Trajectories. Becoming architects : Women architects

The exhibition presents the career paths of some thirty female graduates and accredited architects from the school, as well as the results of a study on gender dynamics in architecture.
Opening on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 6pm.

Curators: Élise Macaire, senior lecturer and researcher at LET-LAVUE, Véronique Biau, state architect and researcher at LET-LAVUE, and Charlotte Aristide and Juliette Damiens, La Villette Pro project developers
Production: communication and promotion department

Exhibition open Monday to Friday 10am to 7pm, Saturday 10am to 6pm. Free admission.

* Publication forthcoming: Élise Macaire (dir.), Nathalie Lapeyre, Stéphanie Bouysse-Mesnage, Anne Labroille, Jeanne Thiriat, Audrey Bechemin, Étude sur les dynamiques de genre dans l’architecture. Pratiques professionnelles, inégalités et violences de genre, LET-LAVUE, Observatoire de l’économie de l’architecture, Ministère de la Culture, January 2025.

The round table, which takes place on January 31 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm in amphi 302, brings together a wide range of female architectural practitioners to discuss the place of women in architecture today. The participants talk about the ways in which this issue shapes the careers of women architects today, during their studies, in their day-to-day professional lives and even in moments of recognition. The discussion highlights the stumbling blocks encountered at different stages of these paths, the recurring obstacles and the decisive mechanisms, and sheds light on the role the school can play in relation to these key mechanisms.

Participants: Maud Caubet [Maud Caubet Architectes], Sara Jazayeri [Studio 360, American Institute of Architects-AIA Bronx, Pratt Institute School of Architecture], Anne Labroille [Conseil régional de l’Ordre des Architectes d’Île-de-France, Maison de l’architecture d’Île-de-France, LET-LAVUE, ESA, Association MéMo], Corinne Luxembourg [La Sorbonne Paris-Nord, Unité de recherche 7338 PLEIADE] and Gaëlle Terrisse [Ville de Bondy, Association La Cabane de la recherche, Collectif FéminiCités].

The round table is moderated by Élise Macaire, Senior Lecturer, and Juliette Damiens, Research Technician, at ENSAPLV’s LET-LAVUE.
4:30 pm – Introduction by Anne D’Orazio, Director of ENSAPLV, and Antoine Cathala, Head of Passerelle V
4:45 pm – #1 Conclusions from the survey Dynamiques de genre dans l’architecture. The effects of gender on career paths. What are the findings on women’s place in the professional world?
17h00 – #2 Interventions and discussions Women architects, professional practices and commitment
17h35 – Exchanges between speakers and with the audience
18h15 – Closing remarks by Laurence Bertaud, President of the Conseil régional de l’Ordre des architectes d’Île-de-France, Katya Samardzic, architecture advisor at the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d’Île-de-France, and Michel Terré (to be confirmed), scientific and technical manager of the ConfluencES project (ANR-France 2030).