Accreditation

The Paris School of Architecture is a post-graduate only course, accepting students who already hold an undergraduate degree (3 years) in any related subject. The ordre des architectes governs which schools are able to exempt candidates from each part of the three elements, schools of architecture in France are therefore in some sense beholden to them in terms of receiving an 'accreditation'. You are likely to be aware from our online presence that the school is in its first year in 2019/20. During the development of the school we have been in contact with the Ministry of Culture who govern ordre des architectes to discuss potential validation options for the school. One of the requirements of validation is that the course is taught in the French language, and as the core tenet of the school is teaching in the English-language, this element was unacceptable to us. We have discussed validation with other EU registration boards, notably the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom (due to their de facto use of the English language) however, the way in which the European Union directive on the equivalence of qualifications works requires the national registration body to first validate the course, which then becomes subject to the 2005 EC directive on equivalence of professional qualifications. Each of the 3 parts is subject to this requirement.