Cross-border area of Geneva region: a culture of alpine living by Claire Rosset, Alexis Rousset

“…Using our tools of architect, of architectural project, we suggest to study the cross-border area of Geneva region in the context of the construction of a new alpine region.The inhabitant’s daily way of life today questions the administrative borders and the limits of the metropolis of Geneva. …”
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The Living Experience as a design content: from concept to appropriation by Carolina Coelho

“…This article aims to analyse the concept of the living experience applied to architecture, throughout the whole building’s lifecycle, from the design brief and spatial conception envisioned by the architect, to its materialization, and finally to the spatial appropriation undertaken by the user(s) - whether as individuals or as a group. …”
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Tool Capability in Visual EAM Analytics by Dierk Jugel, Christian M. Schweda, Alfred Zimmermann, Sandra Läufer

“…We evaluate the students’ findings by comparing them with the experience of an enterprise architect.…”
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Nouveau regard sur l’hôpital de Semur-en-Auxois à travers ses archives du XVIIIe siècle by Pierre Pinon

“…The work was carried out between 1745 and 1748 by a little-known local architect, Jacques Lapoton, from Flavigny-sur-Ozerain (Côte-d’Or). …”
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La maison et le jardin de Maurice Ravel à Montfort-l’Amaury (Yvelines) by Agnès Chauvin, Marie-Hélène Didier

“…This article offers new information about the garden’s design, rarely considered up to now, and can attribute this design to Lucien Paré, a landscape architect and horticulturalist trained at the Versailles landscape school. …”
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Évolution de la pensée de James Corner et son rôle dans l’émergence du Landscape Urbanism by Imène Ouali-Bourahla

“…The contemporary American landscape architect James Corner has made a major contribution to the development and renewal of landscape architecture in the United States. …”
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La préfecture du Val-d’Oise édifiée par Henry Bernard à Cergy-Pontoise by Léo Noyer Duplaix, Emmanuelle Philippe

“…The design of this Prefecture, established ex nihilo, was commissioned from the architect Henry Bernard, who took up the challenge of a corbelled construction and imagined a huge inverted pyramid, built on a square base. …”
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Reforming the Welfare State: Camden 1965-73 by Mark Swenarton

“…The housing projects built by the London Borough of Camden in the years 1965-73 belong arguably to the most substantial investigations into the architecture of social housing undertaken in the past half-century. Under borough architect Sydney Cook, Camden aimed to establish a new kind of housing architecture based, not on the Corbusian tabula rasa, but on a radical reinterpretation of traditional English urbanism. …”
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Capital of Feedback by Nina Stener Jørgensen

“…The body of work by British architect Cedric Price (1934–2003) is largely concerned with architecture’s relationship to technology and its impact on society. …”
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Bernard Huet « A. Rossi ou l’exaltation de la raison » by Julien Correia

“…This text by Bernard Huet (1932-2001) was published in Italian and English in 1984 in a book presenting recent projects by the Milanese architect Aldo Rossi (1931-1997). The article remains very little known, it has never been published in French, which is the original language in which it was prepared. …”
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Reading the Colours of Victorian Interiors: The Poetic Home Revisited by Charlotte Ribeyrol

“…In this article I analyse a selection of these ‘colour grammars’ which aimed to channel and control the chromatic ‘chaos’ of modernity, before discussing a unique instance of a well-preserved and poetically colourful interior: the architect William Burges’s Tower House in London.…”
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La prison de Guingamp, de l’ombre à la lumière by Emmanuel Laot

“…The prison was built by the Côtes-du-Nord department and opened in 1841 thanks to Charles Lucas, general inspector of prisons, Louis Lorin, departmental architect and Alexis de Tocqueville, the great French historian, thinker and publicist. …”
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0316 Almada Negreiros and Le Corbusier. Parallel Methodologies and Critical Reception by Simão Palmeirim

“…The French-Swiss artist and architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965) created a system for architects and engineers to humanize the metric system, paving the way for a new form of architecture. …”
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Le projet de paysage comme projet politique by Grégory Epaud

“…This experiment was part of the doctoral study conducted by the author, who is a landscape architect and doctoral student in Haute Gironde, entitled "Co-inhabiting territorial margins. …”
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Impact of the Courtyard Geometry on Cooling Energy Demand in Arid Zones. Univariate Regression-based Approach. by Soufiane Boukarta

“…Vernacular architecture, often described as architecture without an architect, never ceases to show us the extent to which the building system was linked to its environment and clearly expressed the genius loci. …”
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The Architectural Photomontages of Piero Bottoni by Fabio Colonnese

“…Italian architects began to adopt photomontage and collage techniques only at the end of the 1920s. …”
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« This narrative is my written memory » : transcrire la mémoire dans David Copperfield de Charles Dickens by Céline Prest

“…The archivist turned archaeologist is finally transformed into an architect, the one who elevates monuments – these documents which bear the memory of the past.…”
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Les frères Souffron (vers 1554-1649). Nouvelles recherches sur deux acteurs majeurs de la création architecturale et urbaine dans les provinces méridionales by Sophie Fradier

“…Putting together the lives, careers and works of two architect-engineer brothers bearing identical names, Pierre I (doc. 1599-†1621/1622) and Pierre II Souffron (1554-†1649), makes up one of the main objectives of this Degree thesis, which has been devised as a twin monograph. …”
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Not-Not as Another Spatial Logic of Constitutive Negation by Masamichi Tamura

“… The article introduces Japanese architect Hiroshi Hara (1936–) and his creative criticism against unilateral globalisation　in the 1970–80s as a unique legacy of pioneering cosmotechnical criticism in Japan. …”
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Ion Pillat – de la vilegiaturist la rezident al Balcicului by Carmen Brăgaru

“…The chapter ends with Ion Pillat’s loss of his properties in Balchik on the background of Romania’s loss of the Cadrilater in the summer of 1940, as an epilogue describing the sad fate of his houses, so carefully and artistically conceived together with the Romanian architect Henrieta Delavrancea-Gibory.…”
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