Dominique Rouillard

Trailblazer

Architect Dplg, PhD in Art History, Dominique Rouillard is founding member of Architecture Action sarl, office for architecture and urban design. She is scientific director of LIAT (Laboratoire, Infrastructure, Architecture, Territoire), research laboratory habilitated by the Office of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research under the Direction of Architecture and Civil Heritage (BRAUP-DAPA). She is member of the National Historical Monuments Commission.

Dominique Rouillard is a tenured professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Malaquais (ENSAPM), and adjunct professor at AMUR masters program (Architecture and Urban Planning Project Management), École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. She has been visiting professor in different international universities, and at the Ecole polytechnique fédérale of Lausanne in 2008.

Consultant for various exhibitions at the Georges Pompidou Center, Paris (Les années 50, La Ville, Archigram), her researches are focused on immediate history of contemporary architecture and infrastructures.

Main publications :

  • Architecture contemporaine et monuments historiques. Guide des réalisations en France 1980-2000, Les Editions du Moniteur, Paris, 2006.
  • Superarchitecture. Le futur de l’architecture 1950-1970, Les Editions de la Villette, Paris, 2004
  • L’Institut d’Architecture de Moscou. Enseignement et pratiques du projet d’architecture (Direction de l’Architecture), Ville Recherche Diffusion, E.A Nantes, 1991.
  • Les monuments de la langue (BRAU-DAPA) , Ville, Recherche, Diffusion, Nantes, 1989.
  • Construire la pente. Los Angeles 1920-1960 Ed. In Extenso, Paris, 1984. Translations: Building the slope. Hillside houses in Los Angeles, Arts + Architecture Press, Santa Monica, USA; re-edition Hennessy  and Ingalls, 1999.
  • Le site balnéaire, Ed. Pierre Mardaga, Bruxelles, 1984.
  • Organization of the following international conferences and research seminars as well as their consequent publications : La métropole des infrastructures (2009) ; Le temps des infrastructures (2007) ; Echelles et dimensions. Ville, architecture, territoire (2003) ; Mobilité et esthétique. Deux dimensions des infrastructures territoriales (2000).