Each year, the Cité de l'architecture welcomes a person or a team from other fields of creation or knowledge to the Critical Residence to deepen the exchange between architecture and contemporary culture.
Each resident comes to develop a research project, allowing him/her to observe the city or architecture from his/her own field: human sciences, creation, history... This project is part of the City's programmes: exhibition or seminar, production of a work, awareness-raising or research workshop.
Regular meetings within the Platform for Architectural Creation, Les Rendez-vous critiques are the moment for the confrontation of ideas and controversy against a current background. In this lively format, the invited critics (Frédéric Edelmann, Richard Scoffier, Sophie Trelcat, Philippe Trétiack) analyse architectural production in France and abroad. All types of built programs are thus sifted through, in exchanges that aim to point out trends as well as correspondences. By definition, these Critical Appointments are addressed to a wide audience, which can intervene in the exchanges.
Wars, political crises and geopolitical upheavals are profoundly transforming schools of architecture. Whether closed, relocated or reinvented, they sometimes become places of resistance and experimentation. This conference explores how conflicts are transforming the teaching of architecture, its…
Comment les artistes se saisissent-ils de la guerre, de l’expérience vécue ou des événements dont ils sont témoins, pour créer une œuvre ? Dans l’immédiat ou avec le recul du temps, la création peut-elle contribuer à préserver les traces, résister à l’effacement et transformer l’expérience de la…
Wars leave behind devastated cities, damaged heritage, and deeply scarred societies. In the face of such destruction, what approaches to reconstruction can reconcile heritage preservation, respect for local knowledge and skills, protection of ecosystems, and the rebuilding of social ties?
As part of the ‘Drawing Taiwan’ residency, Taiwanese artist and architectural historian Li Chien-Lang invites the public to discover, through drawing, the richness of Taiwan’s traditional architecture and the sensitive perspective of a master draughtsman of heritage.
Li Chien-Lang and Elsa Ricaud will share their vision of drawing: a manual art, a universal language for recording, analysing and communicating, and a means of revealing cultural hybridisation through the lens of constructive craftsmanship
![Aram Vruyr, Jurgis Baltrušaitis posant devant des khatchkars à Djoulfa dans le Nakhitchevan, 1928, tirage photographique, Paris, bibliothèque de l’INHA [Cote : Archives 190]](/sites/default/files/styles/fiche_evenement_desktop/public/images/2026-09/aram_vruyr_jurgis_baltrusaitis_-_carry_.webp?h=dafeb545&itok=sjl67WBg)