PROFESSORS :
ODILE DECQ
Director. Odile Decq is an internationally renowned architect and landscape designer.
Odile Decq is an internationally renowned French architect and landscape designer. Awarded with the Golden Lion of Architecture at the Venice Biennale in 1996, she has designed several buildings that have marked the contemporary architecture, as the MACRO, Contemporary Museum in Rome or the Administration Centre of the Banque Populaire de l’Ouest in France. Also very committed in teaching architecture for the past 20 years, she launched the Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture in 2014.
NICOLAS HANNEQUIN
Referent professor, Architect.
Associate Professor of CONFLUENCE Institute for innovation in Lyon France and Adjunct Professor of the master of urban strategies at Sciences-Po in Paris. His works are in France, the United States, Belgium, and Mexico. He also holds an editorial position at the European Spectator and is a regular contributor to Raison Présente and Espace Temps. Nicolas Hannequin is an alumnus of the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris.
JACQUES SAUTEREAU
Project manager for architectural and urban research at the Ministries of Culture.
Member of the Editorial Board of the Architectural and Urban Research Papers. Responsible for numbers on the Profession of architect, City, Conception, Real and Virtual, co-leader of the number on the Pragmatic with Arnoldo Rivkin. Teacher at the School of Architecture of Versailles and at the Ecole Spéciale d’architecture. Creation of the third cycle Mutations Urbaines at the Special School of Architecture, under the impulse of Odile Decq. Teacher at the School of Confluence.
LIONEL LEMIRE
Architect
Paris, France
GUESTS :
SIR PETER COOK
Sir Peter Cook, is the founder and principal of CRAB, founder of Archigram
He is also the former Director the Institute for Contemporary Art (London) and Bartlett School of Architecture at University College (London) and has been a pivotal figure within the global architectural world for over half a century. Peter Cook’s most recent buildings include the Graz Kunsthaus, Austria, the Vienna Business and Economics University’s Law Faculty and the Bond University Soheil Abedian School of Architecture.
AARON SPRECHER
Aaron Sprecher Professor at the School of Architecture in the McGill University
In parallel, he is co-founder and partner of Open Source Architecture, a collaborative research group that brings together international researchers in the fields of design, engineering, media research, history, and theory. He studied at Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Israel and at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). His research and design work focuses on the synergy between information technologies, computational languages.
CELINE SARAIVA
Graduated from the Institut Supérieur des Carrières Artistiques in Paris in 1991.
Céline Saraiva is an art critic and exhibition curator in the field of arts and architecture. Since 2008, she teaches the analysis of contemporary architecture in various schools of architecture and pursues her activity as a journalist and critic of art and architecture. In 2013, she founded Archip’tits, an architectural webmagazine. Since January 2016, she joined the Dominique Perrault agency as editor for the production of a monograph devoted to the BnF.
CHANDLER AHRENS
Chandler Ahrens is an assistant professor at Washington University in St.Louis
He is also the co-founder of Open Source Architecture OSA is an international transdisciplinary collaboration developing research and commissioned projects. His focus is on the intersection of material investigations, environmental phenomena, and computational design processes. His teaching focuses on digital fabrication studios and seminars that produce full-scale prototypes. His work with OSA is part of the collection at the Fonds Regional de Architecture (FRAC) in Orleans, France.
JUAN VELASQUEZ
Light Architect
During design workshops, designing lighting fixtures, Juan became aware of the role of light in architecture and in everyday life. Juan teaches light in architecture schools in France and abroad for 15 years. He works with many artists and participates in the scenographic design of installations where light is always the protagonist. In 2017, he created his light design studio and is currently working between Paris, Lyon, and Bogota.
Yael Reisner
Architect
London, UK
OSA
Architect
London, UK
Ricardo de Ostos
Architect
London, UK
Reza Azard
Architect
Paris, France
Franco la Cecla
Anthropologist-Architect
Palerme, Italia
LINA GOTMEH
Architect
Beirut, Lebanon
LUKAS FEIREISS
Architect
Berlin, Germany
LUCA GALOFARO
Architect
Rome, Italia
LAURENT GRABER
Architect
Lyon, France
ANTOINE TROLLAT
Architect
Lyon, France
GEORGES TESSOT
Historian
Laval, Canada
CARL FREDERICK SVENSTEDT
Architect
Stockolm, Sweden
DAVY BRUN
Choreographer
Lyon, France
FRANCOISE QUARDON
Artist
Paris, France
CARIN SMUTS
Architect
Cap-Town , South Africa
BOSTJAN VUGA
Architect
Lubjana, Slovenia
ELISABETH BACON
Researcher in cognitive psychopathology
Paris, France
TANIA CONCKO
Architect
Amsterdam, Netherlands
ANUPAMA KUNDOO
Architect
Auroville, India
ALESSANDRA CIANCHETTA
Architect
Paris, France
ANDREA BLUM
Artist
New York, USA
TOM SHAKED
Architect
Tel Aviv, Israel
ROMAIN VIRICEL
Designer
Lyon, France
BETH WEINSTEIN
Architect
Paris, France
BRUNO DEHAN
Engineer
Lyon, France
PHILIPPE CLEMENT
Engineer
Grenoble, France
DAVOR ERES
Architect
Belgrade, Serbia
CHARLES OBER
Architect/ Teacher
Paris, France
DOMITILLE ROY
Architect / Teacher
Paris, France
MARTIN DETOEUF
Architect/ Teacher Assistant
Paris, France
RONAN LECREURER
Plastic Artist
Paris, France
JHILA PRENTIS
Architect / Teacher
Paris, France
GEROLAMO GNECCHI
Architect / Teacher
Paris, France
MAXIME BEAUDONCQ
Architect / Teacher
Paris, France