Reading and researching Françoise Choay's texts

an interview with Rachid Ouahes and the presentation of his bibliographic inventory

Authors

  • Priscilla Alves Peixoto Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura
  • Rachid Ouahes Université Benyoucef Benkhedda (Argel, Argélia); Departamento de Arquitetura.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18830/issn.1679-0944.n35.2023.15

Keywords:

Françoise Choay, criticism, theory, architecture, urbanism

Abstract

This interview was conducted by Priscilla Alves Peixoto, professor at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with Rachid Ouahes, professor at Benyoucef Benkhedda University (Alger 1) and author of one of the first monographs on the work of Françoise Choay. Its starting point is a general presentation of the dialogue with Rachid Ouahes. Next, the questions that allowed us to know the process of elaboration of the interviewee's monograph and the motivations that led him to undertake it are introduced. The interview also features a critical reflection by Rachid Ouahes, revisiting the work he did more than twenty years ago. To complement it, the transcription of the bibliographic inventory prepared for the monograph was also included, a list of Françoise Choay's writings published between 1956 and 1999. It is hoped that this bibliographic inventory will serve as a basis for future research.

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Author Biographies

Priscilla Alves Peixoto, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro; Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Arquitetura

Architect and urban planner graduated from the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (FAU-UFRJ) (2007); specialist in History of Art and Architecture in Brazil from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio) (2012); she holds a master's degree (2013) and a PhD degree (2018) in Urbanism from the Graduate Program in Urbanism at FAU-UFRJ. She completed a doctoral internship at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Belleville (2016) and was a visiting professor at the Université Rennes 2 (2022). She is also a professor in the Department of History and Theory at FAU-UFRJ (since 2018) and in the Graduate Program in Architecture at the same institution (PROARQ-FAU-UFRJ, since 2021) and a member of the research groups Laboratory of Architectural Narratives, at PROARQ-FAU-UFRJ, and Archives, Sources and Narratives: between the city, architecture, and design, at the University of São Paulo (USP). Additionally, she is the author of book chapters and articles in the fields of Urbanism and History of Architecture, with a special interest in historiography, intellectual biographies, architectural archives, and the history of architectural criticism.

Rachid Ouahes, Université Benyoucef Benkhedda (Argel, Argélia); Departamento de Arquitetura.

Architect graduated from the École Polytechnique d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme of Algiers (EPAU) (1978); architect at the restoration workshop of the Casbah of Algiers (1979-1980); Master in Urban Design from Cornell University, Ithaca NY (USA) (1984); architect at Mintz Associates (Boston) (1985-1986); instructor at the École Polytechnique d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme of Algiers (EPAU) (1987-1990); Certificate of Advanced Studies (CEA) (1994) and Diploma of Advanced Studies (DEA) (1999) from the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture Paris-Belleville (France); co-organizer at the Institut Français d’Architecture of the exhibition "Algiers, Urban Landscape and Architectures" and coordinator of the catalog (Paris, 2003); PhD from the University of Paris VIII Saint-Denis, "The Architectural and Urban Project" (2006); lecturer (2016 to present) of Western, colonial, and contemporary architectural history, head of the Architecture Department (2020-2023) at the University of Benyoucef Benkhedda (Algiers 1); co-author of the book "Algiers, Urban Landscape and Architectures" (2003) and the "Dictionary of French-speaking Orientalists" (2008).

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2024-02-26

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Peixoto, P. A., & Ouahes, R. (2024). Reading and researching Françoise Choay’s texts: an interview with Rachid Ouahes and the presentation of his bibliographic inventory. Paranoá, 16(35), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.18830/issn.1679-0944.n35.2023.15

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Vol. 16 No. 35 (2023): Françoise Choay's intellectual itineraries

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