Université de Toulouse 2 - Le Mirail

Faculty Member, Unité Mixte de Recherche 5136 France méridionale et Espagne : histoire des sociétésdu moyen age à l'époque contemporaine (FRAMESPA)

Other Affiliations: Université Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV), UFR d'Histoire de l'Art et d'Archéologie
Université Paris Diderot, LCAO (Langues et civilisations de l'Asie orientale)
University of Wisconsin-Madison, CSEAS

Maître de conférences

Thesis Title: Architecture et urbanisme en situation coloniale : le cas du Vietnam

About

My dissertation is entitled "Architecture et urbanisme en situation coloniale : le cas du Vietnam" (Architecture and Urbanism in a Colonial Situation:  The Case of Vietnam).

Dissertation comittee :
Flora Blanchon  Paris-Sorbonne University
Antoine Gournay  Paris-Sorbonne University
Eric Jennings University of Toronto
Emmanuel Poisson  Paris Diderot University


This dissertation aims to demonstrate how the history of architecture and town planning in Vietnam became enmeshed in the encounter of two cultures:  that of the colonized and that of the colonizer.  The goal is to first examine the diversity of cultural exchanges – both their manifestations and meanings – through the built environment, and then provide a critique of the idea equating architecture and colonial power.  In order to consider the diversity and the complexity of the phenomenon at work, this dissertation identifies the conditions of production and use of the built environment.  This study privileges three approaches.  The first considers the actors and the circulation of knowledge so as to explore the construction and the reception of the different discourses and theories that enveloped hybrid architecture.  The second approach takes into account the politics of administrating urban space by emphasizing the negotiations and the resistance to the colonial project of construction and enclosure.  Finally the third part analyzes the articulations between social and technical issues, which reveal the mechanisms constitutive of this intercultural architecture.

Contact Information