Graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique
Diploma in Civil Engineering
(Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées)
Member of the Paris Association of Architects
since 1985 :
Cofounder, partner and managing director of the Richez_Associés architectural firm.
Has been leading, together with Edouard François (untill 1989) and Bertrand Dubus (until 2008), and with Frédéric Blerot since 2009, for more than 20 years, the development of Richez_Associés (Paris), in France and internationally, and, for more than 10 years, together with Zaini Zainul, of Zaini dan_Richez (Kuala-Lumpur) :
> Design of numerous buildings in France (residential, offices, industry, catering..) and in Asia (French Embassy in Singapore, office buildings in Malaysia, Putrajaya new city Civic Center…)
> Masterplanning, urban design, and streetscape design : Thomas Richez is the coordinating architect of the Charolais sustainable development in Paris, of Jules Verne in Amiens, of Grisettes in Montpellier, and led the urban design of the new city of Putrajaya in Malaysia. Thomas Richez designed also a number of landmark piazzas, such as Places de la République in le Mans and Metz, Amiens rue de Noyon, Eole-Evangile in Paris…
> Particular expertise in transportation projects, with tramway projects in le Mans, Rheims, Orléans second line, Paris, Brest, Casablanca, la Réunion island LRT… and transportation hubs in Argenteuil, Sartrouville, Choisy-le-Roi, Lens, La Baule, Bobigny… which make, together with the know-how and involvement of the team, Richez_Associés #1 in France on this field.
1980 - 1984 :
Urbanist, and subsequently director of studies for a private consultancy firm.In charge of city planning activity of the firm for the Nord-Pas de Calais region.
Other professional activities
Thomas Richez has been the President of AFEX, association of French exporting architects, from 2002 to 2008.
He regularly delivers lectures in universities (ENPC, Paris-Belleville) and public conferences (AFEX in Singapore, Bahrain, Doha, St-Petersburg, Shanghai, Ho Chi Minh City… Union Internationale des Transports Publics, Pavillon de l’Arsenal in Paris...).
State-licensed
Architect
Architecture
degree of Ecole d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville
Member
of the Paris Board of Architects n° 041566
since
2009
:
associate of Richez_Associés
2004-2008
:
Frédéric
BLEROT joined Richez_Associés
in 2004 to ensure, as projects architect director, to manage the
firm's major projects.
In
addition, he contributes to the organization and direction of the
firm's production (workload and human resources).
main
interventions :
>
competitions
for
: Algiers Faculty of Law, for Dijon tramway maintenance depot, for residences and offices in
Toulouse and Choisy-le-Roi, and for a fire station in
Ile-de-France.
>
preliminary
studies and project for
Rheims tramway.
>
preliminary
studies
and
BOT for La Reunion LRT
>
project
leader for Casablanca, Brussels (awarded competition) and Mexico
City (on-going competition) tramways.
Master of Architecture,
Columbia University, USA
Bachelor of Arts in Architecture,
Washington University, USA
1982-1990 :
American experience. After finishing his architectural studies, he received awards + prizes, including 'the Education Award' in 1988, a competition organised between the Architectural schools, 'Lucille Smyser Lowenfish Prize' in 1989 for the best thesis at Columbia University
and The Young Architect's Forum Award in 1991.
He was the project designer for Knoll International in New York, responsible for all their showrooms all around the USA, and a design assistant for Ralph Appelbaum Associates
in NYC for the 'Museum of the Holocaust' in Washington DC.
1991-1995 :
European experience. After winning the 'Paris Prize Award' from NIAE, he collaborated with various architects in France. Simultaneously during this period, his personal research work gained recognition from the French Minister of Housing, Transport and Construction with the prize of 'the Album of Young Architects in 1993'. He represented Malaysia for an exhibition
to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations in Geneva. He was also selected
to represent France with 6 others architects for the 6th International Architecture Exhibition
in Venice, Italy.
1996 :
He joined Dubus_Richez as a partner in Zaini Dubus_Richez for developing projects
n South East Asia, with a main office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
other professional activities
He acted as professor of design in architecture at Columbia University in New-York,
and at the Architectural Association in London.