6th edition of the Résidences d'architecture: At the tempo of the territories!
What binds us – Saint-Gervais, 2025 – © L. Tonin / m'A Isère
Application deadline: March 25, 2026
The call for applications is open to architects and architecture graduates, with one or more other specialists (please refer to the selection procedures specific to each residence).
As part of the 6th edition of the residency program, supported by the Caisse des dépôts Mécénat, the Conseil national de l’Ordre des architectes and the French Ministry of Culture, Maisons de l’architecture offers teams of specialists organized around an architect or architecture graduate, the opportunity to create a cultural project during a residency in a given territory and context.
For several weeks, these residents work in immersion, living on site and meeting local players (residents, elected representatives, etc.).
8 home territories in mainland France and the French overseas territories
The 6th program features 8 architectural residencies throughout mainland France and the French overseas territories.
Whether rural communities or urban neighborhoods, the host areas offer a variety of contexts and challenges, with a view to enabling the experiments conducted to feed into ongoing reflections on public policies such as the revitalization of village centers and medium-sized towns, the activation of peri-urban areas, and more broadly on issues linked to adaptation to the effects of climate change, soil fertility, tourism, landscape, the circular economy and citizenship.
The locations and themes of the 2026 residencies:
- Saint-Marcelin, Isère (38): Le Bateau ivre, a 20th-century heritage in action(s)
- Normandie-Maine NRP and UNESCO World Geopark, Orne (61): Aux sources de l’Orne
- Corse-du-Sud (2A): Nova via architetturali, contemporary architectural itineraries
- Le Port, Reunion Island (974) : ZUP II : Le Port
- Doizieux and its catchment area, Loire (42): Inhabiting a territory and its constraints, revealing potential and working with it
- Chantonnay, Vendée (85): The high school and the town, educational residence
- Maen Roch, Ville-et-Vilaine (35): Maen Roch, an area of mixed identities
- Lacelle – Plateau de Millevaches, Corrèze (19) : Foire à Lacelle, or how can an ancient figure be used to explore new ruralities?
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COAL Student Award 2026: The Night
Application deadline: April 28, 2026
Created in 2019, the Student COAL Prize aims to support students from Schools in the artistic and cultural field who are experimenting with and proposing concrete, creative solutions to the ecological transition.
The theme of the 2026 edition is “Night”.
Two prizes are on offer this year: the winning student receives a two-month residency worth 5,000 euros in one of France’s 350 nature reserves. The three nominated students also receive an invitation to take part in the Regenerative Academy. This unique masterclass, created and piloted for the new MAIF Métamorphoses Prize, is dedicated to transformative artistic practices in and with nature, biodiversity and public engagement.
The call for applications is open to all students who have completed 2 years of higher education, whatever their practice and field of study (design and applied arts, architecture and landscape, visual arts, music, dance, theater, circus, puppetry, cinema, audiovisual, multimedia) and up to one year after graduation.
Bourse dessinée 2026
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.
Acier 2026 Competition: Reversible(s) - Building for transformation
Closing date for entries: May 29, 2026 at midnight
Jury: June 30, 2026
Award ceremony: October 2026
Prize: 5,000 euros to be divided between the winnersThe competition, organized by ConstruirAcier, is open to students, alone or in teams, at architecture or engineering schools in 2025-2026.
Pierre 2026 competition: Hybridized stone
Registration deadline: 01/2026
Project submission deadline: 03/05/2026 at 23:00
Jury and awards ceremony: 11/06/2026The “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
Internet Users' Favorite of the 2025 Architecture Hopes Award: 4 Student Projects from ENSAPLV in the Running
Vote online before February 9, 2026, to choose the winner of the Internet Users’ Favorite Award of the Architecture Hopes Prize, organized by BNP Paribas Real Estate!
This 18th edition invited architecture students to envision a project for transforming vacant tertiary buildings located in France, exploring adaptation to climate change through several approaches: protecting users from climate hazards, the evolution and sharing of uses, the resilience of existing buildings, and reducing environmental impact.
The winner or winning team of the Internet Users’ Favorite Award will receive €2,000.
Every vote counts! Thank you for your support.
Imagine the rail stops of tomorrow
Since 2015, the Bon Sens Paysan collective (an associative design office made up of citizens from various backgrounds with or without ties to the world of railways and architecture) has been spearheading the Limousin Tram Train project. More generally, this project is part of the Metropolitan Regional Express Services (SERM), also known colloquially as “metropolitan RER”.
To this end, the association has been working for several years on a project to explore the possibility of adapting the numerous railroad lines that irrigate Limoges and its catchment area, in order to create a structuring network of five train lines serving the main hubs of the conurbation and linking them more effectively to the surrounding towns and villages. The project aims to find solutions for decarbonizing mobility in rural and peri-rural areas, a current blind spot in public policy.
To take this prospecting work a step further, the BSP collective is launching its first national architecture and urban planning competition for three stations on the Limoges rail hub, as part of the Périgord-Limousin RER project.