Jacques Moussafir (moussafir: common name in Turkish, Greek, Romanian, Arabic, and Persian that designates the host, the traveller). Born in Katanga (Congo) to an architect father, whose first steps and first architectural experience was in Lubumbashi with a house designed by Julian Elliott in 1957 and published in 1963 in "New Architecture in Africa". Subsequently, he studied architecture in Paris Tolbiac in the studio of Roland Schweitzer and art history at the University of Paris / Sorbonne under Daniel Arasse. DPLG in 1993, he founded the agency MOUSSAFIR ARCHITECTES in 1994, after 10 years working with Bernard Kohn, Christian Hauvette, Henri Gaudin, Dominique Perrault and Francis Soler.
Member of the National Commission of the 1% in the Ministry of Culture from 2000 to 2003, of the Conseil d'orientation du Center National des Arts Plastiques from 2001 to 2004, CRPS (Commission Régionale du Patrimoine et des Sites) from 2004 to 2007. Member founder of the collective "Toque Francés" created in 2007 that notably represented France at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008.
Visiting professor and later associate at the E.S.A. from 2003 to 2007 and later at the Ecole d'Architecture, de la Ville et des Territoires in 2011-2012.
Member of the National Commission of the 1% in the Ministry of Culture from 2000 to 2003, of the Conseil d'orientation du Center National des Arts Plastiques from 2001 to 2004, CRPS (Commission Régionale du Patrimoine et des Sites) from 2004 to 2007. Member founder of the collective "Toque Francés" created in 2007 that notably represented France at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2008.
Visiting professor and later associate at the E.S.A. from 2003 to 2007 and later at the Ecole d'Architecture, de la Ville et des Territoires in 2011-2012.
