Jean-Michel Wilmotte

Jean-Michel Wilmotte; a French architect, urban planner, designer, member of the Académie des beaux-arts, the founder of Wilmotte & Associés and the design studio Wilmotte & Industries.

International, multicultural and multilingual Wilmotte &Associes and Wilmotte & Industries are headquartered in France, UK, Italy and South Korea. Today, it unites 300 architects, urban planners, museology experts and designers from 25 nationalities, driven by the same passion for exploration, knowledge sharing and creativity.

For more than 40 years, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and his team have been leading projects and working in 20 different countries around the world, from Dallas to Paris, Rio de Janeiro to Seoul, as well as London, Dakar, Venice and Moscow. Recently completed works: Station F, the world’s largest start-up campus, and the Russian Orthodox Spiritual and Cultural Center in Paris. Various headquarters: L’Oréal, LVMH (France), Google & JCDecaux (London), Ferrari Sporting Management Center Maranello (Italy), an exhibition and Convention Center in Sao Paulo Brazil, a 36,200-seat stadium in Nice, and in 2015 an ecological park in Baku for the European Games. Other ongoing projects include the renovation of the Lutetia Hotel and Siences Po Campus in Paris, the new ArcelorMittal headquarters in Luxembourg, the Bleu Ciel Tower in Dallas and the United Nations, West Africa Headquarters in Diamniadio (Senegal). In all these projects, it also adopts an innovative and sustainable approach. It respects the local and historical context of the region by paying special attention to the Environment, Lighting, materials and coatings. The Wilmotte & Industries design studio primarily explores the fields of “environmental design”, a branch of architectural practice. It is gaining an international reputation in the fields of industrial design and object design. Characteristics of his architectural design are his acute compositional composition, materials, finishes and plain, simple forms that impart a sense of objectivity, coherence, originality and timelessness. Studio is famous for its numerous lighting products (Artemide, Eclatec, iGuzzini, Insolit, Zumtobel), street furniture (Hess, JCDecaux, Seri), home and commercial-office interior furniture (Cristina, Delagrave, Hafi, Holly Hunt, Ligne Roset), dinnerware (Forge de Laguiole) and architectural paint (Aplat by Wilmotte). In addition to its high standards and values, W&A shares its knowledge with students and young architects using the Prix W path. Prix ​​W is a competition dedicated to the combination of contemporary and traditional architecture and organized by the Wilmotte Foundation. Since 2010, W&A has been ranked as one of the world’s top 100 architectural firms according to the Wa’100, and was also rated 70th for 2018 by British Building Design magazine. His works have received many different awards, especially the IF Design Awards.