THE WORLDS OF ARCHITECTURE TEACHING - STUDENTS, TEACHERS

Studies on the teaching of architecture in France have not been lacking in these recent years, but they have only incidentally taken students as their subject and teachers. Far from administrative history or that of pedagogy, The texts gathered here combine biographies and prosopographies to give a face to those who brought the schools to life. Investigate beyond the memories that have come down to us, to understand what these men and women were like women and put their current situation into perspective, these are the objectives of this work. The heart of the study is located at the School of Fine Arts, without without a doubt the most famous and most frequented establishment of France. From 1900 to 1968, 13,000 students were admitted, and it was to these the latter to which the first chapter is dedicated, while the second approaches their teachers, those of three provincial schools and their Parisian supervision. Around this central point, the cloud of satellite institutions which flirted with the teaching of architecture bears witness to foreshadowing confrontations discussed in the third chapter. Finally, the book addresses the question of the permanence and renewal of establishments after 1968. The challenges are multiple and still current: a strong demographic evolution, a clear progress in research and doctorates, as well as the dynamics of feminization and gender segregation.