University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and CNRS
Actech
AEMBT
International workshop
logo and graphic designer,
brand image, stationery design,
brand creative consulting.
Credits:
The Workshop AEMBT
is organized by:
Piero Gilento
MSCA Fellow, Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France
ORGANISING COMMITEE
François Villeneuve, Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Pierre - Marie Blanc
CNRS, France
Maria de los Angeles Utrero Agudo, CSIC, Spain
Piero Gilento
MSCA Fellow, Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France
INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Monther Jamhawi, Department of Antiquities of Jordan, Jordan
Hélène Dessales, École Normale Supérieur, Paris, France
Roberto Parenti, University of Siena, Italy
François Villeneuve, University of Paris 1, Panthéon – Sorbonne, France Hani Hayajneh,
University of Yarmouk, Jordan
Dominique Pieri, IFPO - Paris 1 - Panthéon Sorbonne, France
Eduardo Manzano Moreno, CSIC, Spain Secretary
Chadi Hatoum, Senefer Mokhtari, Hussein T. Madina
English translation for the Introduction and the abstracts on
pages 11 and 20: Alberto Prieto
Arabic translation: Chadi Hatoum
Graphic design: Stefano Divizia
Cover image: St. George Church, Sama As - Sarhan (Mafraq Governorate)
Images on pages
4, 5, 10, 11, 28, 29:
Howard Crosby Butler Archive,
Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Image on page 2, 3
and image in the back cover:
Piero Gilento
About:
ACTECH is an archaeological research project developed at the University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne and founded by the European Commission. The project focused on the study of ancient architecture and building processes in the Near East and on the diffusion and trasmission of specific building techniques from the East to West of the Mediterranean. One of the main architectural elements studied was the arch, which also became the ACTECH logo with a refined geometric combination of a rounded arch and a pointed arch: two types and two forms that represent also two completely different cultural and artistic worlds.
The logo concept has also been developed on T-shirts used by the archaeologists during their field-work in Jordan.
In addition to the logo, the graphic idea has been developed to publicize and disseminate the results of the international workshop that closed the project. The poster and the flyers has been conceived, as well as a 56-page booklet containing the program and the abstracts of the contributions in English and Arabic. It was a great challenge to create a bilingual booklet but it gave great results.