Year 1

Year 1 spans over three main fundamentals :

• The acquisition of a coherent and sensitive expression through drawing, colour, composition;
• The development of a creativity fed by an art culture;
• Specific disciplines of image and space.

Year 1 offers the opportunity to learn to look, to become familiar with materials and techniques so as to translate a personal vision and to prepare for the interior architecture / design department. This first year aims at developing an intellectual rigour and students’ culture, as much as giving them freedom and space to experiment. Students are introduced to the main currents of history of art, and discover different fields of creation through courses, visits and workshops. Projects are regularly conducted in partnership with cultural structures (Jeu de Paume et CPIF, MAC/VAL, Festival d’Automne, Rencontres chorégraphiques de Seine-Saint-Denis...).

At the end of the first year, the students have “unlearned” their automatic mechanisms of judgment to acquire a personal vision and a critical judgement, and have the theoretical and practical basis necessary for their engagement in higher education.

The instruction deployed allows them to acquire solid basics and working methods, from which they develop a personal production. Students are individually monitored in the development of their personal portfolio, following a defined work protocol.

- It is the first of the Académie’s 5-year curriculums, leading to Year 2 in interior architecture / design.

- Year 1 prepares students whishing to take national art and architecture schools exams. 

- Year 1 initiates students into the disciplines  they will specialize in from Year 2 onwards in interior architecture and design: plane, elevation, section, perspective, geometry, model, light and color in space.