Saint-Etienne

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Etienne (ENSASE)

2026

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Address

1 rue Buisson,
42000 Saint-Etienne

ENSASE is one of France’s 21 national higher education institutions for architecture and forms part of Jean Monnet University.

ENSASE, committed to architecture for all, pursues an ambitious policy of promoting architectural culture and research through publications, a programme of lectures and conferences, exhibitions and initiatives to raise awareness of architecture amongst schoolchildren.

In relation to

  • Résonance

SEDIMENTALISME II

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Etienne (ENSASE)

Building ever higher means digging ever deeper. SEDIMENTALISME II explores the subsurface as a political, geological, and imaginary space, and questions the narratives of progress that still shape our urban imaginations.

  • Résonance

Do less with less, an architecture of parsemony

Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Saint-Etienne (ENSASE)

This discussion examines the relevance of an architecture of frugality. Against a backdrop of dwindling resources, it explores a design approach based on a focus on the existing built environment and the search for the right intervention, with a view to avoiding any superfluous additions.