Jean-Marie Charpentier

Jean-Marie Charpentier (27 April 1939 – 24 December 2010[1]) was a French architect and urban planner.

Jean-Marie Charpentier graduated in urbanism at the University of Paris in 1966, and at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in 1969.

He taught architecture in Cambodia for a year, before founding Arte Charpentier in Paris in 1969.

Arte stands for Architecture, Research, Technique and Environment.

In 1984, Jean-Marie Charpentier is one of the first European architects to settle in China.