Marc A. AWP, agence de reconfiguration territoriale
Summary - ITINERARY : Marc Armengaud (b. 1971) studied PHILOSOPHY at Sorbonne Paris 1 and Lycée Fénelon. During the 1990's, he wrote FICTIONS, SCRIPTS and ESSAYS, directed experimental MOVIES and RADIO documentaries, played the drums for post-jazz band &GEDEON, and co-founded interdisciplinary collective ATELIER WUNDERSCHÖN PEPLUM, to become AWP, an operational architecture, landscape and urban design firm in 2003. - AWP is a Paris based office for TERRITORIAL RECONFIGURATION developing design and strategy projects in connection with prospective research, in France and Europe. Projects confront HARD and SOFT dimensions of territories, rethinking networks and infrastructures in terms of public spaces (and vv), stimulating urbanity from time and interactions, generating compatibility between separated functions, sustained by storytelling architectures... - PARTNER AND ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR in AWP with MATTHIAS ARMENGAUD and ALESSANDRA CIANCHETTA. Fully involved in the conception, development and communication of operational projects, MA is specifically running research/experiment/prospective projects, including studies, exhibition curating, art direction, film and sound making, event production, and a lot of writing. - WRITING : critic, curator and author of several books, such as NIGHTSCAPES (GG, 2009, with Mt Armengaud, A. Cianchetta), and the upcoming MÉTROPOLE NOCTURNE, for the Pavillon de l'Arsenal exhibition (2013). MA was published in D'A (LE DEHORS DE L'ARCHITECTURE series), Le Visiteur, Les Carnets du Paysage, 303, Le Mook... - TEACHING : permanent teacher at the PARIS-MALAQUAIS ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL at the Ville-architecture-Territoire department. Formerly : Versailles Landscape design school, architecture schools of Marne la vallée and Versailles, guest professor at the Belgrade architecture faculty. MA gave lectures and conducted workshops in more than 70 schools and cultural institutions (architecture, design, art) in Europe and North America.
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Marc A. AWP, agence de reconfiguration territoriale
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