Pascale Guédot (born 1960, Pau in

Béarn Béarn (; ; or ''Biarn''; or ''Biarno''; or ''Bearnia'') is one of the traditional provinces of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in Southwestern France. Along with the three Northern Basque Country, ...

, France) is a French architect. She was awarded the

Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent The Prix d'architecture de l'Équerre d'argent (The Silver T-square Prize) is a French architecture award. This prize was launched in 1960 by "Architecture Française" magazine and its director Michel Bourdeau. It is given annually by Le Moniteu ...

in 2010.

Biography

Pascale Guédot was born in Pau in 1960. She studied architecture in

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and at the

École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville École or Ecole may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * Éco ...

(ENSAB) under

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, after which she teamed up with Olivier Chaslin to design an extension for the Faculty of Law at Sceaux, a Nursing School at

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and a showroom for

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. In 1991 she set up her own office in

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with four or five staff. In 2010 she was the first woman to receive the

, presented to her in Paris for her Médiathèque at

Oloron-Sainte-Marie Oloron-Sainte-Marie (; ; ) is a commune in the southwestern French department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. History The town was founded by the Romans in the 1st century, then known as ''Illoronensium''. Situated on the Roman way between the ...

. The building sits on a concrete base concealing a private power station at the confluence of the town's two

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s (mountain rivers). The upper level is covered with a wooden lattice with openings that suggest the local

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and

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industries. The jury described it as a "building with elegant sobriety, which blends perfectly into the landscape of Béarn." Known to be an organised perfectionist, Guédot works in the Mouzaïa district of the 19th

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of Paris and lives in an 8th floor apartment next to the Saint-Martin canal. She has one son.

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