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Foundation year in Architecture & Design

Préparatory class for schools of architecture (1 year)

City

Paris

Eligible for:

High school diploma

Output level:

Post-bac

Rythm(s):

Full time course

Language:

French

Back-to-school:

September 2025

A key moment for future course choice, the foundation year enables students to best prepare for their subsequent studies through discovering the reality of design professions, acquiring the fundamentals through the practice of representation techniques and preparing for national architecture schools.

Presentation of the course

A FOUNDATION FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN TO DISCOVER YOURSELF

Throughout this year, you will be accompanied by a teaching team made up of working professionals who are attentive to your needs: they will help you to assert yourself by stimulating your creative abilities, to structure your thinking by developing an approach to applied projects, to experiment with all the techniques and in particular the FabLab and the new digital technologies.

During this foundation year, we would like you to discover yourself, to dare without constraint.

Although it is specialised, this first year covers a wide range of techniques and applications in the different fields of applied arts.

This foundation course is offered in French.

PREPARE FOR THE COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION TO ENTER A SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE OR CONTINUE IN HIGHER EDUCATION

This foundation year in architecture and design offered by LISAA Paris is an open door to your professional project. It will prepare you to:

pursue your studies in higher education within the LISAA Interior Architecture & Design programme,
or to take the competitive exams of the national schools of architecture.

The advantages of the Architecture & Design preparatory course

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LISAA ensures that each student is supported in his or her professional project.
LISAA is committed to developing and highlighting the creativity of each student.
However, LISAA is a school of interior architecture which, very early on in its courses, evokes professionalism by allowing you to integrate essential professional concepts very quickly.
LISAA is one of the few schools of interior architecture and design recognised by the Ministry of Culture and by the UNAID (National Union of Interior Designers). LISAA Paris is one of the interior architecture and product design schools preferred by professionals according to L'Étudiant.
LISAA Paris also has very comfortable new premises of 2,500 m² and top-of-the-range equipment at your disposal: large workshop, computer labs, fablab, laser cutters, 3D printers, photo studio, exhibition room...

The content of the architecture & design foundation year

During this year of foundation course, you will learn the essential techniques of representation in applied arts, you will open up to the culture of architecture, science & society and semiology and you will take part in specialised workshops that will quickly immerse you in project-based teaching.

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SUBJECT
ECTS CREDITS

Basic arts education

Life Drawing
5

Drawing
5

Colour
3

Exterior Sketching
3

Cultural and creative education

Art History
3

Project Methodology
1

Creative process & experimentation
3

English
2

Specialised and technical education

Architecture
8

Design
8

Scenography
8

Theoretical and technical education

Computer Graphics
8

Site Studies
1

Creative process and technical project
1

Semiology
1

Validation of learning

Jury
/

Workshop
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The educational staff

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Emmanuelle Torck

Director of LISAA Interior Architecture and Design

Chantal Boëtte

Head of Educational Administration - Interior Architecture & Design

Salma Navarre

Admissions manager - Interior Architecture & Design

Entry Requirements & Application

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APPLICATION PROCEDURES

How to get into a school of interior architecture and design? Admission to LISAA is done outside the Parcoursup system.

To apply to LISAA's architecture and design foundation course, you will have to pass an oral interview during which you will be able to present a dossier of your personal work.

This interview will allow us to evaluate your motivation and the suitability of your profile to the specificities of the interior architecture and design professions.

See the registration procedure.

PREREQUISITES

Admission to LISAA is not part of the Parcousup system and does not depend on the baccalaureate you have taken (general or technological baccalaureate or vocational baccalaureate) or the options you have chosen.

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