Entre ethos professionnel et logiques d’entreprises : La recherche et l’innovation dans les agences d’architecture

• Main Author: Mélanie Guenot
• Format: Article
• Language: fra
• Published: Ministère de la culture 2020-12-01
• Series: Les Cahiers de la Recherche Architecturale, Urbaine et Paysagère
• Subjects: Research; Innovation; Agency; Profession; Public Policy
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/craup/5891

Encouraged by an incentive and reforming public policy, agency executives are showing a real interest in integrating research or innovation practices into their structures. However, the common law mechanisms open to architecture agencies and designed to promote research and innovation are considered to have received insufficient investments by the field of architecture (CIR, CII, CIFRE). In order to participate in the understanding of this phenomenon, we wanted to question the ways in which architect directors apprehend these notions, the practices they associate with them as well as their integration into structures. By doing so, we have been able to test the duality they are confronted with: building the evolution of professional practices and the structures that accommodate them, while satisfying the precepts and values inherited from a liberal profession.