ParisTransformations Summer School
/City and architecture

A summer school inviting students and young professionals to discover the continuous transformations of the city of Paris and its metropolis.
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Approching Paris as an extraordinary laboratory offering a range of analytical perspectives on the changes that characterise the contemporary city.

For one week, international students are immersed in Paris,with a unique concept : in the mornings, they attend seminars, presented by leading specialists on the city in general and on the theme of the summer school, while In the afternoons, they visit the places that provide the most striking examples of how Paris has evolved.

THE LOCATION

The Paris Transformation Summer School takes place at the Hellenic Foundation of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, an institution with a long history as a place of life and memory of researchers, artists, architects, Greek intellectuals. It has hosted, among others, architects such as Takis Zenetos, Georges Candilis, Aristomenis Provelegios, Yannis Tsiomis, and others.

It is located in a 34-hectare campus located in the south of Paris, very accessible by public transport. The campus is an open-air museum of 20th century architecture, with works by Le Corbusier, Lucio Costa, Claude Parent, Dudock, etc.
The building, designed by the architect Nicolas Zahos and inaugurated during the interwar period, combines a neoclassical style with Art Deco references.
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SCIENTIC ORGANISATION

The summer school is made possible by a partnership between academic organisers from 5 prestigious academic institutions :
· Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University,
· The École Nationale d’Architecture de Paris Belleville,
· Delft University of Technology,
· The Technical University of Crete)
· The Hellenic Foundation of the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

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Since 2022, the School is open to all students and young professionals in or close to the archictural field, eager to explore the ways in which Paris
continuously reinvents itself through the transformation of its built environmentnot simply as architectural objects but as expressions of broader social, economic and political change.