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...

The October issue of D'Architectures* magazine devotes a special report to "L'intelligence (artificielle) de l'image", written by architect and designer Mehdi Zannad and architect Edouard Ropars. Three articles make up the dossier: "Where AI hurts", "Fresh Touch, interview with Eric de Broche des Combes, founder of the Luxigon agency" and "Olivier Campagne, beyond the real".

In the first article cited, Mehdi Zannad looks back at the digital upheavals that have marked architectural project design, and considers the impact on the profession, particularly on the role of the drawing, which he describes as an extension of the architect's creativity. He questions a possible "dispossession orchestrated by a materially motivated project owner". He also warns against the "infinite variants" proposed by AI, giving the architect "the illusion" of "his authority over forms".

The following articles: an interview and an article by two pioneering figures in the field of architectural design, one a graphic designer and the other an architectural photographer.

*Zannad, M.; Ropars, E. (2025). Dossier: l'intelligence (artificielle) de l'image. D'architectures, no 329, 67-97.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2026 - From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, Librairie du Belvédère will be selling books on art and architecture.

Thursday, October 16, 2026 - From 10:00 am to 5:00 pm, publisher Citadelles et Mazenod will be offering art and architecture books for sale.