Confluence Institute for Innovation and Creative Strategies in Architecture

One of the 11 greatest women architects of all time.
That’s our founder, Odile Decq — recognized by AD France for a career that has broken every rule in the book. This is the spirit we build on every day at Confluence.

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Final models from the “LANDARCHITECTURE” studio led by .azard

Final models from the “LANDARCHITECTURE” Studio led by .azard

Students’ final work for “LANDARCHITECTURE” studio led by .azard

Final works for “Unfolding spaces” by

This workshop explores drawing as a tool for thinking and design, based on observing and experiencing space. It’s for architecture students and aims to develop their ability to create forms connected to real spatial situations.

This week, Confluence Institute hosts two simultaneous workshops led by Didier Faustino and Joë Andrianomearisoa,

At the same time, the school will take part in RIBA Week, whose 2026 theme focuses on “housing.” Taking advantage of the two workshops, a special event will be organised with the students. It will feature short presentations by each artist/architects, followed by a conversation between them and an open discussion with the audience.

The event will explore an expanded understanding of “housing,” through the distinct perspectives of Didier Faustino and Joël Andrianomearisoa, particularly in the way they each connect architecture and art. This event aims to stimulate contemporary debate and foster exchanges between architecture and other disciplines.

Join us today for a debate on the need of a new vision of architecture, with Igor Siddiqui, Francis Rambert et Odile Decq !

Join us in Confluence Institute for the launch of Oblique Experiments !

With the radical proposition of life on inclined planes—a theory known as the oblique function—the French architect Claude Parent sought to free architecture of orthogonal form, renew its social relevance, and inspire people’s interest in the built environment.
 
Oblique Experiments: Claude Parent’s Architectural Installations (1969-1975) explores the significance of a series of temporary interventions that he designed in an attempt to convert his theory into practice. Referred to as practicables, these installations incorporated oblique geometries, involved interdisciplinary collaboration, and made themselves at home in existing buildings, often inside of French cultural centers known as maisons de la culture.

Using rarely published archival materials as well as new drawings produced by the book’s author, Oblique Experiments brings long-overdue attention to this series of architectural experiments with enduring intellectual and creative appeal. Moreover, the book prompts the reader to imagine the radical potential of obliqueness in a range of contemporary practices—beyond the literal prospect of life on sloped floors.

As such, Oblique Experiments builds upon Parent’s work in order to imagine new forms of experimentation in architecture, design, and art.

DATE: TUESDAY, MARCH 17, 2026
TIME: 6PM
LOCATION: CONFLUENCE INSTITUTE, 11 RUE DES ARQUEBUSIERS, 75003 PARIS

A Forest RESONANCE Dream was a workshop led by Ricardo de Ostos that explored architecture as a spatial, acoustic, and performative practice, where pleasure emerges through resonance, rhythm, and collective imagination.

Inspired by William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the workshop approached the forest not as a natural backdrop, but as a living ecology of sound, myth, and transformation, a space where reality slips into fiction and architecture becomes an active participant.

Over several days, students developed small-scale architectural creatures: resonant objects, acoustic models, and performative devices. Through sketches, material experiments, improvisation, and sound exploration, each project investigated vibration, echo, friction, and resonance as architectural matter.

The workshop framed pleasure as an embodied experience. Students learned to work with sound as space, testing how these creatures could activate environments through listening, interaction, and performance.

The week culminated in a collective installation and live performance, forming an enchanted forest of sound and light, a resonant retelling of Shakespeare’s dream.

With Ricardo de Ostos.