L'Université Blida 1 Saâd Dahlab (arch. Walter Netsch -SOM, 1981/89)

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dc.contributor.authorAKEBLERSANE ,Imene
dc.contributor.authorCHENNAOUI, Youcef [Rapporteur]
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-03T11:47:50Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionIn Algeria, architectural production from 1962 to the present day was often criticized and questioned , sometimes even qualified as "non - architecture" or considered as a "failure". If this part of history was the subject of some writings, conferences and other debates, it was however approached according to mainly urban problematics - often linked to the issues of housing or identity-, or treated in a relatively brief way , in more global studies such as comparative analyzes or works tracing the architectural work of a given architect ; the subject of postcolonial architecture is thus often appearing on a secondary level. Nonetheless, it should be noted that in the aftermath of its independence, Algeria found itself at the dawn of a new milestone in its history. Since 1962 and during the next half-century, the country, eager to assert its sovereignty on the international level and build the image of a strong and fully autonomous nation, put in place a series of reforms in the various fields; political, economic and cultural. On the architectural and urban level, this attitude and its new ambitions translated into a desire to build a new "Algerian" architecture, turned towards modernity, notably through the construction of prestige projects designed by well-known Western design offices. During the last decades of the twentieth century, Algeria appealed to a large number of foreign architects in order to endow the country with remarkable buildings. During this period, the Algerian architectural landscape enriched with new large projects, crystallizing principles and concepts imported from around the world. It is in this context that our research fits. Through the study of the University of Blida 1 Saâd dahlab, it tries to help unveil this unknown and often underestimated phase of the history of Algerian architecture. Realized at the turn of the 1980s, in the midst of the structuralist movement's development by the American agency Skidmore, Owing & Merill (S.O.M.), this University is a part of the "prestige architecture" that helped to mark the Algerian landscape. The University was originally conceived according to the American model of the campus that was then becoming popular and spreading throughout the world as an international model of higher education institution. Walter Andrew Netsch was then the architect of the agency mainly in charge of the project. He was particularly known for developing, in the mid-twentieth century, a design method based on the networks and the manipulation of geometric grids: the Field Theroy. This combinatorial approach was based on a geometric game between the square and the rotated square at 45 °, allowing to develop infinitely complex compositions that offer the possibility to generate buildings whose different elements were regulated by ratios of proportion. Thus, the work carried out throughout this dissertation will seek to determine the different mathematical relations, the geometric transformations and other modules underlying the design of the blidean project, and regulating the different plans of it. Through a detailed study of the local, but also international, context in which the University took shape and based 8 on a careful analysis of the different plans of the institution, we will try to define the various principles adopted in order to identify the architectural current in which it is inscribed.
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.epau.edu.dz/handle/123456789/317
dc.language.isofr
dc.publisherEpau
dc.subjectUniversité de Blida 1 -Saâd Dahlab-
dc.subjectWalter A. Netsch
dc.subjectThéorie des Champs
dc.subjectarchitecture post-coloniale algérienne
dc.subjectStructuralisme
dc.subjectcampus.
dc.titleL'Université Blida 1 Saâd Dahlab (arch. Walter Netsch -SOM, 1981/89)
dc.title.alternativeQuelle filiation architecturale au mouvement structuraliste?
dc.typeThesis

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