ENSA Paris-la Villette’s research teams work in the fields of architecture, urban planning, territories and landscapes, drawing on philosophy, sociology, anthropology, history, geography, digital humanities, cognitive sciences and design sciences.
There are six of them, belonging to CNRS joint research units or reporting to the French Ministry of Culture.
AHTTEP complements and extends the lines of research pursued at ENSAPLV, in particular through its historical approach. This involvement is conceived as a resource for the development of new ways of looking at the major issues of our contemporary era as they affect our built and organized environment: the environmental and energy crises, the phenomena of metropolization and the globalization of trade, etc.
The aim is to question architecture as a cultural field through its various forms of mediation. Research programs include the history of construction techniques and urban engineering, intercontinental material and immaterial exchanges, and the relationship between transport, urban form and urbanization.
Direction: Antonio Brucculeri
This is a multidisciplinary team of historians, geographers, philosophers, architects, landscape architects, visual artists and artists. The common aim of the members of the AMP research team is to think and rethink human works, so that their inscription on the earth contributes to the creation of sustainable, habitable and liveable environments: works that are concerned with their effects.
Management: Rosa De Marco, Olivier Jeudy and Christian Pédelahore de Loddis
Architecture, urbanism, philosophy, the epistemology of the project, architectural invention, design tools and the representation of architectural invention, as well as new settlement issues related to natural hazards, are the laboratory’s main areas of research.
GERPHAU welcomes researchers from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds (architects, urban planners, philosophers, landscape architects, visual artists, ecologists, etc.).
Director: Xavier Bonnaud
The LAA is working to define an anthropology of urban and territorial transformation as a collective process in which the material fabrication of space is only one of its components. Observation of space “in the making” is critically combined with ethnography and analysis of the various figures (inhabitants, architects, decision-makers, etc.) who contribute to and participate in the transformation. The aim of the LAA is to keep together these three moments and their intertwined and confronting horizons in the life of the city: the “inherited city”, the “present city” and the “projected city”.
Management: Alessia de Biase
The LET’s interdisciplinary approach is built around teachers and researchers from the fields of architecture, urban planning, sociology and management sciences. The team studies the changing modes of action contributing to the making of architectural and urban spaces, with a particular focus on processes, trades and uses. The team helped found the Réseau activités et métiers de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme (Ramau). With this network, LET is interested in the diversity of professionals, the skills they mobilize and the relationships they maintain with each other.
Management: Véronique Biau, Michael Fenker and Jodelle Zetlaoui-Léger
The team’s research program is aimed at two types of output: the production of knowledge on design activity and its digital aids, and the production of new tools for the design, conservation and valorization of architecture.
Director: Joaquim Silvestre
