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Foundation year in Architecture & Design

Préparatory class for schools of architecture (1 year)

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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:

  • 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...
  • 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
  • /

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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