Jean-François Schmit likes to engage in all scales of building and the most diverse projects, for both public and private sector clients: from workplaces, such as an aircraft maintenance hangar on an airport site, to artists’ workshop-apartments on a small Parisian plot or a school complex on the urban periphery and an entirely rehabilitated school. These buildings cross-fertilise each other until they form a continuum. The brightness of the volumes, their spaciousness and attractiveness, the concern for integration into the urban framework with deep-rooted respect for the host environment are among the constants of this architecture, contemporary without being elitist or affectedly aesthetic, an architecture that primarily relates to the user.
A selection of twenty-eight projects, built between 1985 and 2012, introduces us to this multi-faceted opus.
Le Gac Press