In partnership with the Fondation Culture & Diversité, the school is hosting its first “Equal opportunities at the school of architecture” course, from February 9 to 13.

Students taking part in this program benefit from courses, visits to cultural institutions, building sites and/or agencies, and meetings with teachers and professionals. Together, they produce an architectural project.

The aim is to inform them about architectural studies and career opportunities, and to prepare them for the Parcoursup and selection procedures for the Écoles nationales supérieures d’architecture (ENSA). Admitted students are then supported throughout their university studies.

On Saturday February 7, ENSA Paris-la Villette welcomed a large number of visitors who came to find out more about studying architecture and the specific features of ENSA Paris-la Villette: the range of initial and specialized courses on offer, admissions procedures, the course of studies, international mobility, careers in architecture and professional integration, student life…

Alone, with friends or family, visitors wandered around the school premises to discover the student work on display (architectural projects, performing arts and techniques, plastic arts, etc.) and to meet students, teachers and administrative staff, who were on hand to answer any questions.

Couldn’t make it?
On this page, you’ll find all the information you need to make your choice.

Deadline for receipt of applications: April 2, 2026
The call for applications is open to students enrolled in 2025-2026 in a national school of architecture, from L2 to Master’s level.

The aim of this grant, organized by the Cité de l’architecture in partnership with the ENSAÉCO network, is to support a personal research-creation process carried out exclusively through hand-drawing, seen as a critical, sensitive and exploratory tool, focusing on contemporary ecological issues.

Each year, a different theme is proposed. The four winners will produce their own sketchbook, each receiving a lump-sum grant of €4,000 gross, paid as royalties in return for the transfer of rights to the works produced as part of the project, under the conditions defined in the contract.

This year’s theme is “Inhabiting the living”: towards an architecture in dialogue with the animal and plant world.

A call for papers has been launched for two study days to be held on Wednesday May 20 and Thursday May 21, 2026 at ENSA Paris-la Villette – site des Ardennes.

These study days will focus on spaces as a point of decompartmentalization between the literary and architectural domains, and aim to bring together the ideas and knowledge of researchers and teachers, as well as professionals, artisans of space and language.

Three thematic orientations (not exhaustive) are proposed to future contributors:

1. Inhabiting, narrating, “designing” space-time
2. Reinventing space, thinking literature: literary theories and habitable heterotopias
3. Landscape poetics

Registration deadline: 01/2026
Project submission deadline: 03/05/2026 at 23:00
Jury and awards ceremony: 11/06/2026

The “Concours pierre. Construire en pierre structurelle” is open to all students in higher education, whether individually or in teams, with the requirement that each team include a student from a higher education institution awarding a state diploma in architecture or landscape architecture.
It is organized by the École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Val de Seine and its matériauthèque, in partnership with the Syndicat national des industries de roches ornementales et de construction (SNROC) and the Association Les pierres sauvages de Belcastel.

The jury, chaired by architect Boris Bouchet, will award the following prizes to the projects it deems most relevant:

• 1st prize: €1,500
• 2nd prize: €1,200
• 3rd prize: €1,000