Audrey Azoulay, Minister of Culture and Communication, is launching the first edition of the National Days of Architecture to be held on October 14, 15 and 16, 2016.

The National Days of Architecture will be an opportunity to associate closely, around architectural themes, children, youth and adults in a festive and educational way. On the program, throughout the territory: conferences, exhibitions, screenings, awards, fairs, guided tours, open houses, etc.

The aim of the National Architecture Days is to increase public awareness of all the dimensions of this discipline. They affirm the ambition of the Ministry of Culture and Communication to give birth to the French «a desire for architecture».

The event will be officially launched on October 13, 2016, by the Minister of Culture and Communication, on the occasion of the proclamation of the National Grand Prix of Architecture, which rewards an architect, or an architecture agency, for all his work.