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European Architecture Schools

Over the years, Europe's architecture schools have produced students, philosophies, and monuments that play a large part in how and why modern architecture looks the way it does. Conceptual and theoretical models in the United States are largely indebted to European ideas, from the Greeks and Romans (look no further than Washington, D.C. for proof of this) to the Bauhaus school.

Bauhaus
- The Bauhaus school of architecture has helped define design in the 20th century.
  
  Located in Weimar, Germany, the Bauhaus-Universität is one of the most influential architecture, design and art schools in the modern world. The original Bauhaus school opened in 1919 with the philosophy of reconciling the divides between art, production and modern technology. Bauhaus shut itself down in 1933 under intense pressure from the Nazis. The new Bauhaus- Universität has been run under that moniker since 1997, and is a direct descendant of the original school. Degrees are offered at the undergraduate, master's, and PhD levels, to both German and international students.
  
  Bauhaus-Universität
  Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 8
  99423 Weimar, Germany
  49-3643-58-0
  uni-weimar.de
Architectural Association School
- London's AA is one of the world's top architecture schools.
  
  The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London offers both graduate and undergraduate degrees. Both programs cover all aspects of architecture and its relation with the public, from history and theory to media studies and landscape urbanism. The school's archives contain over 500 architecturally important films, 8,000 photographs of architecture through history, and more than 150,000 slides of historical and contemporary architecture. The school hosts a series of exhibitions and guest lectures that are of great benefit to its students and their developing concepts of architecture and society.
  
  Architectural Association School of Architecture
  36 Bedford Square
  London WC1B 3ES
  44-(0)20-7887-4000
  aaschool.ac.uk
ENSBA
- Paris' ENSBA is one of the most important academies in the history of art and architecture.
  
  Paris' Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts has been around for more than 350 years. Some notable alumni include French painters Monet and Degas, as well as Gallic architect Victor Laloux, designer of Musée d'Orsay's mammoth stone façade. The current undergraduate architecture program at the school's vast complex in central Paris consists of a five-year, two-cycle program. The first three years of academic, theoretical and studio study form the first cycle. The last two years further the study of the first cycle in addition to requiring work placement, international study and a final seminar.
  
  Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts
  14 rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris
  (33-0)-1-47-03-50-00
  ensba.f

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