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🚹IMPORTANT UPDATE // 2026 National Architecture Days at ENSA Paris-la Villette

Detail of the official visual for the 2026 National Architecture Days – © Ministry of Culture / Steve Scott

PLEASE NOTE: Some events have been canceled or postponed due to student protests in support of the high school students’ movement.

Every year, the school participates in National Architecture Days by offering a diverse program of activities for people of all ages.

2026 Schedule

AT SCHOOL

EXHIBITION
Creating a Book: A Photography Project
The exhibition features works by 150 students from the school, created between 2010 and 2025 as part of an elective photography course offered in the Master’s program. These works take the form of a self-published book, accompanied by photographic prints.
ENSAPLV, Flandre Campus, 144 Avenue de Flandre, 75019 Paris – Exhibition Gallery: Wednesday, September 15 through Saturday, October 17, 2026. Free admission.
This exhibition has been designated a “Bicentennial of Photography” event by the Ministry of Culture and is part of the official Bicentennial program, which runs from September 1, 2026, to September 30, 2027.
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//🚹 POSTPONED // THEATRICAL READING
 Correspondences: The Villa Savoye from its conception to its consecration
 Young actors from the Cours Florent offer a reading of Le Corbusier’s correspondence in which he defends the technical and aesthetic choices of the Villa Savoye against his critics.
ENSAPLV, Flandre Campus, 144 Avenue de Flandre, 75019 Paris – Lecture Hall 11: Friday, October 16, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Free admission.
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DISCUSSION SESSION
Renovations of the Villa Savoye: A Challenge for Generations of Architects
An event organized by second-year master’s students in the seminar “Built Cultural Heritage: Expertise and Reuse in France and Abroad,” in partnership with the Centre des monuments nationaux / Villa Savoye. Together with their guests—Laurent Alberti, Matthieu Gillet, BĂ©nĂ©dicte Gandini, and Élisabeth Marie-Victoire—they will discuss the numerous restoration projects the Villa Savoye has undergone from the 1960s to the present day.
ENSAPLV, Ardennes Campus, 23 rue des Ardennes, 75019 Paris—Seminar Room on the Ground Floor: Friday, October 16, from 1:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Coffee reception beginning at 1:30 p.m. The discussion session will begin at 2:00 p.m. Free admission.
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OUTSIDE THE WALLS

OFF-SITE EXHIBITION
A New Urban Think Tank in Mulhouse — Visions for the Future of a Cross-Border Metropolis
As part of the “Les JournĂ©es de l’architecture | Die Architekturtage” festival, a group exhibition showcases projects by students from the “Urban Transformations” master’s studio at ENSA Paris-la Villette, under the guidance of instructors Christian Horn and Quentin Le Norment. In collaboration with ENSA Strasbourg and KIT Karlsruhe, the students explored the evolution of the Mulhouse metropolitan area, as well as the potential for urban development around the RhĂŽne-Rhine Canal and the existing and future train stations along the Mulhouse-MĂŒllheim cross-border line.
KMØ – 30 rue François-Spoerry, 68200 Mulhouse: Thursday, October 8, through Sunday, October 25. The exhibition is open Wednesday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Admission is free.
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OFF-SITE EXHIBITION
Understanding the Villa Savoye
The exhibition offers insights into the history, architecture, and transformations of this masterpiece by Le Corbusier. It was designed by students in the seminar “Built Cultural Heritage: Expertise and Repurposing in France and Internationally ” (Master 2), coordinated by professors Ioana Iosa and Cristina Sanchez Algarra, in partnership with the Centre des monuments nationaux / Villa Savoye.
Villa Savoye – 82 rue de Villiers, 78300 Poissy: Saturday, October 17, through Saturday, November 14. Outside the building; free and open to the public.
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OUTDOOR CONCERT
Le CƓur d’Hommes: Babel
This a cappella men’s choir, founded in 2014 at ENSA Paris-la Villette, will perform a program of songs titled “Babel” at the Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre Church, an Art Nouveau-style church built between 1894 and 1904 by architect Anatole de Baudot, using a reinforced concrete structure invented by engineer Paul Cottancin.
Saint-Jean-de-Montmartre Church – 19-21 rue des Abbesses, 75018 Paris: Sunday, October 18, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Free admission; donations welcome.
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ON NATIONAL ARCHITECTURE DAYS

Organized by the Ministry of Culture, the 11th edition of National Architecture Days will take place on Thursday, the 15th, and Friday, the 16th (two days set aside specifically for young audiences as part of the “Look Up!” initiative ”), Saturday, October 17, and Sunday, October 18, 2026. These days are intended to bring together initiatives that help all audiences discover architecture and the professions within the field.

This year’s theme will be: “Rehabilitate: Building the Future.”

View the complete program for the 2026 JNA

News

  • Find out more about the State Architects and Planners (AUE) competition

    The DRAC d’Île-de-France and CROAIF are organizing two information events to promote the missions of State Architects and Planners (AUE) and increase the number of registrations for the AUE competition, a civil service management body.

    During these meetings, which will take place simultaneously by videoconference and in person at the Chapelle des RĂ©collets (Paris 10th arrondissement), AUEs from the Ministries of Culture, Ecological Transition, the Armed Forces and Europe and Foreign Affairs will give presentations and answer participants’ questions on :

    • training courses available to prepare for the competition ;
    • the competition, tests and expectations (timetable, skills required, etc.) ;
    • jobs in government departments: urban renewal, landscape evolution, project management, heritage preservation, ENSA… ;
    • career development in the civil service.

    Both events will be hosted by Olivier Lerude, Head of the Regional Department of Architecture and Heritage Spaces (SRAEP) at DRAC Île-de-France.

  • Bookstore release: "Mai 68. Parole Ă  l'architecture", Éditions de la Villette

    The book brings together some thirty interviews with key figures from this historic turning point, including Jean-Louis Cohen, François Very, Bernard Huet, Roland Castro, Henri Ciriani, Monique Eleb and Jacques Lucan… Curated by Caroline Maniaque, ÉlĂ©onore Marantz and Jean-Louis Violeau, who also curated the exhibition “Mai 68. L’Architecture aussi!” exhibition at the CitĂ© de l’architecture et du patrimoine in summer 2018, the book restores the kaleidoscopic words of this “generation” and puts them into historical perspective.

  • ENSA Paris-la Villette on Japanese time. A week of dialogue and exchange

    ENSA Paris-la Villette is delighted to welcome a large delegation from its Japanese partner universities from March 9 to 16: The University of Tokyo, Meiji University, Chiba University, Tokyo City University, Institute of Science Tokyo, Kyoto University, Kyushu University.

    Their visit, made possible thanks to funding from the European Union’s Erasmus+ program, is accompanied by a number of events that will benefit the school’s students, alumni and teaching staff, most of which will also be open to the general public. Course presentations, round tables and conferences, as well as an exhibition, will provide ample opportunity for meetings and exchanges.

    This event is intended both as a retrospective celebrating the educational, scientific and human relations that have linked ENSAPLV and its Japanese academic partners for several decades, and as an opportunity to initiate new research and educational projects co-constructed on promising themes for the future.

  • 3007 visitors to Open Day 2026

    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.

  • RĂ©]inventer l'existant 2025" competition

    Congratulations to Eve Bergeron, Emma Coppens and Lilia Hocine, students at ENSA Paris-la Villette, winners and finalists in the third edition of the competition [RĂ©]inventer l’existant 2025: les architectes de demain imaginent notre avenir post-carbone, organized by DRAC and DRIEAT Île-de-France!

    The “Le Ventre de la Baleine” project, under the direction of Guillaume Baron and Mesnil Sineus, won the “Architect Mediator” special mention.