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10 – 2024
– Continuation of monthly articles for Chroniques d’architecture (31 to date), now focusing on habit@

05 – 2024
– Finalist of the Claude Parent Prize for Transgressive Architecture

12 – 2023
– Continuing research on architecture as an instrument for environments

10 – 2023
– Eric Cassar invited to Montreal Connect. Keynote on The Subtle City: Towards a Sensitive Smart-City

09 – 2023
– Arkhenspaces signs a partnership with an investor for the Active Block

06 – 2023
– Participation in the « Court for Future Generations » organized by Usbek and Rica on the theme of the dense city in Courbevoie

03 – 2023
– Feasibility of the Active Block in the East of Greater Paris

02 – 2023
– Villa H: Sketch for transforming a villa in Toulon

12 – 2022
– Arkhenspaces relocates and sets up by the water, at 70 Quai de la Loire, Paris, in a studio showcasing and experimenting with the concepts of EnVol and environmental instruments.

10 – 2022
– Eric Cassar invited by the Institut Sapiens to discuss the role of the architect in the ecological transition

09 – 2022
– Flexible office furniture concept

06 – 2022
– Finalization of the Spatial Haiku concept

05 – 2022
– IMGP3: Arkhenspaces and Atelier Totem pre-selected on the Noisy-le-Grand site with Novaxia for the Respire project: life science office

04 – 2022
– Feasibility of the Active Block in Lognes

03 – 2022
Stillness mouvement (triptych) :
 
– A formula for every space (new translated text)
 
– Architecture is an environmental instrument (new translated text)
 
– From traces field to traces song (new translated text)

12 – 2021
– Arkhenspaces invited to participate in a restricted competition for 50 housing units in Chaville

11 – 2021
(Re)Weaving the (Smart-)City Poetically, by Eric Cassar (provisional title), finalization of a book on ecological cities in the digital age (conceived in n-spaces), revisiting some texts written for Chroniques d’architecture

06 – 2021
– Finalization of the economic model for the Active Block

09 – 2020
– Relief & habitable furniture during lockdown : from living-room to living-landscape, a living experience

07 – 2020
– The active smart-building : lecture at Smart-Living Lab in Fribourg, Switzerland

06 – 2020
– OME: New concept of senior residence

05 – 2020
Le Monde interview concerning intergenerational (inclusive) housing
 
– Video interview with Cécile Maisonneuve for « La Fabrique de la cité » : Through covid city crisis

04 – 2020
– Living landscape or habitable furniture

02 – 2020
– Mediterrapolis, european smart-city

01 – 2020
– The active smart-building

12 – 2019
– Interview in the heading « City and housing » of the book DNA of tendancies 2020

11 – 2019
– Accueillir l’étrange(r) / Accogliere lo stran(ier)o, Text by E Cassar in the collective book « Coltiviamo il nostro giardano » (« Let’s cultivate our garden »)

10 – 2019
– Les Echos (platform) : For a european smart-city – letter to construction companies

09 – 2019
– Book launch « ENSEMBLE – Working with h(e)ar(t)mony » New uses, new spaces in the digital era with VINCI Facilities

07 – 2019
– Speaker in Assises de l’immobilier (AGEFI)
 
– Speaker in OpenUP Session « Living tomorrow » (Bouygues construction)

05 – 2019
Les Echos (platform) : Notre-Dame : if the churches were opened to new uses ?
 
– The agility effect : To what extent should workspaces be shared ? dialogue with Phillipe Connus, Building solution director Vinci Energie
 
– Architecture and design, actuality, fashion and inspiration by Technal : Video-interview by Eric Cassar

04 – 2019
Lecture in the Bordeaux University of architecture
 
– Lecture, Popular university of Bonneville : The subtle city : 3 ages of the Smart-city

 
– Speaker in Pro durable event with Muriel Barneoud (La Poste), Bertrand Camus (Suez), Jean-Louis Missika (Paris), Mohamed Sefiani (Chefchaouen)

03 – 2019
Eric Cassar is the 4th Girondine habitat day Grand témoin : « And if we start the Rev(s)olution ! »
 
Les Cahiers Techniques du Bâtiment n°376 Smart-city dawn (platform) : Smart city to increase cities aura

02 – 2019
« To inhabit in 20 years » report from Terra Nova thinking tank, work starting in november 2017 until november 2018

01 – 2019
Presentation of Méditerrapolis, new european smart-city project during Intodays in Palais des festival, Cannes

01 – 2019
– Interview for Info Green (Luxembourg) : Digital brings space color
 
– N-spaces chroniques (monthly column for Chroniques d’architecture) : Combining numerical and human intelligences

12 – 2018
A 6 pages interview in the book : « (Re)Penser les politiques urbaines » [Rethink urban politics] PUCA edition, Collection recherche

12 – 2018
From sensitive cities to subtle architectures : 45mn lecture in Paris Philharmonic

11 – 2018
– Lecture during the 13th Volubilis Euro-Méditerranéennes meeting (Avignon) : Landscape & digital
 
– Speaker in Build&Connect event (Strasbourg) : Rethink building towards new uses
 
– N-spaces column (monthly column for Chroniques d’architecture) : Towards expended housings (beginning)

10 – 2018
N-spaces column : monthly column for Chroniques d’architecture

10 – 2018
To Francis Pisani in Le Monde : « No limit means no town »

10 – 2018
Smart, sensitive, sustanaible ? Rethink the urban life – Debate with Nicola Delon and Carlo Ratti in Palazzo Farnese, Roma

09 – 2018
Interview for Radio-immo during « Summer school for Smart-cities »

09 – 2018
Arkhenspaces in the book « Young Visionaries: The New Generation of Architects » (ed. Braun, 2018, p. 44 – 50)

07 – 2018
Presentation during the IRI (Research and innovation Institut) seminar « Urban Intelligence after two centuries of Industrialization » with Bernard Stiegler at Centre Pompidou

06 – 2018
Live Differently : new uses and economic models : Presentation at Leonard:Paris with Michel Maffesoli and Caroline Réminy

05 – 2018
Speech at the Gadagne Museum in Lyon about « Urban utopias, cities of future … and what kind of dreamed city today? »

05 – 2018
Presentation of Endless Home project in Luxembourg during the European Congress for energy efficiency and digital transition in buildings

03 – 2018
Speech at the Axis SmartShow in Lyon about The subtle city : towards a sensitive smart-city

12 – 2017
Eric Cassar invited on France Inter in the radio show Grand Bien Vous Fasse on December 28th with the sociologist Guy Tapie

12 – 2017
Article in the Journal du Grand Paris

11 – 2017
Article « Connected buildings, yes, but to what ? » by Chroniques d’architecture

11 – 2017
Speeches :
- at the Grands Voisins in Paris on November 11th around scenography, architecture and technology
 
- at the RICS symposium in the City of architecture and heritage on November 8th
 
- on the investors national day organized by Instit Invest for November 30th – TV Show – Evolution and transformation of the big metropolis with Joël de Rosnay, Marc Bertrand (La Française), Julien Scarpa (Deutsche Asset Management)

10 – 2017
Speech at the County Council of Essonne – Land of Opportunities about the mobility in the city of tomorrow

10 – 2017
Platform in Le Monde : The smart building can transform the way you live in the city

09 – 2017
Article « The poetic architecture of Eric Cassar » by Usbek et Rica published on the site Demain la ville

09 – 2017
Eric Cassar exhibition at the Première Ligne gallery in Bordeaux from September 14th to October 8th during the Agora Biennale – Artistic performances with Alexandre Clanis, Julien Blaine, Giovanni Fontana and Serge Pey on September 21st

08 – 2017
Speech at the Summer Universities Smart Buildings for Smart Cities in Lyon on August 30th and 31st

07 – 2017
Speech at the Fabrique de la Cité in Lyon about « What digital says about the complexity of the city »

07 – 2017
Interview for TEDxSaclay about « Architecture serving the living »

05 – 2017
Interview by the Caisse des Dépôts about Endless Home

05 – 2017
Arkhenspaces is finalist of the Competition Illuminate the street of the Liberty in Dijon with the project Floraison lumineuse (Light Flowering)

05 – 2017
Platform in Le Monde : The datas in the cities, a common good inseparable from buildings

05 – 2017
Speeches :
- at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Descartes Campus) about mobility in the smart city as part of the City of Future project.
 
- in Strasbourg May 4th for the Smart City Day – Towards Smart Territories organized by the Conseil Départemental du Bas-Rhin
  
- at the CGEDD (Conseil Général de l’Environnement et du Développement durable) for a presentation of Endless Home

05 – 2017
Film about Eric Cassar and Arkhenspaces made in January 2017 by Art Interview

04 – 2017
Arkhenspaces won the Great European Prize of Innovation Le Monde – Smart Cities

04 – 2017
Speech by Eric Cassar with Nicolas Moulin in Moscow about mutualization of spaces

03 – 2017
Speech at the DLR Congress about the Smart-city

02 – 2017
Presentation of two villas built in the Var 10 years apart : the villa La Sousta finished in 2006 and the villa J finished in 2015. A film from Marie-Jo Sader made during the « Architecture à Vivre » days in June 2016 is available

12 – 2016
Publication of the French English bilingual book « The case for subtle ar(t)chitecture » written by Eric Cassar and published by Editions HYX

12 – 2016
Eric Cassar invited to speak at the Congress Entreprise du futur in Lyon on January 19th 2017 about « What can be the place of my society in the smart city ? »

11 – 2016
Interstices urbains is on the front page of URBIS Le magazine qui explore la ville with the article « Surprise Container in Taïwan »

10 – 2016
Discussion about Poetry and architecture with Eric Cassar, Julien Blaine and Jean-Paul Loubes at Agora Bordeaux

10 – 2016
Arkhenspaces goes along with Eiffage about the design of the 5G road (5th generation)

09 – 2016
Eric Cassar invited to speak on « What kind of «Smart Cities» for Africa ? » organised by « L’Afrique c’est Chic Forum » in Maison de l’architecture, Paris.

09 – 2016
Introduction to the Ecocité Descartes 2 Project

09 – 2016
Eric Cassar, in the news programme concerning Ecocité Descartes – investment program city of the future.

06 – 2016
Arkhenspaces goes on with their researches concerning dwellings working on the redaction of a guide on dwelling mutualisation thanks to digital for EPA Marne – investment for the future of cities founding by Caisse des Dépôts

06 – 2016
Invited by PUCA, Eric Cassar speaks about « the rise of private sector in the making of the city » and analyses the role of private actors in connected smart-cities.

05 – 2016
Crowdfunding campaign for the publishing of Eric Cassar’s essay « Subtle Ar(t)chitecture – towards singular and sensitive smart-buildings », from May 26 to June 25 on Kickstarter

03 – 2016
Eric Cassar guest on Parlons-Pro Actu-environnement TV program to talk about the future city : « Smart-city : the city will be connected but will it remain human ?  »

02 – 2016
Arkhenspaces city project for EPA Marne winner of City of Tomorrow french program : Ecocité Marne-la-Vallée

02 – 2016
End of works Nursery Plic et Ploc, Paris

12 – 2015
Eric Cassar is invited by NISSAN to present is vision of future cities during COP21

10 – 2015
Petal habitat quoted as development tool for wood sector

10 – 2015
End of work : Villa J, Carqueiranne, France

10 – 2015
Petal habitat – Transitory, socially-cohesive and sustainable housing – : our proposal to the refugees, migrants and precarious citizen issues as committed architects

09 – 2015
Ré-inventer Paris – The children – a new type of housings for children families / Competition

09 – 2015
Eric Cassar speaks in a web documentary on sustainable districts (Actu-environnement)

06 – 2015
City Interstices is presented during the Paris Design Days at Les arts codés, Pantin, France

04 – 2015
Wind-wing is published in the book « French architects in the world » – Holcim Awards 2014

03 – 2015
Sensitive cities to/through subtle architectures : TEDxLyon talk by Eric Cassar

02 – 2015
Opening building site : Villa J, Carqueiranne, France

01 – 2015
Eric Cassar will share his vision on intelligent green cities during a TED talk

12 – 2014
Eric Cassar speaker at a round table discussion during the conférence « Decentralised cooperation, voice of civil society and économic diplomacy » organised by le Cercle Humaniste d’Engagement et de Réflexion pour l’avenir de l’Afrique (CHERPAA) in Assemblée Nationale, Paris

12 – 2014
Guggenheim [SUN] Museum / Helsinki / Finland / Competition

10 – 2014
Interview with Eric Cassar concerning the architecture of the Universities of the 21st century (in french)

09 – 2014
New metro station / Moscou / Russia / Competition

08 – 2014
City Interstices exhibition extended untill October 2014 / Kaoshiung / Taïwan / Built

08 – 2014
VEOLIA Pavilion on well field / Livry / France / Project

07 – 2014
Construction of two new TOTAL service stations according to our concept / Lelystad and Bilthoven / Netherlands / Built

07 – 2014
HERMES Moving Pavilion / France / Project

07 – 2014
The Plovdiv Monoliths / Plovdiv, Bulgarie / Competition

06 – 2014

City Interstices, a concept of urban furniture including a new typology of public space is still exhibited at the Kaoshiung International Container Arts Festival in Taiwan.The festival has been extended until August 2014!


05 – 2014
Phoenix Palace / Fengshan, Taiwan / Competition third price

03 – 2014

City Interstices is published in Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival book and broadcasted in the documentary « 2013 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival : The Inhabitables ». The festival has been extended until may 2014.


02 – 2014
Port of Kinmen / Kinmen, Taiwan / Competition

12 – 2013
Publication of an article about Eric Cassar in Cacao magazine (Creativity – Art – Communication – Alchemy – Opinion) Paris issue : « Paris/Rebirth »

12 – 2013
Opening of The Kaohsiung International container Arts Festival 2013.

Invited architects : Eric Cassar (Arkhenspaces), Sou Fujimoto (Sou Fujimoto Architects), Francine M. J. Houben (Mecanoo Architecten B.V), Chia-hsuan Chang, Leching Chiang + Zihao Chen, I-ching Huang, Chih-feng Lin + Chi-tsun Wang, Pei-huan Tsai


12 – 2013
HK Pavillon / Hong Kong, China / Arts Pavilion Design Competition

11 – 2013
Hyperborea / Moscou, Russia / Competition : New NCCA

10 – 2013
Wind/Wing : Taichung City Cultural Center is published on the blog Inhabitat – Design will save the world


09 – 2013
Arkhenspaces is invited by the Kaohsiung fine Art museum (Taiwan) for a free project with container


07 – 2013
Herten urban service station is on Architectenweb frontpage


06 – 2013
« Architecture à Vivre » days, visit of Villa D & Villa la Sousta


04 – 2013
« Subtle Ar(t)chitecture » presented by Eric Cassar through a lecture series in Taipei, Taichung, Kaohsiung and in the main architecture universities : National Taiwan University of science and technology / National Taipei University of Technology / Tamkang University / National Cheng Kung University

04 – 2013
Eric Cassar : Speaker in symposium on Taiwan-France Cooperation in Intelligent Green Buildings at the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology : Intelligent green building through Subtle Ar(t)chitecture


02 – 2013
Construction progress for the urban service station Herten, Netherlands


10 – 2012
Urban service station / Herten, Netherlands / Start of work

10 – 2012
Publication of Villa D. in the newspaper « Les nouvelles de Versailles »


10 – 2012
Montessori school : El Nido / Poissy, France / End of work


07 – 2012
Villa D/ Paris, France / End of work


06 – 2012
« Architecture à Vivre » days, visit of Villa la Sousta


06 – 2012
« Architecture à Vivre » days, visit of Apartment F

06 – 2012
The InstrumenTower, 1000 views on youtube

06 – 2012
Apartment DA / Paris, France / Start of work

05 – 2012
Montessori nursery school / Poissy, France / Start of work

04 – 2012
Offices B / Paris, France / End of work

03 – 2012
Publication of Villa la Sousta in the magazine « Faire Faire », section extensions-renovations

02 – 2012
Publication of the CPM Offices in the book « Light in Architecture » BRAUN edition

02 – 2012
Offices B / Paris, France / Start of work – reorganization

11 – 2011
The InstrumenTower – The Taiwan reeds / Taichung, Taiwan / Competition

10 – 2011
« Commencer par créer des lieux de rencontre », publication in Environnement Magazine


09 – 2011
Villa D / Viroflay, France / Start of work

08 – 2011
Publication of the image ND city: 2nd & 3rd cover in « Europe Parlementaire »


05 – 2011
Apartment F / Paris, France / End of work

05 – 2011
Arkhenspaces is moving out. New adress of the studio: 6 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75010 Paris – France

12 – 2010
Center for promotion of Science / Belgrade, Serbia / competition

12 – 2010
Publication of the Prehistoric Museum (competition) in the book « Competition Architecture » BRAUN edition

11 – 2010
Eric Cassar receives the 2010 architecture award from the French « Académie des Beaux-arts » in Architecture, Pierre Cardin prize. This award recognizes his overall work (a prize is awarded for each art)

10 – 2010
Maritime Cultural & Popular Music Center / Kaohsiung, Taiwan / Competition

08 – 2010
CPM offices / Paris, France / End of work – conversion

07 – 2010
Villa D / Viroflay, France / Project

07 – 2010
ND town / Henna, Finland / Competition

06 – 2010
Habitat pétale / provisional settlement / Competition

06 – 2010
The Southern Star. Article in the newspaper « Tribune Bulletin Côte d’Azur », June 4, 2010


05 – 2010
Villa la Sousta / Hyères, France / add of a SPA

04 – 2010
Haussmannian Building / Paris, France / End of work – Renovation

01 – 2010
Presentation of Europan 10 projects : The Open Sky Loop (3D town) and Encima del Cielo

09 – 2009
Arkhenspaces was on Cyberarchi frontpage from september 9 to 23

05 – 2009
Tall Emblem Structure for Dubai’s Za’abeel Park (XI edition of the ThyssenKrupp Elevator Architecture Award)

03 – 2009
Exhibition in Beirut of the project House of Arts and Culture in Lebanon

01 – 2009
Research : new text online « Chaos architecture »

12 – 2008
Hong-Kong Cascade Gardens WA award winners (2nd cycle)

10 – 2008
Presentation of the 3D town projects: Estonia and Copenhagen

07 – 2008
Three texts have been translated in english by Christine Cross :


04 – 2008
Arkhenspaces supports Hittorff exhibition from april 10 to 20 in the city hall of Paris 12th urban district

04 – 2008
Part in « Architecture seeds » exhibition organized by « La Girafe » group in Tour,  France

03 – 2008
Hausmannian building /  Paris, France / renovation – project

01 – 2008
Presentation of projects competition Europan 9 : Relief (Almere, Netherlands) and The Green Town (Reims, France)

09 – 2007
Hong-Kong Waterfront projects exhibition

03 – 2007
Landscape feature for a town motorway, Middlesbroug, United-Kingdom (competition), special mention by the pannel

03 – 2007
Apartment D / Paris, France / End of work – reorganization

01 – 2007
Arkhenspaces is one of the 5 teams selected for the next phase of the « landscape feature for Middlesbrough’s A66 (UK) » competition which is run by RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects)

01 – 2007
Apartment D / Paris, France/ Start of work – conversion

09 – 2006
Villa la Sousta / Hyères, France / End of work – House extension

04 – 2006
Creation of www.arkhenspaces.net

10 – 2005
Villa la Sousta  / Hyères, France – house extension

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