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Jules-Valentin Boucher
Architect, musician, researcher
Made in Japan
Born in Paris in 1990
Based in Montreuil since 2021
Jules-Valentin Boucher is an architect, a self-taught musician, a researcher and a junior professor. He graduated from Versailles National School of Architecture in 2017, where he teaches as a junior professor.
He is currently a PhD candidate at the CÉRILAC research lab (Université de Paris / Paris-Val de Seine National School of Architecture), under the supervision of Paolo Amaldi (dir.), Lambert Dousson and Gilles Delalex. His ongoing research focuses on minimalism, repetition and indeterminacy in arts, in particular, in the fields of music and architecture, and more specifically in post-war North America.
His architectural practice comprises a wide range of theoretical projects, housing projects (mainly at the Ateliers Mathieu Laporte during two years), and, more recently, of scenography or apartment refurbishment projects, built or in progress.
His musical practice entails solo projects (Jules Valentin) as well as collaborations, notably the duo Geosmin (with 3EHNT a.k.a. Manuel Devier on bass). His sonic studies fluctuate between ambient music, field recording, drone and improvised music.
Curriculum Vitæ
AWARDS
• 2017 — Recognition award of the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts for Habiter la musique – De la composition musicale comme inspiration architecturale (final year project under the supervision of Ido Avissar & Philippe Potié)
• 2017 — Special Mention at the Architecture Master’s thesis Award of the Rémy Butler Foundation for Construire l’écoute – Architecture & Musique : Influences réciproques (supervised by Paolo Amaldi & Philippe Potié)
PUBLICATIONS
• 2020 — «Neutral Frame – A Brief Anthology on Silence and Emptyness in North-American Music and Architecture of the Fifties and Sixties» (in french), in Faces #78 : «Amodal Architecture», Autumn 2020, Geneva, p.22-27.
• 2012 — «La poétique du réemploi» & «L’aspect mythique du festival», in Éditions Bellastock #8 : «Le Grand Détournement», Paris.
PRESENTATIONS
• 2021 — «The Mathematics of the Ideal Music – Cosmic Harmony and Architectural Proportions : the Revival of the Renaissance in XXth Century» (in french), communication at the international symposium Poésique 2021 : «The Music of the Spheres», Université Grenoble Alpes, 2-3 december 2021
• 2021 — «The Streets of New York as Performative Space : About Moondog, Composer, Musician and Poet» (in french), communication at the international symposium Performance in the Americas from 1950 to today, La Rochelle Université, 18-19 november 2021
• 2017 — «Listening Chambers» (in french), communication at the «Stories of Chambers» arts workshop curated by Anne Frémy, 10 november 2017
@ Paris-La Villette National School of Architecture
TEACHING
• 2017-present — Lecturer
@ Versailles National School of Architecture
Graduate teaching assistant for history of architecture
STUDIES
• 2020-present — PhD
@ Université de Paris / Paris-Val de Seine National School of Architecture
PhD candidate (with fully-funded years fellowship)
Research laboratory : CÉRILAC
Doctoral school : ÉD131
Temporary dissertation title : Environments of Silence – Minimalism, Repetition and Indeterminacy in Music and Architecture of the United States in the Fifties and Sixties
Doctoral advisor : Paolo Amaldi
Co-advisors : Lambert Dousson & Gilles Delalex
• 2019 — Licensed Architect
[HMŒNP : Accreditation to exercise architecture as a general contractor under its own name]
@ Paris-La Villette National School of Architecture
• 2017 — Master in Architecture
[DÉA : State Diploma of Architecture]
@ Versailles National School of Architecture
Final year project supervised by Ido Avissar & Philippe Potié
With honors
Recognition award of the Architecture section of the Académie des Beaux-Arts
• 2015-2016 — Master in Architecture – Second year academic exchange in Japan
@ 京都工芸繊維大学 [Kyōto Institute of Technology]
15 months
• 2015 — Master In Architecture – First year project
@ Versailles National School of Architecture / Studio X, Rio de Janeiro
Project supervised by Djamel Klouche, Cédric Libert & Guilherme Lassance
1 semester + 2-week workshop in Rio de Janeiro
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES
• 2018-2019 — Architect
@ Ateliers Mathieu Laporte, architecture office, Paris
Housing projects (phases ranging from the design competition to the technical details for the consultation file), 20 months
• 2019 — Composition
«638. Le voyageur.»
Original soundtrack for the short movie La Halte by Pablo Albandea & Damien Jibert
• 2018 — Design and execution of the FeedBar
@ Saint-Exupéry Numeric Cultural Center, Reims
Ephemeral bar and interactive video installation
with Fabio Pin, designer, & Pablo Albandea, video artist
• 2016 — Internship
@ NAAD, architecture office, Kyōto
International competitions, 2 months
• 2013 — Internship
@ Lacaton & Vassal, architecture office, Paris
Competition, visits of building sites, 1 month
• 2011 — Composition of the original soundtrack for an architecture competition videoclip for Plan 01 architecture office, Paris (movie direction Cyril Thomas, artistic direction Anne Frémy)
LIVE PERFORMANCES
• 2019 03 17 — Solo
@ Folie Numérique at la Villette park (folly N5),
Paris
• 2018 11 17 — Duo with Kota Yamauchi
XTETX#40
@ La Pointe Lafayette, Paris
• 2018 09 15 — Duo with Kecap Tuyul
Inauguration of the FeedBar
@ Saint-Exupéry Numeric Cultural Center, Reims
• 2018 02 27 — Quartet with Ryotaro Sudo, Kumi Iwase & Hugues Vincent
XTETX#29
@ Espace des Arts Sans Frontières, Paris
• 2017 12 07 — Geosmin [Jules Valentin & 3EHNT]
XTETX#25
@ Espace des Arts Sans Frontières, Paris
• 2017 01 11 — Solo (opening act for Chasing Bone)
@ Sunset, Paris
• 2017 02 07 — Solo
@ Instants Chavirés, Montreuil
• 2016 09 29 — Duo with Torbill
XTETX#17
@ Espace des Arts Sans Frontières, Paris
• 2016 06 10 — Solo
@ Urbanguild, Kyōto
• 2016 02 07 — Solo
@ Urbanguild, Kyōto
• 2016 04 16 — Solo and duo with Kota Yamauchi
@ Kitchen Mum, Kyōto
• 2014 05 31 — Solo
Loop Jubilee Festival
@ Les Voûtes, Paris