David Serero is a multi award winning French architect who has had many international projects in France, United States and Italy.

Biography

Serero was born in 1974 in

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. He graduated with a Master in Architecture and Urban planning from

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(New York) and with an Architecture Degree from Ecole d’architecture Paris-Villemin. He lives and works in Paris and in New York. In 2002, he was listed by the

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magazine as one of the top ten Avant Garde Designers. He also received in 2002 the “Nouveaux albums des jeunes architectes français” award by the French Ministry for Culture and, the same year, the New York Young Architects award, by the architectural league of New York. In 2004, David Serero received the prestigious

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by the French Academy in Rome (

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s). His work is characterized by a personal and innovative approach of architectural form and building envelope geometries. The wide use of organic forms, inspired from his studies of natural processes evokes the work of the American architect

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or the aesthetic of Japanese architect

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. His project of the new auditorium of Saint Cyprien (France) illustrates well this approach. He created, with a generative computer model of branches, a spectacular atrium covered with steel and concrete branches that diffuses natural light throughout the whole building. These researches brought him to work on topics of performance and redundancy, an approach particularly remarkable in his project Eiffel DNA (a temporary extension of the third floor of the

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for its 120th anniversary), which initiated a strong controversy. In 2010, he won the competition for a new Cultural Center of

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-la-Forêt (France) in a city originally designed by the French architect Fernand Pouillon. He also won the Auditorium of Amiens, the Bâle/Mulhouse euroairport. In 2011 he won three projects: Maisons des arts urbains d'Épinay-Sous-Sénart, the Museum of the Fromelles Fight and a Job Center in Nantes. Serero is an adjunct professor at the Ecole d’Architecture Malaquais in Paris, where his research focuses on matters of structural morphology and the performance of building envelopes. He also lectured at New York

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and at

and on architectural design studios and workshops in the USA, in France, Italy and Austria. His work has been widely published and exhibited in shows in Paris at Pavillon de l’Arsenal, at the

s in Rome, at the

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(MOMA) of New York, at the New York Architectural League, the

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, and at the Mori Museum in Tokyo.

SERERO Architects & Urban Planners (SAU)

In 2000 Serero founded Serero Architects in New York. The firm develops projects combining research and design in the fields of architecture, landscape design and urban planning. With a particular interest in generative design, environmental control, and structural efficiency, Serero Architects attempts to explore new paths for architectural design by weaving connections between these fields and architectural practice. High level of sustainability is one of the main targets of Serero Architects projects. Processes found in natural environment are a strong source of inspiration of the office to design architectural components such as natural ventilation systems, intelligent building skins and optimized natural light shaft.

Key projects

*2011-2014 : MUSEUM OF THE FROMELLES FIGHT / FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner *2011-2013 : CULTURAL CENTER IN EPINAY-SOUS-SÉNART / FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner *2011-2013 : JOB CENTER IN NANTES / FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner *2010-2013: MEUDON CULTURAL CENTER,

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/ FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner *2010-2012: SAINT-HILAIRE MEDIA CENTER, SAINT-HILAIRE-DU-HARCOUET/FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner *2009-2012: AUDITORIUM AND LIBRARY FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF

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, AMIENS/FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner. Under construction. *2009-2010: BUSINESS CENTER EUROAIRPORT,

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/FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner. Under construction *2009-2011: PLACE DES SAISONS,

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/FRANCE Under construction. *2008-2011: TECHNOPOLE INNOVIA,

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/FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner. Under construction *2007-2010: ORCINES CULTURAL CENTER,

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/FRANCE *2007-2011: SAINT CYPRIEN AUDITORIUM AND MOVIE THEATER, SUD ROUSSILLON/FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner. Not realized. *2006-2009: ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM OF OISE, VENDEUIL-CAPLY /FRANCE Competition First Prize Winner. Under construction *2006-2007: EXHIBITION DESIGN OF THE « DIASPORA D’AFRIQUE » AND « ARTS DU BÉNIN », PARIS/FRANCE BUILT *2005: ARCADE GROUPE HEADQUARTERS, PARIS/FRANCE BUILT. *2004-2005: VARIABILITY GEOMETRY ACOUSTICAL DOMES,

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, ROME/ ITALY BUILT. *2004-2012: HELLENIKON METROPOLITAN PARK, ATHENS, GREECE Competition Prize Winner. Under construction *2004-2005: NEW YORK CENTER FOR THE ART STUDIES, NYCAMS, NEW YORK/USA BUILT. *2004-2005: GLASS LOFT, NEW YORK /USA BUILT. *2004: PS1/MOMA URBAN BEACH COMPETITION, NEW YORK/USA FINALIST *2003-2008:

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, ART MOVIE MUSEUM, Competition Prize Winner. Under realization

References

External links

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Serero, David 20th-century French architects 21st-century French architects Living people 1974 births People from Grenoble Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni French people of Moroccan-Jewish descent