About the authors

Guy Bloch-Champfort, journalist, is a specialist in 20th-century decorative arts and the work of Joan Mitchell. He is the author of numerous books, including Décorateurs des années 60-70 (2015) and Designers et créateurs des années 80-90 (2022), published by Norma.

Sophie Cambrillat is an architect. She is a lecturer and researcher at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Normandie (Normandy National School of Architecture).

Tanit Quillé, daughter of Henri Quillé, is an architect and founder and president of the Association for the Preservation of the Work of Henri Quillé.

Bloch-Champfort, G., Cambrillat, S., & Quillé, T. (2025). Henri Quillé : Formentera. Norma Éditions.

Where can you find it?
Available at theENSA Normandie documentation center.

Want to share your favorites? Write to us at poledocumentaire@rouen.archi.fr

Thursday, March 26, 2026, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m., at theENSA Normandie Documentary Center, the editorial committee of the journal transversale, histoire: architecture, paysage, urbain will present the ninth and latest issue, published in December 2025, on the theme of Journeys, Interweaving, Hybridization: A Global History of Architecture and Urbanism.

This issue is coordinated by Léonore Dubois-Losserand, researcher at EVCAU (ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine), Marie Gaimard, researcher at ATE, and Gilles-Antoine Langlois, researcher at EVCAU (ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine).

For the first time, the cross-disciplinaryreview isco-produced in partnership with ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine,ENSA Normandie, the EVCAU laboratory, and the ATE laboratory.

More information about the journal HERE.

The event will be accompanied by a gourmet coffee break.

Come to the reading room at the Documentation Center!

visual: cover of issue no. 9 of the Transversale magazine , 2025 – © Fondation Le Corbusier

This book is an extension of the Materia architectures exhibition held at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal in 2025. It follows the same structure and is a continuation of the Fibra architectures (2019) and TerraFibra (2021) exhibitions and books dedicated to contemporary architecture using earth, stone, and plant fibers.

It follows the structure of the exhibition with three chapters dedicated to these three materials, each of which documents the 40 finalist projects for the Matera Award.

The projects are intended to be rooted in the local area and promote traditional craftsmanship and local industries, without neglecting new regulations on carbon footprints and material sobriety.

The book is intended as an educational manifesto to inspire, share, and convince architects, craftsmen, project owners, and students.

The exhibition is a co-production of the Pavillon de l'Arsenal, amàco, Les Grands Ateliers, and the Compagnons du Devoir et du Tour de France.

Tuesday, March 10, 2026 – The documentation center welcomes twenty-three first-year students from Le Corbusier High School, accompanied by their mechanical engineering teacher, Olivier Valery, and Dalila Azouz, a librarian.

This visit is part of the "Les cordées de la réussite" program, which allows secondary school students to receive support from a higher education institution.

High school students are tasked with building a full-scale model of a bus shelter equipped with a photovoltaic power system and an autonomous lighting system. They will bring their sketches with them to explain their project.

Théo Vinceslas, lecturer and researcher atENSA Normandie, will spend the morning assisting the high school students with their work and offering his expertise on the choice of materials.

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Sociologist Jean-Louis Violeau, a specialist in the field of architecture, returns with a book that questions the authorship of architects. Drawing on contemporary examples, the author poses a thousand questions: "Can we talk about authorship in architecture? What does it mean to build? Who is the author? Can we talk about an author in a collective work? Can a building be a work of art? ..."

These are legitimate questions, and it's all the more important to address them in the new context of the arrival of Artificial Intelligence.

Since the start of the school year in September 2025, the ArchiRès portal home page has been enhanced with a new access point. When you are logged in to your account and you are on the local version of ArchiRès (by clicking on the school logo), you can now directly access the digital resources of the document center.

Here you'll find network subscriptions: Ensa-P conferences on replay, Numilog Ebooks, Images de la culture films on VOD, student works, publications supported by the French Ministry of Culture. Two new items: Bêka & Lemoine films. These are 10 films by artist duo Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine. Tënk, the documentary film platform presented to you in the November newsletter.

As for resources accessible only to students from Normandy: Arte Campus, Architecture d'Aujourd'hui, Europresse, Kheox, Compilatio anti-plagiarism software, Materiaux.archi dematerialized material library and Dicobat.

Coming soon: My cow, to work on your English, the encyclopaedia universalis, On architecture, a platform devoted to documentaries on buildings and architecture (700 films).

From December 1 to 5 at Pôle Doc' – Return of the Book and Magazine Exchange. The concept: librarians offer you the opportunity to purchase books and magazines from their collections at an unbeatable price: €1!

The event will be held throughout the week at the Documentary Center, during opening hours.

Come and bargain for books and magazines - we look forward to seeing you!

For information, payment by credit card only.

Our VOD (Video on Demand) offering is expanding: we have Arte Campus, and now we'll also have access to Tënk. Tënk, which in Wolof (a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia, Mali and Mauritania) means "to state a thought clearly and concisely". to state a thought clearly and concisely".was born in 2016 from the will of several collectives united in a cooperative.

What do they have in common? The promotion of documentary cinema and support for film creation.

Tënk is a VOD platform offering documentary films on a wide range of themes: ecology, feminism, social struggles, decolonization, the arts, cinema, science or history... It defines itself by a cinema that is plural, free in its content and form.

The programming of around twenty new films per month is the work of a programming committee that scours festivals, cinemas, archives and film libraries. This monthly selection remains available for 4 months, and a review written by Tënk accompanies each documentary.

This new digital resource, a project run by the ArchiRès network, is funded by the French Ministry of Culture.

Biodiversity and gardening, two practices that the author encourages us to adopt in our daily lives. She invites us to participate in the transformation of our homes, our buildings, our streets, our cities and our entire environment by planting seedlings, cuttings, insect hotels, birdhouses and more. She teaches us the magic gestures for taking care of our plants. It's a four-step strategy in combat mode.

Together, let's plant our neighborhoods, our sidewalks, everything and everywhere! Let's drop seed bombs and give the power back to nature.

Still not convinced? Take a look at her Instagram

We are! The greening ofENSA Normandie in the documentation center...