Students choose between several workshops that put across the specificities of their approaches by publishing a description including all relevant information ; this description will be available on the web. The terms of choices will be communicated to each student by e-mail.
Professional focus on the art of building and urban planning
B1
16Cr
B2
16Cr
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To complete their curriculum, students chose in block 1 a workshop from the 3 following modules (12 credits) and 4 credits from the complementary courses or from individual courses.
Notice : by the end of the Masters, students should have acquired at least four credits from the `Core¿ classes (set out in the critical theory labs and classes which are complementary to the modules)
In Block 2, students choose a workshop from among the three modules proposed (12 credits) and 4 credits from among the courses complementary to the modules, or from among the Critical Theory Laboratory courses, or from among the individual courses. Students may pursue their study programme in the same subject and thus choose to do the module's in-depth workshop.
Students have the possibility, based on a reasoned proposal, to follow a curriculum consisting only of the more theoretical classes from the critical theory laboratories or courses in addition to the modules. This request must be made to the President of the Masters jury.
Choose 2 workshops amongst :
B1
12Cr
B2
12Cr
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Notice : students may only choose an advanced workshop if they hold the credits for the basic workshop in the same module.
MODULE STUDIO 1/1
The STUDIO 1/1 study path develops a consistent design process at any of the project's possible scales, from the broadest perspective to the smallest details, taking into account composition, functionality, technical requirements and sensitivity. All workshops emphasise attention to practical matters, as well as experimentation and a technical and creative approach. The workshops available explore a wide variety of fields, but have a number of things in common: they establish each project's meaning throughout its development, highlighting the necessary feedback loop between the wider and the smaller scales, they develop architecture's material aspect and they confront students with the realisation of a thought into a building project. All workshops aim at providing students with skills that prepare them to the various practices involved in managing an architectural project.
Workshops tackle all the intermediary steps between man and architecture, as well as the relation between space and structure, the envelope, the inside space, and the indoor fittings all the way down to the furniture.
Workshop A : Projects between object and architecture
MODULE KNOWLEDGE, CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE RESTORATION
Any work on heritage, whether it deals with its promotion, study, conservation or restoration, lies at the crossroads of applied sciences and human sciences. Carrying out interventions on heritage buildings - protected or not - requires calling upon technical, historical, and philosophical skills, as well as a certain receptiveness to the values of the building in question.
Courses from the module "Knowledge, conservation and restoration of heritage" aim at providing students with essential basic skills enabling them to develop a methodology that is specific to the field and to interdisciplinary dialogue. The "human sciences" branch completes the historical culture that was acquired by students during the bachelor programme by offering a more specialised and practical approach (archive search, architecture of built structures), and provides theoretical and philosophical tools that encourage students to choose which attitude they wish to adopt in the field of heritage work, all the while teaching them about current legislation and administrative issues.
The technical part tackles the history of materials and of their use, along with restoration techniques and the analysis of old structures. Courses are given as seminars, conferences and field visits. The programme's cross-disciplinary aspect is expressed in the workshops, where students are required to call upon a variety of fields of knowledge through studies and projects on the restoration of heritage buildings and built fabric, while also tackling the subjects of scenery and gardens.
2 credits from the additional module courses or from the labs critical theories or from the individual courses.
2
MODULE URBAN PROJECT AND LANDSCAPE
Taking on the challenge of sustainable development means transitioning from the cult of productivity to new forms of equilibrium between humans and their environment. Innovating territorial policies will have to be adopted, based on a new urban culture. They must aim at creating quality living environments that enable the development of human interactions centred on well-being and individual fulfilment. This makes urban projects and landscape projects into powerful tools that can communicate new visions on our society's future and act upon the quick and complex evolution that our territories are undergoing.
The project is designed from the broadest scale to the smallest details, and is adopted as a way to transcribe prospective objectives spanning multiple scales and different times, integrating how inhabitants experience space and what images the structure brings up, and enabling different forms of urban landscapes.
As such, the module offers workshops, classes and seminars that refer to thoughts and interdisciplinary methods adapted to the highly contemporary evolution of land caused by the interaction between humans and nature: towns, conurbations, neighbourhoods, countryside, large landscapes and complex urbanisation and hybrid land systems.
The questions asked call upon the interaction of various methods and fields of knowledge, enabling students to account for the complex phenomena related to the realities of urban and natural environments. They are applied to the development of concrete projects such as: development of neighbourhoods, public spaces, blocks and green areas, rehabilitation of sites, restructuring of landscapes, improvement of watercourses¿
The themes offered in workshops are all development avenues that are directly related to new professions in architecture, as well as to applied research.
Two specific programmes, which reflect on territorial issues from different approaches, are :
Areas in the process of change: urban projects
Landscape architecture
Outre le séminaire qui introduit les deux parcours et le workshop commun, l'orientation propose de nombreux moments d'interaction didactique associant étudiants et enseignants sous forme de communications, visites, voyages ou conférences dont le programme varie selon les thèmes de projet.
There is also the opportunity to go into the subject in greater depth through the second level offered by the module, both in terms of the urban project and the landscaping project. This is accessible to students who did the first level the previous year. Students from both levels (basic and advanced) work in the same workshop on common themes, as well as doing adapted exercises and pursuing various objectives.
Histoire et théories de la conservation/Restauration
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Q2
24
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Laboratories, critical theories
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The function of the critical theories lab is to establish critical and analytical processes centred on issues related to the theory, the history, the human sciences and the social sciences of architecture. These teachings train students to retrieve information, to understand and analyse sources in great detail, to compare authors in a critical way, and to adopt approaches and methodologies enabling them to develop an argument that demonstrates a certain point of view or defends a certain position.
