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 worked with various agencies in Marseille on project management and project owner assistance for urban projects and public space projects.

Since 2019, she has been pursuing a doctoral thesis in architecture at the Observatoire de la condition Suburbaine (OCS, Ensa Paris-Est) and the curriculum di dottorato in Urbanistica at the Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia (IUAV) under the supervision of Paul Landauer & Maria Chiara Tosi. Her work explores the act of description and its necessity in establishing a reflexive pedagogy on the adaptation of the discipline of architecture to the territory, in the face of systemic changes induced by the new climate regime. Through this research, she investigates, among other things, the possible borrowings from three figures who positioned the act of describing as a manifest action in their own disciplines, in the face of the crises of societal and territorial representations that marked the eras in which they were contemporaries: Italo Calvino, Luigi Ghirri, and Paolo Rumiz.

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, where she has been teaching VT fields from 2018 to 2025. 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 the Suburban Condition” laboratory at Ensa Paris-Est.