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DOMINIQUE PERRAULT

BIOGRAPHY

As an architect and urban planner, Dominique Perrault won the competition for the National Library of France in 1989. Internationally recognized, it carries out numerous large-scale projects, such as the velodrome and the Olympic swimming pool in Berlin (1999), the Campus Complex Center of the women’s university of Ewha in Seoul (2008), the last two extensions of the court of justice of the European Union in Luxembourg (2019), the cover of the Suzanne Lenglen court in Paris (2024), the Villejuif-Gustave Roussy station, a new station for the Grand Paris Express network (2025), and is currently transforming the old Invalides terminal into the future museum-school of the Giacometti Foundation.

Considering architecture as a discipline intrinsically linked to urban planning, Dominique Perrault has notably worked on the urban future of Île de la Cité in Paris (2015), developed the Athletes’ Village for the 2024 Paris Games and designs, currently, a large intermodal transit center for the city of Seoul named Lightwalk.
Honorary Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), he was awarded the Mies van der Rohe prize in 1997, the Praemium Imperial prize in 2015 and, that year, became a member of the Academy of Fine Arts. In 2019, he was appointed General Director of the 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.
Dominique Perrault has been working with the architect, designer and scenographer, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost since 1989. The complementarity of the two creators results in a perfect mastery of architectural quality, from the urban scale to that of detail.

Between 2025 and 2030, many projects designed by Dominique Perrault will be delivered in France and abroad, notably the extension of the Caja Magica in Madrid, the extension of the Esplanade-Coupole of the EPFL Campus in Lausanne, two towers in Vienna, one of which will become the tallest wooden tower in Europe, and several residential and office towers in Seoul, South Korea.

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CHRONOLOGY

1953
Birth in Clermont-Ferrand

1973
Entrance to the School of Architecture, attending the workshops of Martin van Treck and Antoine Grumbach

1979
Certificate of higher education in urban planning, National School of Bridges and Roads

1980
Graduated in Advanced Studies in History, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris

1981
Creation of the agency Dominique Perrault Architecture (DPA) in Paris, followed by subsidiaries in Berlin (1992), Luxembourg (2000), Madrid (2006) and Geneva (2013)

1990
Setting the DPA agency in the industrial hotel Jean-Baptiste-Berlier, Paris 13th

2007
Setting the DPA agency at 6, rue Bouvier, Paris 11th

2007
Chair of the Association for the conservation of the Domaine de Frapotel, France

DISTINCTIONS & AWARDS

1982
Laureate of the New Architecture Program
PAN XII
France

1983
Laureate of the Albums of Young Architecture Ministry of Equipment
France

1984
“Architecture and Project Owner”
1st Prize for the Someloir factory
France

1990
“Architecture and Project Owner”
1st Prize for the Industrial Hotel Berlier
France

1992
Silver scale of the Monitor for the Industrial Hotel Berlier
France

1992
Silver Medal of Urban Planning for the National Library of France
France

1992
Constructa Preis ’92
European prize awarded for the Hôtel industriel Berlier

As an architect, designer and scenographer, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost joined the agency Perrault Architecture (DPA) in 1989. Since then, she has been supporting the design work of Dominique Perrault as artistic director and designer through the creation of layouts, furniture, and lighting.

In partnership with the German company GKD, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost reinvents metal mesh by giving it a supple and poetic dimension away from its industrial uses. It transforms this simple building element into an architectural and design material in its own right.

Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost also develops numerous scenographic projects, including those of the Galeristes fair (2016-2020) and the Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennial (2021). His work as a designer is published by prestigious houses such as Fontana Arte, Olivari, DCW, Ozone, Liaigre, the MiniMasterpiece gallery …

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DPA HEADQUARTERS PARIS

Founded in 1981, DPA is an international architecture, urban planning and design agency based in Paris, Madrid and Geneva. It brings together a multidisciplinary team of about 50 people in Paris and nearly a hundred internationally, from 30 different nationalities.

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Based in Paris, the Perrault Architecture agency is looking for talents from all backgrounds – architecture, urbanism, design, visualization artists, or any other discipline bringing quality to architecture – to participate in large-scale projects, in France and internationally. Join us!

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RESEARCH AND INNOVATION LABORATORY

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DPA LAB is a research and innovation studio that questions materials, matter and light by going beyond the traditional boundaries of architecture, urban planning and design. Creators of concepts and new tools, DPA LAB combines theoretical research, experimentation, scenography and artistic installations to reinvent the vocabulary and experience of architecture.

From the National Library of France in Paris, to the Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, including the extension of the Dufour Pavilion at the Palace of Versailles, the agency has been developing for several decades, through this studio, a thorough research work focusing in particular on the use of metal mesh, on the study of soil epidermis and its underground potentialities, as well as on the transformation of the already there.

This research has given rise to several structuring concepts that today irrigate the work of the agency. They are the subject of numerous publications, including Groundscape – Autres topographies (HYX editions), Un village et sa double, Manuel d’urbanisme. Olympic and Paralympic Games Paris 2024 (Actar) or even Metallic mesh: the story of a weaving (box in 2 volumes, Gallimard).

DPA GALLERY

At the heart of the Parisian agency, on an exhibition platform of nearly 400 m 2, DPA Galerie presents the works and puts into perspective the achievements of the agency, from the first sketches of the 1980s to the models and panels of the most recent competitions.

After hosting “Groundscape” — an exhibition presented from 2015 to 2022 and resulting from the agency’s research on the underground — DPA Galerie presents today “Infrastructure / Architecture”, an exhibition dedicated to transport projects carried out by the agency. It traces a route from Piazza Garibaldi in Naples to the Lightbeam in Seoul, passing through the Villejuif-Gustave Roussy station delivered in January 2025 for the Grand Paris Express.

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ARCHIVES

Since its creation, the agency has attached particular importance to the conservation of its archives. Until the 2000s, all the design work was mainly carried out on paper. Hundreds of yellow sleeves, true treasures containing sketches, hand drawings, photographs, plans on layers and notes, are carefully preserved within the agency. Each study is also accompanied by prototypes and models, stored in our dedicated spaces.

In-depth work is currently being carried out to collect, organize and digitize these archives, as well as those of the Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost agency (GLP Design).

By 2028, these archives will be housed and available for consultation in the former sheepfold of the Domaine de Frapotel, a vast estate on which was built, between 1966 and 1970, the villa of André Weil, designed by Jean Dubuisson. In 2020, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost and Dominique Perrault founded the Association for the Conservation of the Domaine de Frapotel, transforming this place into a space dedicated to the conservation, transmission, research and creation of 20th century architecture.

The future building will host both conservation spaces, workshops and exhibition areas, allowing the sharing and enhancement of these archives in a sustainable framework.
Part of the agency’s archives was also deposited in 1997 and then in 2004 at the National Archives of the World of Work in Roubaix, in order to make accessible the thousands of plans that contributed to the development of the National Library of France. These documents, representing more than 30 m 2, testify to the human and architectural adventure of this project and enrich a set of more than fifty funds of architects, national and international.

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As an architect, designer and scenographer, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost joined the agency Perrault Architecture (DPA) in 1989. Since then, she has been supporting the design work of Dominique Perrault as artistic director and designer through the creation of layouts, furniture, and lighting.

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In partnership with the German company GKD, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost reinvents metal mesh by giving it a supple and poetic dimension away from its industrial uses. It transforms this simple building element into an architectural and design material in its own right.

Founded in 1981, DPA is an international architecture, urban planning and design agency based in Paris, Madrid and Geneva. It brings together a multidisciplinary team of about 50 people in Paris and nearly a hundred internationally, from 30 different nationalities.

Based in Paris, the Perrault Architecture agency is looking for talents from all backgrounds – architecture, urbanism, design, visualization artists, or any other discipline bringing quality to architecture – to participate in large-scale projects, in France and internationally. Join us!

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At the heart of the Parisian agency, on an exhibition platform of nearly 400 m 2, DPA Galerie presents the works and puts into perspective the achievements of the agency, from the first sketches of the 1980s to the models and panels of the most recent competitions.

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In-depth work is currently being carried out to collect, organize and digitize these archives, as well as those of the Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost agency (GLP Design).

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As an architect, designer and scenographer, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost joined the agency Perrault Architecture (DPA) in 1989. Since then, she has been supporting the design work of Dominique Perrault as artistic director and designer through the creation of layouts, furniture, and lighting.

In partnership with the German company GKD, Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost reinvents metal mesh by giving it a supple and poetic dimension away from its industrial uses. It transforms this simple building element into an architectural and design material in its own right.

Founded in 1981, DPA is an international architecture, urban planning and design agency based in Paris, Madrid and Geneva. It brings together a multidisciplinary team of about 50 people in Paris and nearly a hundred internationally, from 30 different nationalities.

Based in Paris, the Perrault Architecture agency is looking for talents from all backgrounds – architecture, urbanism, design, visualization artists, or any other discipline bringing quality to architecture – to participate in large-scale projects, in France and internationally. Join us!

At the heart of the Parisian agency, on an exhibition platform of nearly 400 m 2, DPA Galerie presents the works and puts into perspective the achievements of the agency, from the first sketches of the 1980s to the models and panels of the most recent competitions.

In-depth work is currently being carried out to collect, organize and digitize these archives, as well as those of the Gaëlle Lauriot-Prévost agency (GLP Design).

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TO THE DIGITALSCAPE