About

The Pierre Paulin Cohort

This new graduation edition is rich and multifaceted.

École Camondo explores all questions related to inhabiting space, from the largest scale to the smallest. The students’ projects are markers of our time.

We discover many projects whose origins lie in the rehabilitation of an existing site.

They express a commitment to maintaining social ties within disused territories, as well as a focus on preserving resources and on reusing materials.

There is also an invitation to question social rituals and practices (bathing, the marital bed, the crematorium, etc.) and to reinvent them.

This cohort expresses an aspiration to imagine a different relationship to time, and to recognize its value. To that end, the projects offer experiences that invite everyone to slow down and to appreciate the time required to perform the rare gesture of the craftsperson.

I invite you to discover, from today, the projects of 107 students—each a singular world and a distinctive form of expression opening up before you.

A degree in interior design is achieved through the special relationship that is established between teachers and students.

A relationship of collaboration, trust and discussion that builds from one session to the next in the unique setting of tutorials: guidance provided by eight set-subject teachers, five free-subject teachers and five dissertation teachers.

Some are architects, designers, scenographers or interior designers; others are theoreticians, writers or historians of architecture and design; and some work in the grey areas between definitions and cannot be categorised.

All of them share a passion for passing on knowledge; they do everything in their power to guide their future peers through to completion of a course, with the award of a degree, the result of everyone’s dedication and efforts. In addition, there are professionals, experts, specialists, those you might call externally qualified figures, who are just as involved when it comes time for oral presentations.

They provide a discerning, fresh perspective, on the results of long months of work. They are professionals of architecture and design, teacher-researchers, experts involved in the world of creation or members of the institution chosen for the purposes of exploration for the 2018 set subject: journalists and management in the Le Monde group.

This great team makes up the board of examiners. Drawing on the diversity and complementarity of its members, the board receives, assesses and approves the work, not of one year, but of an entire five year-long course. And as each board has its own personality, you might say that this one was demanding and critical; in short, it was an excellent board.

We thank all its members.