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Marc Bedarida has been an Instructor in the Paris Program since 1987. He is also maître-assiatant (tenured) at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'architecture Paris la Villette. He teaches history and theory of architecture applied to the questions of housing and professional issues of the architectural practice. The question of the dwelling raises concerns about urban settlement and theory on urban growth and suburban sprawl. He focuses one part of his teaching on the making of the city of Paris as paradigm of the planned European city.
Bedarida collaborates with a number of professionals, educators, architects, graphic or web designers on a large number of projects in France and abroad (Germany, the USA & Portugal). He is also a contributing editor of the Italian architectural magazine Lotus International, but also writes in numerous other magazines both French and foreign.
He is often curator or adviser for architectural exhibitions for the Museum of modern art at the Centre Georges Pompidou. He has been involved in writing in the catalogues for such exhibits such as Renzo Piano, Christian de Portzamparc, and Pierre Chareau. He is currently at the head of the Editions de la Villette, an architectural university press, choosing the books to be published for an academic readership and dealing with an international diffusion of such books ortheir translation in foreign language.
He became Architecte diplome par le gouvernement (DPLG) in 1979 at UP n° 8 actual Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture Paris Belleville and a Diplome d'Etude Approfondie (DEA) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) in 1981. He has worked at the office of Roland Simounet (Paris).
