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Presentation of the 2024 Master of Architecture Thesis Prize

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ENSA Paris-Val de Seine - 3/15 quai Panhard et Levassor, 75013 Paris
In the spring of 2024, the “Housing Tomorrow” Chair launched its Architecture Master’s Thesis Prize. Unique in its subject matter, the prize is open to Master’s students at the 23 French schools of architecture whose dissertations focus on housing. Its aim is to showcase the research work of architecture students working on this theme.
Sponsored by Catherine Sabbah, General Delegate of the Institut des hautes études pour l’action dans le logement (IDHEAL), and sponsored by Pierre Chabard, Senior Lecturer at ENSA Paris-La Villette and head of Éditions La Villette, this first edition confirmed student interest in housing-related issues: 59 candidate theses from 16 ENSAs were received.

The jury singled out three dissertations for their quality and fit with the Chair’s research themes (challenges of inhabited space; production and transformation of housing; trajectories of players):

  • Nina Salachas, Laureate (ENSA Paris-Val de Seine, under the supervision of Caroline Rozenholc), ” Architecture et précarité: Quels sont les rôles et les méthodes développés par les architectes d’aujourd’hui afin d’agir contre l’habitat informel et précaire en Europe? “
  • Lisa Bousseau, Mention (ENSA Nantes, under the direction of Marie-Paul Halgand), ” L’espace domestique à l’épreuve de la vie en migration. Moroccans living in Nantes “.
  • Aurore Lacoste, Mention (ENSA Paris-la Villette, under the supervision of Yasmina Dris and Anne-Laure Jourdheuil), ” Transforming offices into housing. Understanding the obstacles to the mass conversion of vacant office buildings into housing. A case study of the Hauts-de-Seine department “.

The awards ceremony, open to the public, is part of the Journées nationales de l’architecture 2025 program.

Find out more about the Housing Tomorrow ChairVisit the ENSA Paris-Val de Seine website

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