State-certified architect (DPLG),

Harvard University (HGSD MCP UD’73), A. Sachs Fellow, RIBA,

Member of the Académie d’Architecture,

Honorary Professor of Tongji University, Shanghai, China,

Honorary Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

After graduating as an architect from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in 1970, Jean-Paul Viguier earned a Master in City Planning and Urban Design from the Harvard GSD three years later. He worked with the New York Urban Design Group on reshaping the urban fabric of Manhattan. On his return to France, he won a first jury prize for the Opéra Bastille competition in 1983 and joint first prize for the Tête-Défense project, establishing him in major French presidential competitions and abroad. His practice, now 80 people strong, and its many projects enjoy international recognition: the French Pavilion at the Seville World Expo, Parc André Citroën and the France Télévisions headquarters in Paris, the Cœur Défense towers, the Sofitel Water Tower hotel in Chicago, the McNay Museum of Modern Art in San Antonio, Texas – the first American modern art museum built by a French architect – the Maroc Telecom Tower in Rabat, the Majunga Tower in La Défense, the SFR Campus in Saint-Denis, the IUCT cancer institute in Toulouse...

Recent competition wins for the Europea district in Brussels, reshaping the site of the 1958 World Expo around the Atomium, Vinci’s headquarters in Nanterre and the tallest timber residential tower (57 m) in Bordeaux continue this significant body of work. His work, which places architecture within a contextual modernity, includes a reflection on the relationship with historic buildings, as shown by the Reims media library on the square of the Coronation Cathedral, the development of the Pont du Gard site, where he also designed the archaeology museum, and the Natural History Museum in Toulouse.