École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville

École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville
TypePublic
Established1969
ChancellorFrançois Brouat
Administrative staff
120
Students1116
Undergraduates411
Location
Paris
,
France
Websitewww.paris-belleville.archi.fr

The École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville is a French grande école and school of architecture. It is currently ranked as the best architecture school in France.[1][2] The school is recognized for its focus on sustainability,[3] and its students have received awards for adaptable designs encouraging new attitudes towards waste.[4] The school has partnerships with 66 international universities, including La Sapienza in Rome and the University of Hong Kong.

Also, it has an incredibly competitive admission criteria;ENSA Paris-Belleville's acceptance rate is 4.9%.

History

The École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville was founded by a dissident group of students from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts,[5] l'atelier collégial 1, led by Bernard Huet [fr], in 1965. In 1969 it was officially recognized under the name UP8 (unité pédagogique d'architecture n°8, architectural teaching unit no. 8), and it has since occupied various re-purposed quarters, including Les Halles until their demolition, as well as a former Meccano factory in the Belleville section of Paris. In 2009 it moved into a purposely designed space, a conversion and partial rebuilding of the former site of the Lycée technique Diderot [fr], also in Belleville. In 1986 it was renamed the École d'architecture de Paris-Belleville and UP7 and UP5 were merged into it.[6] It took its current name in 2005.

Research

The research arm of the school is the Institut Parisien de Recherche: Architecture, Urbanistique, Société (IPRAUS), which emphasises interdisciplinary approaches.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Les 10 écoles en architecture les mieux classées". Cap Canal. 8 February 2019.
  2. ^ rédaction, La. "Classement des écoles d'architecture : quelle est la meilleure ?". diplomeo.com.
  3. ^ "Competition-winning Bamboo Stadium is a sustainable solution to Lagos' former landfill". 30 January 2019. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  4. ^ "The winning WASTE Multi-Purpose Stadium competition ideas". Archinect. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
  5. ^ a b "ENSAPB (Paris)", Urban Knowledge Network Asia, retrieved 12 September 2016.
  6. ^ "L'École: Histoire de Paris-Belleville: Les lieux", École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, archived at the Wayback Machine, 1 May 2011 (in French).

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