The 'Metropolises of Pacific Asia' (MAP) training programme constituted an architectural adventure of astonishing longevity. Heir to the 'Eastern Cities' course founded in 1981, MAP brought together the ENSA architectural schools of Paris-La Villette and Paris-Belleville and the IFU French institute of architecture until 2005, and has been pursued since in separate forms at each institution. Developed by the new generation of teachers and resear- chers forged by the antiestablishment events of May 1968 and