Architect (Arep) and former secretary of the French Straw Building Network, I am currently doing a PhD on the environmental and social history of straw building (EHESS in Paris). I am also the editor of the online magazine untitled Topophile, the friend of place – review of happy spaces and translator of Roger Welsch famous study on Nebraska’s first straw bale buildings. In 2023, I was traveling the USA on the trail of straw buildings and builders thanks to the Delano Aldrich Emerson Fellowship.