École d'architecture
de la ville & des territoires
Paris-Est

Éric Alonzo

    Born in Castres in 1973, Éric Alonzo is a DPLG architect, professor and doctor of architecture.

    After publishing a book on the genealogy of the traffic circle (Du rond-point au giratoire) in 2005, in 2018 he published L'Architecture de la voie, histoire et théories. This book is based on his doctoral thesis, defended in 2013 and awarded the First European Prize Manuel de Solà-Morales in 2017 for the best urban planning thesis in Europe.

    At the École d'architecture de la ville & des territoires, which he joined in 2001, he teaches a course on the history of infrastructures, and since 2010 has been co-director of the architect-urbanist DSA. A member of the Observatoire de la condition suburbaine (OCS, UMR AUSser 3329), he founded the periodical Marnes, document d'architecture with Sébastien Marot in 2010, and has been co-director of the partnership chair "le littoral comme territoire de projets" since 2020.

    Éric Alonzo has also been elected to the following bodies: president of the Teaching Council from 2015 to 2018, vice-president of the Research Commission on the Pedagogical and Scientific Council, and elected member of the Technical Committee from 2018 to 2022. At Université Gustave Eiffel, he is a member of the Public Policy Support Committee.

    In summer 2020, Éric Alonzo was appointed associate member of the Mission régionale d'autorité environnementale d'Île-de-France (Conseil général de l'environnement et du développement durable), and also regularly acts as an expert for the ministries in charge of urban planning and higher education. In particular, he is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Land Transport Infrastructure Ecosystem and Landscape program (Ittecop).

    He also teaches at École des Ponts ParisTech, École nationale des travaux publics de l'État and École de la nature et du paysage de Blois (INSA Centre Val de Loire).

    From 2008 to 2009, he was a project manager at the French Ministry of Culture, within the operational scientific unit of the Grand Paris international consultation.

    In October 2023, Éric Alonzo was elected Director of OCS/AUSser, the school's research laboratory.

    Enseignement
    • Enseigne en Licence – Champ Territoire
    • Enseigne en Post-master
    • Enseigne en Post-master
    • Membre de l’équipe de recherche

    Mandate at Ensa Paris-Est * Director of the OCS/AUSer laboratory

    • Director of the OCS/AUSser laboratory

    Theses defended
    L'architecture de la voie. History and theories


    Distinctions

    • Manuel de Solà-Morales European Prize 2017 for the best doctoral thesis in the field of urban planning.

    Books

    Articles and works (selection)

    • The conditions have not changed. L'héritage de l'après-Ciam", in Panos Mantziaras and Paola Viganò (eds.), Modern roots of the contemporary city: Principles and forms of resilience, Geneva, MētissPresses, 2019, pp. 105-118.
      "Une France de cartes postales", afterword in Collection Jean-Marie Donat, La France des ronds-points : Meilleurs souvenirs des Trente Glorieuses, Paris, Huginn & Muninn, 2019, p. 219-223.
      "Faire campagne: la carte, l'édifice et le chemin. Formes et desseins du périurbain", in Florian Muzard and Sylvain Allemand (eds.), Le Périurbain, espace à vivre, Marseille, Parenthèses, 2018, p. 156-165.
      "Recognizing infrastructures", Faces*,
      n° 73, winter 2017-2018,
      p. 32-35.

    Press review (selection)
    AMC du 21/06/2019
    A+ 277 of April-May 2019
    Roatitude of 22/11/2018
    Blog Sephatrad of October 2014
    Annales de la recherche urbaine