Audrey Brantonne

Audrey Brantonne is an architect and doctoral student in architecture at OCS/AUSser (Paris-Est School of Architecture). Since 2020, she has been conducting research on small towns in Lorraine experiencing economic decline, in partnership with the CAUE (Council for Architecture, Urban Planning, and the Environment) of Meurthe-et-Moselle, where she is an architect-consultant responsible for strategic planning.

Her research is a continuation of a mission to support local authorities performing central functions in rural areas, which began in 2018. By examining the role of territorial, urban, and architectural forms in the process of devitalization, she offers a trans-scalar interpretation of the issues specific to declining rural areas (territorial balances, public policies, economic history, perceptions and representations of decline, etc.).

She is also an Associate Professor at the National School of Architecture in Nancy, where she teaches the history of urban theories and forms and leads a seminar on urban decline. She is also an associate member of the Laboratory of History, Humanities, Architecture, and Contemporaneity (LHAC) at ENSA Nancy.