Thematic seminar

Objectives

Develop practices and research on artistic and architectural interventions in situ, on alternative construction processes and projects. Generate and construct site-specific scenographies. Participate materially in the transformation of socio-urban and territorial imaginaries.

Phenomenological approaches to places through action, making, creating space games, performances and material installations. Inventing and experimenting with materials and 1:1 scale construction devices in concrete situations. Work on the relationships between imaginary and project images, and the realization of physical installations and actions in progress, of spatializing bodies and gestures (M. Merleau-Ponty).

Intervene on the existing, question and revitalize the places and territories of the “Third Landscape” (G. Clément), by fabricating and producing new phenomena and implementing new landscapes.

From practice to theory: develop a plastic and architectural approach to the chosen territory(ies) and theorize it in the form of a memoir-action-creation.
Articulation, back and forth between in situ intervention practice and graphic, photographic or filmic representation practice…

NB / we accept mobility students

– Courses, methodological workshops and research follow-up
– continuous assessment (50%) and pre-mémoire (50%)

– Produce an observation and follow-up logbook. Through ongoing practice of the space, create a problematic, hypotheses and research protocol.

Scenography: a powerful artistic practice and design tool at the service of architectural projects.

Scenography is a reflective culture as well as an artistic, technical and phenomenological practice of space.
Considered an art of place, its vocation is to shape the performance space of a given work. In this way, it regulates the spectator’s relationship with the work in a certain symbolic context.
At the crossroads of different artistic disciplines (theater, visual arts, architecture, museography, dance, events, public spaces, fashion, landscape etc….) and different places of practice, it enables the implementation of devices that question the creation and lived experience of oriented and narrative spaces.
Its challenge is to give form and, above all, space to the imaginary, not through a given, definitively fixed place, but through the shifts that representation makes from a real place to an imaginary place, and from the imaginary place to the real place.

S7, 4 to 5 analytical reports on theatrical and museum scenographies, production of a thematic Atlas, presentation at the end of the semester of a problematic, a plan, graphic analytical productions and a bibliography.
S8, interim thesis, S9, presentation of the finalized thesis.

– courses and conferences on : ?theatrical scenography ?scenic venues, new venues, theatrical architecture ?cultural policy ?scenography and visual arts ?dance: Tanztheater, hybrid performances, use of video ?public art / public commissions  ?public spaces ?museography and exhibition scenography
2- methodology workshop and research follow-up
students will be offered several lines of research. This list is not exhaustive and will evolve according to the issues encountered:  ?scenographic design ?places of representation, represented space, representing space ?the beholder and the watched / spectator, actor work ?issues of scenography for exhibition and museum spaces  ?public art in the city ?contemporary creation in its scenographic dimension

How can art and film enrich architectural thinking, while at the same time serving as fundamental critical tools for architectural practice?

Considered as both an aesthetic and a political gesture, cinema enables us to tell the story of spaces, cities and territories, acting as a seismograph of man’s relationship with the places he inhabits or passes through.

This seminar is aimed at students wishing to engage in creative research into architecture, the city and/or landscape through cinematic reflection and practice. Reflection and practice will be enriched by questions from the visual and narrative arts, as well as anthropology and philosophy, in relation to architecture.

Continuous assessment and pre-mémoire due at the end of the semester.

Formulation of a research topic and problem, development of a plan and biblio-filmography, film location scouting

At a time when the urgency of climate change is calling out to the social world and becoming a key issue for our territories, all indicators remind us of the extent to which the ongoing process of urbanization is weighing on social and environmental balances, and contributing to the spread of carbon emissions. Against this backdrop, the aim of this seminar is to present an initial overview of the challenges posed by the ecological transition in terms of urban production processes, with a focus on the production of sustainable housing and cities, both from a theoretical and conceptual standpoint, and from the point of view of the practices of stakeholders (professionals, citizens, decision-makers, etc.).
Over and above the thematic approach, the aim throughout this semester is to enable students to define a research topic that they will have to pursue in greater depth during semesters S8 and S9, culminating in the production of their dissertation. This work is built into the progression and duration of the master’s cycle.

Continuous assessment 40%, pre-dissertation 60%.

– Active participation in theory and lectures.
– Creation of reading files.
– Preparation of a pre-dissertation (definition of a subject and a problem, presentation of a working method, bibliography).
– In conjunction with the Initiation to Research [ IR 705 ] course, co-construction of an Abécédaire du Développement durable et de la transition écologique (Primer on Sustainable Development and Ecological Transition).

Hourly load: 2h CM + 1h30 methodological workshop and collective follow-up.

The aim of the seminar is to introduce students to architectural research. The aim is to grasp architecture as a field of knowledge under construction, to experiment with research tools and methods, and to acquire a critical eye. This objective will be applied in a privileged way to housing architecture, by opening the investigation to several scales and disciplinary approaches. Starting from the point of view of design, the research will weave together approaches in order to construct specific problematics and hypotheses for this transdisciplinary object of study, between history, process, spatiality, reception and transformation. The research will thus cross the methods of investigation and analysis of architecture, history and the human sciences to question the architectures of the habitat in a retrospective and prospective way, by questioning both the contemporary stakes and the knowledge and theories built up over time. A kind of “project archaeology”, the research will deconstruct the design process and the multiplicity of parameters that determine it.

Attendance; contribution to discussions; presentations; validation of pre-dissertation stages 40% continuous assessment and 60% final presentation (pre-dissertation).

Language: French

presentations; validation of pre-memoire stages

As part of the “Inhabiting Urban Worlds” field of study, the seminar will examine, from a socio-political and aesthetic perspective, emerging practices (in the fields of architecture and urban planning, as well as art and design in public space) that combine concern for the preservation and restoration of ecosystems with concern for a new ecology of social relations (particularly in urban environments). The approach adopted will be clearly trans-disciplinary, and will endeavor to create links with project teaching.

The seminar will include an introductory course on research and methodology. Students’ active participation in the course (through presentations and intermediate exercises) will be highly valued. At the end of semester 7, students will be required to finalize a pre-dissertation.

Semester 7 should enable students to define their subject and bibliographical references. Appropriate exercises will be offered throughout the semester.

Indicative bibliography (22 titles in French or translated)
Félix Guattari, Les Trois Écologies, Galilée, 1989.
Félix Guattari, Chaosmose, Galilée, 1992.
Bruno Latour, Politiques de la nature, La Découverte, 1999.
Bruno Latour, Where to land, La Découverte, 2017.
Philippe Descola, Beyond Nature and Culture, Gallimard, 2005.
Isabelle Stengers, Au temps des catastrophes, La Découverte, 2009.
Donna Haraway, Vivre avec le trouble, Les empêcheurs de penser en rond/La Découverte, 2020.
Donna Haraway, Cyborg Manifesto and other essays, Exils, 2007.
Timothy Morton, Ecological thinking, Zulma, 2019.
Timothy Morton, Being Ecological, Zulma, 2018.
Anna Tsing, Le champignon de la fin du monde, La Découverte, 2017.
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Métaphysiques cannibales, PUF, 2009.
Arturo Escobar, Thinking with the Earth. Une écologie au-delà de l’Occident, Seuil, 2018.
Achille Mbembe, Brutalisme, La Découverte, 2020.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Épistémologies du Sud, Desclée de Brouwer, 2016.
Donna Haraway and Cary Wolfe (dir.), Manifeste des espèces compagnes, Presses du réel, 2021.
Isabelle Stengers and Philippe Pignarre, La sorcellerie capitaliste, La Découverte, 2005.
Val Plumwood, Feminism and the Mastery of Nature, Routledge, 1993 (selection en français dans anthologies).
Rosi Braidotti, Métamorphoses. Genre et subjectivité à l’époque de la mondialisation, Seuil, 2002.
Paul B. Preciado, Un appartement sur Uranus, Grasset, 2019.
Malcom Ferdinand, Une écologie décoloniale. Penser l’écologie depuis le monde caribéen, Seuil, 2019.

Acquire the foundations of a culture of landscape through the diversity of approaches to it, and their architectural relevance.
Explore the contributions of landscape thinking to the design and implementation of projects for transforming places: architectural projects, urban projects, artistic projects, territorial projects, landscape projects, etc.
Question the cultural models underpinning contemporary policies for regional planning, “landscaping” and ecological transition.

Active participation in seminar sessions and contribution to discussions based on readings throughout the semester.

The seminar (28 hrs) is organized around papers presented by members of the teaching team and external guests from the fields of landscape, architecture and the city, as well as the arts, sciences and literature. It gives rise to exchanges centered on the fundamentals of landscape.
Thesis follow-up (21h) is carried out in a group session in conjunction with the optional MIR7: Initiation to Research.

A bibliography of references will be distributed during the course.

All of planet Earth’s major systems (water, CO2, biomass and sediment cycles, ecosystems and climates) are changing and shaping a planet without precedent, identified by this new geological era called the Anthropocene.
The history of the planet and living worlds appears to be an unstable construction in which we are involved, particularly as architects, while human construction and the Earth system now form a fragile, interdependent whole.
This context is echoed in an ever-growing number and diversity of architectural productions, which are creating a new art of human settlement on the planet.
In the seminar, we therefore posit that architecture is one of the emblematic practices of this anthropocenic context: in charge of human installations, it offers numerous palettes of intervention, with regard to unprecedented ecological, social, political and aesthetic issues.

It is around these new urban and landscape architectural cultures, sensitive as much to objects as to environments, that the seminar unfolds its program and supports students in their personal research work.
Through theoretical investigation as much as through the study of the current diversity of alternatives, innovations and professional cultures, the aim is to work on the future of urban architecture and territorial planning from a perspective of inhabited environments.

The seminar provides the opportunity to develop a personal research project that can be built up in several ways
– By studying innovative projects, to better document and understand the contemporary construction of inhabited environments
– By carrying out a theoretical investigation based on a notion you wish to explore in greater depth,

Each topic should be an opportunity to build your research program, to construct your Master’s learning project. The seminar is a place to support you in this process.

Over and above the various presentations and methodological workshops, individualized coaching is seen as the accompaniment of a creative process.
The seminar aims to build a close relationship between theory and practice. It therefore welcomes questions of design in order to open up new opportunities for each participant to strengthen his or her critical culture and enrich his or her thinking on architecture and his or her own project practice.

methodological workshop sessions give rise to regular work, in the form of workshops
The gradual definition of the individual dissertation is organized both collectively and individually.

This seminar is a place for twofold development:
-Collective, that of the construction of an analytical and critical way of thinking about international human spatial productions and their mutations over time.
-Individual, that of the workshop, patient and cumulative, of the making of the master’s thesis, based on the reasoned construction of a specific subject and problematic, a referenced corpus, as well as a posture specific to each student.

CPL / JJ / VL

– Course and reading notes.
– A thematic dossier.

Lectures in French.
Languages accepted (individual corrections): Spanish, English, Portuguese, Italian, Vietnamese.
Assignments:
– Notes from lectures and readings to identify and construct a research object and a personal problematic.
– A thematic dossier to prepare the individual dissertation corpus.

This seminar initiates the work leading up to the production of a dissertation at the end of the Master’s cycle. Over the course of the semester, students will:
– determine the field of study and nature of the dissertation they will be developing
– gather useful “materials” by compiling a bibliography
– identify questions and pose a problematic through the production of a first dissertation model.

Continuous assessment: 50% (seminar participation) – final document assessment: 50%.

At the end of the semester, submit a document containing the work carried out during the semester: title, pre-problematic, annotated bibliography with reading notes, initial iconographic base, initial results of the work (e.g. interview report) and work plan for the following two semesters.

Teaching team 2025-26:
Pierre Chabard / Sophie Descat / Marilena Kourniati

Occasional contributors: Diane Aymard, Pierre Farret, Pauline Vachon.

The environmental and social debates that inform architectural practice today call for new ways of thinking. We propose to use the “Critique and Histories of Architecture” seminar as a collective and inclusive framework for exploring emerging issues and renewing knowledge by mobilizing the tools of history, a discipline that Manfredo Tafuri once saw as “a perpetual contestation of the present (1)”.

(1) Manfredo Tafuri, ‘Théories et Histoire de l’Architecture’, Paris: éditions S.A.D.G., 1976 (1968), p.307.

Attendance compulsory. Continuous assessment (active participation in classes + regular reports) + ‘Mémoire-Intentions’ dossier due at the end of the semester.
Identical reports but adapted timetable for Erasmus students.

The life of the seminar alternates between several types of sessions: courses that feed into the seminar themes, lectures by external speakers on specific points, on-site visits depending on the occasion and the themes dealt with; a collective reading workshop and regular dissertation follow-up sessions.
This first semester of the seminar should lead to the drafting of a detailed research project and bibliography. To this end, the work will focus on exploratory research, the construction of a problematic, the elaboration of a state of the question and the choice of a field.

Main works :

Pierre CAYE, Durer. Éléments pour une transformation du système productif, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 2020.
Beatriz COLOMINA, et al. (dir.), Radical Pedagogies, Cambridge (MA), MIT Press, 2022.
Philippe DESCOLA, Par-delà nature et culture, Paris, Gallimard, 2005.
Tim INGOLD, Faire: Anthropologie, Archéologie, Art et Architecture, Paris, Dehors, 2017 (1st ed. in English, Routledge, 2013).
Bruno LATOUR, Où atterrir? Comment s’orienter en politique, Paris, la Découverte, 2017
Jeremy TILL, Architecture Depends, Cambridge (MA), MIT Press, 2009.

Little thought has been given to how architectural projects are produced and evaluated. Today, this questioning cannot do without examining the primary instrument of design: the brain. But the brain does not function in isolation, floating in an ether of ideas. It is embodied in a body and integrated into an environment. It reaches out to the outside world through mediating instruments. Traditional tools (paper, pencil, tee, square, compass, etc.) and digital tools (computer, screen, keyboard, mouse, etc.) support a wide range of supports and catalysts for project thinking: the oldest, such as sketches, geometrics, descriptions, vocabularies and physical models, but also the most modern, such as digital models, algorithmic processes, multi-agent systems, shape grammars and artificial intelligence.

It is this embodied and instrumented conception of the project that the seminar ‘Savoirs des Activités de Projet Instrumentées’ (formerly Design Activities and Instrumentation) proposes to explore with students over three semesters. The seminar’s research focus, which could be described as metacognitive, cuts across a number of themes: constructive thinking, tectonics, ecology, the digital, materials, perception, emotions, empathy…

Assessment of the dissertation’s problem statement, giving an account of the scientific questioning, bibliographical study and research methodology envisaged.

Readings in popular science, followed by readings of scientific articles. If necessary, creation of a corpus. Drafting of a problem statement and research schedule.

The aim of the ‘History and Practices of Building Transformation’ seminar is to develop, through the production of a dissertation, a reflection based on the specific tools of historical research, in the fields of architecture, cities, territories, techniques and heritage. The aim is to shed light on how decisions are made, the players involved, the terms and conditions of debate, the values called upon, how the policies adopted are applied and implemented, and the concrete practices involved in transforming buildings.

The dissertation must demonstrate mastery of research methods: definition of an original subject, clearly defined in terms of issues and chronological and geographical boundaries; production of a state of the art; presentation of the sources used; creation and implementation of
research tools specific to the subject studied (databases, maps); development of a problematized plan, writing of a scientific text.

While topics can cover any geographical area and any period, including the most contemporary, the sources to be mobilized, whether written (archives, journals, publications) or oral (interviews), must be clearly defined, located and accessible during these three
semesters.

Regular presentation of dissertation work and other seminar assignments throughout the three semesters.

For mobile students:
Assignments are the same as for other seminar students, but are monitored on an individual basis via videoconference.

With an international dimension and an open vision of the notion of heritage, this seminar questions the policies and mechanisms of protection and conservation, as well as the logics of consumption or reuse of cultural heritage, whether tangible, intangible or dematerialized, protected or unprotected. It thus stands at the crossroads of the architectural, social, environmental, political and normative issues involved in heritage production. From this perspective, it raises the question of temporal reconfigurations, social productions and appropriations of built heritage, with a particular focus on the expertise, competence and legitimacy of heritage “makers”, with a particular interest in mediation, experimentation and heritage awareness-raising. This seminar aims to become a privileged framework for analyzing the spatial effects of financing mechanisms that complement ministerial policies (such as the Loto du patrimoine or participatory financing), with a particular focus on rural areas or areas in decline. These rural areas, which are often the focus of competitive tourism and revitalization initiatives, as well as cultural and natural landscapes, small and medium-sized towns and urban renewal districts, will all be at the heart of our research. Last but not least, this seminar will examine the growing importance of innovation, from participatory and inclusive approaches to virtual reality.

The teaching team – made up mainly of teacher-researchers from the Espace Transformations Laboratory of the UMR CNRS Lavue – and invited guests, will present case studies from France and abroad: Italy, Romania, China, Japan, Nepal, USA…

Assessment is based on a number of intermediate exercises and regular monitoring of work on the dissertation. Course attendance and participation are taken into account in grading. Pre-thesis validation required.

Reading exercises and critical analysis of texts suggested by teachers.

BENHAMOU F., Economie du patrimoine culturel, Paris, ed. La Découverte, 2012.
FLICHY P., Le Sacre de l’amateur, Sociologie des passions ordinaires à l’ère numérique, Seuil, coll. “La République des idées”, 2010.
FLON É., Les Mises en scène du patrimoine : Savoir, fiction et médiation, Paris, Hermès Sciences-Lavoisier, 2012.
GRAVARI-BARBAS M. (dir.), Atelier de réflexion prospective ” Nouveaux défis pour le patrimoine culturel “, état de l’art, consortium PA.TER.MONDI, Paris: EIREST, Université Paris 1, Agence nationale de la recherche, 2014a.
GRAVARI-BARBAS M. (dir.), Atelier de réflexion prospective ” Nouveaux défis pour le patrimoine culturel “, rapport final, synthèse des travaux du consortium PA.TER.MONDI, Paris: EIREST, Université Paris 1, Agence nationale de la recherche, 2014b.
GRAVARI-BARBAS M. (dir.), Habiter le patrimoine. Enjeux, approches, vécu, Rennes, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005.
HEINICH N., La Fabrique du patrimoine. De la cathédrale à la petite cuillère, Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, coll. “Ethnologie de la France”, 2009a.
IOSA I., “Ecueils du patrimoine affranchi du territoire à l’heure du numérique: limites d’une gestion managériale et dématérialisée de châteaux en ruine”, Territoire en Mouvement, 53-54/2002, https://journals.openedition.org/tem/9218
IOSA I., ” Le Patrimoine à l’encan “, Métropolitiques, le 13/09/2018, https://www.metropolitiques.eu/Le-patrimoine-a-l-encan.html
MERCKLE P., Sociologie des réseaux sociaux, La Découverte, coll. ” Sociologie “, 2011.
PINSON G., La Ville néolibérale, PUF, coll. ” Sociologie et Sciences de l’éducation “, 2020.

This seminar focuses on the architectures of collective life: from built heritage to territory, from urban fragment to public space. Based on historical and contemporary cases of varying scales, and on built and unbuilt projects, the aim is to make visible uses, spatial arrangements, types and transformations, with regard to issues of sharing, neighborliness and coexistence, which intrinsically link society and the environment.
Tools for territorial, typological, morphological and structural analysis, as well as a range of theoretical texts and documentary resources, are used to characterize these collective architectures as singular or serial objects. The production of original drawings is combined with reasoned reflection and investigation to produce a truly architectural research project.

– Registration: julien.joly@paris-lavillette.archi.fr // anne.portnoi@paris-lavillette.archi.fr // catherinedeschamps45@yahoo.fr

Attendance; contribution to discussions; reading sheets; validation of pre-dissertation stages 40% continuous assessment and 60% final report (pre-dissertation).

Reading exercises and critical analysis of texts suggested by teachers.

Angélil Marc and Malterre-Barthes Charlotte, 2022, Immigration et ségrégation spatiale. L’exemple de Marseille, Parenthèses.
BARTHES Roland, 2002, Comment vivre ensemble : simulations romanesques de quelques espaces quotidiens : notes de cours et de séminaires au Collège de France,1976-1977, Paris, Seuil.
BAXANDALL Michael 2000 Formes De L’intention: Sur L’explication Historique Des Tableaux. Nîmes: J. Chambon.
BOUCHERON Patrick, 2018, “Ecrire l’histoire des futurs du pass”, in, Boucheron and Hartog, L’Histoire à venir, Toulouse, Editions Anacharsis
Bourdon Valentin, 2021, Les occurrences du commun: vers de nouvelles homogénéités urbaines, Geneva, MētisPresses.
Brundtland Gro, 2017, Our Common Future, Macat Library.
BURGEL Guy, 2012. La Ville Contemporaine Après 1945: Histoire De L’europe Urbaine 6. Paris: Seuil.
CHARVADES Benjamin, DUFIEUX Philippe, MULLER François-Frédéric, 2017, “Les enjeux théoriques de la réhabilitation” Proceedings of the 3rd seminar of the Réseau Architecture Patrimoine et Création. Lyon: Presses architecturales de Lyon.
Chermayeff Serge, ALEXANDER Christopher, 1963, Community and Privacy: Toward a New Architecture of Humanism. 1. ed. Garden City N.Y: Doubleday.
Collective, 2021, Communities at Work: exhibition, Venice, French Pavilion of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, May 22 to November 21, 2021, Paris: Dominique Carré.
Cupers Kenny, 2016, “Mapping and Making Community in the Postwar European City”, Journal of Urban History, vol. 42, n° 6 : 1009-1028.
Cupers Kenny, 2018, La banlieue, un projet social, Editions Parenthèses.
Dardot Pierre, 2014, Commun: essai sur la révolution au XXIe siècle, Paris, la Découverte.
DUBY Georges. 1980-1985. Histoire De La France Urbaine. Paris: Seuil.
FREDET Jacques, 2018, Architecture: Mettre en forme et composer. Paris: Editions de la Villette.
FREDET Jacques, 2020. Types Courants De L’architecture Mineure Parisienne. Paris: Editions de la Villette.
GAUTHIEZ, Bernard, 2003 Espace urbain: vocabulaire et morphologie. Paris: Monum, Editions du patrimoine.
Glendinning Miles and Muthesius Stefan, 1994, Tower block: modern public housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland, New Haven, Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art by Yale University Press.
GRAF Franz, 2014 Histoire matérielle du bâti et projet de sauvegarde devenir de l’architecture moderne et contemporaine. Lausanne: Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes
GRAF Franz, DELEMONTEY Yvan, 2020, Histoire et Sauvegarde de l’architecture Industrialisée et Préfabriquée au XXe Siècle. Lausanne: EPFL Press.
GRAF Franz, MARINO Giulia, 2016, Les dispositifs du confort dans l’architecture du XXe Siècle : Connaissance et stratégies de sauvegarde. Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes.
Habraken N. J., 1999, Supports: An Alternative to Mass Housing, 2nd editionUrban International Press.
ifa e.V., Stuttgart, 2018, An atlas of commoning: places of collective production, Berlin, ARCH+ Verlag.
Jeudy Henri-Pierre, 2007, L’Absence d’intimité: Sociologie des choses intimes, Belval, Circé.
Leach Neil, 2003, “Belonging”, AA Files, no. 49: 76-82.
Lenel Emmanuelle, [n.d.], “Une architecture communautaire contemporaine : idéologie, spatialité et appropriations du modèle du cohabitat”, SociologieS.
Lewis Michael J., 2016, City of Refuge: separatists and utopian town planning, Princeton (N.J.), Princeton University Press.
LUSSAULT, Michel, LEVY Jacques, 2013, Dictionnaire de la géographie et de l’espace des sociétés. Paris: Belin
Magnaghi Alberto, 2003, Le projet local, Sprimont (Belgique), Mardaga.
MALVERTI, Xavier and PINON Pierre (dir.), 1997, La ville réguliére. Modele et tracés, Paris: Picard
MANGIN David and PANERAI Philippe,1999. Projet Urbain. Marseille: Parenthèses.
MAZZONI Cristiana. 2013, La Tendenza: Une Avant-Garde Italienne 1950-1980. Marseille: Éd. Parenthèses.
MORDILLAT Gérard and CLERC Christophe, 2022, “Le monde et sa propriété (4/4) – Posséder la Terre”, Arte documentary.
PANERAI Philippe, 2008. Paris Métropole: Formes et Échelles du Grand-Paris. Paris: Villette.
PANERAI Philippe, DEMORGON Marcelle and DEPAULE Jean-Charles 2018. Urban Analysis. [New edition 2018] ed. Marseille: Editions Parenthèses.
Ring Kristien, 2013, Selfmade City: Berlin : Stadtgestaltung und Wohnprojekte in Eigeninitiative = Self-initiated urban living and architectural interventions, 2. AuflageBerlin, Jovis.
ROULEAU Bernard, 1985. Villages Et Faubourgs De L’ancien Paris: Histoire D’un Espace Urbain. Paris: Éd. du Seuil.
Russell Bertrand, 2002, In Praise of Idleness, Paris, Allia.
Scanlon Kath and Arrigoitia Melissa Fernández, 2015, “Development of new cohousing: lessons from a London scheme for the over-50s”, Urban Research and Practice, vol. 8, no. 1: 106-121.
Schmid Susanne, 2019, A History of Collective Living: Models of Shared Living, De Gruyter.
STERN Robert FISHMAN A. M. David, TILOVE Jacob 2013. Paradise Planned: The Garden Suburb and the Modern City. New York: Monacelli Press.
Taricat Jean, 2013, Suburbia: a liberal utopia, Paris, Édition de la Villette.
Testart Alain, 2003, “Propriété et non-propriété de la terre: L’illusion de la propriété collective archaïque (1re partie)”, Études rurales, n° 165/166 : 209-242.
Tönnies Ferdinand, Mesure Sylvie, and Bond Niall, 2010, Communauté et société, Paris, Presses universitaires de France.
TOPALOV Christian. 2010. L’aventure Des Mots De La Ville. Paris: R. Laffont.
TSIOMIS Yannis, SECCHI Bernardo, 2008. Matières De Ville: Projet Urbain et enseignement. Paris: Éditions de la Villette.
Young Michael Dunlop and Willmott Peter, 2011, Family and kinship in East London, London, Routledge.
ZELLER Olivier and PINOL Jean-Luc. 2012. Histoire De L’europe Urbaine. 3 La Ville Moderne Xvie-Xviiie Siècle. [Paris: Éditions Points.