For over two hundred years, the Beaux-Arts de Paris site has devoted a vast complex of buildings - some dating back to the seventeenth century - to the teaching of art and architecture: a place of creation and freedom without equal in the world.
In this book, Anne Debarre and Maxime Decommer, teachers and researchers at the ‘Architecture, Culture, Society’ laboratory at the École d'architecture Paris-Malaquais, bring together the architectural and educational dimensions of this exceptional site, exploring the evolution of the buildings and their uses.