Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

Coordinates: 48°49′16″N 2°20′17″E / 48.82111°N 2.33806°E / 48.82111; 2.33806

Cité internationale universitaire de Paris

Established	1925
President	Jean-Marc Sauvé
Students	6,000
Location	Paris , France
Campus	Urban
Website	www.ciup.fr
Location in Paris

Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (CiuP, Cité U) is a private park and foundation located in Paris, France. Since 1925, it has provided general and public services, including the maintenance of several dozen residences housing around 6,000 students and visiting academics in the Île-de-France region. It has been officially recognized as a foundation of public interest since then. The Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris promotes, in a spirit of tolerance, exchanges between students from around the world.^[1]

History[]

CIUP was established after World War I by André Honnorat, rector at the Sorbonne, in cooperation with , in order to create a meeting place for students, researchers and intellectuals from around the world in a spirit of peace, unity and friendly cooperation. The CIUP was originally built for the University of Paris, hence its name appears in several of its buildings, notably the Maison Internationale.

Several structures have been designed by architects of note, such as Le Corbusier, Willem Marinus Dudok, Heydar Ghiai and Claude Parent. The residences are organized mostly by nationality, although residents in each maison are not necessarily from the country implied by the naming of the building. Up to 30%-50% of the student residents in each maison may come from different nationalities. Students of 132 different nationalities were living in the Cité Internationale in 2006. In the early 21st century, CIUP acquired two residences outside its perimeter, in the 19th arrondissement of Paris.^[2]

The CIUP in the 14th arrondissement of Paris is bounded to the south by the Boulevard Périphérique, a busy highway that circles the border of Paris, and to the north by the Parc Montsouris.

Residences[]

Plan of the Cité internationale universitaire, Paris, France.

	Name	Affiliation/dedication	Architect(s)	Inauguration	Picture
1		, Cuba	Albert Laprade	1932
2		André Honnorat		1953
3		Argentine		1928
4		Armenia		1930
5		École nationale supérieure d'arts et métiers		1949
6		Southeast Asia	,	1930
7	[3] (formerly ) (former )	The patrimony (formerly ) (formerly Iran)	Heydar Ghiai, Claude Parent	1969
8		Belgium, Luxembourg		1924
9	Maison du Brésil	Brazil	Le Corbusier, Lucio Costa	1954
10		Cambodia		1957
11		Canada		1925
12		Denmark	Kaj Gottlob	1932
13	Fondation Deutsch de la Meurthe	,	Lucien Bechmann	1925
14		Spain		1927
15		United States of America		1930
16		Franco-British relations	,	1937
17		André de Gouveia, Portugal		1960
18		, Island of Bréhat, Brittany, France		1939
19		Heinrich Heine, Germany		1956
20		Greece		1932
21		India		1967
22	[4]	Industry of agriculture in France		1954
23		Agronomy in France		1928
24		Italy	Piero Portaluppi	1958
25		Japan		1929
26		Lebanon	,	1948
27	(19th arrondissement of Paris) 48°52′44″N 2°24′35″E / 48.8789°N 2.4097°E / 48.8789; 2.4097			2005
28		Lucien Paye	Albert Laprade	1949
29		Morocco		1953
30		Mexico		1953
31		Monaco	Julien Médecin	1937
32	[5]	Netherlands	Willem Marinus Dudok	1926
33	Maison de Norvège	Norway	Reidar Lund	1954
34		Countryside provinces of France		1933
35	(19th arrondissement of Paris) 48°53′16″N 2°22′45″E / 48.8879°N 2.3791°E / 48.8879; 2.3791			2007
36				1936
37		Sweden	,	1931
38	Pavillon Suisse	Switzerland	Le Corbusier	1930
39		Tunisia		1953
40				1950

Former residents[]

See also[]

• Marcel Gaumont Sculptor of relief on university entrance

References[]

Notes[]

Bibliography[]

• Dzovinar Kévonian et Guillaume Tronchet (ed.), La Babel étudiante. La Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (1920-1950), Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2013 [1]. (read the introduction online)
• Guillaume Tronchet, "Diplomatie universitaire ou diplomatie culturelle ? La Cité internationale universitaire de Paris entre deux rives (1920-1940)", dans Dzovinar Kévonian et Guillaume Tronchet (dir.), La Babel étudiante. La Cité internationale universitaire de Paris (1920-1950), Rennes, PUR, 2013, p. 59-88 (read online).

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cité internationale universitaire de Paris.

• Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris – official website (in French, English, and Spanish)

Homepages for each house[]

• Indian house
• Swedish house
• House of the Canadian Students (Maison des étudiants canadiens)
• Fondation des États-Unis
• Fondation Suisse
• Brazil house
• Maison de la Tunisie
• Maison du Liban
• Mexican house
• Japanese house
• Fondation de l'Allemagne — Maison Heinrich Heine
• Spanish house