Virginie Picon-Lefebvre

Virginie Lefebvre Picon is a French architect and urban designer. She is professor of History and Architectural Culture at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville and has previously taught in Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris –Malaquais. She has been a visiting Scholar at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Ecole d'Architecture de Versailles. Virginie is the author, and editor of numerous books and articles, among others: La Grande Arche de la Défense, Co-written with F. Chaslin, L'Architecture en Construction, co-written with C. Simonnet and is the editor of Les Espaces Publics Modernes. She has equally consulted as a designer/ urbanist in critical projects such as the Grande Galerie de l'Evolution, Musée National d'Histoire Naturelle.

Education

• architecte dplg Ecole d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville (1981 — 1984)
• baccalauréat Lycée Lamartine (1975 — 1977)

Companies

• Professeur, HDR Ecole Nationale Supérieure d' Architecture Paris-Belleville (2013)
• architecte-urbaniste ARAV (2012)
• Associate Professor ENSAPM (2007 — 2013)
• Responsable de la formation Architecte-Urbaniste de l'Etat Ecole nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (2007 — 2011)
• lecturer Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2002 — 2007)
• Associate Professor Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Versailles (1999 — 2001)
• architect Museum National Histoire Naturelle (1994 — 1996)
• Responsable de l'action " Architecture des Espaces Publics Modernes" Plan Construction et Architecture (1992 — 1996)
• Architect Patrick Berger,architecte (1985 — 1986)