Teachers

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.

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.

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.

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.

NICOLAS HANNEQUIN

Founder of An Architecture Towards, a studio dedicated to architectural research since 2007.

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.

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.

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Yael Reisner

Architect

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OSA

Architect

London, UK

Ricardo de Ostos

Architect

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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

LIONEL LEMIRE

Architect

Paris, 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

ADRIEN ESPEJO FERNANDEZ

Architect / Teacher

Paris, France