THE ARCHITECTURAL INSTITUTE
The Architectural Institute School of Architecture Paris was developed in response to the changes in the economic, demographic, technological, and environmental context in which architects’ operate over the last decade, as well as the changing nature of architectural practice today. The Institute is the only post-graduate-only architecture school teaching solely in the English language in France founded and operated by RIBA Chartered Architects.
OVERVIEW
Located in the centre of Paris, the school is positioned at the heart of Europe in one of the world’s most iconic international cities. Continuing this international focus, our programme of study prepares graduates to to enter in the fields of architecture, construction, philosophy, journalism, emerging technologies, and the arts.
Paris is a truly global metropolis; a city that one might mention in the same series as London or New York, and yet unlike those two cities remains quite culturally impenetrable to most visitors. The Institute was founded to offer a route into discovering and living in the city of Paris, while providing the academic rigour and studio culture of a UK architecture post-graduate course.
The Institute equips its graduates with the artistic, philosophical, intellectual and technical skills required by industry to produce exceptional future professionals. Set in the centre of Paris, informed by the British, American, and European design and construction world, and with key skills workshops provided by a faculty of leaders in the creative industries from all over the world, the Institute is deliberately international; producing the next generation of global architectural practitioners.
ABOUT THE INSTITUTE
The Architectural Institute offers a research-based pedagogical structure, combining core architectural components with emerging professional and intellectual requirements, better preparing its graduates for work in practice, establishing their own practices, or work in related fields. Each teacher at the Institute is also active in practice, so that we retain our strong connection to industry.
A UK ARCHITECTURE SCHOOL IN PARIS
There exists no other school in Paris offering a post-graduate only English-language programme closely integrated to an RIBA Chartered Practice, and this make the programme at the Architectural Institute unique in Paris and, by extension, in France.
There are other schools which teach parts of their programmes in English, as well as some schools within the French public sector with particular studios operating in English. However, the Architectural Institute and its post-graduate architecture course is, by virtue of the culture of the School and the background of its founders and staff, aligned most closely with the professional standards and ethics of the RIBA; integrity, competence, and relationships.
AN INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL
The course at the Architectural Institute of Paris attracts a vibrant and international range of applicants from which the cohort is formed. It is this global outlook, and greater freedom to define one’s own career direction that the Architectural Institute of Paris is placed at the core of the programme at the Institute.
OPEN DAY
An open day will be held on Thursday 31st October 2024, for those interested in applying for the 2025/26 academic year.