Architecture

Program and structure

Courses on architectural and urbanistic composition make up the basis of the Bachelor’s. They are taught in the form of workshops of up to twenty students and allow each of them to acquire the basics:

• An architectural culture, a critical approach
• The understanding and practice of architecture by experimenting with concepts, methods and related fundamental knowledge
• Design processes according to various contexts, scales, uses, and socio-economic, technical, aesthetic and temporal data
• Acquisition of graphic and oral expression.

In the first three years of the Bachelor’s degree, the Architectural and Urban Design Workshop is organised into separate modules to ensure a consistent approach to programming and methodology through exercises with objectives of varying degrees of difficulty :

• Consistency in developing the learning stages
• Remedial activities for weaker students or those who have failed to complete a particular stage in the learning process
• Flexibility of the internal programme in relation to the level and development of the group, and exchange of ideas
• Pooling of certain stages in the composition process (models, group work)
• The same theoretical input for all the students in a group.

Learning outcomes

Creativity, critical thinking, sensitivity and artistic culture, interest in the quality of life and socio-economic context, autonomy, ability to carry out literature and documentary research, ability to use knowledge and culture, ability to represent designs by graphic and infographic means, ability to explain and defend ideas… these are just a few examples of what we can expect from the Bachelor’s degree in Architecture.

Teaching profile

The learning outcomes are what students are expected to know, understand and be able to achieve at the end of a learning activity, teaching unit or course cycle (Bachelor's, Master's, etc.). Learning outcomes are defined in terms of knowledge, expertise and interpersonal skills.

By the end of the course, students will be able to :

• Investigate an architectural problem
• Develop a spatial response
• Implement a spatially-based response
• Interact with a range of professionals
• Make informed choices.

For more information, see the teaching profile for this course of study below (in French).

PROF-ENS-BA-ARCHIT

Opportunities

The objective of the Bachelor’s in Architecture is to prepare students for the Master's in Architecture. Indeed, having a Bachelor's in Architecture gives direct admission onto the Master’s.