UIUC Versailles Program

22/06/2013

After 43 years we turn over the final page of this incredible chapter. This one goes out to all the participants and professors who made for an unforgettable 9 months, 43 times. good luck to the class of 2015 in Barcelona!

16/03/2013

Read all about our February Sketch Trips, and much more, on our Versailles blog!

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Follow 32 University of Illinois students as they travel to Versailles, France for an amazing...

30/01/2013

Alvar Aalto's Maison Carré with William J.R. Curtis

07/10/2012

A month already! with the first week of SP21 with the French students is in full swing. For this studio project there are 32 groups of 6 students being one American with 5 Frenchies! Each group was randomly given a "constructive Figure" and then has to incorporate that design figure into a chosen one out of many urban Paris sites and on a site in the French Alpes.

13/09/2012

It has been a week since we arrived in France! Everyone is settling down and getting used to life in Versailles. We leave on our first sketching trip tomorrow morning and we are all extremely excited!

05/09/2012

The 2012-2013 group of students arrive in Paris tomorrow, hope everyone is packed and ready to go!

15/05/2012

15/05/2012

The month of April and the beginning of May finished off our year in Versailles with nonstop activities. The history week with William J.R. Curtis began in Versailles and ended at Ronchamp with many bus rides and architectural visits in between, including buildings by Le Corbusier, Jean Nouvelle, and Bernard Tschumi, among others.

After the intensive history week, the group split into three sections for three weeks of traveling and sketching. Two groups headed to Athens and the Islands of Greece with Jim Warfield and Steve Siegel while the third group traveled along the Amalfi Coast of Italy with Jack Kelly. The sketch trips were guided by the leading professors, giving students an intensive workshop on sketching in incredible mediterranean destinations. Before and after the 10 days of the guided sketch trips students were free to travel on their own, visiting Italy, Ireland, Croatia, Greece, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, and others.

Following the three weeks of travel, students returned to Versailles for the final week of academics at ENSA-V. The SAPV hosted an exhibition of student work from the year, inviting all of the students as well as some french faculty, guest architects, UIUC faculty, and other special guests. Everyone gathered to celebrate the accomplishments of the year, peruse the newly printed yearbooks, and then attended a final lecture after the reception. Final reviews consumed most of the following day, which finished with one last reception.

With the end of the Academic year behind us, students have already begun to head back to the USA to begin summer studio, internships, and general adjustment to living in a seemingly new country after a year in France. While some students remain in Europe to travel a while longer, the UIUC SAPV program 2012 has officially come to an end

15/05/2012

Versailles, Paris, Alesia, La Tourette, Bibracte, Ronchamp

10/04/2012

Our final design projects are completed and turned in, our structures exam has come and gone, we spent our holiday weekend galavanting in Rome, Amsterdam, and Prague [among others], and we are now embarking on our final week of history with William J. R. Curtis.

This week of modern architecture begins with lectures in versailles and day trips to paris, and comes to a close with a three day trip with SAPV faculty and Curtis to Alesia, La Tourette, Mt Beuvray, and Ronchamp.

14/02/2012

With our structures project, mid-semester design reviews, and a structures midterm out of the way, students prepare for another period of intensive sketching and travel. Destinations include the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Poland, etc. Bonnes Vacances! [and happy sketching!]

01/02/2012

January 30 - February 4, 2012