Monstrum
a series of lectures by Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval and Jacques-Marie Ligot

Du 08.10.2024
au 28.01.2025
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Wishing to accompany students in a process of critical questioning of architectural norms, Monstre, from the Latin monstrare, invites us to look at the blurring boundary between monsters and marvels, and to tame unsuitable, decried and disturbing architecture..

This series of lectures, proposed by Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval and Jacques-Marie Ligot, is an opportunity to reflect on how to replace them in our architectural corpus, what rites of acceptance to propose in order to re-engage bodies, how to intervene to repair-augment architecture and tame our monstrosity. Through this cycle, it seems important to take a fresh look at what monsters can teach us, by studying their impact on the city and architecture, and by observing certain restorative practices, certain symbolic displacements and thinking of architectural intervention as a prosthesis on a body in the throes of transformation.

Guest architects, professors, researchers, writers, performers and carpenters all contribute their unique perspectives on the monsters that shape us.

Guest

Tuesday, October 8, 1pm
Mio Tsuneyama, architect (Tokyo)

URBAN FUNGUS -Architecture is a complex mesh
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Tuesday, October 15, 1pm
Lydia Amarouche, Editorial Director, Shed Publishing

Expanding the Empire beyond the seas: the built archives of colonialism
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Tuesday, October 22 at 1pm
Loïc Desmonts, carpenter, Ateliers Desmonts (Nassandres sur Risle)

*From the tree to the beam: how the reappropriation of our know-how is having an aesthetic and technical impact on our carpentry.
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Tuesday, November 5, 1 pm
Sarah Nichols, Assistant Professor in Environmental, Material and Architectural Theory, EPFL (Lausanne)

*The Monstrosity of Concrete
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Tuesday, November 12, 1 pm
ASSEMBLE (represented by Camille Sineau), architecture collective, teaching staff at EPFL (Lausanne)

Methods of Assembly
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Tuesday, November 19, 1 pm
Grégory Delaplace, anthropologist, director of studies at Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris) in conversation with Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval and Jacques-Marie Ligot

Remue-ménages. Poltergeists in English homes in the 1920s.
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Tuesday, November 26, 1pm
Milena Charbit, architect, teacher and researcher at LéaV (Versailles)

Lesbian Architectures
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Tuesday December 3 at 1pm
Davide-Christelle Sanvee, performer, artist (Switzerland)

*Don't be afraid of me, I'm afraid of you!
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Tuesday, December 10 at 1pm
Valérie Mavridorakis, professor of contemporary art history at Sorbonne University (Paris)

Siah Armajani: the uncanny strangeness of ordinary architecture
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Tuesday, January 28, 7pm - hors les murs
Beatriz Colomina, architectural historian, professor, theorist and curator (USA) and Mark Wigley, professor of architecture and dean emeritus at Columbia University.

When Bacteria Rule the World: Notes Toward a Trans-species Architecture.
In partnership with the Fondation d'entreprise Pernod Ricard (Paris 8e), registration required (limited capacity)

A cycle coordinated and presented by teachers Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval and Jacques-Marie Ligot.

Emmanuelle Raoul-Duval is an architect who builds and teaches. A graduate of ENSA Paris-Belleville and HMONP holder since 2010, she first worked for seven years at Bureau des Paysages, Alexandre Chemetoff's agency. In 2017, she moved to Los Angeles, where she joined Standard Architecture and participated in juries, publications and workshops at UCLA, USC School of Architecture and SCI-Arc. On her return to Paris in 2020, she set up her own structure: ROOM atelier d'architecture.Since then, she has lectured at Ensa Paris-Est in master's and post-master's programs (DPEA Architecture Post-Carbone). She is also SG of the Syndicat de l'Architecture and a member of the UIA / UNESCO International Competitions Commission. In her work, whether built or unbuilt, architecture, culture and politics are intertwined.

Jacques-Marie Ligot questions and practices architecture by studying gestures, with particular attention to vernacular and intangible heritage. He is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale des Technologies et Industries du Bois in Epinal and the Ecole Nationale d'Architecture Paris Val de Seine. He has worked in Japan, France and Chile (Ishigami + Associates, Moreau Kusunoki, Estiera, Plan Comun). He is involved in the design of several projects in the Parc Naturel de l'Aubrac and in Finistère, working in parallel with installation, performance and text. His work has been presented at FRAC Île-de-France, BOZAR in Brussels, C.I.V.A in Brussels, Nantes (Domestic Cults) and "An Architecture of Necessity" in Visersum, Sweden. He won the Ateliers Médicis and FORTE awards for his "Atlas des gestes" project in 2022. He teaches as a part-time lecturer at ENSA St Etienne and co-curates Les Rencontres (a monthly platform for debate and conferences at the agence formalocal in Paris). He is the 2025 winner of The European Architecture Platform - Lina Community.