École Spéciale d'Architecture
The École Spéciale d'Architecture (ESA) in Paris was founded in 1865 under the name École Centrale d'Architecture . It is the oldest pure architecture school in France and the only private one.
The founding goes back to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , who wanted to reform architecture classes at the École Impériale des Beaux-Arts (today: École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts - ENSBA) and adapt it to the special requirements of the profession. The order that Napoléon III. issued for this purpose, he had to return because of opposition from the school and its students.
Therefore, Viollet-le-Duc supported, together with others, including Ferdinand de Lesseps , the project of the engineer Émile Trélat to found a free architecture school in order to break the monopoly of the Académie in the architecture training at the École des beaux-arts.
In 1865, the school opened under the direction of Émile Trélat on Rue de l'Enfer in Paris with 59 students. In 1904 she moved to Boulevard Raspail, where she still had her seat.
In 1907, Émile Trélat's son Gaston took over management; he was succeeded in 1929 by Henri Probst (1892 diploma at the ESA, 1902 Basic Prix de Rome at the École des beaux-arts), who introduced new subjects: town planning, garden architecture, construction site organization, construction industry. Probst heads the school until 1959. During this time, lecturers are e.g. B. Auguste Perret, Robert Mallet-Stevens, well-known students Pierre Vago, Al (fred) Mansfeld and others
Odile Decq has been the director since 2007. The school has (2010) 675 students who are taught by 80 lecturers. Around 120 state-recognized diplomas are awarded each year; Around 10,000 ESA graduates are active worldwide.
literature
- Pierre Vago, une vie intense, Bruxelles 2000, p. 78 ff
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Coordinates: 48 ° 50 ′ 15 ″ N , 2 ° 19 ′ 51 ″ E