Between 2005 and 2018, several decrees, reports, and ministerial strategies encouraged the National Schools of Architecture (ENSA) to train students in rehabilitation, drawing in particular on the Architecture, Heritage, and Creation (APC) educational and scientific network. In parallel, architectural practices focused on existing buildings have become predominant over the past fifteen years, and growing ecological awareness is promoting rehabilitation as a lever for the ecological transition. The purpose of this article is to examine the impact of these ministerial directives and the potential effects of the APC network on the curricula of French schools of architecture. In this study covering the past decade, we conduct a textometric analysis of the undergraduate and graduate curricula of a representative sample of ENSA schools. We observe a considerable increase in the occurrence of rehabilitation-related terms in course titles, with, for example, a fourfold increase in the use of the word "existing" and a rise of more than 50% in the terms "rehabilitation" and "transformation." Thus, we can observe an increase in the number of courses on existing material, even if they do not yet meet all the needs in this area.

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