Louis Paillard first graduated from the Ecole Boulle in 1982 with an Architecture and Design degree. He then studied architecture at the École d’architecture de Paris-La Villette and received his professional diploma in architecture (DPLG) in 1988. In 2003, Louis Paillard opened his own office in Paris. His work is founded upon strong convictions about ultra-contextual projects inspired by place. This reflection crosses all scales. The approach is to propose unique and high added value projects, with high levels of environmental quality, pleasant for its future inhabitants, and delivered within planned construction timeframes. It is a human-centered economical, rational and inventive approach to the practice of architecture. Dialog and reflection with all the stakeholders involved are the key words explaining how to successfully achieve a quality building. Since 2003, he has been transmitting this comprehensive vision as a professor of Architecture at the ENSA in Rennes and today at the ENSA in Nantes.
Awarded the 2010 Equerre d’Argent attributed by the Moniteur for the project of 119 apartments and a media library in the Seguin ZAC (joint development zone) in Boulogne-Billancourt (department 92, Hauts-de-Seine), Louis Paillard went on to win the 2013 Mipim Award and the 2015 ArchDaily Award (LP + JDS + SeARCH + CEBRA) for the project of 200 apartments in Aarhus (DK) followed by the 2014 Pyramides d’argent: Grand Prix Régional + Prix de l’Esthétique Immobilière for the 40-apartment development in Toulouse (department 31, Hautes-Garonne).
In September of 2010, Louis Paillard won the very complex Galerie 14 project. It is composed of 130 apartments in the 14th arrondissement of Paris, placed over the little beltway railroad known as la petite ceinture, considered as active. This ambitious project, in the process of being delivered, is completed by the rehabilitation of the Former Train Station of Montrouge. After a competition in 2014, Louis Paillard won project 35 “Caserne Saint Didier,” currently under construction. This one is comprised of 200 apartments in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Today, the Skylight project, first mixed-use apartments tower in thirty years in the in the La Défense district in the inner suburb of Puteaux comprising 289 apartments, 29 is delivered in a very complex site, where the building straddles 3 RER tunnels. These projects are the achievement of research and developments the Louis Paillard office has been conducting over the last 13 years in which people are always placed at the center of every type of organization, which thus blend form, materials and light to please the senses and emotions of users and occupants.
Louis Paillard and Philippe Gazeau founded the FGP office of urbanism in 2005. FGP has developed notably the Eurorennes project around the train station, a multimodal hub, under a 15-year contract. Currently and since 2012, FGP is part of the Atelier du Grand Paris, international think tank created to imagine the urban future of the capital.