ALAIN SARFATI is an architect and urban planner graduated of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux‐Arts de Paris (DPLG) and the Institut d'Urbanisme de l'Université de Paris, he taught at the Ecole d'Architecture de Nancy and then was professor, workshop leader, at the Ecole Nationale d'Architecture des Beaux Arts de Paris. He created the architecture journal AMC and founded AREA, (Atelier de Recherche et d'Etudes d'Aménagement/Research and Development Studies Workshop). He heads the architectural firm he created in 1983, SAREA. It has distinguished itself through its many achievements, numerous housing developments, public facilities and city districts. He designed the French Embassy in Beijing, the Théâtre National de Toulouse, the Palais des congrès of Perpignan, the Boulevard de l'Impératrice in Brussels, the highly acclaimed "Scarabée" (multifunctional equipment) in Roanne. Recently, he delivered the University Panthéon/Assas, which has been completely renovated and transformed into France's first Learning Center. Today, he has transformed a Parisian building for the second time. Indeed, 30 years ago he had rehabilitated the headquarters of the SAGEP (Société Anonyme de Gestion des Eaux de Paris), today he has just converted it into housing, a kind of palimpsest for a new architecture.
Through numerous projects and achievements, Alain Sarfati's approach has always focused on urban integration, a bioclimatic attitude and a marked attention to future users. To the multiplicity of situations, he always responds with a diversity of responses. He tirelessly seeks to give architecture a social, cultural, artistic and technical role through the search for innovative and appropriate media. He is currently working on the Rodez Exhibition Centre, of which he was a winner in 2018.
