Events

Conference
EVCAU
Digital Imaging and Architecture:
and Artificial Intelligence?

MITRA doctoral seminar
EVCAU
Emma Filipponi
Marc Lauro

EVCAU
EVCAU Study Day
Research and Project

Thesis defense
by Phuoc Anh Van Nguyen
EVCAU
Time, temporal issues and operational tools
of territorial transformation
towards a new urban project culture

Mitra Doctoral Seminar
Territory as Memory
Evcau

Dimitri Toubanos' Habilitation Thesis Defense
Designing the City Through the City
Design-Build in Metropolitan Contexts as a Tool for Experimenting with Reuse

Conference
Nathalie Regnier-Kagan
The Metropolitan Tower
Research and Project Pedagogy

Mitra Doctoral Seminar
EVCAU
under the coordination of Gilles-Antoine Langlois
and the organization of Rita Khalaf, Pierre Léger, Astrid Lenoir,
Love Keisten Moumbeki, Anh Nguyen and Nathan Rofowicz

Doctoral Seminar
Paolo Amaldi
"Time and Project"
Wednesday, October 15, 2025, Room 125
Friday, November 14, 2025, Room 701
Friday, January 16, 2026, Room 103
Friday, February 13, 2026, Room 102

Chear Seminar
Teaching Architecture in the Regions: Institutions and Places, Pedagogy and Research (19th-20th Centuries)

Seminar 3 Chear
Three Methodological Questions
ENSAPVS
Cross-disciplinary and prosopographical approaches in architectural history; use of personal data in recent history

HDR Seminar
EVCAU
Paolo Amaldi, Elizabeth Mortamais, Emmanuel Doutriaux

EVCAU
Seventh EnsaEco Network Meeting
(A)managing Life
From the ostracization of non-human life to the search for peaceful coexistence

MITRA Seminar
Session IV
Urban Dynamics
and Metropolization
in Southeast Asia
Understanding Asian Cities Through Their Public Spaces
Reflections Based on Ho Chi Minh City

Conference

Conducting the History of Architecture Through the Lens of
Environmental and Decolonial Issues
National School of Architecture Paris-La Villette

EVCAU Doctoral Seminar
The EVCAU doctoral seminar will be held on February 6th at 2 PM (room 705 at ENSA PVS).

This will be an opportunity to meet, (re)discover, and discuss their research.

Seminar "Time and Project", EVCAU research laboratory, led by Paolo Amaldi, Professor HDR, ENSAVPS

Vincent Baumann's thesis
Crowd-structure interaction on event-use flooring
Gustave Eiffel University

Invitation to Zineb Bennouna's Thesis Defense
<<Through the Moucharabieh: Perspectives on the Architecture of Hassan Fathy. The Cases of the Akil Sami House (1978) and the Siwa Hospital (1989)>>

International Architecture Symposium
Forms and Languages of the Ecological Emergency
Materials, Climate, Reuse
Research Group on the Invention and Evolution of Forms (GRIEF)

Francesca Contrada
Energy and Buildings
Developing a new adaptive thermal balance model to improve thermal comfort forecasts and reduce energy consumption

International Symposium and Architectural Tours
The 20th-Century Hospital: A History of Franco-American Solidarity

EVCAU Seminar Camille Bidaud
Teacher Recruitment at ENSA
Status, Procedures,
Applications

MITRA Seminar
The House and the World: Transcultural Itineraries of Architectural Research
Grégory Quenet
Room 705

Laurence Gillot's HDR Defense
Towards a Socio-History of Archaeology and Heritage
Archaeologies and (De)constructions of Heritage in Morocco

(20th-21st Centuries)

Conferences
Gwenn Gayet
Two meetings with Gwenn Gayet-Kerguiduff, lecturer and research engineer, author of a thesis on the Kerazan manor, are scheduled for Friday, August 16 and Wednesday, August 21, 2024, in Loctudy, in the Pays Bigouden region (Finistère).

EVCAU Study Day
20th Century Heritage:
Transformation, Conservation,
New Challenges
Lecture Hall 120

International Architecture Symposium
INTERIORS
Symposium organized by the French Society of Architects
Karim Basbous: What Moves Us

Camille Bideau
The French delegation to Athens in 1931: between justification, discovery, and influence

National Meetings
of Architectural Research
Nancy

Signing ceremony of the Framework Agreement between ENSA Paris-Val-de-Seine, AP-HP (Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris), and Paris Cité University

International Workshop Seminar:
Spazi della salute tra
Nuovo E Antico
Lila Bonneau
Xavier Dousson
Emma Filipponi

Archidessa Chair, next seminar:

"Architecture and Sustainable Health. The health ecosystem: New risks, new approaches"

Mitra Doctoral Seminar
The researcher's suitcases and the architect's suitcases

Doctoral Seminar
Theses in 180 Seconds
Discussions about the work of EVCAU doctoral students

Mitra Doctoral Seminar
Gille-Antoine Langlois,
Elie Antoun, Anissa Boudaa, Rita Khalaf, Pierre Léger, Astrid Lenoir, Love Keisten Moumbeky, Anh Nguyen, Nathan Rafowicz
The House and the World: Transcultural Itineraries of Architectural Research

The House and the World: Transcultural Itineraries of Architectural Research

MITRA Seminar
The Unforeseen Manifesto
Jac Fol
"Anthropo-logics" of Urban Heritage:
the case of Beirut
Sophie Brones

Lila Bonneau was named a 2023 Fellow of the Richard Morris Hunt Prize on November 28, 2023. This prize funds a research trip to the United States.

Selected topic: Cure and Care – France and the USA: from nature to skyscrapers,

from material heritage to improving the habitability of places

LRMH Study Day

November 20, 2023
Élisabeth Marie-Victoire Sitowie, Research Engineer, Head of the Concrete Research Unit (LRMH), Francesca Contrada, Lecturer-Researcher, ENSA Paris Val de Seine
Energy Efficiency and Thermal Comfort in Concrete Buildings: Issues and Resilience

Gwenn GAYET-KERGUIDUFF
Approaching the concept of heritage through knowledge of local materials: what future for trachyandesite?

Seminar 3
PERSPECTIVES AND EXTENSIONS
OF THE CHEAR PROGRAM
EVCAU

The European Commission's Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG-Connect) is organizing a seminar entitled "The researcher facing copyright: Author and user in the era of Open Science", on Wednesday, January 28, 2026.

30 Years of EVCAU 2025
From Virtual to Live:
30 Years of Research at EVCAU

Mombeki Love Keisten's PhD defense
EVCAU
From the construction of the colonial cities of Libreville and Brazzaville in French Equatorial Africa to the urban development of post-independence Libreville (1909-1980)

Vincent Dubois's PhD Defense
EVCAU
Predicting claims in the building sector: reducing the risk of damage by using aggregated claims data combined with data characterizing buildings and their environment.

Supervised by Pascal Terracol

EDUBIM 2025
Living Systems, Algorithms, and Project Approaches

Claire Bailly, Nader Boutros

International Symposium

Archidessa Chair
Architecture and Mental Health

Conference
Louisette Fanjasoa Rosoloniaina
<< Mama Quilla >>
Lunar Architecture

Seminar 9
Archidessa Chair "Architecture, Design, Health"
Architecture, Technology, and Humanism
The Design and Transformation of Networks in Hospital Architecture

MITRA Seminar
Session V
Sharham Abadie

Doctoral Study Day
The Deconstruction of Atmospheres

EVCAU

Paolo Amaldi
Dimitri Toubanos

The Artifacts of Intelligence & Artificial Intelligence
Karim Basbous

Study Day
Léonord Losserand
Nadya Rouizem Labied
Re-evaluating Pre-Industrial Materials and Know-How: Historical Perspectives

Book presentation
Transversal Issue No. 8
"Construction Sites - Materials & Tools: Architecture in Action"
ENSAPVS Library
6:00 PM

Archidessa Chair Seminar
Neurodevelopment in Children: Therapeutic Architecture and Environment

Open House: EVCAU Presentation, Room 124
Saturday, February 1, 2025

MITRA Seminar - Session 2
Borders, Identities, Territories
Haiti and the Middle East: Two Case Studies
Jean-Marie Théodat
Cyril Roussel

EVCAU Study Day
Cities and Hydraulic Infrastructure: Resource and Constraint

EduBIM2024: Data, intelligence and the nature of the sustainable city

Study Day
ENSA Strasbourg
Actors in Architectural Education in the Regions
(21st-20th centuries)
Figures, Groups, and Productions

JITH 2024
International Days on thermal science and energy

Teacher recruitment seminar at ENSA

Vincent Baumann's thesis
Crowd-structure interaction on event-use flooring
Gustave Eiffel University, MAST Department, EMGCU Laboratory

Camille Bidaud Symposium
The Existing Structure: Architecture as a Resource
Between Resources and Ecology,
Architecture in Question
Methods,
Implementations,
Produced Forms

Paolo Amaldi
Time Against Time Symposium

8th International Congress on Construction History | Zurich 2024
LOSSERAND-DUBOIS Léonore,
Looking for Construction Process in Early Modern Paris: demolish to build better
ROUIZEM LABIED Nadya
The vault, a controversial shape

MITRA Doctoral Seminar
Walking in Urban Environments
Anh Van Nguyen

Transversal 7
Gilles-Antoine Langlois
Presentation No. 7
Political Spaces of Architecture

Young Researchers' Day in Architectural History
Camille Bideau
ENSAPVS

Conference: Architecture Enters the Virtual World
Yann Auger, Nader Boutros and Tayeb Sehad

Presentation of Transversale 7
ENSAPVS Library
Gilles Antoine Langlois; Léonore Dubois-Losserand; Marie Gaimard

Workshop tools for researchers:
Virtual machine
Generative AI
Matterport 3D lidar scanner
Geoteca

Doctoral Seminar "Time and Project"
Led by Paolo Amaldi, Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HDR), ENSAPVS, in collaboration with professors from CY Cergy Paris and the Versailles School of Architecture.

Open to doctoral students at ENSAPVS.

Lecture:
Gilles-Antoine Langlois
The 13th Arrondissement Historical and Archaeological Society and its history,
including "From the Salpêtrière to the National Library of France: History of a Parisian Neighborhood"

Patrice Ceccarini
Research Seminar
ENSAPVS/EPT&SD-EVCAU
University of Paris
On an architectural therapy of human ecumene.
Affordances as a healing and balancing means for environments
Professor, ENSA Paris Val-de-Seine

Debate on the City of the Future
France Culture's science program, La Science CQFD
December 21, 4-5 pm on France Culture
Guests: the International Experimental Workshop for the Biodigital City (C. BAILLY, J. MAGERAND) and the EVCAU laboratory (ENSAPVS)

"Beaujon Hospital in Clichy: 20th-Century Therapeutic Architecture and its Environments," published by Herman Publishers, received the Gold Medal from the French Society for the History of Hospitals.
Lila Bonneau

CHEAR: Exploring the Histories of Schools of Architecture in the Region
Study Day, Thursday and Friday, November 23-24, 2023
Gwenn Gayet
Conclusion and Future Production Prospects
"The Volvic School of Architecture"

Gwenn GAYET-KERGUIDUFF
Conference on Contemporary Architecture and Heritage
Trachyandesite: A future resource for old buildings

Archidessa Chair: "Can we transform 20th-century sanitary architecture? Temporality, sustainability, adaptability" will be held on November 16th from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the National School of Architecture Paris - Val de Seine, Amphitheater 180, 3 quai Panhard et Levassor in the 13th arrondissement of Paris.