Isaline Maire

Isaline Maire (1991) is an architect and urban planner. A graduate of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Marseille (2015), her aspirations for urban planning and 'territorial' architecture have led her to work for a number of different agencies and organisations, whose work questions the evolution of contemporary territories (Marseille, Milan).

In 2012, she spent a few months working for Stefano Boeri Architetti in Milan, where she was introduced to cartography through the development of territorial projects. This immersion in a new medium, borrowed from geography and here reinvested to spatially translate urban and landscape phenomena and forms, marked the continuation of her career. Following her DEA, she went on to do a Master's degree in research (2017), focusing on the development of a research methodology using cartographic writing as a tool for scientific investigation.

At the same time, from 2013 to 2020, she continued to immerse herself in the practice of cartographic drawing as part of various assignments and publications (interministerial mission for the Aix-Marseille-Provence metropolitan project, maps for the 'Connectivités' exhibition at the Mucem), and particularly at the Marseille School of Architecture, where she took part in the capitalisation of work carried out as part of the master's seminar on the '[metropolitan] atlas' (under the direction of Laurent Hodebert). From 2018 to 2021, she will be working on the publication of a book recounting the teaching experience of the 'metropolitan atlas' at the Bouches-du-Rhône CAUE.

She has also worked with various agencies in Marseille on projects involving project management and assistance with urban and public space projects.

Since 2019, she has been pursuing a doctoral thesis in architecture within the Inama laboratories (ensa Marseille) and the curriculum di dottorato in Urbanistica at the Istituto universitario di architettura di Venezia (IUAV). Her work examines the way in which the architect-urban planner uses territorial design to translate multi-disciplinary knowledge into the construction of a project, the main focus of which is the development of coastlines in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in view of the risks associated with rising sea levels.
At the same time, she is involved in various teaching activities at the Paris-Est School of Architecture and the Marseille School of Architecture. Since 2021, she has been coordinating the teaching and research chair on 'the coast as a project territory' (headed by Éric Alonzo and Sébastien Marot) and, since 2022, the research activities of the 'Observatory of the suburban condition' laboratory (headed by Paul Landauer) at Ensa Paris-Est.