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Pascal Royère Saint-Genies-Bellevue (Haute-Garonne), 1965 Architect on contract from 1993 to 2001. Appointed a member in 2001. After completing his early technical studies leading to a higher technician's license in construction, Pascal Royère was awarded a degree from the École d'Architecture de Nantes in the early 1990s and undertook additional studies in order to obtain a post-masters qualification in Oriental Languages, Civilizations and Societies at the University of Paris III, under the direction of Bruno Dagens. He continued his education with the preparation of a doctorate degree under the direction of the same professor. In 1993, he joined the Mission archéologique de Doura-Europos in Syria under the direction of Pierre Leriche and was assigned to care for implementation of the initial phase of the restoration program for the roughly dressed façade of the city's strategy palace. The project was paralleled with a contribution to the architectural analysis of the entire building. In late 1993, Pascal Royère was recruited for two years by the École française d'Extrême-Orient and assigned to Siem Reap-Angkor, Cambodia, to lead a maintenance program for the temples under the direction of Jacques Dumarçay, while completing consolidation work on the Southern Perron of the Terrace of the Elephants, a work site that had been left uncompleted since 1975. In
1994, after doing a comprehensive study of the Southern Khleang, a structure
in the heart of the urban layout of Angkor Thom, he went on to make an
architectural description of the Angkor Wat temple. These
projects are giving him the opportunity to have hands-on experience in
the routine work of architectural reference and construction techniques
used by the Angkorian builders, while at the same time to do research
in the area of architecture, as well as evolution of the form of the temple
and its construction techniques. This research is fleshed out by a thesis
examination on the history of the architecture of the Baphuon and the
immediate surroundings of the temple that, linking stratigraphical archaeological
analysis with a study of building techniques, makes it possible to bring
to light relevant new insights regarding the urbanization process of the
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Publications 1997 « Le Khléang Sud d'Angkor Thom : quelques éléments liés à l'histoire architecturale du monument. », BEFEO 84, p. 349-370,. 1998 « Programme de restauration du Bapùon : mise au jour d'une canalisation monumentale aux abords du monument », BEFEO 85, p. 406-413. 1999 « Programme de restauration du Bapùon : à propos d'une occupation tardive du monument », AA 54, p. 153-158. 2001 (avec J. Dumarçay), Histoire de l'architecture du Cambodge du VIIIe au XIIIe siècle, Leiden, E. J. Brill. 2001
Histoire architecturale du Baphuon, Thèse de doctorat dactylographiée,
Université de Paris III, sous la dir. de Bruno Dagens, Paris, 2
vol. forthcoming
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