On Wednesday, April 26, 2023, Pascal Yves Laurent spoke at the Jewish Museum of Florida for the 16th World Congress on Art Deco lecture series.
In his lecture, Laurent, the head of the Paris Art Deco Society discusses the upcoming 17th World Congress on Art Deco, to take place in Paris, France in 2025.
This World Congress will be unique, as it will be celebrating 100 years since The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, a world’s fair held in Paris, France, from April to October 1925.
This event is known as the world’s introduction to the Art Deco style and aesthetic.
After studying architecture including one year at the University of Illinois, Pascal Yves Laurent graduated (DPLG) from the Versailles school in 1989. He then participated in the construction of the EuroDisney theme park.
In 1995, he began a Ph.D. thesis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) on the theme “Fine Arts Architecture in the United States from 1893 to 1942”. In this context, he obtained a research grant at the University of Chicago.
The accidental death of its research director, Bernard Lepetit, interrupted this work. From 2000 to 2011, he was a lecturer at the Paris Malaquais School of Architecture and participated in several history courses and projects, notably with historian Dominique Rouillard and Swiss architect Luca Merlini.
At the same time, he is very involved in the implementation of the European reform of the teaching of architecture (LMD).
Since 2014, he has restricted his involvement in the school of architecture to a few courses on interwar architecture and to the administrative organization of the educational program so that he has time to chair the Paris Art Deco Company of which he is one of the founders.
The 16th World Congress on Art Deco was made possible with the support of the Greater Miami Convention and Visitors Bureau, the City of Miami Beach, Miami-Dade County, the State of Florida, the International Coalition of Art Deco Societies, and the Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches.
