Marc Mimram
Founder
Marc Mimram (b. 1955, Paris) has a master’s degree in mathematics from the Université Paris VII (1976), an engineering diploma from the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1978), a master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley (1979), an architecture diploma (DPLG) from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris (1980).
He has been an architect-engineer since 1982. Since 1989, he has managed the Marc Mimram Architecture & Associés (1989) and Marc Mimram Ingénierie (1992) agencies. He has completed many civil engineering and architectural projects in France and abroad, including bridges in France (Solférino Footbridge, Paris), in Germany (Strasbourg-Kehl), in China (Beijing, Tianjin, Yangzhou), in Morocco (Rabat-Salé), which won the Aga Khan Prize, as well as buildings such as large sports facilities (Roland Garros Stadium, Paris), and infrastructure buildings (Airtime building in Paris and Montpellier Railway Station). Mimram taught at the École des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne and at Princeton University in the United States.
He was appointed professor of architectural schools and taught at the École d’Architecture de Marne-la-Vallée near Paris (from 1998 to 2022). He has published several books based on his discipline and his work, such as Structure et Formes (Paris, 1983); Passerelle Solférino (Basel, 2001); Architettura Ibrida (Milan, 2009); Marc Mimram: Architecture & Structure (Munich, 2015) and Marc Mimram Structure | Light Through the Lens of Erieta Attali (Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 2019).
He has given numerous lectures all over the world, including lectures at Harvard University, Cornell University, Princeton, Tokyo University, as well as São Paulo, Venice, and Oslo. In his work as an architect and an engineer, Marc Mimram demonstrates an interest in intelligibly constructed architecture through the development of reasoned structures that relate to landscape, light and materials. He conceives architecture as an art of transformation, attentive to materiality and its environmental responsibility.
| Typology | Location | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridge Symposium July 2023 | Conference | Tel Aviv, Israël | 2023 |
| Construire, Paul Chemetov et Marc Mimram | Publications | Éditions du Linteau - Paris | 2022 |
| IABSE Congress Nanjing | Conference | Nanjing, Chine | 2022 |
| « Construire », Paul Chemetov et Marc Mimram / Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine | Conference | Paris, France | 2022 |
| Esch-sur-Alzette / Brückenbau, Construction & Engineering | Prix | 2021 | |
| « Vision und Konstruction » | Conference | Berlin, Allemagne | 2021 |
| Échanges sur les BFUP, avec Dominique Marrec, Marc Mimram et Philippe Prost, à l'occasion de la sortie du livre de Jean-Marc Weill | Conference | Paris, France | 2021 |
| Commandeur de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres | Prix | 2019 | |
| Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, Colloque sur ‘L’intelligence des chantiers » | Conference | Paris, France | 2019 |
| Café Gazette, Conférence-débat autour de la nouvelle gare Montpellier-Sud-de-France 2019 Barcelone - Espagne / Form&Force conference, Structure and Architecture : Landscape of gravity | Conference | Montpellier, France | 2019 |
| Armada de Rouen, Métropole de Rouen Normandie, Débat « L’émergence d’une nouvelle centralité » | Conference | Rouen, France | 2019 |
| Officier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres | Prix | 2014 | |
| Membre de l’Académie d’Architecture | Prix | 2014 | |
| Officier du Wissam Al Alaoui | Prix | 2013 | |
| Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur | Prix | 2010 | |
| Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite | Prix | 2005 | |
| Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres | Prix | 2000 | |
| Café Gazette, Conférence-débat autour de la nouvelle gare Montpellier-Sud-de-France 2019 Barcelone - Espagne / Form&Force conference, Structure and Architecture : Landscape of gravity | Conference | Montpellie, France | 2019 |
| Brückenbau, Construction & Engineering | Conference | Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | 2018 |
| Exposition Trinationale, « Light and Gravity » | Conference | Fribourg, Allemagne | 2018 |
| Bibliothèque Nationale de France | Conference | Paris, France | 2017 |
| École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier | Conference | Montpellier, France | 2017 |
| TU Berlin, « Infrastructure to create value » | Conference | Berlin, Allemagne | 2017 |
| Université de Tokyo, département Architecture, « Light and Gravity » | Conference | Tokyo, Japon | 2017 |
| Architectural congress 2016, « From structure to shape – Steel architecture with natural light » | Conference | Essen, Allemagne | 2016 |
| MOMA, « Structured lineages : Learning from Japanese Structural Design » | Conference | New-York, Etats-Unis | 2016 |
| Pavillon de l’Arsenal, « Le Lieu & le Lien » | Conference | Paris, France | 2016 |
| ENSA Paris Belleville, « Les villes marocaines dans un contexte globalisé », | Conference | Paris, France | 2016 |
| ENSA Paris Belleville, Les Causeries 2016, « Construire ailleurs…? » | Conference | Paris, France | 2016 |
| Colloque 20 ans de l’AFEX, Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine, « Tour du monde des pratiques & des projets » | Conference | Paris, France | 2016 |
| Conférence | Conference | Haïfa, Israël | 2015 |
| Conférence Afex «Construire en Chine» – Cité de l’Architecture | Conference | Paris, France | 2015 |
| 2015 / Conférence Semtech pour Lafarge | Conference | Alger, Algérie | 2015 |
| Haifa International Waterfront Conference | Conference | Haïfa, Israël | 2014 |
| ICE Bridges, | Conference | Londres, Royaume-Uni | 2014 |
| Maison de l’Architecture FRAC Centre : L’architecture est un art de la transformation | Conference | Orléans, France / | 2014 |
| Conférence « Bridging the gap between the Gaza and Dead Sea » | Conference | Marseille, France | 2013 |
| Rice School of Architecture Paris | Conference | Paris, France | 2012 |
| Forum consacré aux passerelles piétonnes, organisé par la Fédération Internationale du béton, | Conference | Lausanne, Suisse | 2012 |
| «Living bridges» – JJ Collège of Architecture | Conference | Bombay, Inde | 2012 |
| La nouvelle rive gauche, Marc Mimram et Pierre Assouline | Publications | Editions Alternatives et Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris | 2011 |
| «Conception of bridges in relation with landscape and urban development» | Conference | Séoul, Corée Sud | 2011 |
| «Structure and infrastructure in the sustainable city» | Conference | Moscou, Russie | 2011 |
| Conférence débat avec Pierre Assouline pour l’ouvrage «La nouvelle rive gauche» - Pavillon de l’Arsenal | Conference | Paris, France | 2011 |
| «Structure et architecture» pour les 24ème rencontre de l’architecture | Conference | Toulouse, France | 2010 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Laval, France | 2010 |
| «Construire ensemble la ville durable pour l’avenir» | Conference | Baveno, Italie | 2010 |
| «Structure et architecture» – Ambassade de France | Conference | Luxembourg, Luxembourg | 2010 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Nantes, France | 2009 |
| «La Ville Blanche, le mouvement moderne à Tel-Aviv» – Cité internationale des Arts | Conference | Paris, France | 2009 |
| «Les normes, sources d’innovation ?» – Forum Sia | Conference | Lausanne, Suisse | 2009 |
| “Mois de l’Architecture et de l’Urbanisme 2009” Ambassade de France | Conference | Budapest, Hongrie | 2009 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Munich, Allemagne | 2008 |
| Universitatia Tehnica de Constructii | Conference | Bucarest, Roumanie | 2008 |
| Université de Columbia | Conference | New York, USA | 2008 |
| Congrès Construmetal | Conference | Sao Paulo, Brésil | 2008 |
| Hybride | Publications | Editions Ante Prima, Paris / InFolio, Suisse | 2007 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Liège, Belgique | 2007 |
| University of Florida School of Architecture | Conference | Gainesville, USA | 2006 |
| Universität Stuttgart | Conference | Stuttgart, Allemagne | 2006 |
| The Oslo School of Architecture and Design | Conference | Oslo, Norvège | 2005 |
| «L’architecture à Paris, contraintes et création» – Pavillon de l’Arsenal | Conference | Paris, France | 2004 |
| University School of Architecture | Conference | Princeton, USA | 2004 |
| Stadtkunstprojeckte “Con-Con” | Conference | Berlin, Allemagne | 2003 |
| 2003 Copenhague - Danemark / Technical University of Denmark | Conference | Copenhague, Danemark | 2003 |
| Technische Universitat Munchen | Conference | Munich, Allemagne | 2003 |
| 2002 / «Footbridge 2002» Conférence Internationale sur les passerelles | Conference | Paris, France | 2002 |
| 2002 / Cornell University | Conference | Ithaca, USA | 2002 |
| Université de Tokyo | Conference | Tokyo, Japon | 2001 |
| Université de Shanghai | Conference | Pékin, Chine | 2001 |
| Conference | Minneapolis, USA | 2001 | |
| Institut Français de Cologne | Conference | Cologne, Allemagne | 2001 |
| Matières du plaisir | Publications | Editions Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris | 2000 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Los Angeles, USA | 1999 |
| Cornell University | Conference | Ithaca, USA | 1999 |
| Plymouth University | Conference | Plymouth, USA | 1999 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Lausanne, Suisse | 1998 |
| 1998 / Ecole d’architecture | Conference | Rotterdam, Hollande | 1998 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Turin, Italie | 1998 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Los Angeles, USA | 1998 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Santiago du Chili, Chili | 1997 |
| S’abstraire de l’abstraction | Publications | Editions Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris | 1997 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Montevideo, Uruguay | 1997 |
| «S’abstraire de l’abstraction» – Pavillon de l’Arsenal | Conference | Paris, France | 1997 |
| Conference | Londres, Grande Bretagne | 1996 | |
| Institut d’Architecture | Conference | Genève, Suisse | 1996 |
| Paris d’ingénieurs | Publications | Editions Pavillon de l’Arsenal et Picard, Paris | 1995 |
| Finnish Constructional Steelwork Association | Conference | Helsinki, Finlande | 1995 |
| Architectural Association School of Architecture | Conference | Londres, Grande Bretagne | 1995 |
| École d’architecture | Conference | Toulouse, France | 1995 |
| Structure et formes, Etude appliquée à l’œuvre de Robert le Ricolais | Publications | Editions Dunod, Paris | 1983 |