The Schools of Architecture

ENSAG - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble ENSAL - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon ENSASE - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Étienne

 ENSAG - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Grenoble

www.grenoble.archi.fr ID card Creation : 1968 Location : 60 avenue de Constantine - BP 2636 F - 38036 GRENOBLE cedex 2 Director : Vincent Michel Accreditation : from the Ministere de la Culture Contact Danièle RUFFIN International Office Tel : +33 4 76 69 83 02 Fax : +33 4 76 69 83 38 Email : [Email]

Mission statement Bachelor of architecture (3 years) : diploma Bsc Architecture Master of architecture (2 years) : diploma Msc architecture Master degree of design for architecture (2 years) : diploma of designer for architecture Specific year to get the accreditation on the Register of Architects (1 year)

Key figures 1000 students 100 teachers 50 administrative staff 18 % foreign students 50 % female students 7 students associations 180 students in Licence 1 (800 candidates each year) 16000 books in Documentation center

Courses opened to international students

The architecture studio

Within the studio, architecture is taught in a project-oriented fashion, following a straightforward, but strict and demanding progression :

• an exercise-based approach during the first three years (licence),
• exploration of complexity during the next two years (master),
  

Building

ENSAG focuses on the following priorities in its teaching of building :

• understanding by experimentation and broadening from theoretical bases,
• building culture and understanding the links between architecture and building in relation with the history of building and architecture,
• in-depth project development and the ability to define a project, down to the details, following the example of schools in the English-speaking world,
• good use of the potential of the Grands Ateliers, at L'Isle d’Abeau – several schools working in complementary areas: architecture, art and engineering science.
  

Mastering atmosphere

Getting the right atmosphere is not just a question of controlling physical parameters such as temperature, light, sound, but of the sound and light environment. With new project management tools, a wide range of incentives and experiments involving new materials, it is increasingly easy to design spaces with a specific atmosphere. Teaching in this field aims to introduce future architects to working on atmosphere in a pluridisciplinary team and give them a grasp of how atmosphere fits into the larger framework of the building's design.

Computing in teaching architecture

Information technology classes are organized in such a way as to encourage learning additional skills. They are always associated with teaching of architecture, building or representation.

Representation, art and technique

The aim of teaching and the corresponding know-how is to enable all students to get hands-on experience grappling with issues of form, space, composition, light, value, texture, etc.

History

Architecture enjoys a dual relationship with its history :

• on the one hand the past is a treasure house of references, and as such the history of architecture may prove instrumentally effective and is certainly a ready source of examples
• on the other hand, architecture draws on its history to justify its legitimacy and its identity. This backward. glance has nourished doctrine for several centuries. The modernists managed to deny architecture's dependency on tradition. But on the whole, architectural practice uses references to the past to back up its authority.
  

Human and social sciences

Teaching of human and social sciences is designed to teach students methods and knowledge, introduce the notion of complexity and stimulate thought. 

  ENSAL - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Lyon

www.lyon.archi.fr ID card Creation : 1968 Location (address) : 3 rue Maurice Audin, B.P. 170, F-69512 Vaulx-en-Velin Cédex Temporary Director : Martin CHENOT Accreditation : Ministry of Culture and Communication Contact Olivier CHABERT Studies Office, international relations Tel : +33 4 78 79 50 67 Fax : +33 4 78 80 40 68 Email : [Email]

Mission statement The vocation of the Lyon National School of Architecture is to train future professionals responsible for the built environment to numerous fields of trades and professions related to architecture. The studies integrate both the open-mindedness and the variety of skills required by the practice of architecture. The programme is made up of two phases : A three-year (6 semester) Bachelor degree (B Arch) and a two year (4 semester) Master degree (M Arch).

Key figures 693 students registered in initial training 13% foreign students 1900 students’ applications for 08/09 165 newly enrolled students for 08/09 30 partner universities abroad 32 incoming exchange students 45 statutory teachers 2 research laboratories 71 Bachelor graduated students in 07/08 82 Master graduated students in 07/08

Courses opened to international students

Bachelor in Architecture

The Bachelor curriculum is aimed at giving a broad general education in architecture. Students are introduced to professional skills and knowledge as the basis for design practice.

Therefore, the teaching is comprehensive and groups together artistic, technical and social approaches.
The practice of design builds the core of the programme. Each one of the six semesters includes an integral deign-studio. The knowledge and skills acquired in other disciplines (Construction, Structures, Drawing, Humanities, Technologies…) have to be implemented in the design process. Through the curriculum project work becomes increasingly complex in keeping with structural, urban and environmental issues.
Lectures in History deal with a broad description of the development of architecture from Antiquity to the present day.
Scientific courses allow students to understand the basic principles inherent to Building Construction, Structures and Environments.
A series of artistic lectures enable them to develop abilities in writing and speaking about design, drawing and model making.
Computer-aided design is introduced and proficiency in foreign languages is developed.

A successful completion of the Bachelor grants admission to the Master programme of the School.

Master in Architecture

At the Master level, students are allowed the opportunity to look in greater depth at issues they were introduced to during the Bachelor course. The integration of technical disciplines into the design process continues. For instance, students have to cope with the issue of tectonics in the framework of an integrated course of Construction. Technology courses enable students to enter the realm of 3-D modelling and model animation.

Management practice and law is introduced at this stage in order to prepare students for professional practice. A two-month internship has also to be performed.

During semester 1, the architectural studio is taught by a visiting professor. This studio is aimed at making a synthesis of the knowledge acquired at the Bachelor level and paves the way for more advanced specialties.
During semester 2, students have indeed to choose among the 3 training specialties offered by our School:

• Architectural strategies for sustainable development,
• Architecture and heritage,
• Architecture, cities, territories and landscape.
  

Each training specialty is made up of a studio and a seminary:
These studios investigate architectural themes in depth. Students have to demonstrate their ability to fit in a given context. At this stage, design is regarded as an interaction with an existing structure and integrates issues of environmental and/or social sustainability.
The seminaries bring the theoretical knowledge and bases to be implemented by the student in the framework of the associated studio. Students are introduced to research methodologies by the works carried out by the research teams of the school.
During semester 3, the studio and the seminary are furthered in the framework of the training specialty chosen by the student at the beginning of semester 2. An essay has to be performed within the seminary.
Semester 4, is the preparation for the student’s final project.

  ENSASE - École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Étienne 

www.st-etienne.archi.fr ID card Creation : 1975 Statut d’établissement public : 1986 Location : 1 rue Buisson, 42000 Saint Etienne dean :  Martin CHENOT Accreditation : from the Ministère de la Culture Contact Morgane BEDIEE International, Research and Prospect Office Tel : +33 4 77 42 35 49 Fax : +33 4 77 42 35 40 Email : [Email]

Mission statement Bachelor of architecture (3 years) : diploma Bsc Architecture Master of architecture (2 years) : diploma Msc architecture Specific year to get the accreditation on the Register of Architects (1 year) Degree of doctor in architecture (3 years) Professional master" espace public: design, architecture et pratiques " (1 year)

Key figures 400 students 47 teachers 28 administrative staff 8 % foreign students 60 % female students 2 students associations 100 students in Licence 1 (800 candidates each year) 22000 documents (books, maps, videos…) in Library A new building Construction time : 2 years (septembre 2005 – décembre 2007) Project ownership :   Direction Régionale des Affaires culturelles Rhône-Alpes Project management : Agence Bouchaudy Cost : 10 millions d’euros Financing : Etat, Région Rhône-Alpes, Conseil Général de la Loire, St-Etienne Métropole Surface :   5 300 m2

Courses opened to international students

 

 

The Saint-Etienne school of architecture offers 8 years of studies organised in three cycles.
The first three years make up the first cycle (licence degree).
It consists of a basic training in the practise of the architectural project allowing students to obtain the basis of the architectural culture and to discover implements and techniques of the representation.
The following two years make up the second cycle (master degree).
Giving to students the mastery of scientific and technical knowledge, they study the architectural project and the urban project thoroughly.
The last three years make up the third cycle.
A professional master “Espace public : design, architecture, pratiques” results of a partnership with the Université Jean Monnet of Saint Etienne and the Ecole régionale des Beaux Arts.

The pedagogy is Structure d   around three domains of studies, three problems, three points of view on the architecture

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The architecture studio

Within the studio, architecture is taught in a project-oriented fashion, following a straightforward, but strict and demanding progression:

• An exercise-based approach during the first three years (licence),
• Exploration of complexity during the next two years (master),
  

Building

ENSASE focuses on the following priorities in its teaching of building:

• Understanding by experimentation and broadening from theoretical bases,
• Building culture and understanding the links between architecture and building in relation with the history of building and architecture,
• In-depth project development and the ability to define a project, down to the details, following the example of schools in the English-speaking world,
• Good use of the potential of the Grands Ateliers, at L'Isle d’Abeau – several schools working in complementary areas: architecture, art and engineering science.
  

Sustainable development

It refers to a systematic approach to achieving human development in a way that sustains planetary resources, based on the recognition that human consumption is occurring at a rate that is beyond Earth's capacity to support it. Population growth and the developmental pressures spawned by an unequal distribution of wealth are two major driving forces that are altering the planet in ways that threaten the long-term health of humans and other species on the plane. Teaching in this field aims to introduce future architects to working on this value.

Computing in teaching architecture

Information technology classes are organized in such a way as to encourage learning additional skills. They are always associated with teaching of architecture, building or representation.

History

Architecture enjoys a dual relationship with its history:

• On the one hand the past is a treasure house of references, and as such the history of architecture may prove instrumentally effective and is certainly a ready source of examples
• On the other hand, architecture draws on its history to justify its legitimacy and its identity. This backward glance has nourished doctrine for several centuries. The modernists managed to deny architecture's dependency on tradition. But on the whole, architectural practice uses references to the past to back up its authority.