The proceedings of the Urbanisme et Architecture en Terre symposium held on May 24 and 25, 2024 at the National Museum in Yaoundé (Cameroon) have been published by éditions Menaibuc under the title Manières de terre, matières urbaines. The publication was edited by Salomon Mézépo (lecturer at the Fine Arts Institute of the University of Douala in Nkongsamba and at the Université des Montagnes in Yaoundé) and Bruno Proth (researcher at the ATE laboratory).

The contents of this book include :

• an article by Salomon Mézépo and Bruno Proth: "Savoir, pédagogie, expérimentations : découvertes, connaissances, apprentissages de la terre crue et exigences urbaines" ;
• an article byAlexis Desplats (doctoral student at the ATE laboratory): "L'Architecte à l'école, une fabrique à communs".

Book cover HERE

friday, february 14, 2025
at 2pm - Ancien amphithéâtre
École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles (ENSP) - 10 rue du maréchal Joffre à Versailles (Potager du Roi site)

Axelle THIERRYa researcher associated with the ATE laboratory, will present her doctoral thesis entitled "Négocier l'agriculture de l'archipel du Grand Paris. A prospective survey of agro-ecological urbanism and its co-benefits through landscape projects".
This project-based thesis was carried out under the supervision of Sylvie Salles and with the co-supervision of Rémi Janin at the ENSP's LAREP Laboratory, as part of the EUR Humanités, Création, Patrimoine andED n°628 Arts, Humanités et Sciences sociales of CY Cergy Paris Université.

Jury members:
- Claire Aragau, Professor HDR, Paris School of Urban Planning, reporter
- Xavier Guillot, Professor HDR, École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille, examiner
- Rémi Janin, landscape architect, farmer, teacher, École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Clermont-Ferrand, co-supervisor
- Roselyne de Lestrange, Professor, Faculty of Architecture, Architectural Engineering and Urban Planning, Université Catholique de Louvain, reporter
- Sébastien Marot, Professor HDR, École d'architecture de la ville & des territoires Paris-Est, examiner
- Sylvie Salles, Professor HDR, École nationale supérieure de paysage de Versailles, Director

Abstract:
Faced with the current challenges of metropolitan development linked to climate change and the degradation of natural resources, public policies, particularly in France, are called upon to profoundly renew the relationship between urban and agricultural areas. However, Greater Paris, like other metropolises, is struggling to initiate food relocations leading to spatial recompositions between its urban, agricultural, natural and forestry components. Against this backdrop, this doctoral research examines the role of the Paris metropolis' agricultural enclaves, which form an archipelago of food-producing islands within the Green Belt.

It aims to respond to two challenges: to shed light on how agri-landscape projects based on enclaves can be a driving force for the reterritorialization and resilience of urban territories, and to clarify the contributions of designers, particularly landscape architects, to these project processes.

This project-based research draws on the situated capacities of landscape projects to articulate food, agricultural, urban and environmental issues. In partnership with Île-de-France Nature, a key player in regional policy and the Green Belt, nine contrasting areas of enclosed agricultural land were analyzed. This survey, which identified typologies of issues and players, as well as the landscape and project dynamics at work, led to a prospective approach undertaken on the Coteaux de Nézant and Mont de Veine site to spatialize development scenarios on the scale of an agricultural enclave. This process tested and evaluated tools for the collective design of a multifunctional, sustainable land development project.

This research aims to equip designers, decision-makers, farmers and citizens to take a systemic approach to urban agricultural relocation projects. The prospective approach leads to a collaborative method of territorialized transition scenarios, as well as tools and methods for agro-ecological urban planning. It concludes by showing how negotiated agriculture, resulting from a new distribution of roles and land uses, leads to territorial co-benefits,based on the archipelago of enclaves seen as a network of shared resource locations. This approach addresses food as an essential territorial issue, dealing with the interdependence between the urban, its resources and its landscapes.

more information on the presentation HERE
and to access the venue HERE

image: "Des jardins maraîchers de Grenelle", 1902, lithograph by Henri Rivière, from the series "Trente-six vues de la tour Eiffel", Musée d'Orsay

March 5, 2025 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. -
Amphi Jean Duminy.

The ATE laboratory is organizing the 13th edition of its Research Culture seminar on the theme of "Rebuilding. Une actualité planétaire".

On this occasion, three speakers will present the progress of their work and reflections:

– Antoine Apruzzese, PhD student, ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie,
– Łukasz Musiaka, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Geographical Sciences, University of Łódź, Poland,
– Rita Khalaf, PhD student in architecture, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine – Université de Paris Cité

The day will be introduced by Patrice Gourbin, senior lecturer, ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie.
A round table discussion will conclude the morning, moderated by Sébastien Cherruet, senior lecturer, ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie, and Christel Palant, senior lecturer, EVCAU laboratory, ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine.

In the afternoon, we welcome two architects from theUkrainian agency Balbek for a conference entitled "The Reconstruction of Ukraine".

The seminar and conference will take place in the Jean-Duminy amphitheater from 9:30 am to 3:30 pm.

This event echoes the Club Prisme professional days held in Rouen on March 5-6-7, and the following events "Le Temps des collections. Reconstruction" events organized by Métropole Rouen Normandie.

Program HERE

Live webcast HERE

This 13th edition of the "Culture of Research" seminar is organized by Antoine Apruzzese and Patrice Gourbin, ATE laboratory, ENSA Normandie by Christel Palant, EVCAU laboratory, ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine.

We would like to announce the publication of Smart French. La résilience de la ville moderne, 1945-1975, edited by Raphaël Labrunye, published by éditions des méandres.

Summary of the book

The Smart French research project is based on the premise that the built in France between 1945 and 1975 possess under-appreciated architectural qualities, conducive to à environmental transition. It offers an alternative to global approaches, which are often disparaging, and to monographic studies, which are necessary but difficult to generalize. Given the the lack of statistical data on this architecture, the study focuses on à develop relevant indicators, à based on a corpus of nearly 300 operations, to describe criteria such as the daylighting and ventilation.

The analysis is based on data taken from contemporary architectural reviews of these and designers' speeches. Thanks à statistical methods, the aim is to identify architectural recurrences, in order to inform public intervention policies targeting these that take into account their specific architectural and environmental features.

Authors
Shahram Abadie
Gauthier Bolle
Karim El Alami
Margherita Ferrucci
Élise Guillerm
Amir Mahamoud Issa
Raphaël Labrunye
Ignacio Requena
Daniel Siret
Yannick Sutter

The publication of this book was made possible thanks to the support of the Ministry of Culture, PUCA, the Normandy Region, the ATE laboratory (ENSA Normandie), the Arts, Civilization, and History of Europe laboratory – Arche – UMR 3400 (ENSA Strasbourg), ENSA Clermont-Ferrant, and ENSA Brittany.

More information on the book HERE

visual: cover of Smart French, éditions des méandres, 2024

ENSA de Versailles is organizing the ^8th Rencontres doctorales nationales en architecture et paysage (RDN2025) on October 16 and 17, 2025, in partnership with the Ministry of Culture's Education and Research Office.
This call is open to all doctoral students.

This year's theme: Terrains, territoires.Doctoral research in the light of the diversity of practices, methods and issues.

Several themes are proposed:

Focus 1: The terrains and territories of making. From the hand to artificial intelligence
Focus 2: The terrains and territories of drawing. Representation as a mode of analysis and design
Focus 3: The terrains and territories of the déjà-là. Evolutions and transformations of the existing: what are the challenges for tomorrow?
Axis 4: The terrains and territories of disorder. Knowledge and theories in times of crisis: models to be reinterpreted
Focus 5: Lands and territories of living. Practices, uses and representations of space

Deadline for submission of paper and/or poster proposals: February 16, 2025
Further information on the call for papers: https://rdn2025.sciencesconf.org/

visual: extract from the program

February 13, 2025 -
2:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Académie d'architecture - 9 place des Vosges 75004 Paris.

To coincide with the exhibition Dessiner, voyager... Deux siècles de dessins d'architectes (Véronique Descharrières, Marilena Kourniati and Danièle Pauly, exhibition curators), the Académie d'architecture is organizing a study day of the same name, focusing on the relationship between drawings and travel among architects.

Claire Rossetresearcher at the ATE laboratory, will give a talk entitled " Du croquis au Carnet. Journey of an architect's drawing. (Laprade fonds)".

For more information on the Study Day program HERE

visual: program details

Tuesday, January 28, 2025 –
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Paris Nanterre University, building F, room F352

The Center for Theory and Analysis of Law, the Archaeology and Philology of the East and West Laboratory, the Orient & Mediterranean, Texts, Archaeology, History Laboratory and the University of Lausanne are organizing a new edition of the History of Construction Seminar . The meeting on Tuesday, January 28 will have the theme "Constructive experimentation" .

François Fleury , researcher at the ATE laboratory, will present a presentation entitled “Experimentation of the flat vault with a single keystone proposed by Joseph Abeille (1699)”.

More information about the program HERE

visual: Joseph Abeille – Flat vault (1699), in Jean-Gaffin Gallion, “Machines and inventions approved by the Royal Academy of Sciences”, volume 1 (source: BnF Gallica)

Cahiers de la recherche architecturale et urbaine has published its latest online issue, entitled "Les Pédagogies de l'architecture, de la ville et du paysage: nouvelles donnes au XXIe siècle".

This issue was edited by Anne Debarre, Maxime Decommer and Juliette Pommier.

In this issue, Isabelle Genyk (researcher at the ATE laboratory) co-signs with Élise Macaire (researcher at the LET-Lavue) an article entitled "Socialisation aux pratiques professionnelles participatives et pédagogies coopératives.The example of student residences in rural areas".

Camille Bidaud (researcher at EVCAU, associate researcher at the ATE laboratory) and Matthieu Cisel (researcher at the Agora laboratory) also offer an article entitled " Une décennie d'essor des enseignements sur l'existant dans les ENSA vue à travers les intitulés de cours" .

You can download the magazine (and all its issues) from theOpen Edition websiteby clicking HERE.

visual : CRAUP logo

Friday, January 24, 2025 –
From 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. at theENSA Normandie documentation center.

TheENSA Normandie Research CommissionENSA Normandie voted to organize a new doctoral seminar.
Organized by the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie (ENSA Normandie) starting in January 2025, this doctoral seminar aims to contribute to critical and engaged reflection on methods and tools specific to architectural research, while promoting a strong transdisciplinary approach at the crossroads of the humanities and social sciences, science and technology, and research-creation. It is organized around the presentation, analysis, and discussion of documents relating to the practices and theories of architecture, urban planning, and landscape design, which in each session are drawn from the corpus of a doctoral student and an experienced teacher-researcher.

TheENSA Normandie doctoral seminarENSA Normandie held once per semester at its premises in Darnétal. It is open to all members of Doctoral School 556 Man, Societies, Risks, Territory and Beyond, but its primary purpose is to support doctoral students in positioning themselves with regard to contemporary epistemological issues.

The first session will be held on Friday, January 24, atENSA Normandie, documentation center, from 2:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. It will focus on methodological questions raised by architects' discourse in the form of published or transcribed texts. How should such documents be critically examined? What status should be given to them? How can they be mobilized? This will be discussed on the basis of ongoing researchby Antoine Apruzzese (doctoral student) and Marie Gaimard (lecturer).

image : Bowl Chair, Lina Bo Bardi, 1951

Congratulations to Valter BALDUCCI, professor atENSA Normandie defended his Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in History of Architecture at the University of Strasbourg on December 17. This HDR was defended within Doctoral School 519 "Humanities and Social Sciences – European Perspectives," ARCHE Research Unit "Arts, Civilization, and History of Europe" – UMR 3400.

The jury was composed of
Ms Anne-Marie CHÂTELET, Professor Emeritus, HDR, ENSA Strasbourg, guarantor;
Mr Angelo BERTONI, Professor, HDR, ENSA de Strasbourg, Rapporteur;
Mr Enrico CHAPEL, Professor, HDR, ENSA Toulouse, Rapporteur;
Mr Julien FUCHS, Professor, HDR, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Chairman
and Ms Hélène JANNIÈRE, Professor, HDR, Université de Rennes II, Rapporteur.

The application file consisted of " Penser la ville par l'architecture. Itinéraires entre projets, théories et histoire ", 4 volumes, 5 volumes with the unpublished scientific contribution " Sauver les enfants, modeler les âmes. Children's colonies in Fascist Italy (1922-1943) " (671 pages + 264-page appendix).

Thanks to this defense, the ATE laboratory is delighted to count among its members a sixth researcher qualified to direct research.