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.

EXTENSION
Until Saturday, January 25, 2025 at 8pm -

We announce the launch of the call for papers for the international colloquium
L'exil comme voyage. Architects' Mediterranean and the world, ^18th-20th centuries
Exile as a journey. The Mediterranean of architects and the world, 18th-20th century
to be held at the University of Poitiers on Thursday April 3 and Friday April 4, 2025

This symposium is co-organized by Nabila Oulebsir, Université de Poitiers, CRIHAM (UR 15507), Marie GaimardÉcole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, Architecture, territoires, environnement laboratory (ATE, UR 7464) and Caroline Maniaque École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Normandie, Architecture, territoires, environnement laboratory (ATE, UR 7464),

The deadline for submissions is January 17, 2025 8pm, at colloque.poitiers.avril2025@gmail.com

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

Visual: Lapie, Pierre (1779-1850). Cartographer. Carte des voyages de Télémaque et d'Ulysse / drawn by P. Lapie, captain engineer geographer. 185.. - source © gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France

Monday December 9 and Tuesday December 10, 2024
ENSA Grenoble

The École nationale supérieure d'architecture and the AE&CC research unit are organizing a scientific colloquium entitled "Le projet comme terrain de la recherche contributive", to be held on December 9-10, 2024.

This colloquium explores the idea that it is the project as laboratory that specifies research in design disciplines: project as place of emergence of research questions, project as place of observation of interactions between resource actors, project as place of investigation or project as space for experimentation. The contributions cover a range of research projects, whether architectural, urban, planning, territorial, landscape or in the applied arts. Whether commissioned by an agency or as part of a teaching exercise, exploratory, operational or experimental (demonstrator) projects are all opportunities to produce or update design knowledge.

Gabriella Trotta-Brambilla is a member of the steering committee.

More information on the program HERE
Free registration required HERE

Visual of the symposium - photo DL/Valentin Ollier