Architecture Studio

Based on collective work and shared knowledge, Architecture-Studio aims to favour dialogue and debate, to transform individual knowledge into increased creative potential.

Architecture-Studio is a French architecture practice based in Paris, Shanghai and Venice. Today, the studio is composed of 150 architects, urban planners, landscape and interior designers of 25 different nationalities, led by 14 partner architects: Martin Robain, Rodo Tisnado, Jean-François Bonne, Alain Bretagnolle, René-Henri Arnaud, Laurent-Marc Fischer, Marc Lehmann, Roueïda Ayache, Gaspard Joly, Marie-Caroline Piot, Mariano Efron, Amar Sabeh el Leil, Romain Boursier and Widson Monteiro.

The company principle of Architecture-Studio is the collective conception. From the very beginning, the practice believes in the virtues of exchange, crossing ideas, common effort, shared knowledge and enthusiasm.

The program of Architecture Studio (such as a Bachelor of Architecture or Master of Architecture program) is a program in which students receive hands-on instruction in architectural design.

The Grand Auditorium of la Maison de la Radio, The European Parliament in Strasburg, the cultural hub of Saint-Malo, the Novancia Business School, the restructuring of Jussieu University Campus, but also the Arab World Institute, Créteil’s Cathedral or the urban and architectural design of Montpellier’s Park Marianne district stand among Architecture-Studio’s achievements in France. The international presence of Architecture-Studio is particularly strong in China and in the Middle-East. With the achievements such as the Tibet Natural Science Museum in Lhasa, the Jinan Cultural Centre, the 2010 World Expo master plan in Shanghai, the National Theatre of Bahrain, the Amman Rotana Hotel Tower in Jordan and the Onassis Cultural Centre in Athens. Architecture-Studio is currently working on the landscape Design of Lusail’s public spaces in Qatar, the new University Hospital Centre of Pointe-à-Pitre in Guadeloupe, and the iconic Nanterre La Folie train station for the “Grand Paris Express”. Architecture-Studio has recently released a 3D simulator of the sustainable city for Santiago, Chile.

Architecture-Studio has always wanted to involve architects and artists of different generations and nationalities, in order to question urban planning and architecture of city. In 2009, the practice created the CA'ASI in the Palazzo Santa Maria Nova in Venice. Open to architects, urban planners, landscape designers, artists, writers, philosophers, etc., the CA'ASI is a think tank for urban, architectural and artistic reflections. It aims to make the professional debate accessible through the organisation of exhibitions, conferences and events.

Within a few years, the CA’ASI, the open house of Architecture-Studio, became a representative place for art and architecture in Venice, with the remarkable exhibitions: New Chinese Architecture (2010), In the Cristal Palace (2011), Young Arab Architects (2012), Construction Ahead (2013), Young Architects in Africa (2014), African Cities in motion (2015), Mission Trans-Missions (2016) and Valérie Jouve: Suite(2017).