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Research in ArchitectureInternational Post-Master’s Degree

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Table of contents

Preface ................................................................................................................... 3Programme 1st semester ......................................................................................... 4Programme 2nd semester ........................................................................................ 5 INAUGURAL LECTURE 2013 ................................................................................ 6From practice to theory .......................................................................................... 7Selected Bibliography ............................................................................................. 8Chronology ............................................................................................................. 9

TRANSVERSAL SEMINAR ...................................................................................10 METHOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS .......................................................................... 12 INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ................................................................................14 IMMERSION IN A LABORATORY .........................................................................16

Architecture, History, Technology, Territory, Heritage Laboratory ......................... 17Architecture, Milieu, Landscape Laboratory........................................................... 18Métamorphosis of inhabited milieux ......................................................................19Anthropology of urban transformation ................................................................. 20Process in creating architectural and urban spaces ................................................. 21Cognitive activity in conception and IT assistance .................................................22

Alessia de BIASEXavier BONNAUdKaren BOWIECaroline LECOURTOIS Yann NUSSAUMEJodelle ZETLAOUI-LéGER

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The territorial, urban and architectural changes and transformations to be seen in many places in the world at the present time represent a challenge that goes far beyond the spatial aspects involved.

Hence, simply observing these transformations will not suffice: they must be understood in order to enable

action.

This is the direction in which mobilisation of researchers is not only useful, but necessary. Research and training undertaken on the basis of the questions concerning these phenomena of transformation and change make up genuine frameworks for reflexion and construction of knowledge and skills, founded on scientific requirements.

To the extent that these observable changes are related both to spatial and social constellations, the approaches envisioned to comprehend the mechanisms at work reveal the changes in thinking and the actions necessary to objectivise new dynamics. The object of this post-master’s degree is to enable young researchers to understand these mechanisms and to produce essential scientific knowledge in the fields of architecture, urbanism and landscape issues.

The degree will help them to acquire a transversal scientific background that explicitly addresses these phenomena and offers the opportunity for a first experience in research within a laboratory

PrefaceAlessia de BIASEXavier BONNAUdKaren BOWIECaroline LECOURTOIS Yann NUSSAUMEJodelle ZETLAOUI-LéGER

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INAUGURAL LECTURE

Each year, a recognised researcher will be invited to launch the post-master’s academic year and thus set out the high standards that will characterise this individual and collective work.The question broached by this inaugural lecture is : What does it mean to do research on architecture, the city and the territory?

What does this mean for the world we live in today?

Christian devillers is an architect and urbanist. Researcher, teacher, theoretician, practitioner, he has continually steered back and forth among these various activities during his career, both as witness and actor in constructing a research field in France on urbanism and architecture since the 1960s. His diverse contributions have been marked by a concern to understand and reconstruct the processes involved in projects as intellectual activities as well as in their materialisation. Hence his interest in the work of authors such as Louis I. Kahn, whose courses he followed in the 1970s, and the relations between the strategies of emerging industrial capitalism in the 19th century and the morphogenesis of a city such as Le Creusot.

during this lecture, Christian devillers will emphasise three aspects of his own itinerary that correspond either to founding moments in the development of a scientific approach in these disciplines or that were significant in their evolution: the questioning of traditional teaching of Fine Arts and the emergence of critical approaches to contemporary urbanism and architecture; how methods of analysing urban forms and their mutations were developed; renewal of research modalities and professional practices based on actions undertaken (eco-neighbourhood projects, eco-neighbourhoods, the “Greater Paris” project), which all mobilised public institutions, researchers, associations, design offices, enterprises and industrial participants.

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From practice to theory

Christian devillers is an architect and urbanist. Researcher, teacher, theoretician, practitioner, he has continually steered back and forth among these various activities during his career, both as witness and actor in constructing a research field in France on urbanism and architecture since the 1960s. His diverse contributions have been marked by a concern to understand and reconstruct the processes involved in projects as intellectual activities as well as in their materialisation. Hence his interest in the work of authors such as Louis I. Kahn, whose courses he followed in the 1970s, and the relations between the strategies of emerging industrial capitalism in the 19th century and the morphogenesis of a city such as Le Creusot.

during this lecture, Christian devillers will emphasise three aspects of his own itinerary that correspond either to founding moments in the development of a scientific approach in these disciplines or that were significant in their evolution: the questioning of traditional teaching of Fine Arts and the emergence of critical approaches to contemporary urbanism and architecture; how methods of analysing urban forms and their mutations were developed; renewal of research modalities and professional practices based on actions undertaken (eco-neighbourhood projects, eco-neighbourhoods, the “Greater Paris” project), which all mobilised public institutions, researchers, associations, design offices, enterprises and industrial participants.

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Selected Bibliography

1974 «Typologie de l’habitat et morphologie urbaine» in l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui n°174.

1977«L’Architecture industrielle ou la crise du monument historique» in Editorial, Revue des Monuments Historiques, 3/77.

1981Le Creusot, naissance et développement d’une ville industrielle 1782-1914 (avec B. Huet), préface de L. Bergeron, collection Milieux, éditions Champ-Vallon 1981.

1986«Le Projet urbain en question : continuité et discontinuité. Colloque Recherche Architecturale, in La Recherche en Architecture, un bilan international, éditions Parenthèses, Marseille 1986.

1988 «L’Objectif» (article sur la photographie d’architecture) in l’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui, n° 255«Typologie» in dictionnaire de l’Urbanisme et de l’Aménagement, dir. F. Choay et P. Merlin, PUF, Paris 1988.

1992 «Note sur l’Enseignement de l’Architecture en France», in l’Arrchitecturre d’aujourd’hui, n°282, septembre 1992.

1994Le projet urbain, Les mini PA, Conférence au Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, 1994.

1996 Louis I. Khan textes 1955-1974, trad. avec M. Bellaigue, éditions du Linteau. Parution Fév.1996

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Chronology

1965Enrolment in the Ecole des Beaux Arts of Paris, Architecture Section, Pingusson Workshop in the Grand Palais.

1966-1968Participates in calling into question the traditional teaching at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, member of the Students’ General Assembly along with Roland Castro, Antoine Grumbach, Christian de Portzamparc, etc.

1968Participates in founding the UP8 (future Belleville architectural school) with Bernard Huet and Henri Raymond.

1968-1971Licence degree and master’s in urbanism at Vincennes University, where the great intellectuals of the period were present, such as Foucault and deleuze. Apprenticeship in urban methods and techniques with Pierre Merlin, internship with Colin Buchanan and Partners in London (at the time of the finest specialists in movement in the city),

as well as shoulder-rubbing with critical intellectuals such as Hubert Tonka, closely associated with the situationists, Baudrillard, Henri Laborit, Raymonde Moulin.

1971 Architecture degree with subject Typology, Models and Architecture at UP8 Paris-Belleville Architecture School.

1971-1972Master of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania with Louis. I. Kahn.

1974-1979Collaborates at Chemetov – Urbanism and Architecture Workshop, then associated with Paul Chemetov (Chemetov and devillers) and the AUA (Association of Urbanists and Architects).1975-1976: First urban project in Miramas with édith Girard and Patrice Noviant.

1984équerre d’argent (Silver Square) for the parking lot at Chaumettes in Saint-denis.1984-1991Teaches in Nancy, then in

Paris (Tolbiac) and in the United States. development of an approach linked to teaching architectural projects; architectural analysis.

1995-1999Professor at the école Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées / National School of Bridges and Roads (Chair for urban design)1998Grand Prix for Urbanism and Urban Art

1991 to todayAgence devillers, then devillers and Associates Numerous links with research in various forms: university urban research, administration-launched research (PUCA, dATAR, Centre for Strategic Analysis, CERTU, development Counseling…). Agency among the 15 teams of the Greater Paris Workshop: Study of the «Bassins de vie des habitants» (daily life catchment area/smallest area in which inhabitants have access to both amenities and employment).

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TRANSVERSAL SEMINAR

Genuine locus of exchange and debate, this seminar brings together researchers from various fields in our department and laboratories. Each session is aimed at providing an opening and encounter between two approaches and experiences in research, in order to demonstrate the wealth of the objects, problematics and methodologies involved and that can be dealt with through common thematics. The five transversal themes chosen for the thirteen sessions are: Processes of creating spaces, Produced space/perceived space/experienced space, Temporalities and times in territory and project, Systems and levels of representation, Actors and trades/professions involved in the project.

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► Th A CITIES AND ENVIRONMENT: CRISIS OR NEW PARADIGM ? (X. Bonnaud) 11/10 Nazila Hannachi-Belkadi (MAACC) & Laure Heland (LET) : Energy and new urban metabolisms 29/11 Eric Daniel-Lacombe (GERPHAU) & Serge Wachter (AHTTEP) : drastic environmental change: what urban forms for a society of risk?

► Th B PROCESSES OF CREATING SPACE (Y. Nussaume) 18/10 Alain Guez (LAA) & Chris Younès (GERPHAU) : Temporalities and metamorphoses of milieux 06/12 Olivier Jeudy (AMP) & Antonella Tufano (GERPHAU) : Art and urban space

► Th C EXPERIENCED/PERCEIVED/CONCEIVED SPACE (A. de Biase) 25/10 Yann Nussaume (AMP) & Barbara Morovich (LAA) : Space at play/at issue 13/12 Ioana Iosa (CRH-LAVUE) & Alice Sotgia (LAA) : Living together: experiments and heritage

► Th D SYSTEMS AND REGISTERS OF REPRESENTATION (C. Lecourtois) 08/11 François Guéna (MAACC) & Catherine Szanto (AMP) : Techniques of «representation» of architectural space: from conception to feeling 20/12 Catherine Deshayes (MAACC) & Pierre Chabard (AHTTEP) : Conceiving, representing, explaining architecture

► Th E TEMPORALITIES OF TERRITORIES AND PROJECTS (K. Bowie) 15/11 Thierry Ciblac (MAACC) & Valérie Nègre (AHTTEP) : Material approaches to the history of architecture 10/01 Emmanuel Amougou (LET) & Alessia de Biase (LAA) : What inheriting means

► Th F ACTORS, PROFESSIONS AND TRADES INVOLVED IN PROJECTS (J. Zetlaoui Leger) 22/11 Elise Macaire (LET) & Cristina Mattiucci (AMP) : Group designers in the service of democratisation of urban production 17/01 Isabelle Grudet (LET) & Sandra Parvu (LAA) : Landscape architects: emergence of a profession

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METHOLOGICAL WORKSHOPS

Research methodology workshops involve sessions aimed at familiarizing students with the field of scientific production of knowledge. Although methodological issues will be addressed more specifically in the framework of laboratory teaching in relation to the objects of inquiry chosen and the disciplinary approaches defined, these workshops will introduce students to the specifics of a scientific approach and the ways of constructing a research field within the broader outlines of architecture, as well as assist them in preparing possible research plans for later work, including identifying various potential sources of funding.

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18/10 Group session, Construction of the field of architectural research in France 08/11 Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger, The scientific research process: phases and expectations

22/11 Clarisse Angelier (CIFRE-ANRT), Seeking thesis funding

6/12 Xavier Bonnaud, Research in the architecture process: methodological opportunities 20/12 Alessia de Biase, Writing, showing and demonstrating a bibliography

17/01 Karen Bowie, Working on archives

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INTERNATIONALSEMINAR

This international seminar will test out the five thematics in the «transversal seminar» in order to understand how they are dealt with elsewhere. Foreign or French researchers from other fields will share their research and publications with us to help explore, put in perspective and open up our own thematics to other research pathways.

IS 18/10 Guillaume Meigneux, Cresson, «Slightly altered dwellings», presentation of the documentary film

08/11 Maria Castrillo, Instituto Universitario de Urbanística, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Valladolid (Espagne) : Urban rehabilitation in Spain

22/11 Paul Ehret (ESA) Paris : Computer-assisted conception and creation

06/12 Judith Moetwill-Lemaire, Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre- Horta de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique : Pioneering experiences in participative urbanism in Europe

17/01 Salvator-John Liotta Senior Researcher, University of Tokyo, Kengo Kuma Lab, Tokyo, Researcher, CNRS, LAVUE, UMR 7218, Paris, Patterns and Layering: Japanese Spatial Culture, Nature and Architecture

31/01 Jim Baek, Université de Seoul, Corée du Sud AUSMIP + : Ethics and sustainability

14/02 Isabelle Gournay, School of Architecture, University of Maryland : American and Canadian students at the Beaux-Arts School

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INTERNATIONALSEMINAR

This international seminar will test out the five thematics in the «transversal seminar» in order to understand how they are dealt with elsewhere. Foreign or French researchers from other fields will share their research and publications with us to help explore, put in perspective and open up our own thematics to other research pathways.

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18/10 Guillaume Meigneux, Cresson, «Slightly altered dwellings», presentation of the documentary film

08/11 Maria Castrillo, Instituto Universitario de Urbanística, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad de Valladolid (Espagne) : Urban rehabilitation in Spain

22/11 Paul Ehret (ESA) Paris : Computer-assisted conception and creation

06/12 Judith Moetwill-Lemaire, Faculté d’Architecture La Cambre- Horta de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgique : Pioneering experiences in participative urbanism in Europe

17/01 Salvator-John Liotta Senior Researcher, University of Tokyo, Kengo Kuma Lab, Tokyo, Researcher, CNRS, LAVUE, UMR 7218, Paris, Patterns and Layering: Japanese Spatial Culture, Nature and Architecture

31/01 Jim Baek, Université de Seoul, Corée du Sud AUSMIP + : Ethics and sustainability

14/02 Isabelle Gournay, School of Architecture, University of Maryland : American and Canadian students at the Beaux-Arts School

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L IMMERSION IN A LABORATORY

Each laboratory – in relation with its research subjects, identity and theoretical approaches – proposes a research theme to structure the teaching program and independent oversight that provide students with a specific methodological and scientific framework to develop their own work. In some cases, joint oversight can be foreseen on the basis of the experience and knowledge acquired during the transversal program. End-of-year juries will be made up of researchers from different laboratories responsible for assessing these post-master’s theses.

Architecture History Technology Territory Heritage Laboratory AHTTEP is an architectural research group which is open to a variety of experimental approaches and our members use the tools of a range of disciplines in attempting to understand and come to grips with the challenges of our times. Historical approaches are particularly important to us in developing critical perspectives and views over the long term: new ways of framing the pressing questions we face today, in terms of energy and environment, urban development and sprawl, cultural, industrial and economic globalisation. Efforts to historicize developments in construction technology and in the paradoxical field of heritage are among the central concerns of the group.

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Architecture History Technology Territory Heritage Laboratory AHTTEP is an architectural research group which is open to a variety of experimental approaches and our members use the tools of a range of disciplines in attempting to understand and come to grips with the challenges of our times. Historical approaches are particularly important to us in developing critical perspectives and views over the long term: new ways of framing the pressing questions we face today, in terms of energy and environment, urban development and sprawl, cultural, industrial and economic globalisation. Efforts to historicize developments in construction technology and in the paradoxical field of heritage are among the central concerns of the group.

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Architecture, Milieu, Landscape Laboratory

The concern felt by all the members of the «Architecture, Milieu, Landscape» research team is to think through again and again the works of humankind in order to insure that their impact on the Earth leads to the creation of sustainable and livable milieux, hand in hand with the shaping of new landscapes. Various team members, according to their training and background, will thus examine the development of relations between society and the environment, as well as their impact on architectural, urban, landscape and artistic production. Team members will above all address the cross-over and interactions between these disciplines. A particular concern will be the environmental problems in relation to the sustainability of territories. Since this team took shape and developed within the l’école Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture of Paris-la-Villette, this preoccupation has been embodied by joint thinking and practice in architecture, milieux and landscape in various parts of the world, urban or not. Thus, the international dimension of this work is an integral part of the implementation of the project. In the framework of the dPEA (diplômes propres aux écoles d’architecture/Post-master’s Architectural School degrees), the team’s preoccupation is expressed in an epistemological approach to teaching of ideas and philosophical problematics to be addressed through older and present-day practices of diverse forms of intervention in a territory, especially artistic, as well as including research-action to explore other possible modes of training and acting on a territory and teaching a project, in which notions of landscape, architecture and milieu work concurrently. AM

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Metamorphosis of inhabited milieux

The paradoxical situation entailed by contemporary ways of dwelling, the blurring of traditional spatial and temporal borders, the emergence of an unprecedented environmental crisis, all necessitate redefining the representations that will enable us to make people aware of these changes. Philosophical examination provides us with the operational questions and concepts needed to decode these phenomena in all their novelty and to anticipate their potentials. Contemporary philosophy thus participates in a critical perspective, in the construction of new ethical, aesthetic and political frameworks allowing identification of positions, discourses and concepts, raising and reorienting the question of the meaning of living in an urban epoch, between natures and cultures, and probing again the ways of being or new relationships between singularities. Present-day thought about the process of becoming and the metamorphosis of inhabited places is confronted with a double tension: the necessity of conserving and inheriting, along with that of projecting ourselves towards future inhabitable perspectives. How should we operate, between natural and cultural rhythms? To what extent can these co-rhythms enable us to regenerate the impact of human endeavour on the Earth?

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Anthropology of urban transformation

The aim is to explore the stakes for an anthropology of urban transformation, considering urban space no longer as a simple framework of interactions of an analysed group, or a scenography, but a concrete and symbolic process where spaces and times are constantly re-imagined and projected both by people living there and by those conceiving them. Thus, constant implementation of an interdisciplinary approach becomes one of the scientific needs of the laboratory, expressed by shaping conceptual and methodological tools (such as ethnographies, cartographies, chronotopia). This will enable the comprehension of what transformation means in the articulation of spatial and temporal scales and perspectives. There is an interaction between practical processes of urban transformation and the discourses participating in it, that it is necessary to analyse them all in order to grasp their complexity and interdependence. Three timings and scales are constantly overlapping in this process the inherited city, the lived-in city (the present-day city, making and unmaking itself every day), and finally, the projected city, constantly confronted with its future. Hence, the study of the city in the making is carried out by a joint reading of practices and representations of inhabitants, inherited city and of the city as a work in progress.

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)Processes in creating architectural and urban spaces This theme will deal with the activities involved in architectural, urban or landscape conception, considered as practices that take part in the definition of a project, their programming and reception. It will analyse how all these issues come to be re-examined and transformed due to the development of contexts and professional and societal concerns, for example, the increasing awareness of the stakes involved in sustainability and democratisation of public action. This theme is structured around three approach axes. The first deals with knowledge, modes of action and use that contribute to creating architectural and urban spaces. It analyses the systems of actors who gravitate around this production, these processes, procedures and tools mobilised, as well as the role of economic, social, political and environmental problematics involved in the negotiations and arbitrations carried out. It also questions the modalities of articulation between different forms of knowledge and legitimacies accruing to political and professional actors (either users or experts), as well as those partners in civil society (citizens, inhabitants, users). A second approach axis deals with the mediations utilised by actors in architecture and urban planning. This involves examining a whole ensemble of elements entering into the creation, especially symbolic, of projects and including those at work in conception or criticism, as well as the contexts in which these processes take place and the words or images through which the projects are elaborated, spread, presented, criticised, etc. A third axis takes up the question of the construction of professional identities and polarities in the field of production of architectural and urban spaces, on the basis of the practices and discourses developed, placed in their socio-historical context.

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Processes in creating architectural and urban spaces This theme will deal with the activities involved in architectural, urban or landscape conception, considered as practices that take part in the definition of a project, their programming and reception. It will analyse how all these issues come to be re-examined and transformed due to the development of contexts and professional and societal concerns, for example, the increasing awareness of the stakes involved in sustainability and democratisation of public action. This theme is structured around three approach axes. The first deals with knowledge, modes of action and use that contribute to creating architectural and urban spaces. It analyses the systems of actors who gravitate around this production, these processes, procedures and tools mobilised, as well as the role of economic, social, political and environmental problematics involved in the negotiations and arbitrations carried out. It also questions the modalities of articulation between different forms of knowledge and legitimacies accruing to political and professional actors (either users or experts), as well as those partners in civil society (citizens, inhabitants, users). A second approach axis deals with the mediations utilised by actors in architecture and urban planning. This involves examining a whole ensemble of elements entering into the creation, especially symbolic, of projects and including those at work in conception or criticism, as well as the contexts in which these processes take place and the words or images through which the projects are elaborated, spread, presented, criticised, etc. A third axis takes up the question of the construction of professional identities and polarities in the field of production of architectural and urban spaces, on the basis of the practices and discourses developed, placed in their socio-historical context.

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Cognitive activity in conception and IT assistance

The MAACC is a research laboratory with the objective of producing modelisations to aid cognitive activity and conception. The laboratory’s research program aims at two types of production: production of knowledge about the conception process and IT aid in architectural conception on the basis of cognition (thus, of architecturology) and IT sciences, on the one hand, and the production of new IT tools on the other. The knowledge produced concerns: 1) cognitive activities in conception, 2) the role of representations in conception, 3) the utilisation of informatics in conception and 4) IT modelisation in architecture. The new IT tools developed aim at assisting conception through modelisation and assessment of architectural projects in the initial phase of conception. This research program is built upon several joint projects that follow three transversal axes: 1) cognitive activity in «assisted» architectural conception2) early-stage modelisation of the architectural project being conceived3) adaptation of engineering tools for architectsVarious research subjects are taken up in this framework: digital architectural conception, early-stage project modelisation, eco-conception and its aid tools, assistance in re-establishing and preserving architectural heritage

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