The talk is the fourth chapter of a “Next Gen” concept, developed by CAFx and VELUX, where architects of younger offices each select a dogma within mainstream architecture practice and thinking that they want to challenge. This selection then motivates them to tell about why and how they are challenging the so-called dogma and why it is necessary to renew the architecture profession. Over the year, we will invite ten younger Danish and international architectural studios challenging the status quo in architecture practice and pushing the boundaries towards a more regenerative methodology.

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Based in Paris and Brussels, the young agency Les Marneurs carries out projects on various scales: the project management of public spaces in Brussels, the design of a productive park in Charleroi, the creation of an agricultural park as well as the construction of market garden housing in Toulouse, the rehabilitation of several reading rooms in the Sainte-Geneviève library in Paris, the installation of stone micro-architecture in Sauliac-sur-Célé, as well as urban and landscape studies in La Rochelle, Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Etretat and Toulouse. In 2022, Les Marneurs won the Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes, as well as the "100 who make the city" prize list. The name "les Marneurs" first embodies their meeting at the School of Architecture of the City & Territories of Paris-Est (Marne-la-Vallée). This reference also reflects their desire to anchor the project in the field, in its relationship to the ground. By associating a landscape architect and two architects, the agency relies on very varied backgrounds and experiences. Their approach integrates the issues related to climate change at all stages of the design: from the consideration of resources (soil, water, energy, living, construction methods) and risks (urban heat islands, drought, flooding, submersion navy, etc.), from the construction of a common story to the modes of management and implementation of projects.

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The event is kindly supported by L'Institut Français.