoine Langlois, EVCAU researcher (ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine).

The issue contains 10 articles, 3 HDR presentations and 5 thesis presentations. In particular, you'll find the following contributions:

- "Chantiers - matières et outils. Architecture put to work", by Gilles-Antoine Langlois, Marie Gaimard and Leonore Dubois-Losserand,

- Resistance and experimentation through CobBauge implementation: a study of interactions between the architectural project, craftsmen and craftswomen and materials on the worksite", by Raphaël Rattier, research associate at the ATE laboratory,

- a presentation of the HDR of Valter Balducci Souver les enfants, modeler les âmes. Childhood colonies in Fascist Italy (1922-1943)".
- a presentation of Raphaël Rattier 's thesis: "Conceevoir en bauge aujourd'hui: contribution au renouvellement de l'architecture contemporaine" (Designing with timber today: a contribution to the renewal of contemporary architecture)
- a presentation of Cristina Sanchez-Algarra 's thesis: "Urban recipes for the European Capital of Culture label: from desired city to reinvented territory".

Click HERE to see the magazine contents

visual: cover of issue 8 of transversal magazine , 2024 - © Rozenn Kervella, 2018

March 7, 2025 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. -
ULB Faculty of Architecture - 19 place Flagey, 1050 Ixelles - Local Be1.6

Caroline Maniaque will take part in the study day "Junkopia briocology. It's an Editor's World "organized on March 7, 2025 at the Faculté d'architecture La Cambre-Horta in Brussels. She will give a talk entitled "Stewart Brand's Whole Earth Catalog".

Presentation of the day :
"The aim of this study day is to examine what changes occur in architectural practice when the traditional figure of the architect-author is disrupted in favor of the composite figure of the architect-publisher. The idea is to directly test the hypothesis that this professional repositioning goes hand in hand with experimentation with other modes of operation, and consequently gives rise to other types of architectural production." (excerpt)

More information HERE
Detailed program HERE

poster visual © 2022 Ursula Schulz-Dornburg. Huts, Temples, Castles.

March 5 at 1:30pm - Jean Duminy Amphi.
As part of the Culture de la recherche 13 seminar " Reconstruction. Une actualité planétaire " organized by the ATE laboratory.

with
Slava Stopul digital architect
Kateryna Okhremenko, CSR manager, Balbek agency (Kiyv)

Unfortunately, the world's conflicts are not just a problem of the past. Even today, in Europe too, many areas are facing the same problems as the victims of 1944: temporary buildings, reconstruction plans, the place of the inhabitants... How is the contemporary world coping? Ukrainian architects Balbek Bureau have come up with some answers in a country still reeling from destruction. The first is the use of digital technology to photograph, compile and supply the knowledge, data and plans needed for reconstruction. They have also taken into account the mental and physical health of residents in the design of new residential areas, including communal spaces. Their action underlines the important role of architecture and architects in recreating a dignified and comfortable home, in order to work towards the healing of a people and the recovery of a country.

Conference organized in collaboration with Métropole Rouen Normandie and Club Prisme

visual: RE:Ukraine villages © BalbeK bureau

Bruno ProthBruno Proth, researcher at the ATE laboratory, has published Causeries d'un chauffeur de l'AFD au Cameroun avec un sociologue, with Editions Karthala. The book was produced in collaboration with Jean-Roland Ebassa.

Summary of the book