It is with great sadness and emotion that we learned of the passing of Jean-François Debord.
Born in Évreux in 1938, Jean-François Debord taught at Beaux-Arts de Paris from 1969, as assistant to Professor Pol Le Cœur, before being appointed Professor in charge of the morphology department in 1978, a position he held for 25 years until 2003. An emblematic figure at the school, his teaching has had a lasting impact on generations of students.
Morphology at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, by Jean-François Debord
From 2002 to 2003, the final year of Jean-François Debord's morphology course was filmed by author-director Cyril de Turckheim. This corpus of 44 two-hour lectures has been digitized thanks to the support of PSL in 2019. The performative nature of Jean-François Debord's teaching makes it exceptional, and putting these classes online has enabled them to be perpetuated and shared as widely as possible.
At the time of the launch, a 15-minute video was produced to present a condensed version of these shorts, which you can watch on YouTube.
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