The École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Marseille-Luminy is a French school of

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Diploma

The school delivers the following diplomas in architecture : *

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History

In 1752, the Marseille academic school of drawing is established by painters

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and Jean-Joseph Kapeller in the premises of the

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which later moved to the Canebière. In 1780, the school became the academy of painting, sculpture, and civil and naval architecture In 1796, the school moved to the Convent of the Bernardines of Marseille under the name of 'free school of drawing.' In 1812, a section of architecture was created, a subject mainly taught at the

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(France) with a strong civil engineering component. In 1862, this drawing school became the Marseille School of Fine Arts, which also taught architecture, construction, and perspective. In 1874, the school of fine arts integrated the new

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, place Auguste et François Carli. In 1882, opening of a drawing class for young girls "class of the damsels". In 1905, the regional school of architecture of Marseille within the school of fine arts was created by a decree. This education allowed students to acquire the basics before entering the

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in Paris, which was the only one authorized to issue the architect's diploma at the time. In 1967, the school of fine arts and architecture moved from the Place Carli, in the center of Marseille, to Luminy. Its new premises were designed by the architect René Egger under the impulse of Gaston Defferre and François Bret, its director since 1961. In 1968, the school opened.

References

External links

Official website

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

Educational institutions established in 1969 {{France-university-stub