ARCHITECTURE AND PAIN: Neuroscience and the built environment In recent years, neuroscience has revealed that the brain reuses the neural mechanisms of physical pain in many non-physical contexts — from social exclusion to cognitive overload and even poorly designed environments. If we aspire to create architecture that is truly pleasurable, restorative, and human-centered, we must […]
Candela’s Shells Exploring the intelligence of form through geometry, structure, and space This intensive workshop offers an immersion into the work of Félix Candela, the architect-engineer whose thin concrete shell structures profoundly shaped twentieth-century architecture. Through the study of economical, structurally efficient, and spatially expressive forms, students examine the close relationship between geometry, material, […]
Pleasure(s) in Architecture Pleasure as a critical, embodied, and media-driven force in architecture This workshop examines pleasure in architecture as an active and critical condition of design, emerging from tensions between order and excess, use and event, body, space, and media. Pleasure is not treated as decorative surplus, but as a conceptual driver capable […]
A Forest RESONANCE Dream Architecture, sound, and pleasure: imagining a sensitive forest within the city A Forest RESONANCE Dream explores pleasure as a spatial, acoustic, and collective experience, questioning the presence of a foreign natural body within the city. The workshop imagines the forest not as vegetation alone, but as an expanded ecology of creatures, […]
Correspondances Music and architecture as dialoguing languages The workshop Correspondances explores relationships between music and architecture through sensitive and graphic translation processes. By considering the musical score as an open creative tool, students investigate how drawing, diagrams, and writing can express time, rhythm, intensity, and emotion. The work unfolds in two complementary phases. First, […]
Archi-Choreographic Experiments: Sites and Spatial Dispositives Join us in Paris on November 19th at 5pm ! Architect, researcher, performance-installation maker and educator Beth Weinstein investigates the field of archi-choreographic experiments in her monograph, Architecture + Choreography : Collaborations in Dance, Space and Time (Routledge 2024). The book’s forty case studies spanning four decades give […]
Intimate Connections Architecture, body, and taste: conceiving space as a sensory experience Intimate Connections explores the relationship between architecture and gustatory experience, questioning how space can extend, intensify, and transform the perception of taste. The workshop approaches architecture not as a purely functional framework, but as a sensitive device capable of acting on the […]
Emotional Artifacts Exploring light as sensory experience, memory, and spatial pleasure Emotional Artifacts explores light as an emotional and spatial language, beyond its purely technical dimension. The workshop invites students to consider light as a material capable of awakening memory, transforming the perception of time, and generating meaningful atmospheres. Through a sensitive and progressive […]
Floating Paris Exploring pleasure as ephemeral architectural action in the city Floating Paris approaches pleasure as an active driver of architectural action, directly engaging the city and the present moment. The workshop considers urban space not as a backdrop, but as a living milieu to be activated through temporary, lightweight, and performative interventions. Through […]
