The Confluence is a new alternative school based on architecture and research in Lyon, France.
The Confluence: an educational approach that is open, alternative, collaborative and innovative.

The Confluence proposes:

To construct an unparalleled understanding of architecture at the intersection of disciplines,
To cross prospective and experimental visions,
To create an appetite for engagement,
To generate unforeseen alternatives,
To resist the uniformity  of production and imposed standards,
To question and go beyond the implicit limits of architecture in order to create unimaginable opportunities.

Anchored in the economy of the world, the Confluence is a site of synergies, a site of hybridization.
Architects, critics, artists, thinkers, philosophers, film-makers, scientists, engineers and manufacturers work together to share knowledge and discoveries. Without stylistic prejudice or ideology, a diversity of cultures, knowledge and practices makes it possible to develop  ideas and projects in order to imagine all that is possible.
Intuition, analysis, confrontation, reaction, beginnings, destabilization, emulation, convergence – the Confluence.

FOUNDERS:

Odile Decq - Architect Urbanist, Paris
Philippe Barrière - Architect Teacher, Quebec
Matteo Cainer - Architect Curator, Paris/London
Sony Devabhaktuni - Architect Researcher, Paris/Lausanne
Jean-Christophe Quinton  -  Architect  Teacher, Paris

The curriculum at Confluence is organized around five thematic fields – Neuroscience, New technologies, Social Action, Visual Art, and Physics – taught in transversal and non-hierarchical ways and structured around contemporary questions that respond to social concerns. Students are given the autonomy to construct their own research programs based upon their specific preoccupations.

Admissions are open now!

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