Elizabeth de Portzamparc

Elizabeth de Portzamparc
Born	Elizabeth Jardim Neves Rio de Janeiro Brésil
Nationality	France e Brazil
Occupation	Architect
Awards	Medal of French Senate for her work, 2014 Mipim design award for the "Le Monde" building renovation, Cannes "Lighting Design Award" for the HESTIA street light, London, 2002 Contract World Award (International prize in the Hotel business category for the "Grandes Marches" Brasserie, 2002) Candido Mendes foundation International Prize for Design and Interior Architecture, awarded by Sergio Bernardes, Rio de Janeiro, 1999
Practice	Agency 2Portzamparc
Buildings	2014 / Grand Documentary Equipment of the Campus Concorcet, Aubervilliers, France - architecture 2014 / Bourget Railway Station, France - architecture 2012 / Musée de la Romanité, Nîmes, France - architecture and museography 2012 / Housing in Versailles-Chantiers, France - architecture 2011 / New city center of Massy, France - architecture and urbanism 2010 / Marina da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - architecture and urbanism 2010 / Pont de Lumière, housing in Metz, France - architecture 2009 / Bassins à Flot, housing in Bordeaux, France - architecture 2009 / French Cultural Center in Florianópolis, Brazil - architecture 2008 / Jean Cocteau Museum, Menton, France - Museography 2007 / Riocentro Exhibition Center, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - architecture 2005 / Headquarters of the Banque Fédérale des Banques Populaires Group in Paris, France - interior design 2000 / "Les Grandes Marches" restaurant, Paris, France - interior design 1998 / Museum of Britanny, Rennes, France - museography 1998 / Tramway line in Bordeaux, France - stations and urban furniture 1997 / Liturgical furniture for the "Journées Mondiales de la Jeunesse", France 1996 / French Embassy in Berlin, Germany - interior design 1995 / National Museum of Arts of Korea, Seoul – Museography 1994 / Café de la Musique, Paris, France - interior design 1989 / Information Center of the National Assembly, Paris, France - interior design

Elizabeth de Portzamparc is a French-Brazilian architect born in Rio de Janeiro.

Biography

She started practicing conceptual art during her youth. Later, she went to France to complete her studies in anthropology, urban sociology and urbanism, and for some years she fully committed herself to urban planning related subjects including new cities and the Institute of Urban Planning and Development of the Île-de-France Region (IAURIF), and she managed a workshop for town planning in Antony, in the Paris urban district. There, she developed in 1977/1978 pioneer research about the concepts of “neighborhoods/suburban neighborhoods”, bringing the notions of “local life” and territorial links to the center of the founding principles of territorial planning policies.

After founding the first inter-communal urbanism structure for the creation of the South Paris “Coulée verte”, she taught at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture of Paris-Val de Seine between 1984 and 1988, and in 1987 she created her own Agency, distinguished by numerous projects touching on various scales of architecture.

In her architect and urbanist activity, Elizabeth de Portzamparc creates her buildings as architectural symbols, bearers of new values and strong urban landmarks that structure and inhabit perfectly the places where they are installed. Open to the city and to its inhabitants, the Musée de la Romanité, the Grand Documentary Equipement of the Campus Condorcet in Aubervilliers and the Le Bourget railway station, one of the iconic stations of the Grand Paris, have been thought as places “to live in” that can be easily appropriated: an architecture conceived as a support to the local activities and to the quality of life of its stakeholders. Applying her reflections on the identity of the cities and metropolis, these facilities reinforce the qualities of the context in which they take place. With a sober, light and pure architecture, based on the lightening of the masses and on the economy of forms and materials, fostering the crossing spaces and a strong relationship with nature, they create a special atmosphere, express easily identifiable collective values and initiate a dialogue with the environmental urban landscape.

Thanks to her double approach—sociological and architectural—she combines the imperatives of the social, urban and ecological significance with an optimum realisation of the form, a coherent and clear action in all aspects of her work. Her projects are characterized by their innovative proposals in terms of flexibility and good space management.

In the Atelier International du Grand Paris, she pursued research she led for 30 years on the identity of places, local life and the links between territories—fundamental contributions to the reflection on the building of a metropolis. Along the same lines, she led pioneer propositions for sustainable, flexible, mixed usage and prefabricated housing.

Elizabeth de Portzamparc is the wife of architect, urbanist and Pritzker prize-winner Christian de Portzamparc.

Major projects—Architecture and Urbanism

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Overview Musée de la Romanité

• Grand Documentary Equipement of the Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers, France - Competition, winning project (2014–2019)
• Railway station of Le Bourget, France: forthcoming Line 16 of the Paris metro - Competition, winning project (2014–2022)
• Musée de la Romanité de Nîmes, France: architecture and museography - Competition, winning project (2012–2017)
• Nouveau centre-ville de Massy (Île-de-France), France: construction of mixed housing buildings - Competition, winning project (2011–2017)
• Housing in Versailles-Chantiers, France: construction of housing buildings - Commission (2012– under study)
• Tour de la Noue: mixed use housing high rise building in Bagnolet (Île-de-France), France
• 4 star hotel tower: mixed use hotel / housing, Casablanca, Morocco (2009–)
• French cultural center in Florianópolis (theater, media library, restaurant) for French Alliance, Brazil - Competition, winning project (2009–)
• Bassins à Flot: housing for accession to ownership and social housing (with shops and parking lots - 10,000 sqm) in Bordeaux, France (2009–2016)
• Parc des expositions Riocentro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Competition, winning project (2007–2014)
• Tramway line in Bordeaux, France: 145 stations and their urban furniture - Competition, winning project (1997–2013)

Galerie

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  Vue d'ensemble Musée de la Romanité

• Façade de nuit du Musée de la Romanité à Nîmes.jpg

  Vue de Nuit du futur Musée de la Romanité à Nîmes

• Tramway-bordeaux-Elizabeth-de-portzamparc-2.jpg

  Mobilier Urbain du Tramway de Bordeaux

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  Mobilier Urbain du Tramway de Bordeaux

External links

• Official website
• Musée de la Romanité à Nîmes