Raphaël Ménard

Raphaël Ménard studied at the Ecole Polytechnique, the Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture. He began his career at RFR (design of the Simone de Beauvoir footbridge in Paris and the glass shell of the Strasbourg train station). In 2003, he founded Elioth, a company made up of designers specializing in low-carbon innovation (acquired by the Egis group in 2011). In 2014, he created 169-architecture. He is also a lecturer on the postgraduate program in Post-Carbon Architecture at the Marne-la-Vallée School of Architecture. He theorized his practice in numerous publications, including his Ph.D thesis Energy, Matter, Architecture.

In 2018, he joined AREP as Chairman of the Board.

Published work

• Ménard R. (edited by), Énergies légères. Usages, architectures, paysages, Éditions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 2023
• Ménard R., L’invention de la gare post-carbone (Creating the post-carbon station), published by AREP, 2021
• Ménard R., “Post-combustion”, in La beauté d’une ville (The Beauty of a City), Wildproject and Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 2021
• Ménard R., Énergie, matière, architecture (Energy, Materials, Architecture), doctoral thesis in Architecture, 2018
• Ménard R. et al., Making and remaking glass, Éditions du Pavillon de l’Arsenal, 2018
• Ménard R., Dossier J. et al., Paris change d’ère. Vers la neutralité carbone en 2050 (A change of era for Paris. A strategy towards carbon neutrality by 2050), 2016