Manuelle Gautrand Architecture

Manuelle Gautrand was born in 1961 and qualified as an architect in 1985. She set up her office in 1991 in Paris, where she lives and works. She has handled all kinds of projects, whether built or in study phase, ranging from housing and offices to cultural buildings, business premises and leisure facilities. Her clients are public contracting authorities as well as private firms, in France and abroad. The ‘C42’ Citroën flagship showroom building, at the Champs-Elysée Avenue in Paris, has contributed to make a name for herself with the large public and the International.

In 2009 Manuelle Gautrand has started the studies for the AVA tower in La Défense and has got the planning permission. She has also completed her first building at abroad: a shopping mall in Bangkok. 2010 has seen the completion of two significant buildings in France: ‘LaM’ - Lille museum of modern, contemporary and outsider art, opened in September 2010, and a Business Centre in Saint-Etienne, a building of 25.000sqm.

2 other buildings will be delivered in 2011 in Paris: the ‘Origami’ office building, and the restructuring and conversion of the old theatre ‘Gaîté Lyrique’ to turn it into an interactive platform for 21st century music and arts. Her teaching activity began at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris (1999-2000), and the Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Val-de-Seine (2000-03). She has also teach in Technische Universität in Vienna in 2009. She teachs in 2010 at the University of Florida School of Architecture in the United-States. She has also exceptional teaching actions in various European schools of architecture in the framework of workshops.

Institutions both in France and abroad have often invited her to present her work in conferences and seminars, notably in Antwerp, Bangkok, Berlin, Budapest, Dubaï, Ho-Chi-minh, Karlsruhe, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Moscow, Montreal, Mexico, Oslo, Paris, Riga, Tel-Aviv, Toronto, Vienna, Wroclaw, a.s.o. She has sat on a great many juries for public and private competitions and prizes.

Exhibitions presenting the work of her office include the Rencontres Internationales d’Architecture at Orléans (ARCHILAB 2001, 2002), the International Biennale of Architecture in Venice (2002, 2004 and 2008), an exhibition at the Galerie d’Architecture in Paris (June 2003), at the Zezeze Galerie in Tel-Aviv and shows in Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Italy and the Netherlands. Monographs on her output have been published in France and abroad, and reports on her projects appear regularly in the press. Two films on her work - ‘l’Art & la Manière’ and ‘Chic’ - were shown on ARTE television in 2008 and 2009.

- COMPETITION " Croix Nivert " Paris: 120 housings / a day nursery,13.000 sqm, rendering Sept.2009, for the 'RIVP'.
- COMPETITION " Palais des festivals " Cannes: Modernization and improvement, rendering Sept.2009, for the city of Cannes.
- COMPETITION " Art Museum " Nantes: Extension and improvement,16.000 sqm, rendering Oct.2009, for the city of Nantes.
- COMPETITION " Kirchberg offices building " Luxembourg city: 23.330 m², waiting for the result of the competition, for the 'Fonds de Compensation Commun au Régime Général de Pension'.
- COMPETITION " Zac Charolais " Paris: program included offices and retail, 12.000 sqm, lost competition, for the french public company 'SNEF'.

Nomination for the “Paris Première” Best designer of the year 2007 prize.
Trophy for Construction 2003, from the Association des Journalistes de la Construction.
Silver Medal of the Académie d’Architecture in 2002
Winner of the “Albums de la Jeune Architecture 1992” awards, from the French Ministry of Culture

- 10/09: BIENNALE D’ARCHITECTURE DE SAO-PAULO – BRESIL
EXPOSITION DU PROJET MUSEE LILLE
- 10/09: MAISON DE L’ARCHITECTURE DE LILLE – FRANCE
EXPOSITION «DENTELLES D’ARCHITECTURE»: MUSEE D’ARRT MODERNE DE LILLE
- 11/09: 10EME RENCONTRE INTERNATIONALE CINEMA & ARCHITECTURE - ANNECY- FRANCE
FILM « C42 – MANUELLE GAUTRAND »
- 12/09: PAVILLON DE L’ARSENAL – PARIS - FRANCE
PROJETS CONSTRUITS 1948 - 2009: C42-CITROEN
- 12/09: CENTRE D’INFORMATION SUR L’URBANISME – RENNES - FRANCE
QUEL HABITAT COLLECTIF POUR DEMAIN: PROJET SOLARIS

2008
- Lille Moderne Art Museum in French Pavillion – Architectural Biennale of Venice
- “Citroën Flagship Showroom”, in the Swiss Architecture Museum in Basel (Switzerland)
- Laurent Mourguet College, Hotel du Département du Rhone – Lyon (France)
- Solaris Housing - Arc-en-Reve Architectural exhibition – Bordeaux (France)
- Apsys Headquaters in the Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris (France)

2007
- “Phare Tower for Unibail”, COAC in Barcelone (Spain)
- “Phare Tower” , Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine in Paris (France)
- “Citroën Flagship Showroom”, Cité de l’Architecture & du Patrimoine in Paris (France)
- “Ratp housing project ‘s competition”, Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris (France)
- “Phare Tower”, Maison de l’Architecture in Paris (France)
- “The Gâité Lyrique Theatre”, the Architecture biennial exhibition in Sao-Paulo (Brésil)

2006
- “A project for London”, London Biennale of Archiecture (UK)
- “Concret, surprise yourself !”, Musée des Arts et Métiers – Paris (France)
- « My house in 2030, a sustainable project », Exploradome – Paris (France)

2005
- "Sensi Contemporanei", Metamorph: Citroen flagship store – Reggio Calabria (Italy)
- "Saint-Etienne administrative City » SIMI – Paris (France)
- “Sao Paulo Biennal of Architecture” : Citroen flagship store – Sao Paolo (Bresil)
- “Beyond Média” Exhibition: Film of the extension of the Lille Musem– Firenze (Italy)

2004
- "Post-Modernism Revisited", Citroën project, Frankfurt museum of architecture (Germany)
- "Métamorph", ninth international architecture exhibition - Venice Biennial (Italy)
- "La nouvelle Gaîté Lyrique", Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris (France)
- "Centre de communication Citroën", Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris (France)

2003
- "Inaccoutumance", La Galerie d'Architecture, Paris (France)
- "Mini-Maousse", Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris (France)
- "A comme Architecture", Galerie Duchamps, Yvetot (France)
- "Extension du musée d’Art moderne de Lille", Villeneuve d’Ascq (France)
- "Carrosseries… : Projet Citroën", C.A.U.E. 92, Sceaux (France)

2002
- "Hybrid landscapes: apartments in Rennes", Valence school of architecture (Spain)
- "Cultural platform in Paris", De Singel international arts centre (Antwerp, Belgium)
- "Next", eigth international architecture exhibition of the Venice Biennial (Italy)
- "Hybrid landscapes: apartments in Rennes", Maison de France (Berlin, Germany)
- "Territoires partagés: Entrepôt A12 à Gennevilliers", Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris
- "L'architecture des stations de métro", Rennes (France)
- "Deux projets culturels", ARCHILAB - FRAC Centre, Orléans (France)
- "Pédagogie et Architecture", La Sorbonne, Paris (France)

2001
- "Hybrid landscapes: apartments in Rennes", Alliance Française
(Rotterdam, the Netherlands)
- "Rushes: Airport building in Nantes", ASA salon (Bangkok, Thailand)
- "Les maisons du bonheur", French Institute of Architecture, Paris (France)
- "Habiter aujourd'hui", ARCHILAB - FRAC Centre, Orléans (France)
- "Temps, matière, architecture", Maison de l'architecture de l'Isère, Grenoble (France)

2000
- "U2000: Institut universitaire de Lieusaint", Villa Finaly (Firenze, Italy)