| École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville | |
| Established: | 1969 |
| Administrative Staff: | 120 |
| Chancellor: | François Brouat |
| City: | Paris |
| Country: | France |
| Students: | 1116 |
| Undergrad: | 411 |
| Type: | Public |
| Website: | www.paris-belleville.archi.fr |
The École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville is a French grande école and school of architecture. It is currently ranked as the best architecture school in France.[1] [2] The school is recognized for its focus on sustainability,[3] and its students have received awards for adaptable designs encouraging new attitudes towards waste.[4] The school has partnerships with 66 international universities, including La Sapienza in Rome and the University of Hong Kong.
Also, it has an incredibly competitive admission criteria;ENSA Paris-Belleville's acceptance rate is 4.9%.
The École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville was founded by a dissident group of students from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts,[5] l'atelier collégial 1, led by, in 1965. In 1969 it was officially recognized under the name UP8 (unité pédagogique d'architecture n°8, architectural teaching unit no. 8), and it has since occupied various re-purposed quarters, including Les Halles until their demolition, as well as a former Meccano factory in the Belleville section of Paris. In 2009 it moved into a purposely designed space, a conversion and partial rebuilding of the former site of the, also in Belleville. In 1986 it was renamed the École d'architecture de Paris-Belleville and UP7 and UP5 were merged into it.[6] It took its current name in 2005.
The research arm of the school is the Institut Parisien de Recherche: Architecture, Urbanistique, Société (IPRAUS), which emphasises interdisciplinary approaches.[5]