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Pargade Architectes is a Paris-based architecture studio founded by Jean-Philippe Pargade and led by Caroline Rigaldiès.

Jean-Philippe Pargade is an architect with a degree from the UP6 school of architecture in Paris (1972) and an urban planner with a degree from the University of Paris VIII and the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (1973). He is also a member of the Academy of Architecture and was successively consultant architect for the States of Vienne, Loiret, Aube and Pyrénées Atlantiques. He founded his agency in Paris in 1980 and was awarded the Palmares de l'Habitat prize for his Ilot des Patriarches project in Paris. He then exercises his creativity in the construction of large public facilities: research centres, teaching centres, hospitals, homes, and tertiary. He received the Departmental Prize of Ile et Vilaine for the Central Loan Library of Rennes then the gold medal of the International Academy of Architecture for the Hospital Center of Mantes-la-Jolie. In 2005, he published the book “Mutations, the French Embassy in Warsaw”, then “Multicolor” with Editions Ante Prima and in 2010 “Architectures subjective” with Editions archibook.

Caroline Rigaldiès is an architect who graduated from the Paris Belleville School of Architecture (1991). His training is completed by his collaboration with Santiago Calatrava, Edmond Lay and Antoine Grumbach. Winner of the PAN University competition, she joined the Pargade agency in 1992. In perfect harmony with her philosophy, she discovered the pleasure of transforming limits and difficulties into creativity to offer a personal, sensitive and human vision of architecture. She became a partner in 2003 and contributes with a passion to all projects, competitions and achievements, bringing her experience to major hospital programs and technological complexes, as well as urban programs (education or housing).