Jean-Christophe Quinton (b. Laval, Mayenne, France, 1972) is a French architect and founder of Jean-Christophe Quinton Architecture, a Paris-based practice established in 2003. He graduated from the Paris-Belleville School of Architecture in 2000.
In 2004, he was awarded the Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes and, in 2010, received a special mention for the Chernikov Prize. From 2015 to 2024, he served as Director of the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles, while also teaching at various schools of architecture. In 2017, the first monograph on his work, Vers l’immédiate étrangeté des formes (Towards the Immediate Strangeness of Forms), was awarded the Grand Prix du Livre d’Architecture by the City of Briey. He has been a full member of the Académie d’Architecture since 2019 and was promoted to Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2026.
Throughout his career, Quinton has pursued applied research into housing quality through a design approach that closely interrelates form, room, and plan. His most notable works include the exhibition design for Le Grand Pari(s) at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine (2009); the Mf House in Southern Corsica, recipient of the Archinovo Jury Prize (2019); an eight-unit social housing building on Rue Jean-Bart in Paris (2020); and the temporary theatre La Petite Agora, built in Versailles for the 3rd Île-de-France Architecture and Landscape Biennale (2025).
His projects and drawings have been exhibited extensively in France and abroad, and he has developed an ongoing reflection on architectural representation through his publications. En 2024, il a publié L’altérité des pièces et la promesse des formes (The Otherness of Rooms and the Promise of Forms). He is also the author of the children’s books Orson voyage and Orson Océan.
