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What defines me best is what I eat. An inve­te­rate Darwinian (given the lack of a more likely theory), I push my rejec­tion of can­ni­ba­lism in space and in time. I only eat living crea­tures that are as remote as pos­sible from our evo­lu­tio­nary chain. This means all plant life and a large num­ber of aqua­tic ani­mals when they are not a threa­te­ned spe­cies or very evol­ved, and with the excep­tion of gas­tro­pods and cepha­lo­pods to which I feel par­ti­cu­larly close (a proxi­mity which still today remains unex­plai­ned). What we eat is our social, geo­gra­phic and fami­lial his­tory, it is also the story that we want to tell and share, from the mate­rial to the ideo­logy. Architecture goes in the other direc­tion, from the ideo­logy to the mate­rial. Each pro­ject is always an oppor­tu­nity for me to push the ideas that are close to my heart: Rejection of pre­con­cei­ved ideas, sus­pi­cion of theo­ries, against pro­se­ly­ti­zing in the name of my own free­dom. Respect for nature and for all of the beings with which we share and will conti­nue to share our earth for ano­ther few bil­lion years /​but against nature when it preaches that might is right. All I’m doing is trying to live my life in har­mony with my ideas. Yet, our brains, our boxes used for thin­king and desi­gning spaces, are not irre­me­dia­bly mat­ter that needs to be fed.

fraynaud@​loci-​anima.​com

Through my expe­rience of wor­king in many dif­ferent coun­tries and cultures, my energy is now essen­tially direc­ted towards our inter­na­tio­nal pro­jects and the chal­lenge of ini­tia­ting our work in NY. I seek the beauty in the detail and construc­ti­vity of a sub­ject. I have always been drawn towards making objects, be it a cera­mic bowl, woo­den box or a buil­ding. The trans­for­ma­tion of ideas and concepts into phy­si­cal mat­ter is an ama­zing pro­cess from intui­tion to being, from nothing into some­thing. We now extend this in an inverse man­ner with the preoc­cu­pa­tion of trans­for­ma­tion from a solid state to ano­ther and finally libe­ra­ting mat­ter into energy at the end of an objects phy­si­cal life, so that we don’t waste our natu­ral resources. I see our work to chan­nel and har­ness all that energy into phy­si­cal struc­tures that are desi­gned to a spe­ci­fic func­tion and have a plea­sing pro­por­tion through ana­ly­sis and design method, like in nature where all is a mat­ter of selec­tion and evo­lu­tion.

jthornhill@​loci-​anima.​com

A gra­duate of the French Business School EDHEC, I star­ted out in the consul­ting world before moving on to com­mu­ni­ca­tion and new media. My pro­fes­sio­nal choices have always been gea­red towards unique, inno­va­tive pro­jects in the fields of sports mar­ke­ting, digi­tal tech­no­logy, and cur­rently urba­nism and archi­tec­ture. My dream was to play a role in the construc­tion of a bet­ter way of living toge­ther! I met Françoise Raynaud while wor­king on a Havas Sport pro­ject for the America’s Cup. For nearly a year, I wor­ked and ​“lived” in her iti­ne­rant buil­ding, a recy­cled and recy­clable buil­ding desi­gned on the basis of contai­ners, scaf­fol­ding with can­vass suns­creens and com­mu­ni­ca­tions media. I was struck by the intui­tion, the inge­nuity and the auda­city of this buil­ding and the choices made the archi­tect. When Françoise Raynaud set up loci anima, 10 years ago now, I offe­red to bring my orga­ni­sa­tio­nal, mana­ge­ment and deve­lop­ment skills to this new firm. I expe­rien­ced a veri­table bap­tism by fire when I mana­ged and moni­to­red the construc­tion of the firm’s first buil­ding. Today, see­king to extend my res­pon­si­bi­li­ties, I’d like to capi­ta­lise on the know-how of loci anima and enlarge the scope of its acti­vi­ties, pro­vi­ding alter­na­tive res­ponses so that we can reinvent the city of tomor­row, a green city that is res­pect­ful and well-dis­po­sed towards nature and towards its inha­bi­tants.

aducouedic@​loci-​anima.​com

A gra­duate of the school of ​‘archi­tec­ture de la ville et du ter­ri­toire’, I com­ple­ted my diploma HMONP within the agency. After a suc­cess­ful inter­n­ship, I joi­ned the Loci Anima family in 2012, wor­king on pro­jects such as Angoulème’s multi-media library and the Gaumont Gobelins cinema. I per­ceive archi­tec­ture as an ele­ment ins­cri­bed into the envi­ron­ment, at the ser­vice of its users; eli­mi­na­ting the super­fluous and focus­sing on the value of the mate­rials. The sha­ring of know­ledge bet­ween the archi­tect, design schools and com­pa­nies has great signi­fi­cance in my vision of archi­tec­tu­ral qua­lity. I also love dis­co­ve­ring the dif­ferent cultures that make up our lit­tle pla­net, wan­de­ring through wide open spaces and wat­ching the night fall on couples dan­cing to the rhythm of kizomba and samba.

mbichot@​loci-​anima.​com

During my stu­dies at the Paris Villemin Architecture School, I joi­ned the Christian Hauvette team in which I spent more than ten years. I have been res­pon­sible for such pro­jects as the Usinor group offices, the Rector of Guyana offices, labo­ra­to­ries of the Institute of Analytical Sciences and Cemagref, and many other public com­pe­ti­tions such as the reha­bi­li­ta­tion of the Maison de Radio France. In paral­lel, I am deve­lo­ping per­so­nal eco­lo­gi­cal pro­jects, espe­cially in Normandy, a draft of which has been decla­red «win­ner of lau­rel wood construc­tion», or Egypt, where the pro­ject was publi­shed in the «100 green buil­dings» from Taschen. I joi­ned the team of Loci Anima in 2014.

cfelix@​loci-​anima.​com

Canadian-born, I stu­died archi­tec­ture in Montreal. Graduating in 1997 I set­tled in France in 1999, and first wor­ked with Jean Nouvel. I came to Loci Anima in 2010 to join the team on PPP: Ballard (Ministry of Defence) Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris and pri­vate enter­prises like the Immeuble de Grande Hauteur d’Issy-les-Moulineaux. I am sen­si­tive to the needs of the envi­ron­ment and the appro­pria­te­ness of a building’s façade and struc­ture. As soon as I have a lit­tle free time, I seek refuge in Provence, to me the most beau­ti­ful place in the world.

vlaplante@​loci-​anima.​com

Originating from Poland, I arri­ved in France to study archi­tec­ture at ESA then at ENSAPB. Since 2007 I have wor­ked on a mixed port­fo­lio of many dif­ferent pro­jects: (hou­sing, com­mer­cial, and indus­trial) in France, Belgium, Poland and Russia, as well as the Archives Nationales de France pro­ject at Massimiliano Fuksas. Since I arri­ved at Loci Anima in 2010, I have col­la­bo­ra­ted on dif­ferent agency pro­jects and since 2011 have been in charge of the Koala and DNA towers at Issy les Moulineaux. Fascinated by the fusion of the arts, I split my time bet­ween archi­tec­ture and pain­ting.

awogiel@​loci-​anima.​com

After gra­dua­ting in Architecture in Japan in 2002, I first wor­ked a year in France for Architecture Studio and then a year in Japan at Tadamasa KANO work­shop. I retur­ned to France in 2004 to get my degree at the Paris Val de Seine School of archi­tec­ture. I met Francoise Raynaud at this time. For the last 10 years I have wor­ked mainly on the design phase in deve­lo­ping data volumes in 3D and 2D. Sometimes I do detai­led stu­dies in 3D. As a Japanese archi­tect, I would love it if one day the agency could have some pro­jects over there. In the mean­time, as an ama­teur sports­man I play rugby in Paris…in a Japanese team!

myamanouchi@​loci-​anima.​com

Corsican by birth, I went to Luminy archi­tec­ture school in Marseille to study. Following my diploma, I star­ted my career at Djuric–
Tardio Architects, where I wor­ked on a hou­sing pro­ject for Jean Nouvel in Rennes, and also wor­ked on the win­ning pro­ject for «a rural dis­trict» in Targon in Gironde and the Eco-Campus Orlytech, Paris. Following a brief spell wor­king on inter­ior design pro­jects, I wor­ked at Scape Architecture, and then tra­ve­led for a year in Australia and Asia, to open my hori­zons and dis­co­ver other cultures. On my return, I came to Loci Anima , where I’ve mana­ged office pro­jects and cur­rently the reno­va­tion of the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie media library in Paris and the pro­ject Usine des 5 sens, win­ner of the com­pe­ti­tion Re-inven­ting Paris2.

tpanconi@​loci-​anima.​com

Having gra­dua­ted in 1985 from the UPA 9 in Paris, I star­ted out in Jean Nouvel’s office for 2 years on the job site for the Arab World Institute. This was when I first met Françoise Raynaud who was wor­king there at the same time. Afterwards I joi­ned the Brunet Saunier office where I direc­ted 80+ com­pe­ti­tions and pro­jects of all kinds for 12 years. I left to create BRS archi­tects in 2004, where remai­ned in part­ner­ship for 10 years. More recently, I joi­ned Loci Anima in 2015 as direc­tor of pro­jects and deve­lop­ment. I like the truth of mate­rials and refuse false pre­tenses in the archi­tec­ture. I search the emo­tion of space through the play of scale, the mate­ria­lity of the emp­ti­ness and the emp­ti­ness in the mat­ter. I like the debate of ideas bet­ween the dif­ferent actors/​authors of an archi­tec­tu­ral pro­ject.

jmreynier@​loci-​anima.​com

A true Parisian by birth, I stu­died at Paris Belleville archi­tec­ture school and gra­dua­ted in 2002. Before arri­ving at loci anima, I wor­ked in seve­ral agen­cies, mainly on hos­pi­tal, sports and hou­sing pro­jects. In paral­lel, I also par­ti­ci­pa­ted in inter­na­tio­nal com­pe­ti­tions, such as the EUROPAN 9 com­pe­ti­tion, for which I was a lau­reate. In 2008 I star­ted out as an inde­pendent archi­tect, during which time I deve­lo­ped a num­ber of public pro­jects and built four schools and socio-cultu­ral faci­li­ties. I joi­ned Loci Anima in 2016 where I led the Pathé cinema pro­ject on ave­nue de Clichy, the reno­va­tion of Roncq shop­ping centre, and the Keïko office tower in Issy-les-Moulineaux. I am also now in charge of dri­ving the BIM digi­tal trans­for­ma­tion in the office, which is an exci­ting and fun­da­men­tal chal­lenge for the years to come.

aguilhaumaud@​loci-​anima.​com

During my stu­dies at ENSA Paris La Villette archi­tec­ture school, I
wor­ked for the André Drozd, heri­tage archi­tect, and more par­ti­cu­larly on the
reha­bi­li­ta­tion pro­ject of Graville castle at Fontainebleau. I then joi­ned the
Loci Anima family on an inter­n­ship, and then to fina­lize my diploma trai­ning,
during which per­iod I wor­ked on pro­jects of dif­ferent scales and pro­grams,
both natio­nal and inter­na­tio­nal. Since 2018, I am res­pon­sible for various
com­pe­ti­tions, cinema pro­jects and office buil­ding within the agency. And
to feed this variety of topics, nothing bet­ter than tra­vel, exchanges and
mee­tings.

spotin@​loci-​anima.​com

Algerian of ori­gin, I obtain my first diploma at the Kabylie archi­tec­ture school in 2013, before gai­ning my French diploma in archi­tec­ture in 2016 at Nantes. The same year I joi­ned Loci Anima on an inter­n­ship. I have been able to work on dif­ferent pro­jects from concep­tion to site works. Loci anima has allo­wed me to gain expe­rience on site direc­tion and to be in contact with real mate­rials. I see archi­tec­ture as a per­ma­nent field of expe­ri­men­ta­tion. Experiments that contri­bute to the construc­tion, not just mar­ke­ting pro­ducts but of living envi­ron­ments. Architecture is a field of expe­ri­men­ta­tion nou­ri­shed some­times by my wan­de­rings bet­ween the phases of the pro­jects, simi­lar to my wan­de­rings bet­ween the two shores of the Mediterranean. Wanderings that create my archi­tec­tu­ral culture. I wish one day to see the agency deve­lop pro­jects in Africa, but in the mean­time it is through me that Africa expresses itself a lit­tle in the pro­jects of the agency.

aghanine@​loci-​anima.​com

As a jour­na­list, I have the curio­sity of the ​“behind the scenes” events. What hides behind the easy and noisy infor­ma­tion ? Who are
those stran­gers who move the lines but about whom we don’t speak very much ? Over the years, I have been pas­sio­nate about infor­ma­tion that brings solu­tions. Information that, without denying pro­blems, relays construc­tive ini­tia­tives. Information is not limi­ted to a simple obser­va­tion. Identifying muta­tions and high­ligh­ting the actors who build the future is essen­tial in our media land­scape. It is a ques­tion of valo­ri­zing the ini­tia­tives, to eva­luate the ans­wers to the chal­lenges (envi­ron­men­tal, eco­no­mic, social …), to unders­tand the stakes. Loci anima is part of those who build the city of tomor­row and their work is par­ti­cu­larly ins­pi­ring. We both share this same socie­tal vision.

fdelesquen@​loci-​anima.​com

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Coralie Bariou
Jules Colin
Raphaël Fisher
Sam Goda
Thomas Gouin
Clément Le Roux
Gabriel Lucena
Benjamin Sommer
Halima Temam
Celia Volland