The teaching of architecture in France has changed over the course of the 20th century: it has become democratized and feminized, has experienced the development of urban planning and the activism of the modern movement, the primacy of new techniques and materials and of course the profound evolution of programs. Especially, long confined in the Parisian Giron des Beaux-Arts, which 1968 was to destroy, it gradually spread in the country.
A history of this teaching remained to be written. Thus was born this encyclopedia with an unprecedented ambition: to address the subject in its multiple dimensions, whether pedagogical, professional, territorial or political; to embrace all the institutions concerned; finally illuminate a complex theatre and its numerous troupes.
The 341 entries in the book range from the article to the essay, written by 147 contributors, teachers, researchers and librarians from the national graduate schools of architecture, but also universities and various French and foreign higher education institutions. They are thus open to various interpretations, proposing paths of passage and arousing curiosity without closing the debate. Nearly 750 iconographic documents illustrate them, including drawings and student works, distributed in alphabetical entries or thematic portfolios. A vast picture of the life of schools, with necessary reminders of the nineteenth century and openings on the twenty-first.
The historical character of this company also offers keys to appreciate current events, while the scientific roots of schools are strengthened to think about the future and meet its challenges.
This publication is the culmination of the HEnsA20 (History of Architecture Education in the 20th Century) research programme, carried out by the History Committee and the Office of Architectural, Urban and Landscape Research of the Ministry of Culture. Anne-Marie Châtelet (ENSA Strasbourg, UR 3400 ARCHE), Marie-Jeanne Dumont (ENSA Paris-Belleville, IPRAUS UMR AUSser 3329), Amandine Diener and Daniel Le Couédic (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Géoarchitecture UR 7462) are the scientific directors.
Work co-directed by Anne-Marie Châtelet (professor at the Ensa de Strasbourg), Amandine Diener (lecturer at the Institute of Geoarchitecture, UBO), Marie-Jeanne Dumont (lecturer at the Ensa de Paris Belleville) and Daniel Le Couédic (Professor Emeritus, University of Western Brittany)
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