Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture welcomes you to the historic site of architectural teaching in France. This site has seen, since the beginning of the 19th century, generations of French and international architects, who have contributed to the evolution of the living environment throughout the world. It is up to today’s students to take over, in a world in complete upheaval, confronted with the crucial question of ecological transition as well as the digital revolution.

To meet these challenges, Malaquais students are supported by a team of nearly 300 teachers, with very varied profiles. The originality of the school is that it is organized into six educational departments, each made up of a group of teachers from several disciplines sharing the same vision of architecture. By interacting with each other, students learn to form their own beliefs.

The school is characterized by the important place given to research, which permeates the training offering from the undergraduate level. It has three research laboratories, with both different and complementary orientations.

Numerous facilities and resources are available to students. The library contains nearly 22,000 books, 400 journal titles, and 3,000 student works. The manufacturing, IT and photo/video workshops allow projects to be developed in completely renovated spaces.

The school is a partner member of PSL (Paris Sciences & Lettres), which is among the top French universities in international rankings. This allows students to benefit from cross-learning and dual courses set up with other PSL establishments, such as Mines Paris, the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, and others to come.

Studying in the heart of Paris means having the chance to evolve in an exceptional cultural environment. The Louvre, the Musée d’Orsay, the Comédie Française, the Monnaie de Paris, the Institut de France, etc. are located a few dozen or hundreds of meters from the school, which is linked by agreements to many of these institutions.

International openness is also one of Malaquais’ strengths, which has concluded more than fifty agreements with Europe, Asia, North Africa, the Middle East, the Near East, North America and from South.

Jean-Baptiste de Froment, director

Florence Quiqueré, assistant director

April 2022 : Jean-Baptiste de Froment takes over as director of the Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture

A former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm), Jean-Baptiste de Froment is a graduate of philosophy, a discipline that he taught for several years at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, before becoming a senior civil servant. Member of the Council of State since 2012, he was, until the end of April 2022, special advisor, responsible for heritage, architecture and foresight in the office of the Minister of Culture,  Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin, after having held the same functions with Franck Riester. Previously, he had been advisor for education at the Elysée (2007-2012) and rapporteur at the Council of State (2012-2019), where he was largely concerned with the environment and town planning. From 2014 to 2020, he also served as an elected official on the Council of Paris, as well as on the Greater Paris metropolis.

Jean-Baptiste de Froment took up his position as director of the Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture on April 25, 2022. He succeeded Luc Liogier, who had headed the school since February 2017.

Decision of delegation of signature by the director of Ecole d’architecture Paris-Malaquais dated April 25, 2022

The Board of Directors, the school’s main governing body, deliberates on the key points of the school’s life, including the institution’s overall strategy, its budget, the curricula, the internal regulations, the accreditation process, and agreements and partnerships. It relies on the work and advice of the Educational and Scientific Council.

The Board of Directors has 25 members:

→ 15 elected representatives, including:

• 7 for the research lecturer college
• 4 for the students’ college
• 4 for the administrative and technical staff college
• 10 external personalities

The educational and scientific council

The Educational and Scientific Council has a remit to debate the school’s strategic orientations in matters of education, student life and research.

The Board of Directors can seek the Educational and Scientific Council’s advice on any question within the Council’s remit. It convenes as a select committee (tenured research lecturers only) for individual questions concerning the school’s research lecturer.

The Educational and Scientific Council has 20 members divided into two committees:

→ 10 members of the education and student life committee (CFVE), including:

• 10 elected representatives: research lecturers (6), students (3) and administrative and technical staff (1)

→ 10 members of the research committee, including:

• 7 elected representatives : research lecturers (6), and PhD students (1)
• 3 external personalities

Created in 2010 as part of Investissements d’avenir (future investments programm), PSL University (Paris Sciences & Lettres) covers all fields of knowledge and creation : sciences, human and social sciences, engineering, the arts. Comprising eleven institutions, it benefits from the support of three research organizations and works closely with new partners, including Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture. PSL is the number one French university in the global top 50 of universities and the top 5 of universities less than 50 years old on the THE (Times Higher Education) and QS (Quacquarelli Symonds) league tables of 2019, 2020 and 2021.

Paris-Malaquais School of Architecture became a partner of PSL in June 2020, with a plan to step up and expand its training, research and added-value activities, both with students and with the school’s research lecturers and administrative staff, drawing on the wealth and excellence of all PSL’s institutions. The school enriches PSL’s range of courses with architecture and intends to encourage the construction of new scientific and cultural knowledge with PSL’s students.

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