École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles
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The École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles is a French architectural school located at the ancient stables of the Versailles Palace. The school was founded in 1969 after the suppression of the École des Beaux-Arts architecture section. Architect Jean Castex was one of the school's founders, while Nicolas Michelin (founder of the group Labfac) is its current managing director.
The pedagogical aim of the Architecture School of Versailles is to provide an intense experience in the architectural arts while developing questions of architecture in the fields of building, city and regional planning. The school prepares students using diverse professional exercise methods. However, it is best known for its urban design teachings.
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[edit] Research and theory
[edit] Research centers
[edit] Urban Forms: Death and Life of the Urban Block
This major publication by Jean Castex, Philippe Panerai and Jean-Charles Depaule had its first edition in french in 1977. It has been recently translated and edited in english for the first time in 2003 with an additional postcript.
[edit] Publications
The review EAV (Enseignement Architecture Ville) was created by Anne-Marie Chatelet and Michel Denes in 1995. It is published annually. The number 10th of the review (2004-2005) explained its history and origins. This same issue was based on journals and reviews from several schools of architecture in Europe and the US: the Yale School of Architecture's Perspecta, the well known Oppositions from the New York Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, The AA files from the Architectural Association's London School of Architecture, Faces from the Geneva University Institute of Architecture, and the review Trans from the architecture department of Zurich's Eidgenossische Technische Hoschschule.
[edit] Anecdotes
Both Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel from the French electro band Air were architecture students of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles.
