Building with Earth and the Meaning of Thermal Inertia
Clément Gaillard is a PhD student in Urban Design at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a teacher in Industrial Design and Technology at the École Normale Supérieure of Paris-Saclay.
He holds master’s degrees in industrial design and contemporary philosophy. His PhD thesis explores the birth of passive and bioclimatic architecture between the 1950s and 1980s in the United States and France, based on the collection and analysis of a significant amount of archives.
Selected Bibliography:
(with Catherine Geel), Extended French Theory and the Design Field… On Nature and Ecology: A Reader, Paris : T&P Publishing, 2019.
« Dimension climatique et résolution technique », Jean-Hugues Barthélémy (dir.), Ludovic Duhem (dir.), Écologie et technologie. Redéfinir le progrès après Simondon, Paris : Matériologiques, 2022.
« Le climat est-il une ressource ? », Cahiers de la recherche architecturale, urbaine et paysagère, n°11, 2021.
« L’Approche énergétique de l’architecture vernaculaire : genèse et développement », Socio-Anthropologie, n°42, Paris : Editions de la Sorbonne, 2021.