Nicolas Michelin

Nicolas Michelin (born 25 January 1955) is a French architect and urban planner. After joining forces with Finn Geipel to form LABFAC in 1988, he founded Agence Nicolas Michelin & Associés (ANMA) in 2000, which he currently runs in collaboration with his partners Michel Delplace and Cyril Trétout. He also has a firm dedicated to experimental projects called Studio Maé. in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris, the sixth of nine children.

Career Michelin worked with architects Xavier Henry and Christoph Lyon in Paris between 1981 and 1987. Some of the notable projects from this collaboration included the École des Beaux Arts in Limoges Between 1985 and 2000, he directed the École and Centre d’Art Contemporain in Rueil-Malmaison.

Michelin has written for and overseen more than seven publications. In 2005, he wrote Nouveau Paris, la ville et ses possibles, the catalogue accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Pavillon de l'Arsenal (17 March to 28 August 2005). Created with Toyo Ito, the exhibition explored possible future developments in Paris, bearing in mind the requirements of sustainable development and new urban lifestyles. Michelin has also been a guest speaker at universities and conferences around the world. In 2011, he chaired a forum on "heritage and architecture of sustainable cities" at Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris.

In 2005, he was awarded the Legion of Honour with the distinction of Chevalier. This came after he won a 2005 design competition for the ARTEM campus in Nancy. Habiter les Quais housing project, Nantes, 2007 Théâtre Piscine, Châtenay-Malabry, 2008 ZAC des Deux Lions housing project, Tours, 2010 ZAC Grand Large housing project, Dunkirk, 2010 ARTEM campus in Nancy, 2011 L’étang des cygnes residential project, Meaux, 2012 La Petite Folly housing project, Meaux, 2012 Housing, Îlot Armagnac, media library and gymnasium, Bordeaux, 2012