Director
Nicolas FIÉVÉ
Assistant to the Director
Loane Dimet
loane.dimet@efeo.net
22, avenue du Président Wilson
75116 Paris
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Nicolas Fiévé
Architectural historian - Medieval and premodern Japan
After studying architecture in France and Japan, and obtaining a doctorate in classical Japanese, Nicolas Fiévé was a researcher at the CNRS from 1993 to 2007, when he became professor at the Historical and Philological Sciences Section of the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, where he teaches the history of Japanese architecture and gardens.
His research is based on the study of ancient documents (literary and administrative texts, technical manuals, plans and maps) relating to architecture, urbanism, landscape and gardens in 14th-17th century Japan. In addition to the study of texts, Nicolas Fiévé also conducts in situ studies of ancient buildings or urban districts in Japan. These two complementary approaches are the fruit of the two schools of thought that trained him: Japanese studies and architecture.
As a medievalist working on the Muromachi period (1336-1573), Nicolas Fiévé has studied the history of the city of Kyoto, the architecture of the tea pavilions and the Ashikaga palaces. Recently, he has broadened his field of study to include 17th-century Japan and has focused his research on the secondary villas of the court nobility and the domain lords.
Member of the EFEO, from 2009 to 2010
Director of the EFEO, since April 2022
He was also received by the director of the National Museum of Vietnamese History, the former Musée Louis Finot founded by the EFEO in 1932, and by the director of the Hanoi Citadel Museum (Imperial City of Thang Long) whose museum project has been coordinated by the EFEO in 2010.
Read the In Memoriam (in french)
