The École d'architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est (formerly École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires à Marne-la-Vallée), Éav&t for short, is a fully accredited state-financed architecture school located in the east of Paris, France.
The school offers 5 programs in architecture: Diplôme d'études en architecture conférant le grade de license Diplôme d'État en architecture conférant le grade de master HMONP - Habilitation à la Maîtrise d'œuvre en son Nom Propre DSA - Diplôme de spécialisation et d'approfondissement en architecture DPEA - Diplôme propre aux Écoles d'architecture, architecture post-carbone
History
The school was created in 1998 and designed by renowned architect Bernard Tschumi.
Campus
As of January 1, 2020, the Éav&t is a part of the Gustave Eiffel University. The university is located in the Cité Descartes campus in Champs-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne), and englobes the ESIEE Paris school of engineering, the École des ingénieurs de la Ville de Paris, the École nationale des sciences géographiques and École d'Architecture Marne-la-Vallée.
The building epitomizes all that has to be taken into consideration for architecture students and is made of several materials and theories: steel, concrete, glass. Cantilevers, open space and the "box within a box".
Student body
The school accommodates about 700 students. Most of the students are in first year (about 90 to 120 depending on the years), this figure slowly evolves to about 30- 50 students in the final fifth year.
First-year admissions are to be made through Parcoursup and are considered highly selective with an acceptance rate as low as 15% in 2021.
Goals
The school's goals strongly focuses, as its name suggests, on the city and its context, its territory and environment. Many town-planning classes and theories overlap with the main studio. Studio work is one of the most important features of the school.
The school, although very new, is rivaling with other architecture schools that have had a high visibility in quality, knowing that since the May 1968 student riots in France, La Villette and Belleville architecture schools symbolised a very strong separation with the Beaux Arts school, and has since maintained a distinct reputation since.
The École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires (ÉAVT) is slowly changing this.
It has some of the most influent and important architects that practice in France and abroad as its teachers.
The school was ranked 5th best architecture school of France by diplomeo.com and Archiprep.com in 2020 and 2022 respectively.
Faculty
Some professors had the chance to have been influenced by Henri Ciriani, who was a disciple of Le Corbusier.
Yves Lion, architect, is one of the founders of the school. Jacques Lucan, architect & renowned French theorist is also a teacher at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland. Marc Mimram, engineer and architect who studied at École des ponts ParisTech and the University of California, Berkeley. David Mangin, architect and town planner, has widely published books on the matter. He is currently working on the Les Halles renovation in the center of Paris. Jean-Jacques Treutel, architect and town planner, is working on the extension of La Défense Financial District in the west of Paris. Jean-François Blassel, engineer, is also teacher at the University of Pennsylvania. Jean-Pierre Adam, architect and archaeologist.
Exchange programs and partner universities
Éav&t has partnerships throughout the world with notable architecture schools and institutes. The school is also part of the Erasmus+ program which offers opportunities for student to study abroad in Europe.
Erasmus+ partnerships
Germany Cologne University of Applied Sciences, Cologne University of Hanover, Hanover Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe Technical University of Munich, Munich
Belgium Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels Ghent University, Ghent
Spain Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Catalonia Francisco de Vitoria University, Madrid
Greece University of Thessaly, Thessaly
Ireland Waterford Institute of Technology, Waterford
Italy University of Bologna, Bologna University of Genoa, Genoa Sapienza University of Rome, Rome Roma Tre University, Rome Università Iuav di Venezia, Venice
Portugal University of Minho, Braga
International partnerships
Argentina University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Brazil University of São Paulo, São Paulo Mackenzie Presbyterian University, São Paulo
Canada Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal
Chile Diego Portales University, Santiago
Israel Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
Lebanon Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, Beirut
Switzerland École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne
Notes and references
External links École d'architecture de la ville et des territoires Paris-Est website Gustave Eiffel University website