Jean-Michel Wilmotte

Born in 1948 in Soissons and a graduate of the Camondo school, Jean-Michel Wilmotte is an architect, urban planner and designer, and has been a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts since 2015.

He founded the Wilmotte & Associés architecture firm in 1975. From Dallas to Seoul, via Moscow, Dakar and São Paulo, Jean-Michel Wilmotte and his teams, which comprise over 270 employees, have been criss-crossing the world for more than 45 years, placing people, their cultures and their stories at the heart of their designs.

Over the years, the agency, which is structured around two companies and simultaneously manages more than a hundred projects, has diversified and now works mainly in five fundamental areas: architecture, interior architecture, museography, urban planning and design. 

Jean-Michel Wilmotte is both committed to the enhancement of our heritage and resolutely turned towards the future. His vision, know-how and values he shares with future architects, notably through the Foundation he created in 2005 or the W Prize, an international competition on the conversion of old buildings according to the concept of contemporary grafting, which the author of the Dictionnaire amoureux de l’architecture has been developing for over thirty years.

Jean-Michel Wilmotte is an Officer of the National Order of the Légion d’Honneur, a Knight of the National Order of Merit, a Knight of the Order of Academic Palms and a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters.