My latest work, Ecology in the Museum, an Afternoon at the Louvre (2024), can be formulated as a book on architecture since it can be read as an investigation into how an exterior enters an interior, which is a way of talking about architectural form without needing to evoke its contours.

From the book, I would like to broaden this question by mentioning the introductory text that I am currently writing for the book of the French pavilion at the Venice Biennale.

Grégory Quenet is committed to multifaceted collaborations, spanning past, present, and future, and bridging the social and natural sciences. During his doctoral studies, he worked with seismologists specializing in the design of nuclear power plants. He was a member of the French World Heritage Committee and an expert on the Taputapuatea marae, a UNESCO World Heritage site. At Paris-Saclay University, he drew inspiration from the work of climatologists and ecologists, and since 2012, he has been the first and still only professor of environmental history in France, having established the first courses in this field at Sciences Po Paris in 2009 at the request of Bruno Latour.

Publications:

2016, Versailles, Natural History, published by La Découverte, focuses on the Palace of Versailles, showing how it is possible to make it more ecological.

2014, What is environmental history? Champ Vallon editions, is the first intellectual history of environmental history.

2005, The history of earthquakes in France in the 17th and 18th centuries, published by Champ Vallon, is one of the first monographs entirely devoted to a natural disaster.