Paris Architecture is seen by many as a man's game, but Parisian Manuelle Gautrand is one woman who's making her mark on the design world.

Designing such architectural feats as the Citroën showroom in the Champs-Elysées and the new La Gaîté Lyrique, an interactive space for music and digital art, Gautrand is renowned for innovation in contemporary design.
Re-structuring an old theatre of the 19th century in the heart of Paris to turn it into an interactive platform for 21st century music and arts poses a number of difficult problems. To sum them up we have conceived of a place that could cater to all the artistic activities of today, a place open to public visits but that was also a working studio where artists could actually create, produce and present.

The design priorities are clear: create three main production facilities, three spaces for live shows. Around these three anchor points unfold a continuum of fluid and mobile ‘breathing’ spaces to serve alternately as work studios and presentation spaces: sets for the digital arts and modern music, for performers and for the public. They include media library, exhibition areas, foyers, café, rehearsal studios, etc...

Our objective was to create a ‘permissive’ place that includes whatever is random and unexpected, a place that defines itself without predefining everything, that enables encounters in fusion and breaks down barriers between the digital arts, the music of today and new modes of exchange between the public and artists. To animate these fluctuations of programme and accompany the many changes in spatial layout, mobile ‘guide’ modules, called «Eclaireuses» are provided. Mounted on rollers, these container-size units move from place to place, creating a changing scenography. There are today 70 “Eclaireuses” in the building Also assisting the public in its movements is a long dodecaedric furniture ‘ribbon’ that threads the entire layout: welcoming, accompanying, and providing rest.
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Manuelle Gautrand.
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Ville de París.
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9,500 m².
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€ 53,000,000
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Manuelle Gautrand was born on July 14, 1961 in Marseille (France). She obtained her graduate diploma in Architecture from the “Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Montpellier” in 1985. She worked for 6 year in different architecture studios in Paris. She founded her office in 1991, first in Lyons and then in Paris. She lives and works in Paris since 1994.

She is the principal architect and director of the agency MANUELLE GAUTRAND ARCHITECTURE. She mainly designs buildings in areas as diverse as cultural facilities (theaters, museums, and cultural centers), office buildings, housing, commercial and leisure facilities, etc… Her clients are public contracting authorities as well as private firms, in France and abroad. In 2007 Manuelle Gautrand’s the “C42″ Citroen Flagship Showroom on the Champs-Elysées Avenue in Paris gained attention and widespread acclaim in the international arena and from a large audience.

Distinction :
•    Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, April 2010
•    Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres, December 2007

Awards .-

French National Institutions .-
•    Member of Ordre des Architectes Français since 1990
•    Titular member Académie d’Architecture (France) since 2005

Other activities .-
•    Teaching at the Ecole Spéciale d’Architecture de Paris (1999 -2000), the Ecole d’Architecture Paris-Val-de-Seine (2000-2003), at the Technische Universität in Vienne, Austria Vienne (2009) and at the University of Florida School of Architecture in the United States (2010)
•    Lectures in architecture schools and public institutions, regular participation in seminars, panel discussions, etc…
•    Numerous press articles, publications in architecture books, etc…
•    Solo and collective architecture exhibitions
•    Works entered into the collections of Centre Pompidou in Paris and of La Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris
•    Several documentary films on her work were broadcasted on ARTE Channel in 2008 and 2009 (“l’Art & la Manière” and “Chic”).

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Published on: April 24, 2012
Cite: "La Gaîté Lyrique by Manuelle Gautrand" METALOCUS. Accessed
<https://www.metalocus.es/en/news/la-gaite-lyrique-manuelle-gautrand> ISSN 1139-6415
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