Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 6:30 PM at the MAMAC Auditorium – Promenade des Arts – Nice
“Intervening in Major Territories”: Sustainable development, the urban revolution of the 21st century
This conference by Christian Devillers, winner of the Nice Méridia urban planning competition, echoes the entire series of projects undertaken by both the City of Nice and the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis, in favor of the sustainable development of our territory.
Thinking about the city at the scale of the territory is a major challenge for Nice in order to ensure coherence in the development of the quality of our living spaces. Among the tools available to designers, the requirement for sustainable development is one that allows for connecting the different levels of intervention, by simultaneously acting on the building, neighborhood, urban area, and regional scales, harmonizing these various actions.
The revolution of sustainable development is comparable in importance to the urban revolutions of the 19th and 20th centuries. It is primarily a transformation in the uses of the city and its functioning, which leads to new ways of designing the urban form, its relationship with nature, mobility, public spaces, as well as governance and the participation of its inhabitants.
-Born in 1946, Christian Devillers obtained an architect’s degree (DPLG) and a master’s in urban planning in 1971. He then continued his studies with Louis Kahn in Philadelphia (USA) where he obtained a Master of Architecture and dedicated himself to research. Christian Devillers now has a dual career as an architect and urban planner. He is notably in charge of the urban project management of Nice Méridia. Devillers & Associates has been recognized with several awards including the Silver Medal from the Academy of Architecture in 1994, the National Urban Planning Grand Prize in 1998, and the Golden Pyramid in 2009.
