Lectures given by Mr. Mathieu Lours on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 at 6 pm and Friday, March 9, 2018 at the auditorium -2 and in our "Salle Polyvalente" respectively. The organ recital will take place on Thursday March 8 at 7:30 pm at the Sacré Coeur Gemmayzé church.

Funerary architectures

How does death become memory? Often, by transcribing himself in the stone. In addition to the tomb, funeral buildings include mausoleums and necropolises in different forms according to places and times. Since the mausoleums of the Roman emperors and the first Christian religious buildings, the funerary architecture has undergone often spectacular developments. From the monumental medieval cemetery to the ideal necropolis designed by the Enlightenment architects, how can we understand these places where social memory and sacred memory meet? The study of some great examples will shed light on certain constants throughout history and civilizations. 

Architectures of the immaterial

Unlike painting and sculpture, architecture is not an art of figuration. One of its strengths is to be able to signify the immaterial, by the full and the empty, the light and the shadow, the opening and the closing, the accessible and the inaccessible. For thousands of years, sacred buildings have made it possible to signify transcendence through the suggestion of the immaterial. The forms of architecture here can come into consonance with the monumental decoration, whether figurative or not. Through the reading of several key buildings, the conference proposes to show what paths have been followed to make sacred architectures the witnesses of transcendence