Special school of architecture

The special École of architecture ( ESA ) is a school of Architecture located 254, boulevard Raspail at Paris.

It is the oldest modern school of Architecture in France. Founded in 1865, the establishment of higher education is deprived and recognized public utility as from the year 1870 and by the State in 1934.

The special School of architecture originates in the renouncement of Eugene Purple-the-Duke to reform teaching with the imperial École of the Art schools, it supports then the project of Emile Trélat, engineer centralien, to create a “private school” of Architecture and to react against the monopoly which exerted the Académie of the Art schools on teaching.

Among the hundred thirty-seven first Shareholder S of the school, one finds Ferdinand de Lesseps, Anatole de Baudot, Eugene Flachat, Dupont of the Eure, Jean-Baptiste André Godin, Eugene Purple-the-Duke or Emile Muller.

Among the most known teachers, one counts also the academician Albert Besson, theorist of the hygiene of the Habitation. It is currently directed by Odile Decq.

This school left the famous Architecte S such as Robert Mallet-Stevens. It also counts among its former students the empress Farah Pahlavi.

The diploma (DESA) opens right to the inscription with the Ordre of the architects. He is recognized by the State and the European Union.

External bonds

Official site

See too

List of the schools of architecture

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