École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles
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The École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles or ENSAV is a French architectural school located at the ancient stables of the Versailles Palace. The school was founded in 1969 after the suppression of the École des beaux-arts
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...

 architecture section. Architect Jean Castex was one of the school's founders, while Nicolas Michelin (founder of the group Labfac) was the managing director from 2001 to 2009. The current dean is the architect Vincent Michel.

The pedagogical aim of the Architecture School of Versailles is to provide an intense experience in the architectural arts while developing questions of architecture in the fields of building, city and regional planning. The school prepares students using diverse professional exercise methods. However, it is best known for its urban design
Urban design
Urban design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space. It has traditionally been regarded as a disciplinary subset of urban planning, landscape architecture, or architecture and in more recent times has...

 teachings.

Member of the UniverSud Paris
UniverSud Paris
UniverSud Paris is one of the PRES ) in France. It gathers 21 Public universities, Grandes Écoles and National Research Center, covering nearly the whole spectrum of sciences .-History:...

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Urban Forms: Death and Life of the Urban Block

This major publication by Jean Castex, Philippe Panerai and Jean-Charles Depaule had its first edition in French in 1977. It has been recently translated and edited in English for the first time in 2003 with an additional postscript.

Publications

The review EAV (Enseignement Architecture Ville) was created by Anne-Marie Chatelet and Michel Denes in 1995. It is published annually.
The number 10th of the review (2004–2005) explained its history and origins. This same issue was based on journals and reviews fromnhjlhihih
Zurich's Eidgenossische Technische Hoschschule.

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