Éric Alonzo

Born in Castres in 1973, Éric Alonzo, is a government-certified architect, professeur, and Doctor of Architecture.

After the release, in 2005, of his book on the genealogy of the roundabout (Du rond-point au giratoire), in 2018 he published a comprehensive work on the Road: L’Architecture de la voie, histoire et théories [ « The Architecture of the Road, History and Theories »]. This book was derived from Alonzo’s doctoral thesis from 2013 for which he won the First European Manuel de Solà-Morales Prize in 2017 as best Urban Design thesis in Europe.

At the École d’architecture de la ville & des territoires [ School of Architecture in Cities and Regions], which he joined in 2001, he gives courses on the history of infrastructures and, since 2010 he co-directs the DSA [post-Masters specialization degree] program with Frédéric Bonnet. Member of the Observatoire de la condition suburbaine (OCS, UMR AUSser 3329) , in 2010, with Sébastien Marot, he founded the periodical Marnes, document d’architecture [ Marne, Architectural Document ]. Regularly elected to official government councils since 2012, he presided the Conseil de l’enseignement [ Council of Teaching] from 2015 to 2018. He is currently vice-president of the Research Commission within the Conseil pédagogique et scientifique [ Pedagogical and Scientific Council] as well as an elected member of the Technical Committee.

Éric Alonzo is regularly called upon as a consulting expert for the ministers in charge of Urban Design and Higher Education. He also teaches at l’École des Ponts ParisTech, l’École nationale des travaux publics de l’État and at l’École de la nature et du paysage de Blois (INSA Centre Val de Loire).

From 2008 to 2009, he was Project Manager at the Ministry of Culture for the Operations Science Committee regarding the international consulting on the Greater Paris project.