Francis RAMBERT

Profile

Born in 1954. Graduated from Paris IV-Sorbonne in 1978.

Francis Rambert is an architecture critic, and used to work as a journalist from 1990 to 2004 for the French daily paper Le Figaro,
writing chronicles about architecture.
Before, in 1989, he co-founded the magazine "d'architectures" of which he was editor in chief until 2002.
He signed numerous articles on architecture and design in the Art press, of which "Beaux-Arts", "le journal des Arts", and mainly "Connaissance des arts". He is the author of several architecture books among which Massimiliano Fuksas monography (Editions du Regard, 1997), and Architecture Tomorrow (éditions Terrail, 2005).
Curator of many exhibitions during architecture biennale in Buenos Aires 1998 and 2001, Rotterdam 2003, and Venice 2008.
In 2005, He has been distinguished as Officer in the Arts et Lettres order.
In 2010, he was awarded the Legion d'honneur in recognition of his work for the development and promotion of architecture in France and abroad.

Recent main activities
director of the Institut français d'architecture (since 2003, Cité de l'architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris).
curator of the French Pavilion at the Mostra di Architettura di Venezia (Biennale di Venezia) in 2008
co-editor of Roberto Burle Marx - The Modernity of Landscape (2011, Actar/Cité de l'architecture & du patrimoine, France)
curator of the exhibitions Claude Parent (2010, at Cité de l'architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris) and Archi & BD - La Ville Dessinée (2010, at Cité de l'architecture & du Patrimoine, Paris)

About works / performance

Five goals were originally allotted to the Institut français d'architecture: Improving knowledge of architecture, promoting interaction between the players in the field of construction, promoting architectural debate and criticism, protecting and enchancing the documentary patrimony, integrating architecture in the cultural environment of the French. These goals are today still on the agenda, even if the sphere of activity of the institute has broadened with the years. Part of the Cité de l'architecture et du Patrimoine, its first purpose is to be a venue of choice for criticism and prospective debate at the heart of architectural contemporary design, as well as a resource and dissemination centre of architectural knowledge.
Besides Francis Rambert is involved (since 2005) in the Mies van der Rohe prize jury process, the European community contemporary prize for architecture. He was the chairman of the 2009 session which awarded the prize to the National opera in Helsinki.