Clément Blanchet is a French architect, teacher and critic, actively practicing in the fields of architectural theory, urbanism and cultural investigations. He founded Clément Blanchet Architecture (cba) in May 2014 in Paris, after having studied and lived/worked internationally for over 15 years. The firm is structured as a laboratory, researching, informing and generating architecture/urbanism i
n all its forms. In July 2017, Blanchet was appointed chief architect of the Annecy region (FR). International experience is reflected in the office's activity: from being invited to international competitions in the USA, Asia and Europe to currently designing a masterplan and hotel complex in Tbilisi (Georgia) and a new urban development in Shenzhen (Asia) and Shanghai. In March 2021, Clément Blanchet Architecture won the anonymous international competition for the Sicilian headquarters in Palermo (IT - with Leclercq and Laisné), the largest facility in Italy in the last 50 years. In France, the office has focused on education issues through several winning competitions: the Innovation Campus in Antony (FR) (2017), the Carrefour Saclay Research and Development Center (FR) (2017). Recently, the agency won an international competition for the creation of a 1,500-seat auditorium as part of the Grand Paris. In June 2019, CBA won the construction of the new 15,000-seat BAUER stadium in Saint Ouen (FR), with Scau. Clément Blanchet is urbanist of METZ area since 2020 (Zac Amphithéâtre). After studying architecture at the AA school of architecture in London, the Chulalongkorn Mahawitthayalai Architectural School in Bangkok and the University of Illinois at Chicago, he graduated with honors from the Versailles school of architecture. He became a partner in 2008 and director of OMA France in 2011. During his 10 years of collaboration with Rem Koolhaas, he contributed to the development of OMA in France and led several winning projects for the firm, including the construction of the Serpentine Gallery in London, the design and construction of the Caen Library (completed in 2017), the design and development of winning projects such as the Toulouse Convention and Exhibition Center (completed in 2020), the Centrale engineering school (completed in 2018), the Saclay and Bordeaux master plans, and most recently the Simone Weil bridge over the Garonne River in Bordeaux (completed in 2024). Clément Blanchet has always been interested in bridges between theoretical and pragmatic approaches in architecture. He has been a guest critic in architecture schools in France, England, Holland, Denmark and Sweden. He has taught at Taubman College since 2014 (Michigan, USA), currently at the Bauhaus (DIA - Dessau) and at the Paris Malaquais School of Architecture (Paris).
