Raphaël Ménard, Chairman of the Board

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., Creating the post-carbon station, published by AREP, 2021
• Ménard R., “Post-combustion”, in The Beauty of a City, Wildproject and Pavillon de l’Arsenal
• Ménard R., Energy, Materials, Architecture.D thesis in Architecture, November 2018
• Ménard R. et al., Making and remaking glass, published by Pavillon de l’Arsenal, October 2018
• Ménard R., Dossier J. et al., A change of era for Paris. A strategy towards carbon neutrality by 2050, 2016