Devices, words, images. Research into housing and lifestyles

Abstract

Habitat is at the crossroads of several disciplines. Since the birth of architectural research, researchers in the humanities at schools of architecture, often in association with architects, have endeavored to shed light on the relationship between an inhabitant and his or her living space. Using graphic documents, words and images, they study the effects of past and present spatial arrangements. They also analyze the way in which these spaces, both private and shared, are conceived and realized by architects and received and appropriated by residents.

Monique Eleb

Monique Eleb is Honorary Professor at the École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Paris-Malaquais. A psychologist with a doctorate in sociology, she is a member of the Architecture culture et société, XIXe-XXIe siècle laboratory, which she founded and directed from 1990 to 2012. She is a member of the MVRDV/ACS/AAF team set up to work on Greater Paris, and of the Scientific Council of the Atelier International du Grand Paris.

Her publications include Architectures de la vie privée; maisons et mentalités. XVIIe-XIXe siècles (1989, with Anne Debarre-Blanchard); L'invention de l'habitation moderne. Paris, 1880-1914 (1995, with Anne Debarre); Urbanité, sociabilité, intimité. Des logements d'aujourd'hui (1997, with Anne-Marie Châtelet); Casablanca. Mythes et figures d'une aventure urbaine (1998, with Jean-Louis Cohen); Entre voisins (2000, with Jean-Louis Violeau); Vu de l'intérieur (2011, withSabri Bendimérad); Entre confort, désirs et normes. Le logement contemporain: 1995-201 (2014, with Philippe Simon).