The Architecture, The City

Studio-X Rio, ENSAV, CAU-PUC RJ and FAU UFRJ, invite for the lecture by Djamel Klouche and Cédric Libert.

Djamel Klouche - together with Caroline Poulin and François Decoster – founded in Paris the AUC office in 1996. The office is involved in all scales of urban design, including strategic, territorial, and local planning, urban studies, development and redevelopment projects. In 2005, l’AUC was the Winner of Palmarès National des Jeunes Urbanistes 2005, a national prize launched by the French Minister of Public Works to reward young innovative urban planning and design teams. Klouche has worked on several urban regeneration projects, particularly in the context of industrial or social housing. L’AUC was one of the ten teams selected to participate in the Sarkozy-sponsored Grand Paris Project, and Klouche was, himself, the youngest participant. Klouche is also involved as a professor of architecture in Versailles.

Cédric Libert is a Belgian architect, educator and critic living in Brussels and Paris. After graduating from the Architectural Association in London, he was part of the collective Anorak, before practicing independently, teaching and curating. He contributed to the 14th Architectural Biennale in Venice, presented in the Monditalia section, with a research project undertaken with l’AUC and Thomas Raynaud entitled 152 Mediterranea. In December 2013, he curated Detour in Hong Kong – five ephemeral constructions in the heart of the public space. For the exhibition Auguste Perret: Huit Chefs d'oeuvre !/? curated by Joseph Abram and Rem Koolhaas/OMA/AMO, Cedric Libert coordinated a studio with students from the ENSA-Versailles and presented À toutes fins utiles – a re-shaping of critical heritage inspired by the famous French architect. He has taught at ISA St-Luc Liège and ISACF la Cambre Brussels, l’Ecole d’Architecture de l’Université Laval in Québec as a Visiting Professor and l’Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris as an Associate Professor. He is currently Maitre-Assistant Associé at ENSA Versailles.