Pierre Alain Trévelo
Pierre Alain Trévelo is the founding partner of TVK with Antoine Viger-Kohler. Born in 1973 in Gap (France), he is an architect and urban designer, graduated from École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires in 1999 (DPLG – ENSAVT Marne-la-Vallée) and in Urban Design at Harvard in 2004 (MDesS – Harvard GSD).
Co-founder of TOMATO a group gathering 13 future architects who published the book Paris, La Ville du Périphérique (Le Moniteur, 2003), he teached at École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires in Marne-la-Vallée from 2000 to 2015 and at Sciences Po Urban Design Master from 2006 to 2012. Today, associate professor, he is co-directing the post-master diploma of architect-urban designer and is chairman of the board of directors of the École d’Architecture de la Ville et des Territoires Paris-Est.
He has been guest critic and lecturer at numerous schools of architecture and institutions in France and abroad, inluding EPFL, UDP Santiago (Chile), ETSAV Barcelona, Hochschule Bremen, ARC USI Mendrisio, ENSA Marseille, ENSA Nantes, IVM…
Prizes & Awards
— Défis urbains: 1st prize urban landscape 2016
Deschamps sequence in Angéliques’ park
Garonne Eiffel urban project, Bordeaux Floirac
— Futurs possibles Prize: Shortlisted projects 2014
Garonne Eiffel urban project, Bordeaux Floirac
Porte Pouchet urban project
— European Prize for Urban Public Space: Shortlisted 2014
Place de la République, Paris
— Le Moniteur Urban Design Prize: Shortlisted 2013
Place de la République, Paris
— Member of the Scientific Council Atelier International du Grand Paris 2012-2016
— Energy Prize, Concours du Grand Prix de l’Environnement 2008
“Zero Energy” school complex, Arcueil
— Social housing quality award, Conseil Général du Val de Marne 2008
58 intermediate housing units, Valenton
— Nouveaux Albums des Jeunes Architectes [Young architects award] 2006
Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication
— Palmarès des Jeunes Urbanistes [Young urban designers award] 2005
Ministère de l’Écologie, du Développement Durable, des Transports et du Logement
— Fulbright Grant 2004, Franco-American Fulbright Commission
— Arthur Sachs Scholarship Fund 2004, Fondation Arthur Sachs
— Harvard French Scholarship Fund 2003, HFSF
— Delano and Adrich/Emerson Fellowship 2003, Académie d’Architecture et American Institute of Architects (AIA)