Isaline Maire

Isaline Maire (1991) is an architect and urban planner. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Marseille (2015), her aspirations for urban planning and “territorial” architecture led her to collaborate with various agencies and organizations whose work questions the evolution of contemporary territories (Marseille, Milan).

In 2012, she spent several months at the Stefano Boeri Architetti agency in Milan, where she was introduced to cartography through the development of territorial projects. This immersion in a new medium, borrowed from geography and reinvested here to spatially translate urban and landscape phenomena and forms, marked the continuation of her career. Following her DEA, she went on to complete a research master's degree (2017), focused on developing a research methodology that uses cartographic writing as a tool for scientific investigation.

At the same time, from 2013 to 2020, she continued to immerse herself in the practice of cartographic drawing through various assignments and publications (interministerial assignment for the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan project, maps for the “Connectivités” exhibition at the Mucem), and particularly at the Marseille School of Architecture, where she took part in capitalizing on work carried out as part of the master's seminar on the “metropolitan atlas” (under the direction of Laurent Hodebert). From 2018 to 2021, she collaborated on the publication of a book recounting the educational experience of the “metropolitan atlas” within the CAUE des Bouches-du-Rhône.

She has also collaborated with various agencies in Marseille on project management and project owner assistance projects for urban projects and public spaces.

Since 2019, she has been pursuing a doctoral thesis in architecture at the Inama laboratories (ensa Marseille) and the curriculum di dottorato in Urbanistica at the Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia (IUAV). Her work questions how architects and urban planners use territorial design to translate multidisciplinary knowledge into the construction of projects, with a primary focus on coastal development in light of the risks associated with rising sea levels in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region.
At the same time, she is involved in various teaching activities at the Paris-Est School of Architecture and Urban Planning and the Marseille School of Architecture. Since 2021, she has coordinated the teaching and research chair “The Coastline as a Project Territory” (directed by Éric Alonzo and Sébastien Marot) and, since 2022, the research activities of the “Observatory of Suburban Conditions” laboratory (directed by Paul Landauer) at ENSA Paris-Est.