Emmanuel Biard'sBiography

Emmanuel Biard was born in Paris (France) in 1973.

He studied at the School of Architecture Paris-Villemin. After several projects developed in the Netherlands, he decided to locate the subject of his thesis ('new geologies, living on artifical ground') in the harbor of Rotterdam. He graduates as an architect in 2000.

In 2001 he founded his first office, AUSEMS+BIARD, with Dutch architect and engineer Peter-Paul Ausems. Together they signed three realizations, two individual housing projects and a transformation of an industrial building into an orthodontist-surgery and contemporary art gallery. All three have been built and published in the Netherlands.

End of 2002, Emmanuel started his collaboration at ATELIERS JEAN NOUVEL, where he had the opportunity to work on an entire design process for a high-rise tower in Doha (Qatar). He also worked on several competitions as, for instance, the Guggenheim museum of Taichung (Taiwan).

In 2004 he started a 2-year collaboration at CARBONDALE (Cristiano Benzoni, Marie-Eve Bidard & Eric Carlson), then in charge of the new Louis Vuitton flagship store in Paris (Champs Elysées). As project leader, he has been in charge of the Louis Vuitton Landmark store in Hong Kong and several international design competitions.

He cofounded REV Architecture in 2005.