Les trois âges du paysage by Philippe Montillet

“…For a century, a third age of landscape has appeared with landscape architects and engineers. From now on, it is a matter of making the human relationships towards landscapes entering a territorial policy approach - in which numerous actors are concerned. …”
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Rétroaction dans les processus numériques de conception by Sébastien Bourbonnais

“…The computer tools used by architects have been improved significantly over the past 60 years, and they have evolved according to a complex scheme that embraces many concerns both within and outside the architectural community. …”
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Not just skin – Object module and measure module in the composition of the architectural envelope by Paola Scala

“…The opportunity presented by the call proposed by the Agathón journal serves as a pretext to initiate a reflection that, starting from Argan’s well-known distinction between object-module and measure-module, aims to highlight the relationship that exists between how architects conceive the envelope and the spatial paradigm to which they refer. …”
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Building in the 'Historic Villages of Portugal': Social Processes, Practices and Agents by Luís Silva

“…These processes implicate tensions, conflicts, negotiations and cooperation among those who intervene, above all political authorities, specialists in historic conservation (principally architects) the tourism sector, and local populations. …”
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Matérialités instables, Temporalités complexes. Stimulantes schizophrénies numériques by Emmanuel Doutriaux

“…“If with this environment you save time, you also give more time - confide the architects”. This apparent gap is questioned here. When, on the one hand, by being subject to upstream information, the project would tend to desert its floating cosa mentale nature in order to switch very quickly to trivial formalizations - from another point of view, the increase in data and the interoperability of formats would allow, by engaging the project in the field of infinite simulations, to delay any objective stability. …”
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Fronts de terres, géographie des relations urbaines et rurales par le biais des terres excavées en Île-de-France by Marie-Laure Garnier, Patrick Moquay

“…This raises the question of how landscape architects may support this transformation in the management of urban soils, from the production to the reception of excavated soils.…”
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Chimen an nou, une carte contributive pour se rapprocher du territoire by Bertilla Baudinière, Jeanne Lacour

“…This article presents a series of interactions between individual and collective practices, sensory experiences and digital tools, and a dialogue between urban architects, the GIS expert, residents and public authorities. …”
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Les natures du jardin d’installation by Nicole Valois

“…Through garden festivals such as the International Garden Festival (Reford Gardens), in Grand-Métis, Québec, professional landscapers and landscape architects have founded a new form of expression. As to knowing whether we are in the presence of a garden or a work of art, considering that, theoretically, each is examined differently, there is much to cover on the subject. …”
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Un projet de paysage intercommunal comme terrain de coopération territoriale by Benjamin Chambelland

“…This experience reveals the interrelations in the work between the various stakeholders of this project (elected representatives, department heads, city gardeners, landscape architects, urban planners, ecologists and users). These articles enabled the deconstruction of the underlying representations in landscaping policies and bring to light the necessity of a territorial cooperation based on the long-term implication of the concerned stakeholders and to propose to structure a solutions research plan.…”
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Thermal Comfort for Urban Parks in Subtropics: Understanding Visitor’s Perceptions, Behavior and Attendance by Chuang-Hung Lin, Tzu-Ping Lin, Ruey-Lung Hwang

“…The paper is an effort toward thermal comfort assessment for urban parks under the climatic conditions of Taiwan to help architects achieve better climatic design. Field interviews, observations, and micrometeorological measurements were conducted in this study. …”
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The lapidary elements of the Castle of Belvoir by Anne Flammin, Paul François, Florian Renucci

“…Without proposing to definitively settle the question, this article also demonstrates the interest of a very strong interconnection between archaeologists, stone-cutting specialists and architects allowing, around the 3D reconstruction, to propose hypotheses considering all the data of the problem.…”
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Climate Responsive Design Simulation and Modelling for Industrial Heritage by Manuel V. Castilla

“…The control of solar radiation is a basic dimension of modern design in all different types of constructions. Many architects have recently observed that different phases of sustainable design require a set of calculations and simulations that are necessary as a new standard design. …”
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Concevoir des logements collectifs en bois : un processus à l’épreuve de la technique by Mathilde Planchot, Céline Drozd, Ignacio Requena-Ruiz, Daniel Siret

“…To shed some light on these issues we report on the results of a survey conducted in the form of interviews with eight architects designing timber collective housing, who analyze their practices and the transformations they observe.…”
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Composer les paysages sonores de la présence humaine dans les parcs et jardins urbains à partir de structures spatiales by Jeanne Lafon

“…Intended for landscape architects, this article presents the role of spatial structures in the emergence of soundscapes.…”
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An ecology of space. Architectural design for transboundary relationships by Hisham El-Hitami, Mona Mahall, Asli Serbest

“…By identifying the façade as the focal point for cross-border relationships linking interior and exterior spaces, an analysis of historical and contemporary architecture shows how architects have designed transitional spaces to promote these relationships. …”
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Regarder, représenter, comprendre by Florence Robert, Frédéric Bœuf

“…In our professional practice as landscape architects, we produce images. and seek inspiration before starting projects. …”
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Concevoir et apprendre, deux expériences homologues en architecture by Marion Howa, Daniel Estevez

“…To explain the critical importance of experience in architecture, the article proposes a comparative analysis between open design practices and critical pedagogy used for training architects. Two case studies are compared : the project for the transformation of the Beutre housing estate near Bordeaux and the Learning From workshop at the Toulouse School of Architecture. …”
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La Défense / Zone B (1953-91): Light and Shadows of the French Welfare State by Pierre Chabard

“…From the slab projects of Le Corbusier and his epigones to the urban compositions of postmodern architects, along the proliferating textures of Jacques Kalisz, or the humanized ‘grands ensembles’ of Emile Aillaud, the many EPAD projects for Zone B, built or not, constitute a complete collection that documents the evolution of the ‘architecture urbaine’ from the mid 1950s to the turn of the 1990s.…”
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An architecture as a code framework to manage documentation of IT projects by Christophe Gaie, Bertrand Florat, Steven Morvan

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Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Preparing a Firewise Plant List for WUI Residents by Anna L. Behm, Alan J. Long, Martha C. Monroe, Cotton K. Randall, Wayne C. Zipperer, Leslie Annie Hermansen-Baez

“…Extension agents, nursery personnel, landscape architects, or urban foresters may use this publication for preparing local firewise plant lists in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). …”
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