Ecole Nationale Superieure d`Architecture de

Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Normandie
higher education state school under Ministry of Culture and Communication supervision
Located in the town of Darnétal near Rouen (76), the ENSA Normandie settled down in 1984
in a former elastic braces factory , true testimony of the architecture of the late 19th century,
at the heart of a characteristic 2.5 hectare landscaped park. After the rehabilitation carried
out by the architects Patrice Mottini and Pierre Dufflo, the school now offers 4,000 m2 of floor
space dedicated to the teaching of architecture.
An hour from Paris, at the confluence of five departments and two regions, Basse-Normandie
and Haute-Normandie, the ENSA Normandie benefits from both the exposure of the capital and
quality of life of the Normandy region.
Its integration at the local, regional and national levels, is probably at the origin of its very
specific identity:
- strong commitment to analyze contemporary changes by training reactive professionals able
to cope with the new stakes resulting from the diversification of jobs in architecture.
- deep desire to be rooted in contextual issues with the redevelopment of sites in urban,
industrial and port wastelands.
The ENSA Normandie belongs to the network of the twenty French architecture schools
under the authority of the Ministry of Culture and Communication. The school is a founding
member of the CESAR (Conference of Higher Education of Greater Rouen ), and member of the
Community of Universities and higher education intitutions Normandy University (COMUE)
Specification sheet
The ENSA Normandie is part of many collaborations with:
- the Rectorat de l’Académie de Rouen (regional education authority ), as well as with different
schools of the Académie (Educational Programs of Architecture and Arts - Architecture en
classe, au collège et au lycée, Voyage en ville-, Cordée de la réussite), Fondation Culture et
diversité (Programme Egalité des chances),(Equal Opportunity Program).
- professionals of architecture in partnership with the Conseil Régional de l’Ordre des
Architectes (Regional Council of the Order of Architects), les Maisons de l’architecture de
Haute-Normandie et de Basse-Normandie .
- local and regional authorities: Région Haute-Normandie, Ville de Rouen, Communauté de
l’agglomération Rouen-Elbeuf-Austreberthe, CAUE (Advisory service in Architecture, Town and
Country Planning and Environment) of the Seine Maritime, Eure and Calvados departments
in particular.
Programs and exchange agreements with many European, North American, Latin American
and Asian schools also give it an international dimension:
Erasmus (Europe), CREPUQ (Canada), University of Curitiba, Brazil, University of Guadalajara,
Mexico, University of Hanoi, Vietnam. The ENSA Normandie is also a member of the French
and Central and Eastern Europe Schools of Architecture Network, (REA).
www.rouen.archi.fr
Initial trainings
. DEEA - (BA in architecture)
. DEA - (MA in architecture)
. HMONP - (Accreditation to work as project manager)
Other trainings
. DRAQ (Diagnostic and rehabilitation of everyday architecture), in partnership with the
University of Le Havre
. DSA (doctoral diploma in specialized and in-depth architecture studies), in partnership with
the ENSA Paris-Belleville (Architecture and Heritage of the 20th century)
. Master’s degree Architecture Filière Paysage (Architecture and landscape),
under the scientific responsibility of the Ensa Normandie, in partnership with the Ensa
Toulouse, the Ensa Bordeaux, and the University of Hanoi, Vietnam, accredited by the Agence
universitaire de la Francophonie ( AUF).
. Vocational MA : Sustainable Urbanism in collaboration with the University of Caen
. Educational plans of action of mutual exchanges of students with Néoma Business School
Continuing training
CREPA Normandie.
In-service training center created by the ENSA Normandie, the Maison de l’architecture de
Haute Normandie et le Conseil régional de l’ordre des architectes de Haute Normandie (Regional
council of the order of the architects of Haute Normandie), under the aegis of the DRAC
(Regional Office of Cultural Affairs), the CREPA Normandie develops a program of actions with
all kinds of professionals of the architecture; architects, town planners, landscape architects.
Number of students: 650
Number of foreign students: 37 Campus-France (5,5%); 37 Erasmus (5,5%)
Number of teachers: 90 among which 11 doctors and 3 PhD students
Number of other staff: 25
Diplomas:
-BA in architecture (diplôme d’études) at the close of a 3-year course,
-MA in architecture (diplôme d’Etat) at the close of a 5-year course,
-Master DRAQ (Diagnostic and rehabilitation of everyday architecture)
-Post-graduate specialization diploma in architecture (DSA) «Architecture and
Heritage» in partnership with the ENSA Paris-Belleville
-Master Architecture Filière Paysage (Architecture and landscape), in partnership
with the University of Hanoï
French as a second language courses (for Erasmus students)
Research
GRF ATE Normandie
(Research Group being set up), coordinated around four main areas of research:
1. Architecture, Art, Cinema (current changes in the modes of perception, formalization and
production of spatial thought)
2. Architecture, Environment, Construction Cultures (understanding of existing interactions
between physical phenomena, sensory perception and quality of use of the built environment)
3. Observatory of the Norman city (observation and understanding of territorial development
regulated by ongoing scale conflict)
4. Heritage of the 20th century (observation and analysis of the construction process of the
«obsolescence» of buildings built in the 20th century, resulting in alterations mutations and
destructions of this heritage)
Registration fees for the year (for information):
BA-Cycle 1 : 363 € MA-Cycle 2 : 497 €
HMONP (Accreditation to work as project manager) : 613 €
Parcours DRAQ 250 € - (prices excluding social security)
Address : 27 rue Lucien Fromage - B.P. 04 - 76161 Darnétal cedex - France
Tel. 00 33 (0) 2 32 83 42 00 - www.rouen.archi.fr