Nearly twenty years of architectural practice, first
within large Parisian agencies and since 2006 within BVAU Agency (1) for Eric
Bartolo, and for Olivier Contré at Brunet Saunier Architecture (2) where he became a partner in 2010
before joining Cardete-Huet (Kardham) where he developed and managed (as new
associate) the Parisian architecture division, allow them to fully assume their
maturity A maturity that is also nourished by
their experience as a teacher for the former, and as a researcher and author for
the latter (4)
Together,
they practice a sensitive approach to the truth, as well as to the constructed
perfection An approach that,
enhanced by a permanent dialogue with project owners, users and all other
partners that cannot be dissociated from the act of building, testifies to
their purpose - to offer the architecture they produce not a permanently frozen
state, but on the contrary a resilience that allows it to anticipate and accept
the unexpected and in the end to renew itself, without ever losing its original
qualities
(1) Bartolo Villemard
Architecture Urbanisme
(2) Brunet Saunier Architecture
(3) Eric Bartolo teached at the « Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires à Marne-la-Vallée »
(4) Olivier Contré initiated and
developed the concept of hospital « monospace » and he was integrated
into the BNP-Paribas chair « Operational Efficiency & Management
Systems » of the « Ecole Centrale » of Paris; he co-authored « Monospace
and Simplexity » at Bikhauser Editions,
« Complexité-Simplexité » at « Collège de France »
Editions, « Simplexity and Operational Model» at CNRS Editions.
He is a member of the "Union des Architectes Francophone pour la Santé"
Awards :
Silver Pyramids, GrDF award for the Ménucourt project and its environmental quality, 2014
Europe 40 under 40" Prize, awarded by the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Town Planning and the Chicago Athenaum, International Museum of Architecture and Design, 2012
Europan 6, winning project, 2001