He states his career inspirations came from visits to his father's building sites, and meeting Michel Corajoud, a contemporary French landscape architect.
He established Alexander Chemetoff & Associates in 2002,[2] which directs, coordinates and leads the activities of various offices the includes forty people in Gentilly, Nantes, and Nancy.
(A. Chemetoff, 1989) His projects are coordinated with a multidisciplinary approach, combining architecture, construction, urban planning, landscape and public spaces.
They include urban projects such as the creation of the city center of Boulogne-Billancourt (1996–2001), the metamorphosis of the island of Nantes (2000–2010), the plateau in Nancy (2004), and the Plaine Achille in Saint-Étienne (2009).
Some of his commercial projects are the Two Banks of Nancy (2002–2008), a residential block in Paris at the corner of Rue Bichat and the Rue du Temple (2009), a garden city, La Rivière, in Blanquefort (2006), library at Vauhallan (2000–2002), a sports stadium in La Courneuve (2004–2006), and the commercial center of the Champ de March in Angoulême (2003–2007).