Frédéric Chartier founded ChartierDalix with Pascale Dalix in 2008. Since its creation, ChartierDalix has delivered over twenty-five buildings; ten today are under construction. The office’s accomplishments are highlighted by consistent and commendable international projects such as the Demain Montparnasse competition in 2017 to rehabilitate the Montparnasse tower skyscraper in Paris, with the collective Nouvelle AOM (ChartierDalix, Franklin Azzi, Hardel Le Bihan), and more recently in 2021, the reconstruction of the Bockmühle school campus in Essen (Germany), and the restructuring of an urban block in Warsaw.
With this international exposure, the office has received numerous awards, including the Première Œuvre du Moniteur prize in 2009 and the “40 under 40” European prize for young architects in 2012. In 2022, the New Headquarters of the AP-HP in Paris (12th) won the Équerre d’argent award, for the category of “Activities”. The office was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award in 2015, as well as receiving the Le Soufaché prize in 2017, awarded by the French Académie d’architecture for the whole of its work. In 2019, Frédéric Chartier and Pascale Dalix were appointed Chevaliers des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
Frédéric has had the opportunity to teach and lecture at various universities and architecture centres in France and abroad. For many years, the research department of the office has worked on the integration of biodiversity in architecture, combining advanced technical knowledge in the fields of materials, construction science, and ecology. This research is compiled in a book published in 2019 entitled “Hosting Life: Architecture as an Ecosystem” by ParkBooks.
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